A New Family

"What is this? Jones, what have you brought home?"

Mr Jones had already parked the car closer to the house. He got out of his car and he was trying to calm his furious wife.

For a while there, he forgot how furious his wife could be. She rarely gets angry but whenever she does, it was always so fiery and fiesty.

"Calm down, mi amor, calm down."

"Jones! you can't be serious right now."

"Let me explain, ait?"

"What is there to explain? You brought home a dead body!"

"She's not dead!" He added immediately, gesturing with her hands that she should lower her voice but she seemed to not understand the sign she loved to use when Thomas was still a baby.

"That girl could be dead for all I know!"

"Lower your voice, senorita. The neighbors might hear."

"They'll eventually know what's going on by the time the bobbies come banging on our door and cuff our hands behind our back!"

"Look, honey," he gently gripped her shoulder and tried to make her understand,"she's alive, I'm sure of it. I check