Tip and Tip

By E Walk

(Copyrighted by the author)

Edited by Radio Rancher

Chapter 52 - The Social Worker

This is Mark.

As I was going to answer the door, I couldn't figure who would be here at 8:00 on a Saturday morning. I opened the door and a lady was standing there in a business suit with a briefcase, "Good morning young man, I'm Geneva Williams. I'm with the State Children's Protection Agency. I understand that you have a runaway boy and also his older brother here. I would like to meet with them and the owner of the property."

I stuck out my hand, "Ms. Williams, I'm Mark Leavitt. Everyone is eating breakfast, won't you please come in. I'll introduce you to everyone and after they are finished eating, you will be free to speak with whomever you want."

Ms. Williams started to laugh, "Mark, let's cut the charade. I know who you are and have been informed that you are the boss here. I also know who the people who pay you are. Let's go meet everyone, and Mark, please let me do this my way, so I have something to put into my reports. Officer Lacey and Officer Nelson told me what happened the other night and I have already visited with Mr. and Mrs. Winters. They are pieces of trash."

I took Ms. Williams to the dining room, "Hey everyone, this is Ms. Williams. Bart, why don't you get her some breakfast and she can visit with us while we eat?"

I was surprised Ms. Williams didn't protest. She sat down next to me, and I started to introduce everyone. She stopped me, "I know who just about everyone is, except those to two good looking hunks over there and the handsome couple at the end of the table."

I introduced Beau and Becca and she shook her head in acknowledgment, "Oh yes, you're the young couple that is opening the consulting office here in Kansas City which is going to be managed the Punk Zack Jackson."

I pointed to Lance and Lane, "Lance and Lane Lansing are visiting from the Denver area this weekend. They and Bart fixed the breakfast this morning."

Ms. Williams threw down her fork. "I've probably been poisoned by the opposing quarterbacks' sons. I'll probably never survive the day." She picked up her fork and started to eat again. She looked around the table and pointed at Bobby. "You must be Robert Jefferson."

Bobby started to stand and adamantly stated, "Ma'am, my name is Bobby Lee Jefferson. Our names all start with B because our mother couldn't think of any other names."

Ms. Williams shook her head, "There sure are a lot of bees buzzing around the table and you went out and found Bart so you could outnumber the l's, m's, t's and z's."

Chris looked at Ms. Williams, "Ma'am you forgot about me. Don't I count?"

Ms. Williams looked at Chris, "Christopher Warren Winters. You count very much, and you are my ace in the hole. We're going to take all of the bees and make them wish they had never seen us. Everyone, thanks for a lovely breakfast. Now I would like to meet with Chris and Mark. Is there someplace where we could talk privately?"

I led us to the apartment over the garage and was glad to see that everything had been cleared out of the sitting area. Ms. Williams started with Chris, "How do you feel here Chris?"

Chris answered without hesitation, "Ma'am, I felt really safe here until Bart arrived. I'm afraid he is going to try and make me do things I don't want to do."

Ms. Williams was relentless, "Chris have you seen Mr. Leavitt and Mr. Jackson without clothes?"

Chris stopped and thought but answered, "Yes and no, ma'am. The first night I was here I had this dream that Bart was going to make me do things, and I climbed into bed with Dad Zack and Dad Nano Mark. They put me in the bed between them and I realized that they didn't have any clothes on. Dad Zack asked me if I wanted them to put some clothes on and I told them no as long as they didn't hurt me. They each gave me a kiss good night and I really want them to be my Dads. Please Ms. Williams."

Ms. Williams looked at Chris, "Chris, I'll take your request into consideration. Now would you please go ask your brother and Zack to come visit with me?"

Zack and Bart arrived quickly and Ms. Williams looked up from her notes, "Please sit down, let me finish the report of my meeting with Chris and then we'll get started."

She closed her laptop, "Bart, I want you to tell me in detail what your father did to you and tell me when it started."

Bart didn't hold back any information that I knew about. In fact some new information surfaced and I wanted to go castrate his father.

Ms. Williams looked at Bart, "Okay Bart, what would you like to happen here?"

Bart responded immediately, "Ma'am, I would very much like for Zack and Mark to be our guardians. It's not going to be easy. Mark has threatened to turn me into the Nerd Jock. He's going to make me get a hair cut and some clothes that will make everyone laugh at me. I think Dad Zack may be the softie of the two. Perhaps I can manipulate him."

Ms. Williams looked at Bart, "I agree with Mr. Leavitt and Mr. Jackson that you need to get your ass in gear and join the in crowd. Bart go help take care of the children while I chew out Mark and Zack."

When Bart had left, Ms. Williams looked at the two of us, "Mark, what do you have planned for the two guys?"

I was dumbfounded by that question but I ran through what I had already thought the guys needed to do and Ms. Williams looked at Zack, "Zack how would you feel about the two boys being your sons?"

Zack was straightforward, "Ms. Williams, I still have approximately six weeks of school to get through. Hopefully if we are able to keep the two guys, Mark will have been able to get them started on the way to a better life while I finish school."

Ms. Williams stood, "Mark and Zack, if I would recommend that you two be the guardians of the two boys, how would you be able to take care of their needs, financially?"

This is Zack.

I didn't have an answer for that question; since I wasn't earning any money yet, but Mark answered, "Ma'am, I'm making over $50,000.00 a year and I don't have any major expenditures, not even for room and board. I may not be able to provide the guys with the biggest and best, but they won't be paupers and I'm sure that we can provide them with a much more loving environment than they have been experiencing recently."

Ms. Williams laughed, "Guess I'd better check into becoming a nanny. Let's go talk with Tip and Ty. Before we do that though, I'd like to see where Bart and Chris would be sleeping if they stayed here."

Mark answered, "I'm sure that Chris would not be comfortable sleeping in the same room with Bart until he is sure that Bart isn't going to hurt him. So Chris would probably sleep with me when Zack is at school. The apartment has two bedrooms. This is Zack's and my bedroom. We share the bathroom with the other bedroom, which is where the Lansing twins are staying this weekend."

"Bart slept on the sofa in the living room, which is a hideabed, last night." We walked through the bathroom to the other bedroom. "We would probably put twin beds in here for the guys if Chris would be more comfortable with that."

Mark continued, "We will eat most of our meals with Tip, Ty and Ty's children, since I do most of the cooking which I might add I also get paid for doing."

When we got back to the kitchen, the three teenagers were laughing, giving each other a hard time. Tip, Ty, Beau and Becca were sitting having a cup of coffee with Mrs. Quinn in the dining room. Mrs. Quinn looked up as we entered, "Good morning Gen. I'm surprised to see you out and about so early on a weekend day. Must be important."

Ms. Williams glared, "Ann, you know darn well why I am here on Saturday morning. Mark, could you get me a cup of strong black coffee please?"

Mark brought the coffee and said, "I'll be right back, I need to check to make sure that the young people are okay."

When Mark returned, he asked, "Ms. Williams, how did the state become so involved in the matter of the Winters' boys so fast? I figured that the state might have become actively involved later next week."

Ms. Williams laughed, "My son-in-law, Dan Nelson, called me Thursday night and alerted me to the fact that Christopher had run away and what Chris said. Danny asked me to see what I could do for Chris. Yesterday morning, my nosey neighbor called and told me that you had a runaway boy here and confirmed what Danny had said. So I dropped everything else and started investigating the residents of this house. How do you think I knew so much about you?"

We were all caught by surprise by this revelation. She wasn't finished, "I did some checking all day yesterday and found out that Zackie's thesis had been accepted so he would finally get his master's degree. I also found out that Nano Mark had graduated with honors from some Podunk school with a Master's Degree in Early Childhood Development, but he was such a stud that no one would hire him until Ty's children condescended to give him a chance to be their nanny."

"Last night I got another call from Danny and he put the detectives who were here last night on the phone, and they told me what had happened. I decided that I had to take immediate action. I went to visit Mrs. Winters at the house and she was so soused that I had to pour coffee into her before she was able to comprehend what I was asking."

"Anyway, she told me that she knew that her husband had been having sex with Bart and was glad because her spouse was so abusive. She passed out while I was trying to talk to her. I went to talk to Mr. Winters at the jail and he was so obnoxious I wanted to kick him where he would hurt the most. He told me it was none of my God damn business what he did with his sons. So here I am. Mark, you are going to be the temporary guardian for Christopher and Bartholomew Winters until I can get a court date scheduled. I do not want either of them anywhere near the Winters' house. I am also going to notify the schools first thing Monday morning that the two guys are not to even talk to their parents."

We were interrupted by a knocking at the dining room door. Lane was standing there surrounded by a group of young people, "Mr. Jefferson, would it be permissible for us to take the young children to Worlds of Fun? Lance and I have never been there, nor have Tuck and Spence."

Mark looked a little skeptical, "And who else would be going besides the eight of you?"

Lance grinned, "Kelley and Cori agreed to go with us to help take care of the girls. We asked Bart and Chris to go with us. Ryan's mom is making him clean the house so Kevin is going to go help him. Timmy and Tommy have tickets to the Royals game this afternoon. They deferred."

Mark spoke up, "I'm afraid that Chris and Bart will not be able to join you. They are scheduled to have there heads shaved and then we need to get Bart some proper nerd clothes. Hey, you're in luck, I have been clipping coupons from the newspaper so you should be able to get in for half price."

Chris started to complain, "Nano Mark, I've never been to Worlds of Fun."

Mark was very firm, "You, Bart and I are going to spend the morning making you two look like movie stars. We can always go to Worlds of Fun since it is less than thirty minutes away."

Mark shook his finger, "When you and Bart bring home papers that say you have done really well, your other Dad and I will take you, but for today, we have other things we have to do. Dad Zack and Mr. and Mrs. Benson are going to the office. I'll take you to lunch wherever the two of you want to go."

It was like everyone knew the case was closed so no one argued. Lance and Lane left with young people except for Bart and Chris. Mrs. Quinn and Ms. Williams left so Tip and Ty decided to go with Beau, Becca and me to look at the new office facility to see what I had done.

This is Mark again.

When we crawled into my VW, I knew that I had two not very happy passengers with me. I really didn't care because we had some things that we needed to take care of.

The first stop was the hair salon where I got my hair cut. Both guys looked at me, and Bart challenged, "I ain't going into no salon. People will think that I'm queer if they see me in here."

I stopped, "Look, either you go in here or I'm going to take you and start whacking with the scissors. If you are going to be living with us, you will get your hair cut. It's your decision; do you want a professional to style it or me to butcher it?"

He started into the salon; I looked at the receptionist, "Are Julio and Alexandria available for walk-ins today?"

The receptionist left and returned quickly. "Juli and Zandy will be right with you. They are just finishing with some clients. Please have a seat."

Bart started to complain, "Nano Mark, what if some of my friends from school should see me in here? I'll be the joke of Edison High."

Two young male high school students came around the corner, "Well, if it isn't the stud muffin of Edison High. Don't tell us you're going to get something finally done to that mop of yours?"

Julio who was six foot six looked at the two guys, "See you next month, that will be $100.00 each. Zandy and I have to feed the kids somehow, especially since you two think that a nickel is a big tip."

The two high school students paid their bill and started to leave. They looked at Bart and one of them spoke, "See you at school on Monday, Stud,"