Displaced Fairy Tale

Displaced Fairy Tale

“You’re test did come back positive and yes you are pregnant with twins, Jane.”
“Oh, well can I have an abortion?” Jane asks the doctor sitting across from her in the stark-white room.
“You are further along in your term that makes it illegal to have an abortion in this state.”
Jane left the doctor’s office with extremely low spirits that cold afternoon. This wasn’t how she had planned on spending her senior year of high school. She was 17 and a heavy partier. She spent her time using different drugs, being resentful to her parents, and skipping classes to hang out with her boyfriend who was much older than she.
As she walked down the sidewalk a skinny well-dressed silver haired old woman walked up to her.
“What’s wrong my dear child?” The old lady said in a soothing voice.
“Well, I just found out I’m pregnant with twins, but I’m too far along in my term to have an abortion.” Jane angrily kicked at the ground while speaking to the old woman.
“Oh, dear, why would you ever want to kill such a precious blessing?”
“I’m in no position to have a kid, let alone two.”
“Well I’ll tell you what. I’ll help you along with your pregnancy, help deliver the babies and then in retune you give me the children once they are born. And I will take care of them and love them, and be the mother you can’t be at the time.” Jane could not believe the luck she had just run into! She agreed to give the babies to the helpful elderly lady and for the next three months she spent her time after school with the lady preparing for the birth of the twins. Jane’s parents were not involved nor did they want to be. They had disowned their daughter a year before her getting pregnant because of her excessive drug and alcohol abuse.

Finally the big day came and on a cold morning in March Jane gave birth to a baby boy the old woman named Donny and a little girl she called Marie. They were beautiful blond haired blue-eyed babies with rosy red cheeks. When Jane laid eyes on the beautiful babies she had no emotional connection to them what so ever. She was ready to hand them over and leave the house to get back to her drugs and partying. And that is just what happened.
“Alright Jane, it is time for you to leave.” The old lady announced, once Jane was rested up. So the troubled teen bid her farewell and left without looking back once.

The old woman looked after the twins with all the care in the world. The first two years of their life, they spent playing in her garden, singing songs, and enjoying their little lives together. Until one day when the sweet old lady, showed her true colors and her real reason for taking in the children so graciously from Jane. Once Donny and Marie were strong enough the old woman made them her personal slaves. Leaving them to clean, cook, and wait on old witch of a lady hand and foot. She would make little Marie crawl into the darkest corners of her house to chase the spiders and rats out, where Donny had to wait with a broom to kill each creature as it tried to escape. The old woman would lock one in the attic and the other in the basement at night with no lights and nothing more than a shabby old blanket to keep themselves warm.
After several years of living this way, the twins became so depressed and sick that they were no longer strong enough to please the old woman. She locked them in their rooms and would shove scraps of food under the doors at night for them to fight over with the rats that lived amongst them.
Now the old woman’s neighbors grew more and more concerned, because they had stopped seeing the children moving about the house for a couple of weeks. So one good neighbor called the sheriff to the house to check up on the old woman and children. When he came knocking on the door Donny could see him through one of the holes in the attic a rat had chewed in the siding of the house. The old woman answered the door, and spoke in the charming voice she had used so many years ago on troubled Jane.
“Why, Sheriff it’s wonderful to see you. What can I do for you today?”
“Well ma’ma, I just wanted to asked the boy and girl that live here with you a few questions. Are they here?” The old woman stood up straight and replied with a quick tongue.
“Why no, I’ve sent them out to get some groceries for supper tonight.” The sheriff looked at her suspiciously and that’s when he heard a loud thumbing noise coming from the attic. The sheriff pushed aside the lady and walked up to the attic were he found the door bolted shut. He unbolted and opened it up to find little Donny with a piece of wood in his hand pounding it against the floor. Donny quickly took the Sheriff down to the basement where they saved little Marie.
When they got to the sheriff station and had the old woman arrested and thrown into prison for the rest of her life, they tried to contact Donny and Marie’s mother. But it turned out that Jane, had one night of such intense partying that she overdosed on Meth and died. When the Sheriff learned of what had become of the two youngsters mother, he felt so sorry for them that he personally took the twins home to live with his wife and him. They had always wanted children but could never have any due to a metical condition his wife had.
The sheriff and his wife loved Donny and Marie with all their hearts and more love than anyone could have given the two children. They attended school and went on to college, and eventually became part of the Child Protective Services.

Moral of the story, don’t do drugs.