Cindy was still upset, but her panic attack had subsided. Her eyes were still wet with tears and black eyeliner. She washed her makeup clean off with a wash rag.
Agatha spoke, "You are the most beautiful woman that I had ever seen, while I was alive. I was
a looker myself in my better years, but I was never in your league."
Cindy spoke, "Stop it! You will make it go to my head."
The young's pale white cheeks were now red as a red stop sign."
Agatha spoke, "No, girl! I am dead serious. You look like a natural black hair, pale skin Gothic porcelain doll. Your black makeup just brings out your natural look, my young lady.
Cindy spoke, "I used to dye my hair blonde with peroxide, that I stole as a kid. I had always been told as a child that I was ugly. I believe it since it was all that I knew. It was a lie, but it was at that time my truth. But, that all changed when I met Pete and later Bob. Pete was the first person that genuinely loved me, without even seeing me once."
Cindy began to cry again, as Agatha held her hand. The old woman was crying now to see such a sweet girl have to go through all the hellish torment that she had suffered throughout her life.
Granny spoke, "I know honey, you three get your life all figured out and starting to do well, when the old Captain Urano screws your life back up like you were to begin."
Cindy spoke, "No you are wrong."
Agatha was surprised by the young woman's reaction, as she looked at Cindy who had a tender smile on her face, while her long black hair covered her eyes. The young lady had her hands in her lap,
which made the old woman nosy. The aged woman forced her shaky knees to better see what Cindy
was doing. Agatha's eyes about jumped out of sockets about she saw.
Cindy's hands were laying tenderly on her stomach.
The granny gasped, "You're pregnant! I heard you tell me that you couldn't have kids?"
Cindy looked up at her friend with tears in her eyes.
"I thought I couldn't have kids anymore, but I am going to have Pete's baby! I was going to tell
him after supper. But.."
The two women stood up and gave each other a gentle embrace.
Cindy spoke, "I was told by my doctor five years ago that I had the osteoporosis of a two hundred and seventy-year-old woman!"
People on Rindat with a few treatments during their early year scan live to two hundred years at their prime of life. After that point, aging starts to slow the scale back down to normal. That is if they were without severe injuries then it is significantly lower.
Agatha spoke, "My Lord honey, what kind of medical problem did have to have some bone problems?"
Cindy frowned," I had one hundred and seven babies when I was a very young girl."
The old woman kissed Cindy on the cheek and said, "Why on Rindat did you have that many, or
better yet, how did you have so many children?"
Cindy pushed the woman away and ran into the bathroom. Agatha ran, no attempted to run after
the embarrassed secretary. The old woman tried to get in the bathroom and she found that it had been locked shut.
The granny spoke, "I am sorry that I had hurt your feelings, as it was just a knee jerk reaction, baby. I had only thought that the natural world record pregnancies for a normal lady were sixty-nine. Was not you shocked at when first saw Pete scared back, as when you told me? "
Agatha heard Cindy bumping around inside the bathroom door. The restroom door lock can be heard clicking unlocked. The young woman was heard running back to whatever she was hiding it. Water could be heard coming on clearly from outside the door. The old woman patiently at the door for several minutes, before she had the courage to knock on the door.
Agatha spoke, "It is me! I had not left yet. I will love you no matter, what your past was. I don't care if was your fault, but I don't think that it is. You are too good of girls now and probably back then.
I am coming in unless you don't want in there."
There was still no response.
Agatha spoke, "I know that you need somebody to talk to. If you hate me and want to leave me then knock once. If you want me to come in then knock twice."
One knock could be heard.
The sound saddens the old tearful woman as she starts to leave.
A second knock could be heard, which causes the old woman to cry with happy tears.
She starts to open the door and sees that the light is out and there is no other source of light.
The granny spoke, "Baby, I am turning on the light and I will shut the door behind me, so that no
one could see us here."
Cindy screams, "Shut the door and lock it! They might see me for what I really am!"
Agatha did as she was told and saw that the young mother was in the tall narrow shower stall.
The old woman spoke, "Cindy, hope that you are not sitting inside of there under the water if it is too hot.
Cindy's voice cracked when she spoke, "It is not the hottest water that ever been under, but I think that it is kind of nice. If you see how I really look like, then you will want to puke upon me."
Agatha spoke, "No, I won't hate you no matter what you look like. You were the daughter, that I
always wanted, but never had. It can't be that bad, honey. I will take a peek to show you Cindy that you
just a normal girl. You just had a hard life is all, and that does not make you a bad person."
The old woman took a peek to see the face of Cindy and see that it is as she saw in the woman's kitchen.
The granny spoke, "You look fine."
Cindy pulls open the plastic shower curtain to Agatha's horror.
The horrified woman spoke, "I am sorry honey, I had no idea to what several kinds of hell that you had been through. What on Rindat happened?"
Cindy had scars over nearly all her torso and the upper end of her limbs. Stitches had been made with a very thick metal thread that showed that whoever had sewed her together was not a medical professional, but a sadistic butcher. Cindy's natural white face was probably what the rest of her skin looked like. Her torso was all sorts of colors. Her patches must have been all that had kept her muscles from being exposed. Her skin was covered in all sorts of horrible words in all sorts of languages, such as whore, slut, faggot, full-time pregger, cum dump, and five-star hooker, to name a
few. Choice numbers and letters for even more terrible things were on her body as well: 1488, 666, 13, 5150, 662, 730, P.H.D., and Bizzle for starters. The poor woman had body piercings nearly everywhere.
Agatha couldn't help but grab up and hug Cindy while kissing her on the cheek. Now, both women were soaking wet, but they didn't care. The woman didn't care what her desired daughter looked like.
Agatha spoke, "Blemished or not, you are still the most beautiful woman in the whole wide world! Would you be my adopted daughter?"
Cindy jumped out of the shower with Agatha still around her neck.
The abused woman spoke, "Yes, mother, I will be your daughter if you would have me."
The new mother spoke, "Yes Cindy, I will be the mother, that you never had. We don't need any
lawyer to tell us that we are family. A family is the ones you love, not just the ones you are related to by blood or by marriage. We will be family, even after we are both worm food! Don't ever forget that, baby. Don't you ever forget!"
Cindy spoke, "I promise you that I will never let that leave my mind, even for a second."
Agatha spoke, "As your Momma, can I ask you about what you had been through after we get
a dry set of clothes."
Cindy turns the shower water off and the two women dried off with a new set of clothes.