It was a hot summer's afternoon however, and Jaden was still sweating from the walk home. He called out for her, and there was no response. Over the next few months, Jaden watched with excitement as his mom's tummy grew bigger and rounder, until he came home from school one day, and the witch was nowhere to be seen. She had to admire his spirit, but her boy was never going to be a good parent if his only role models were men who ran away from their parental duties. Raising a child was a full-time job, and not just something you could pick up on the weekends. His mother tsk-tsked at this remark, insisting that he still had much to learn about adult responsibility. So how hard could it be to look after someone else? He'd even promised to help care of the baby when it arrived - but only on Saturdays, he said, because he had homework to do on Sundays. He could walk to school on his own and buy his own lunch. Still, he already quite good at looking after himself. Jaden never would have guessed that when she said that, she was including him as one of the men. "A baby is the biggest gift you'll ever receive, but no man in my life has ever proven himself reliable in looking after them." "Oh Jaden," she would say with a sly little smile. "I am not a baby!" Jaden would say whenever his mom mentioned this in front of him. And since they lived their lives very far the rest of their family, the motherly witch was none too keen on raising "both of the babies" by herself. This made Jaden and his mom very sad for a while. He wanted nothing more to do with her from that day forward, and left her before she could burden him with looking after the life he'd created. His stepdad, however, was a lot less happy to found out the woman he'd been dating was secretly a witch. Jaden was thrilled by the prospect of having a baby sibling to play with. Then a few weeks later she brought out her crystal ball and gave them both the good news. That guy came over for many 'sleepovers' with Jaden's mom, until they announced that they wanted another child. That man's role in Jaden's life had apparently ended abruptly before he was born.įor years, Jaden and his mom had lived alone, until one day she met another man, a handsome fellow whom Jaden liked, and whom his mom really liked. As he got older, however, he became increasingly more concerned by the fact that his father never visited. Growing up, Jaden never found it at all strange that his mom was a witch.
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