Settling into home life

The rest of the afternoon and evening had been a bit of a whirlwind for you, as far as you were concerned.

Your two sisters had been expecting you to come home from the hospital, having been told by Tanya, and as soon as you walked through the door, you were bumrushed by both of them. Sonique was more shapely, definitely taking after her mom in all of the right places, and you partially wondered what your role would be in this life: ass-kicker or enforcer? Still, both girls were more than happy to see you (TJ) back home and after talking a mile-a-minute to bring you up to speed, Tanya laughingly ushered them out of the room, saying "let the man rest". You just shook your head for a moment before you turned your attention back to the house you were, from that point on, calling your home.

It was a smaller house than what you and Pam had, being a single mom did that to you, but now that you were looking at it from a younger person's eyes, it was slowly becoming a bit more familiar to you. You spent the rest of the afternoon just milling about, walking around the house under the pretense of needing to stretch your legs after laying in the hospital bed, and you got to see the various rooms. It was a small two bedroom and, at first, you noticed that the two shared the smaller bedroom on the 2nd floor, alongside a small bathroom and some closet space. On the ground floor, near the front of the house, was a small kitchen, living room, and then a 2nd bedroom which, when you entered, you noticed immediately was filled with two dressers and some small boxes where there were shoes and other things laying about.

You spent some time going through the room, finding out for yourself that you and Tanya shared a bedroom, there was limited space to really have much else other than clothes and a queen-size bed. Even the closet space was occupied by clothes and other things that a growing family of 4 needed. Was it modesty? Was it being poor? If you had known TJ was living like this, well, you would've tried to help the guy.

Now this was your reality, you wondered if this humble beginnings was not the cause of TJ being who he was in the first place: a great overall kid.

To the side of the closet door was a full-length mirror and after a few moments, you walked over and looked at your face in the mirror.

"Holy shit..."