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wind would blow her over. But the one thing she did have was boobs.
    The weight loss had made them look twice as big, and no matter how much weight she did lose, her boobs remained the same. Bailey had told her once that her tits came around the corner ten minutes before Heather did. She still flushed when she thought about it.
    At five-thirty, one of the day shift girls called off. As much as Heather wanted to go home and go to bed, she stayed over when Todd had asked her. She got permission to use the office phone and called Grandda.
    “ I have to go in too, sweetie,” Grandda told her when she asked him if he could get Jack on the bus. “He’ll just have to get himself going. He’s a good boy, he’ll do fine.”
    Heather almost told Todd that she couldn’t do it when Jack got on the phone. “I want to do this, Mom. I’ll call you when I get to the school and let you know I got there okay. I’ll be very careful, okay?”
    She knew he was almost ten, but she worried about him so much. After he told her another dozen times he’d be all right, she said yes.
    “ But you call the moment you get there. If you don’t, Jack, I will come down there and yank you out of class and embarrass you. Understand?”
    “ Yes, ma’am. I swear.” He sounded so excited she couldn’t tell him no. “I have the number for the restaurant right here. I’ll get there around eight. Thanks, Mom.”
    Three hours. She would have to wait three hours before her baby got to school and he’d call her. She didn’t think she’d make it. Closing her eyes, she said a quick prayer and tried to concentrate on work.

~Chapter 5~
     
    Jack knew the rules. He’d had them drilled into his head since he could walk. The number one was not to tell anyone who he was and to scream his bloody head off if anyone tried to take him somewhere he didn’t want to go. He smiled when he thought of his mother telling him that one. He’d pointed out that girls screamed and she said she didn’t care what he did so long as he came home to her at the end of the day. He held his tray in his hands and looked around the bakery.
    It had been three days in a row now that his mom had worked over her shift at the restaurant. She’d made so much extra money in tips that she’d told him that he could treat himself to breakfast out. His grandpa Tom was getting more hours, too, at his job. They assured him that it wasn’t going to be much longer and the money would be good. And he called her every morning when he got to school just like he’d promised.
    The second morning had been a little tense. He had tried dialing her four times before he finally got her. She told him that her boss was on the phone trying to replace the girl who had quit. Jack had been just about ready to walk to the restaurant to tell her he’d made it when she came to the phone.
    “ I’m so sorry. Are you going to be late to class now?”
    He looked up at the big clock in the hall when she’d asked. “No, ma’am. I have about five minutes. I was scared you were gonna be mad at me if I didn’t call.”
    “ I know.”
    She sounded close to tears and he didn’t want her to cry anymore. So he put as much humor in his voice as he could. “I was going to catch myself a taxi and go down there and yank you bald. You’d look pretty silly waiting tables with no hair.” He grinned when she laughed a little. “Of course then maybe that Todd guy would leave you alone.”
    She laughed again, then sighed. “Thanks, buddy. I needed that. I’ll see you tonight. Be careful and have fun today.”
    “ Mom, I’m at school. Nobody has fun at school.”
    After that, he wasn’t required to call her unless something happened. Which it hadn’t, not really he supposed. It was just the normal stuff, kids giving him a hard time because of his clothes or because of his grades, which were always the best in the class. It bothered him more about the grades than his clothes, but then he wasn’t trying to make