The New Beginning: Nunsignor Book I

4th of July 1

4 months later...

4th of July, 1966

It has been more than 10 days since the beginning of a new season. A new season with its abstract, flamboyant vibes and aesthetics. For short period of time to collect priceless memories that abide in your heart forever. 

4 months had already passed. It was just in the middle of the year. Roughly said. Ellie and Tristan were already 9 months old as they developed plenty of skills through these months for example, they were almost able to utter their first word but mostly they babbled, making sounds as they practiced by using their lips to address their parents. It wasn't easy for them, nor Howards themselves. Furthermore, Jude commenced nursing Ellie and Tristan less than a several weeks ago as beginnings of weaning her infants. 

Moreover whenever Jude goes to the supermarket, she had hired somebody to look after the children during her abscene. It was her friend who revived her career as a maid. Valerie has been Howards' family maid for 3 months as she had a solid, serious discussion with Judy and Timothy, receiving a salary approximately $300 per an hour. The red-haired maid usually spends 8 hours in Howards' mansion daily as she got to know better more the both adults, having a good time with the children when the both parents are absent or just occupied so much. Despite her underestimated, mere profession, she still enjoyed to go visit her friends' house daily, spending her leisure time in discussions with Jude and possibly Timothy if he is eventually at home. Mother Claudia, Kit and Grace with their children, besides Charlotte and Ramona had paid to Howards' family house as they wanted to see Judy and Timothy with their lovely growing yet little angels that drastically change with every passing week, every passing day. In addition, they had the chance to encounter Ms.Volkova, the maid herself, who shared common things with Jude. 

Actually Valerie hadn't one of the best childhoods, howsoever, she was a half orphan. Just like Jude. But in Valerie's case, she hadn't got a mother, who was unconditionally similar to Jude's unidentified father that left their family when they needed them mostly. Valerie's father, who was a Russian emigrant named Maksim, was tremendously loving, caring and hardworking father that had ensured sufficiently enough for himself and his daughter to survive the hot and freezing months of the year. According to her words, her father had always supported her daughter, regardless if she is either wrong or right in certain situations. Additionally, she had talked with Jude many times about her father Maksim and her younger years including her school years especially the high school ones which can be considered as the most critical, the difficultest ones in her life. She hadn't got any friends in her high school, they bullied her even more, calling her a nerd, anti-social and so forth. She just prefered to read books, educate herself and to speak to some teachers which were her last hope at school, discussing and arguing philosophically over some vexed topics especially in the sphere of the Literature, Philosophy and Psychology. The teachers were like her friends. She had always spoken to teachers since 1st grade until she graduated from high school. She was much different than her peers. The boys loved and relished to get on her nerves, in spite of her overlook and lack of attention that she delivered them.  Valerie usually felt misunderstood by them as she was like an old soul unlike them. Her father, Maksim, had called her a special child since her birth, according to her words. The difference between Jude and Valerie's first love was ruthlessly evident. When the both women madly fell in love with their first crushes, they vowed to themselves and them to be loyal, loving girlfriends though they ended their relationships heart broken. Jude's relationship with her first boyfriend, Casey, ended when she found out she was infected with syphilis, ceased to have her own biological children and when she announced it to her fiance a day before their wedding, he got murderously mad at her, slapping her face, addressing her with inappropiate, irreverent names that left her desolated, fearing of loving another man again, having trust issues and bitter tears welling on her face. Whilst in Valerie's case was that when she fell in love with the boy, who had captured her heart in her last 2 years as a high school student, thereafter she spent less time to read her textbooks as she prefered her partner's company and the night on her graduation, she was being proposed by him, initially she thought it for any kind of a joke though he was deadly serious. After she was proposed, 3 months later she got impregnated by him as they lived blissfully the first year together as she wanted to study philosophy in the Boston university. Nevertheless after Shona's birth, perhaps when she was 3 months old, Valerie's husband named Carlos cheated on her with a high school senior student and leaving behind her wife and her daughter to handle all circumstances that they were dealing with. Furthermore, Valerie debuted her career as a maid a little after her graduation as she wanted to have her own money. When she was neglected by Carlos, struggling with the heart break, no sooner she resigned from the university she wished to study and filled the divorce documents as her final words to Carlos were to never and ever return back and dare to touch or say anything to her and Shona. At least, she had her little daughter's and her father Maksim's support. Luckily, he was still alive, according to her monologue. After she broke up and divorced with Carlos, she developed trust issues, besides she started hating men as she stared at them with scornful stare or approximate glare, sensing in her stormly boiling blood her intense hatred towards the opposite gender. The only male she loved cordially is actually her father. As an addition, she wasn't religious at all and she hadn't attended a church since her teenage years. However, she respected everybody for who are they until they disrespect her.