Quiet. That's what was happening before the child awoke screaming, Enzo thought the baby was screaming for a night time diaper change so he got up and began to walk the cot. His life has been miserable so far but he was happy with Anna and would do anything for Anna to prove that she was safe with him.

Anna woke up instantly at Adrian's sudden screaming, brushing past Enzo as she picked up their son from his cot. His diaper was entirely dry, so that wasn't the problem. "What's the matter, little Adrian?" she crooned, bouncing the child lightly in her arms.
"Bad dweam." He mumbled. "Scaweded me." He burst into tears, his little arms wrapping around her neck.
Anna sighed tiredly and kissed his forehead. "You can sleep with Mama and Papa tonight, then, okay?"
"Otay!" He said quite enthusiastically, giggling a little. He kissed her cheek, transferring some of his baby tears onto her face.
As she carried their son back to the bed, she said softly to Enzo, "I'm sorry. You know you didn't have to get out of bed. You have work tomorrow, anyway."

" it's fine honey I thought his diaper was in a state, but I guess not little aid* he says sheepishly and then began to walk back to the bed and lay in it trying sleep again "Did we get any more letters from the council or bailiffs.* he whispered

"None, this week, anyway. Another full-time working mother just joined my daycare so I can put another sixty dollars a week in the rent budget. Or the heating. I don't know which is more urgent. Probably rent because we haven't been able to pay for three months." She worked her arm out from under Adrian, who was sound asleep curled against her belly.

The thought of being evicted from their house was making Enzo fidgety, he didn't want to be evicted from the house, let alone let Anna be evicted from the house, he would have work his ass off just to make ends meet, but he couldn't do that alone, every time he tried to take out a loan from the Bank, he always got declined, his luck was off and he didn't like it he just wanted to keep the house and stay with Anna just to prove that he did love his wife.

Anna reached her hand out across the bed, twining her fingers around Enzo's. "We'll get through it. We always do. And someday we'll be able to get our own home and send Adrian to a nice school, and you won't have to work such crazy hours." Of course, she also worked for a living, with between eight and twelve children under the age of five in the house at any one time. She loved working with kids. And she charged less than most of the other local daycares, so many working women who weren't wealthy could afford it.

Enzo softly closed his on to Anna's and smiled and then with the other hand covered him self with part of the duvet and kept on thinking his and her wellbeing, after all he did marry the woman to vow to her that he would never falter from her presence, he kept on thinking that she would divorce him and leave him, but that was just a crazy though and pushed it out of his mind and then closed his eyes to sleep.

Anna fell asleep pretty quickly, waking up at five-thirty as her alarm went off. She groaned, rolling to her feet, picking up Adrian and taking him for a bath and a clean diaper. She settled him back into his crib and took a shower herself, a quick one in water as cold as she could bear. With her long hair clean and combed out, she put on a no-nonsense dress in navy blue, and went to the kitchen to make breakfast. Enzo had to be at work in about an hour and a half, but they always had breakfast together in the mornings.

Enzo slowly opened his eyes due to the dawn breaking through the windows and he sighed and then swung his legs around to climb of the bed and pulled himself up and then picked out his clothes and put them on "Anna are you in the bathroom."

"No I'm in the kitchen." she called, at the last minute remembering to lower her voice lest she disturb the neighbors. "Eggs and toast for breakfast today."

"Ok " he went into the bathroom and then came out a few minutes later and walked downstairs to sit at the dining table, he smiled at Adrian and to Anna and then looked around and then got a cigarette to smoke

Anna smiled, dishing out the eggs. She wrinkled her nose at his cigarette smoke. "Not in here, please. I've got new clients coming this morning and if there's smoke in the house that'll really put them off."

He put it back and got a knife and fork to eat, he had work shortly and his boss was a god damn ass and he would probably lecture him about how badly Enzo was doing his job " Remember, gorgeous, don't let anyone in you don't recognize or any council employees." He said.

"Of course. I'm sure the council wouldn't dare come here, not when I'll have so many children in the house. Today I think I have fourteen on the roster."

*Okay, honey I've got to leave for work"he stood up and walked closer to her and then kissed her forehead and softly patted Adrian's head and then walked to the hallway and slipped on his shoes and jacket and then looked back "Love you, have a nice day working dear"

Anna smiled and blew a kiss and waved. No sooner had the door locked behind Enzo than she heard the doorbell ringing furiously. Sighing she got to her feet, plastered a smile on her face, and welcomed a woman into her home. She brought... nine kids? Between the ages of one and four. Anna didn't even want to THINK about how that might work.
The woman saw her alarm. "Oh, no, they're not mine. Several of the mothers on my street had to leave early, so they left their sons and daughters with me for the morning. Then I got a call, the emergency room is super short-staffed and they need me for a triple shift. And I know it's rather short notice, but if you could take care of them. Please. Otherwise I'd need to leave them all alone at my house."
"Of course I can." Anna murmured, already doing up the tallies in her head. Fourteen on the roster plus these nine plus the two or three walk-ins she usually anticipated... God. She was looking at twenty-five screaming toddlers for all day.