Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 14:05:35 -0500 From: Eric Murphey Subject: Accidental Paradise Chapter 33 Bi adult youth Hello everyone I am FREEEEEEEE. Sadly i was on a forced Quarantine for a week and a half. Good for you because I did write several chapters. Bad for me because i was so completely and utterly bored. So much so that I was playing sim sity for 12 hours a day. I did however make a pretty nice sitty called boys town. I know go figure right. Anyway I still would love to here from you Pete if you are out there. I miss you and hope you are doing fine. I want to thank all of you for the very kind emails I got from the last chapters I posted. AS you know if you email I will write back. I am back to work now working 90 hours a week. Its long and hard. But, the goal is of course to have my own little Paradise. Of course without the freeness of the children. Sadly that would be frowned upon and I would not be free very long. Oh I did test negative so thats a positive as well. Another positive thing is donating to nifty so pull out your card and help them out Eric Accidental Paradise Chapter 33 To say Eric got a good nights sleep. Well, that would be a horrible lie. Julia has sleep demons. It seemed that every time Eric got into a good sleep she would wake him up having a nightmare. He would just hold her and talk calmly to her until the demons let her go back into a nice sleep again. She kept mumbling that no she didnt want to do that. Eric can imagine what it is. Especially since she keeps covering her privates and crossing her legs. It seems as though she has had sex. But, not in a good way. More like in the she got raped way. Eric once he figures this out holds her and cries as he whispers soft soothing words into her ears. Things such as. They cant hurt you now. You are on the farm and happy now. Bad people cant hurt you here. Things such as that. Once he finally did get up everyone else was already awake and working. Even though he was in bed for ten hours he slept maybe two and he woke up tired. The reason he got up is Julia did and he knew it was already late. He stumbles into the kitchen and sits in his chair. He sees the coffee carafe on the table and just grabs the cup someone left and pours coffee into it. Maria walks in from her room folding a sheet. "Rough night?" "You could say that." "I know you didnt do anything what happened?" "Well, apparently our newest princess has been raped. She has nightmares about it all night long." "Oh the poor dear." Maria says. "I just dont know how to handle something of this magnitude. I mean I dont want to do anything wrong and make her worse off. I mean should we put a stop to the love making sessions for now or what?" "Thats a rough thing. I went through it once when I was about fourteen. A man saw me on the street and he folowed me. Some how he got ahead of me and pulled me into in alley. Then he...." Tears begin to well up as she is talking."He just did what he wanted." She is sobbing now. Eric gets up and wras his arms around her. He has no idea what to say because what can he say. "Then when he was done he spit on me and called me a whore." She is really racking sobs now. Eric just holds her and Julia walks out and sees Maria sobbing and Eric holding her. She thinks he is doing something wrong and starts hitting him and screaming. "Leave her alone!!!!!!!!" She is really wailing on him and Maria is oblivious to it until she screams a second time. "No no sweetie. Eric is hugging me." She says through her tears. Julia stops mid hit and realizes her mistake. She isnt exactlly sure what to do and looks at them both with a questioning look on her face. Eric holds out his arm to draw her into the hug. "More hugs are better." He says. She moves in closely and wraps her arms around Eric and Maria. After a couple minutes Maria regains control of her emotions and sniffs and wipes away the tears. She pulls away from Eric. "I never talked about that before. I had put it out of my mind for so many years. It was like it was happening again." She says shaking a bit from fear. "I dont know what to say but, I am always there for you. No matter what." Eric says. She reaches up and caresses his cheek. "I know oyu are. I know." He looks down at the little girl and smiles. She looks at him a bit ashamed because she was hitting him. "Now did my ears decieve me or did oyu talk?" Eric asks. She looks at him and nods. "Does that mean you are going to talk now?" She shrugs. "Its OK if you dont want to. We will all still grow to love you anyway." She holds her hand to her naked breast. "Yeah you silly. Whats not to love about you? You are a sweet girl that is a pizza prodigy right?" She smiles and nods. "So there you go. We better get you something to eat and get to work or the others will call us gold brickers." She ooks at him funny. "Gold brickers is someone who is lazy." She looks at him and shakes her head no. "I know you arent so lets get to eating so we can show them wrong. They already think I am." "Eric your silly no one thinks that about you." Maria says. "Yet." He says putting some toast int eh toaster for himsefl and Julia. He cracks a couple eggs and puts them in the pan and starts frying them up. Once he is done he puts the items on a plate for himself and Julia and pours himself another coffee and gets her some papya juice. Fresh from this morning. He sees there is just a bit left in the jar and drinks down the reat of it. Julia gives him a sour face when he does. "What its empty now?" He says holding it up. "You girls and not drinking from the container. It must be in your genes or something." He says smiling and putting the container int eh sink. He puts his eggs on his toast and eats it like a snadwich. Julia watches and follows suit. Now that she knows food will be readily available whenever she wants it she nibbles on her food and savors it more then before when she wolfed it down. After theyh are done she stands next to Eric as he washes the dishes she rinses and puts it on the rack like last night with the pizza equipment as it needed washed. "You are a great little helper. You know that?" He says and rubs her head. "Why dont you go find Maria so she can fix your hair. Its a bit of a mess from sleeping." She puts her hand on his chest. "You want me to do it?" She nods at him. "Alright but, I am no where as good as the ladies or the girls for that matter. But, I will do my best. Eric sits on the chair and she scoots up between his legs. He cant help it her soft pantied bottom pressed against his cock made it hard. Eric not thinking anything of it lifts her up and pops it between her legs so its not unconfortable for them. She looks back at him terrified. "Its OK I wont do anything you dont want to do. It just happens sometimes." She looks a bit more relaxed as he starts to mess withher hair and not anywhere else. But, he can feel her body is still tense. "Really sweetie I wont hurt you ever." He says as he is combing out her hair to braid it again. He decides to do pigtails becasuse he is better at that then the french braid she had before. Eric feels her reach down and put her hand over her privates and between his hard on. He would certainly never mind making love to her. But, he would never do anything to make her worse off. So he thinks it may never happen and thats OK too. He will love her no matter what. Its just the others enjoy it and she may never. Once he is done he kisses the back of her head. "There you go princess, pigtails are the word of the day." He says. She turns to look at him and smiles. She gets up and his cock runs between her middle and up her covered cheeks, then pops back and thwacks him in the stomach. "You want me to find you another sun dress for today?" She looks down at herself and then back at him. She shakes her head no. "OK SO running around in panties today." She looks at him and smiles. "Better get out to work now." She smiles and heads to the door. She holds it open for him. She walks out and pats her on top of the head. They walk out to the new construction her holding his hand. They walk up to Lucia who is looking at the plans she had drawn up. "What do oyu need us to do today girl boss?" "We need you up on the roof today. We need to get the sheeting on up there because I think its going to rain tonight." "What makes oyu think that?" "Dont know just a feeling." "Your old football injury acting up is it?" Eric asks. She giggles. "No silly. Now get to work. Is Julia going on the roof with you?" "Dont know." He says looking down at her. She nods yes. "There's your answer then." Eric heads up with Julia behind him. He shows her how to help lay the sheeting down and then nail it into place. She like with pizza is a good helper. He tells her this often and is constantly heaping praise on her. She seems to eat it up and need it at the same time. By the time lunch is ready they have all the sheeting in place and hace started laying tar paper down. They have half the roof done and head down to lunch. Lucia catches him on the way. Julia of course her hand in his. "Eric I dont know what to do. The two new boys Juan and Julio dont want to do anything. I ask them to do something and they either half do it or dont do it at all." "I will talk to them after lunch." He says as they walk up to the house to eat. They have a simple lunch of some burritos that Miss Sofia and Maria put together. "I havent seen Danny this morning." Eric says. "He is asleep." Miss Sofia says. "He is lazy." Tomas says. "No he isnt. Little Maria is getting teeth and kept him up all night. Me too for that matter." Mateo says sleepily. "Oh boy I remember that." Maria says. But, it will get better when the first couple come through." They all eat their lunch and when they are getting done Juan and Julio leave their plates on the table and start to walk out the door. "Excuse me boys I need to talk to you before you go back to work." Eric says to them. "But, first you need to wash your dishes." "Fuck you." Juan says and they race out the door. You could see the redness raise in Eric from his toes up into his face. "Those boys are bad. We should take them back to the city and drop them off." Mateo says. Eric sits a moment stewing wanting to race after them and take care of it the way they used to by taking them behind the tool shed. But, he knows that wont do anything for these boys. They have already been abused and wont learn anything from it. But, he is very tempted. Fuck me? Julia and Lucia start to get the plates to wash them. "Leave them there." Eric says angrily at the girls. Julia looks up with fear in her eyes and Eric realizes what he just did instantly. "I am sorry girls I didnt mean to be harsh with you. They made me lose my temper. My grandpa always told me that a temper is a wonderful thing. Thats why we should never lose it." You want us to wash the plates then?" Lucia asks. "No sweetie leave them there." They all head back to the school and get back to work the boys nowhere to be found. Every so often Eric sees them down by the pond. He sees they are wet and have obviouslly been in the pond. As they are working Eric is getting pretty hot as he, Julia and Mateo are putting on the shingles. "Guys we need to go get some water. We dont want to dehydrate. You know what we have all been working so hard lets take the rest of the afternoon off before we start the pizzas. I think we all deserve a nice swim to cool off." Eric says to the two. "That sounds good. Mateo says standing and stretching. Eric goes around and finds all the kids and lets them know the plans. Everyone seems pretty happy about it except Lucia. "But, Eric we can have it done today if we keep at it." "Yes but, princess we need to have some fun too. All work and no play just sucks." "Yeah but, we can play tomorrow. When its done." "When do we not have a ton of work to do? Do you really see us taking a day off?" She looks at him and starts to protest again. "Yeah but...." "Yeah you got a cute butt. So lets go let it have some fun." She just smiles. Everyone starts heading to the pond. Mateo is going into the house to get Maria and Miss Sofia so they can join the fun too. Eric cant help but laugh as he can hear both of them in the distance complaining they have too much to do. Mateo is half pulling them to the pond to have some fun. Once they get there Juan and Jose dissapear and everyone gets in the nice cool water. Danny has goten up and is walking with little Maria in his sling he has made for her. He looks like a little Indian carrying his papoose with him. Eric smiles when he sees this. Once they are all in the games begin. Julia is kind of hessitant to get into the water and sits on the bank with Danny and little Maria. Eric can see that Danny is talking to her about something. She just looks at him and is nodding when he is talking. Eric is horsing around with the ladies splashing them. They are giggling like they are little girls again and splashing him back. The children are all playing Marco Polo and having a good time. After a while Eric gets up on the bank and goes and sits by Danny and Julia. "Do you mind if I hold your baby a while Danny? I havent really gotten to spend any time with her yet." "Of course Eric." He says and hands little Maria to Eric. Eric holds her and she looks up at him and smiles revealing the start of her first tooth. "Ah there is the mean old tooth that was hurting you huh?" He says to her. She just giggles at him. "Your baby is so happy." Eric says. "Because she knows I love her so much is why." Eric looks at him. "I think you are right." "It is why we are all happy here." Julia just watches the conversation. Eric thinks how can he bring her out of her shell and to help her heal. He is at a loss. He has never dealt with a situation like this. He is sure he has seen girls that have been through it before. He was a teacher and knows that not all parents and step parents are exatlly stellar. Making love with a child and rape are two very different things. Granted he knows the thoughts of the world dont see it that way. But, they dont understand that children can and do enjoy sex as much as anyone. We are sexual beings regardless of age. "Eric can you watch my baby while I swim a while?" "I am honred you trust me to." Danny just smiles at him and walks into the water. Eric starts talking to Julia and she is eyeing the baby as he does. "You want to hold her?" She nods with a smile. "Here princess. Hold out your arms." Eric gingerly places the baby in her arms. They both smile at each other. Julia tickles her cheek and the baby giggles more, making Julia giggle back. Eric thinks. This is how little girls should be. Well, children regardless of gender. Happy and carefree. Eric leans back in the cool grass and closes his eyes and dozes off. It dodnt take much as he got so little sleep last night. He wakes up about an hour later with Julias head on his chest her sleeping as well. He looks around and no one is around. They must have decided to go to the house he thinks. Nice of them to let us here and rest. He hears a loud commotion coming from the area near the chickens. The chickens are going bat shit crazy. He hears screaming and cussing. This wakes Julia and she sits up looking around. "Head to the house. I dont know whats going on." She nods at him and starts walking. Eric sees a fight is happening near the chickens and he races up to them. All the children are gathered around and shouting. He sees Julio on the ground and Benji punching him in the face. Eric grabs Benji by the arm and yanks him off. "Benji fighting is never an answer. What is going on?" "Those two fuckers." He says pointing at Juan and Julio. "Were throwing rocks at my chickens." Benji tries to pull away to attack them again. Eric holds him in place. "I understand your angry. But, violence isnt the answer." "Come on boys lets go on the porch and talk this out." "Fuck you." Julio says as he is getting up. "Yeah fuck you." Juan adds and they both start to race off. Danny clothes lines Juan and Camilla grabs Julio by the throat as he starts to race by. Both boys fall to the ground and the other children are on them fast. They start hitting and kicking at them. "You show respect around here you lazy fuckers." Lucia is screaming. "No! No! No!" Eric screams at them as they are pummeling the boys. They all stop and look at him. The boys take their chance and race off. The others start to take off after them. "Leave them be. I will talk to them." Eric says. "I'm going to the house. I need to think." He says and turns without another word. Eric walks past the ladies who are ont eh orch and looking to see what is going on. He hears them ask him a question and ignores it and walks through and hears the screen door slam behind him. He heads to his room and lays ont eh bed and rubs his temples. A minute or two later Julia comes in and climbs up and lays next to him and puts her head on his chest. He wraps his around her and asks her. "What can I do with those boys?" "Beat them." She says softly. "No that wont help. I have to get through to them. I know they are good boys." She just listens after that as he rambles on trying to figure out what to do. He dozes off again and sleeps about half an hour. When he wakes up he sees Julia is just laying with him her eyes open and watching him. Her chin in her hands elbows on his tummy. "Good morning." She smiles at him knowing its late afternoon and catching his try at humor. "I guess I am sleepy today. I dont usually sleep all the time." She just smiles at him. "I guess I better go and check on everything." She moves off of him. He gets up and heads to the restroom as nature calls. Julia next to him and watches him pee. Once he is done she pulls down her panties and uses the restroom herself. He thinks she trusts me now a bot more since she has exposed herself to me. Thats a good thing I am getting to her. They walk out into the kitchen and everyone is there getting everything ready for dinner tonight and ready to open the restraunt. "Eric we should take those boys back." Lucia says. "Yeah we should they dont belong here. They are bad." Camilla joins. "I have to agree with the girls Eric. They dont fit in here." Maria says drying her hands off with a towel. "No we cant do that. They are like us you see. They are broken right now like all of us were. We just need to reach them is all." "I dont know Eric." Miss Sofia says. "They seem to iterupt the goodness here." Miss Sofia says. "We cant just abandon them guys. Society already has. I couldnt live with myself if we just tossed them aside like they are trash. Just because they are a little ornery." "Ornery? They are just mean." Tomas says. "Guys I usually go woth what you want. But, we just cant." "They did appologize to me about the chickens and said they wouldnt do it again." Benji says. "See thats a step in the right direction. They realized they made a mistake and have tried to rectify it." "I dont know." "Please everyone. Lets give them another chance." They all very reluctantly agreed to giving them another chance. Little did any of them know they were on the proch eaves dropping on the entire conversation. "Told you he was a push over."Julio whispers. "So we go with our plan then?" Juan whsipers back. "Yeah." He says and motions for htem to sneak off. A little while later Eric walks out to the porch and sees them playing with the fut ball kicking it around as boys tend to do. Maria comes out a few minutes later letting him know supper is ready. He stands up and shouts out to the boys. "Come on guys its time for supper." They look aver to him kind of surprised he told them or even invited them. They walks up to the house and walk in and sit hwere they have been sitting. In front of them is their dirty plates from lunch. "Hey ou plates are dirty." Julio says. "Then I guess you should have washed them." Eric says calmly. Juan rolls his eyes at Eric and goes and washes off his plate Julio follows suit. "Around here we all pitch in and if we dont others dont pitch in to help you. If oyu do what you should then everyone will help you when you need it." Eric says. "They wouldnt help us. They hate us." Juan says. "They dont hate you. They just think oyu are acting like jerks. Which you are. So if oyu act like decent human beings they will like you. Of that I am sure." They just sit down and start eating. Once they are all done having their dinner there is some small talk about this evenings business. But, other then that its not much. Miss Sofia is right they do throw a kink into the works he thinks. Once they are done the boys follow suit and wash their plates. "See I knew you were good boys. Smart too it seems as you catch on pretty quickly." Eric says smiling at them while he rubs thir heads as they wash their plates. Julio smiles at Eric Juan just washes. "Good boys." He says and walks away. Julia trailing behind as she has become his shadow. "Eric can we sleep with you tonight?" Camilla and Lucia ask. "As much as I would like that girls. I think Julia needs me a lot right now." They look dissapointed but, understand. "Sure." They say smiling at Julia when they do letting her know there is no hard feelings. The girls head outside to get ready for the customers. Eric and Julia sit on the couch and wait for the orders to start coming in. It sure doesnt take long and the orders start uring in. People are coming and going. Eric finds it a bit amusing that some of thepeople show up and get out of their car or truck and are already nude. Going to to this into a nudist area. Eric thinks and smiles. Eric even sees the boys taking orders and running pizzas as they are so busy. He smiles. See they are good boys. They are extremely busy all night and Eric sees a few times when he glances out the window Julio or Juan heading over by the chicken coop. After they all get closed and everything shining for the next day everyone heads to bed. Eric deides to take a shower as he feels a bit grimy and to his surprise Julia joins him. Once they step in he unbraids her hair and washes it for her very gently. He then starts to lather up her back and wash there. He works his way down and carefully washes her bottom and then her legs. He then turns her towards him and gently washes her face. He kisses her cheek softly after he cleanses it. He then washes her chest and skips her pretty vagina. He hands her the cloth and she washes there. Much to his surprise she starts to wash him. She has him get on his knees and she washes his hair. Her fingers feel heavenly as she massages his scalp as he had hers. She then washes his backside. When she gets to the front she washes his chest then looks at his flacid penis then at him. He smiles and she begins washing it as well soaping up his sack then his cock. To his surprise it didnt expand to its fullness. It did grow a smidgen. But not much at all. It isnt sexual. Its loving is his thought. Once they get done they dry off. "Let me go find you some panties princess. I should have before. I just didnt think about it." She smiles and shakes her head no. "You sure? I dont mind. I want oyu to be comfortable and happy." "It's OK." She says just above a whisper. He smiles at her. She takes his hand. "I want to go check something outside. You want to go with me or no?" She takes his hand and they walk out by the chicken coop. Eric looks around and finally sees something amiss. He touches it and sure enough he finds a fat wad of pesos. "Those little shits are stealing." He says and looks at Julia. He puts the money back and decides he doesnt know what to do about this. He puts the money back and they head back into the house and into his room. They lay on the bed and head to sleep. Julia slept through the night no nightmares. Eric was worried about it and couldnt get to sleep for a good while. He did hear her giggle in her sleep a couple of times. So thats a good thing. But, he knows they sure have a lot of work to do to help her get better. They both sleep very soundly and Eric wakes up as he had before before everyone else. He takes care of his bathroom business and heads to make coffee. While the coffee is brewinf Jose comes in the front door. "Good morning Jose how you been? I havent really had a chance to talk wit hoyu since you came here." "I am really good thank you. The other guys have accepted me and say I am their new brother. I dont really know what to think about that." "Whats to think about they accept you and want you to be part of the family." "Its just that I have never had that before." "Trust me it will be OK. Just roll with it buddy." "I tell you what though. The boys are right. Miss Sofia does have a magic pussy." "I keep hearing that. One of these days I am going to have to make love to her to find out for myself." "You should. Can I have coffee?" "I dont see why not." Eric says making him a cup as he makes his own. He sits the cup in front of Jose. "I got to get the computers online today. Lucia says we will be done with the school today." "Yes she is a task master. Give her a project and she will work until she drops if I let her." "I think she is really pretty." "That she is." After they sit for a few minutes and Jose puts more cream in sugar in his coffee then is actually coffee Julia walks out and sits on Eric lap. "Good morning princess." Eric says and kisses her cheek. She smiles a sleepy smile and kisses his scruffy cheek. "I guess I should shave a bit more often if your going to kiss my cheek." She smiles and rubs her fingers over his cheek feeling the whiskers. "Its soft. I like it." She says softly. "Then I wont shave then." To this she smiles. He wants to do anything and everything for her to make her heal. He doesnt really like shaving. But, he also doesnt like having a beard. Its a weird thing he has grown accustomed to. "You hungry?" She nods. He scoots her off of his lap and sits her on the chair. He pulls out a skillet and starts frying up some peppers and onions. He adds some eggs and milk making plenty for everyone as they start to get up. He grabs some of the tortillas the ladies made yesterday and puts them on a plate and sits it on the table. He sees Julia take a sip of his coffee and make a sour face. He smiles to himself and gets her some juice. "I think you will like this better." She smiles at him and takes a big drink. Once he gets breakfast ready they start to eat and the rest of the gang trickles in. Juan and Julio are the last to come in. He isnt sure where they slept but, he is certain it wasnt with any of the others. "Hey Eric when are you going to town again?" Julio asks. "I was thinking later today as we need more flour, and fresh produce for the pizzas." "Can we go?" Juan asks. He sees the looks of disgust and relief both on the others faces of one them going to town and two being rid of them for the day. "Sure guys. I see no reason why not." After breakfast Eric got dressed as did Julia because she was not going to be seperated from him for that long of time if she had anything to say about it. Not that she said anything but, she just expected to go. Eric expected her to as well. Eric watched fromt eh window after he was dressed and sure enough he saw the boys go to the chicken coop and get their ill gotten gains. He watched them divide it up and shove it in their pockets. He shook his head kind of disgusted. But, also understanding that they are doing what they feell they need to do because of the situation they have been in for who knows how long. You see an oppurtunity you take it. Regardless. They just havent figured out yet that this can be a permanent home for them. They think its just a temporary thing. Eric gets in the truck and Julia is next to him and the boys slip in and take over the other half of the seat. "So guys we wont be in town for too long today. I just need to get some things from the store." "Thats fine we just want to see some stuff is all." Julio says. More like they dont want to work is what Eric is thinking. But, maybe he will break through to them. Maybe not. He drives to town not a word said the entire time. Once they get there he parks by the store and tells the boys. "Now we are leaving in two hours. I dont want to have to hunt for you. SO be back at the truck when I am ready." "Sure." They say in unison. Eric gets out and helps Julia out of the cab. They go into the store and the boys race off. "Do you think they are coming back?" He looks at her and asks. She looks after them and shrugs her shoulders. "Yeah I dont know either. I know the others and even you probablly hope they just take off. But, I jjust cant help thinking they need our help and we should try to help them." She squezes his hand after he says it and smiles at him. "Yeah I know." He says reading her mind in a way. Knowing she is thinking its because you are a good man. They go into the store and place their order. He knows its a lot and it will take a while. "What do you say we go get us some ice cream while we wait?" She grins and nods her head. "We cant really have ice cream on the farm it would be soup by the time we got back. I guess we could make it." He says to her. She nods understanding. They go into an old time ice cream shop like what oyu would find in America in around 1930. Its neat he thinks. She points to what she wants and he gets the same. They sit and eat their ice cream at a table. Her sitting right next to him. "You know. I think it would be a real treat to get an ice cream maker. I think everyone would enjoy it. What do you think?" She looks at him thinks a half a second and nods yes. "Yeah after why dont we go see if we can find an ice cream maker." She smiles and takes another bite. "I will tell them it was your idea." He says and takes another bite. She nids her head no. "And why not?" "Its a lie." She says just above a whisper. "Your right we shouldnt lie." She smiles. "Why are girls always right?" She just giggles at him and takes the last bite of her ice cream. "Do you want more?" She shakes her head no. "Did you enjoy it?" She smiles as a response. "Good. Lets go to Falabella and see if we can find an ice cream machine." She gets up and takes his hand as they start walking to the store. Granted he could go to Walmart. They are everywhere he thinks and doesnt really care to add to tehir global monopoly if he can avoid it. They go to Falabellas and find exactly what they are looking for. Eric gets all the things they will need the salt and whatnot and some different flavors for the ice cream. "I think they will be really happy with this." Eric says as they are leaving. Eric is carrying the ice cream maker and Julia has the bag of things. Of course she has to hold his hand as they walk. They get to the truck and Eric puts the things inside and they decide to walk around a bit. ""I want to ride the ferris wheel. Will you ride with me I get kind of scared on it." She giggles at him. "No really I like it. But, it kind of scares me being so high." She looks at him trying to decide if he is serious "Really, I am afraid of being that high. But, I want to do it." She nods yes she will go with him. He smiles at her. They get in the line and wait their turn and Eric pays the cost of the tickets and they head on up. She realizes Eric was being turhtfull he is afraid as he is holding the bar so tight his knuckles are white. She puts one hand over his and holds on with the other. She is smiling and giggling the entire ride. Once they get to the top about the sixth time she taps him and points. He sees what she is pointing at. Its the boys and they are being talked to by a cop. "Think they did something bad?" She just nods. The ride goes around a few more times and they get off and head to where they saw the boys. Sure enough they are still there the cop is giving them holy hell. "So where did you steal this money you worthless little punks?" Eric hears the cop holler at them. "I know you stole it from somewhere." "They got it from me." Eric says to the cop as they walk up. "They work for me on my farm now. Why are you bothering them. What did they do?" "They didnt do nothing this time yet. But, they been in plenty of trouble these two." The cop says swatting one of them in the head. "Hey thats not neccesary. I need my workers to be in good shape. Keep hitting them they wont be worth anything." "Well, they owe for things they have done." The cop says looking at the money in his hand. Its a few thousand pesos. Eric knows the cop is just going to steal it from them anyway. "Well, I am sure that what you have there will more then cover any fines or anything they have. I am certain that you being a law enforcement officer will take care of it for them and pay the proper people." Eric says. "Of course I will." The cop says smiling and putting the money in his pocket. "Now come on boys we need to get back to the farm. Everyone is waiting for us." They both go with Eric and Julia to the truck. Both of them never looking up fromt eh ground the entire way. Eric unlocks the door and they get in the old truck. Eric walks around and Julio has unlocked Erics door. Something Eric thinks he wouldnt have done earlier today. He helps Julia in and gets in behind the wheel. About half way home Juan speaks up. "Why did you do that?" "Do what?" "Save us from the cop." "Becasue I take care of my people." "But, we stole that money from you." "I know." They look at him shocked. "You know." "Sure you hid it by the chicken coop." "Thats why you saved us. You are going to beat us." "No. I amnot going to beat you. I tell you I am tempted. But, I think you will learn better without the beating. Here is what I expect you to do when we get back. The first thing is when we get back I am sure the others are still working. I expect you to immediately get out of the truck and go help. I dont expect you to do any more then the others. But, you will work. Then at dinner time. You will tell the others that you stole from them." "But, they will be mad and hurt us." "If someone stole from you wouldnt you be mad?" "Sure." They respond. "But, I wont let them hurt you. It is not how we do things on the farm. We will discuss it and decide your punishment at dinner. Then you will do whatever it is they say you have to do without complaint. Otherwise I will take oyu back to that cop. Now I am not threatining you. I am saying what your options are. Also you will not lie anymore." "Sure we will." They both answer looking down at the floor board. Once they arrive back the boys do as they were told and start working as hard as the other children. Once it is time for dinner they all go in to eat. Once they are done Eric says to everyone. "The boys have something they would like to tell you." They both look at him. Both had hoped it wouldnt happen. "We um sort of took some money." Julio says. "Julio what did I say about lying." "Im not lying." He pleads. "You arent being exactlly truthful are you?" "No sir. Alright we stole some money when we were supposed to tun it in for pizzas we hid it by the chicken coop." Tomas stands up quickly shoving his chair back as does Danny. "I am going to kill you two." Danny says. "Danny, Tomas sit down please." Both do so very reluctantly. "We know we did the wrong thing and we feel sorry about it. I mean you guys done nothing but, be good to us. Feeding us and stuff even when we was being mean." "Alright family. I tld the boys that we wouldnt beat them and that we would make their punishment and they will do it without complaint. SO what shall it be?" "I say we toss them back into the city. Let them starve." Danny saysmad as hell. "Yeah." Tomas agrees. "That is not an option. We took these two in and said they can be a part of our family. They need us and we need them. Believe it or not guys them stealing is a good thing. Well, its not good. But, it is making us stronger as a family as we will deal with it. So what are some ideas that dont bannish them. Becasue in family we dont banish someone because they do something we dont like or approve of. We just love them anyway." "You dont love us." Julio says. "Not that you have given me much to love. But, sure I do." Eric answers. "You are just saying that." Camilla smacks him in the back of the head hard. "Eric doesnt lie." She tells him. "Camilla we dont hit. But, thank you for clarifying I dont lie to these boys. They havent learned how we are just yet. Now remember guys while oyu are thinking. Granted they did steal from us. But, if you had their lives and saw a chance to take something easily because you have had to for so long to just survive. You would have most likely done the same. So take that into consideration. I am going to leave it up to you guys. I want you to discuss it and I will take the boys outside for a while as you do." With this he stands up. "Boys." He says to them. They stand up and head out the door with him. Julia follows behind and catches up to Eric and takes his hand. Once they get outside they walk down to the pond. "You know we really are sorry." Juan says. "I know." "We promise we wont do it again." Julio adds. "I know." "We will try to be better boys." Juan says. "I know." "You think they are going to give us a bad punishemnt?" "I dont know. But, I do know that you dont really need one now. That you have learned your lesson. But, you still have to have one to make the others feel better about it too." "We was going to run off you know." "I know." They sat for a good while until the first car pulled in and they went to go make pizzas. The boys took orders but, the others made sure to collect the money. Not one second that nght was one of the boys left alone for any length of time. Some one was always close to them and watching them untrusting of them. "When business was done for the day everyone came back to the kitchen table to dole out their punishments." "First off." Danny says apparently taking the lead role of the punishment panel. "You will do all the dishes at the end of the night. Second int eh morning you will get up with Benji and help him feed and tend to the chickens. Next you will then go and get Tomas and help him with the pigs. After that whatever project we have going on you will work on. If there is no project at the time you will help the ladies nt eh kitchen. Also you will do all the laundry all week. So you will change everyones sheets and pillow cases and replaces them. You will wash the laundry. Dry it and put it away. You will do all of this for two weeks." "I think that sounds fair doesnt it boys?" Eric says. "Yes sir." They say. "We better get to the dishes then." Julio says. "If you do a bad job you know you have to do it all again." Danny says. "We wont. Dont worry we wont let oyu down this time." Juan says. Everyone goes itno the living room as the two boys start washing all the pans and what not hat hasnt been done yet by Eric and Julia. They tend to keep on top of it. The rest head to the iving room to watch a movie before bed as the boys start to work. Once they are done they start to go outside. "Where oyu guys going?" Eric asks not in a acussatory tone just curious. "We were going on the porch. We figured didnt no body want us around." Julio says. "Forgiveness is a process. You need to be around everyone to show them that oyu are indeed changing into good boys. Instead of little shits. But, doing th edishes without wasting time is a good start. Also taking the others feelings into consideration is also a good start. So I am proud of oyu boys." They both looked shocked at him being proud of them. "Your proud of us?" Julio asks surprised. "Sure. Like I said you accepted your punishment as men. You will do it all and I know oyu will do your best. So yes I am proud of oyu." The others look at Eric and think a moment and agree they have so far done as asked. But, they hold their reservations. Eric is too forgiving they are all thinking. But, they trust him and his judgement. So they are going with him on this. For now anyway. Eric is sitting on the couch with Julia on one side and Tomas on the other. "Why dont you boys sit next to me. I know they wont mind." Julia looks at him and climbs on his lap not about to be away from him. Even just a person away. Tomas moves but, Eric can see he is miffed about it. The boys sit on each side of Eric and they restart the movie. Eric gently places his arms over the boys shoulders and pulls them in close to him. Both arent eaxctlly sure how to act as neither has really had any true affection before. But, they know they like it. They like it a lot and melt into him after a few minutes of ebing a bit tense. Julia of course has stirred Eric in his netherlands and she this time pulls it out from under her and puts it between her legs. She surprises him when she pats it and leaves her hand on it. He kisses the top of her head and they all watch the film. When its over everyone heads to bed. The boys surprised Eric when they asked if they could sleep with him and of course Julia. "I dont have a problem with it. Julia is it OK with you?" She looks at Eric then at the boys. She scrunches up her face thinking a second then looks back to Eric. She nods. "Alright get into my bed then guys." Julia climbs in and Eric gets in next to her. Juan climbs in fast next to Eric and Julio Eric can tell is upset and climbs in next to Juan. Eric turns out the light and they all snuggle in together and head to the land of Nod.