I started to make my new life somewhat do-able. I was doing all of my necessities at Wal-Mart like sleeping, eating and showering. It has been a couple of weeks since Willy Jack had left me in the parking lot to fend for myself basically. But to me everything was going be descent. And I even met this guy named Forney. He lived at the local library. He is extremely smart and I even had a chance to get to know him a little better over a dinner that we shared. I will tell you about how we first met and how I was reluctant to meet him at first. When I first walked into the library i felt like I walked into a special place. Then I heard someone angrily say that the librarian’s not here. So I said okay in a sort of scared voice and started to slip backwards towards the door. But he said that i didn’t have to leave in a sweeter tone and wanted to know what I was looking for and I told him that I was looking for a book about trees, buckeye trees to be exact. And then we talked about trees for awhile after and then we finally had dinner.
But even though I somewhat knew Forney personally I did not expect for him to do what he did for me. Even though I was making friends and adapting to my new lifestyle none knew that I was living at Wal-Mart. One night when I was lying down I started to feel a difference in my body and I realized that I was contracting and that my water broke. I was so scared and nervous and could not believe that I was going to have this baby all by myself in a Wal-Mart. While the pain got worse and it was getting closer to the time of the delivery, Forney comes smashing through the Wal-Mart window and comes to my side to help me deliver this baby if need be. I asked him to call an ambulance and to get a knife to ease my pain.
After I had delivered the baby I was lying on the floor and Forney asked me what I should name this baby and then I got it. I knew what I wanted to name my baby…Americus.
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