Scared Bunny

When Sister Grim was told she was going to have to leave Grandpa Uncle Daddy’s house, and that Uncle daddy was not going to come with her, she knew exactly what to do. Sister Grim had been in this position before, so she knew to call family. Family will take her in, she thought. They had always taken her in before. Heck, she had almost never had to take care of her own room and board.

So Sister Grim called her sister. Now her sister had recently married, and she was not too keen to have her sister and her two children join their new family. When you bring together two families there are all sorts of adjustments to make, and these adjustments are not made easier by adding a woman and two crying children. Plus, frankly, Sister Grim’s sister was not all that certain that the relations between her ex and Sister Grim were not totally consensual. It did seem odd that a girl who was molested had remained so comfortable living in the home of the man that molested her.

So when Sister Grim asked her sister “What will I do?” her sister advised her to find a shelter for herself and her children until she could get a job and save enough money for an apartment. Sister Grim was shocked. She wasn’t going to pay to fly them back west, to where the sun sets? She wasn’t going to feed and house them? She wasn’t willing to act as Sister Grim’s personal driver and housekeeper?

“No”, Sister Grim’s sister replied, “I am not”. You have got to stop living your life expecting the world to take care of you. You moved out there expecting a man who has never even taken care of himself to suddenly be responsible not only for himself but for you and your children. And, frankly, I am not going to keep supporting you while you keep making the same dumb decisions over and over.”

Sister Grim didn’t know what to think of that, but she went to plan B. “Can I live with your ex at his home?”

“Well, Sister Grim’s sister replied, you can ask him, but he has already told me the answer. You have told everyone he molested you, and that, because of that, you are not welcome in his home.”

Now this was shocking. Sister grim had always assumed she was welcome there. Some felt she thought he owed her for molesting her. Others felt she thought he would invite her so they could again have relations. Still others felt that she just assumed that any place she had ever lived before she could return to, despite what may or may not have happened in the home.

This was a setback for Sister Grim, but she was not out of options. “What about my other sister?” asked Sister Grim. “Not only no, but hell no.”, replied Sister Grim’s other sister. “I already am trying to get rid of my niece and our mother. Plus, I do not want you around my husband, even though he hates you and warned me before you had relations with your brother-in-law that you seemed like the kind of woman who would do something and then claim to have been assaulted when you got caught.”

That left one more option, and Sister Grim asked if she could live with her mother. “Are you not paying attention?” Asked Sister Grim’s sister. “Mother is living with our sister. She does not have her own home.’

“But she has a job.” Replied Sister grim. “Can she not support us?”

Momma Grim offered to help in the only way she could. “I do not have a home, and cannot afford to pay for one for you, “she advised. “But my employer does have me traveling the kingdom, so he has generously housed me in several Inns. You can stay with me in the Inn for a few weeks.”

Sister Grim was shocked and offended. She and her children were not going to travel from inn to inn around the kingdom. They belonged in a house, where someone was making sure they were fed, housed and kept warm. These were not vagabonds to be shuttled around from place to place.

So Sister Grim’s sister told her she was sorry, but that the family could not return her to the west, where the sun sets. They could not house and feed her and her children. They could not continue to support a grown woman who seemed to have no desire to do for herself. And with that, she hung up.

Sister Grim was angry with her family. She knew she would find a solution without them. There had to be someone she could call who would allow her and the children to reside in their abode.