The Kids Grow Up by Trish Hanan (novel24 .TXT) 📖

start drinking some serious green milk because he had something incredibly wonderful to show them and once they saw what they could do they would never want to drink white milk again. Jackson looked at him like he was crazy. Harry grabbed his arm and looked him right in his purple eyes that were just like his.
“Jackson, trust me, Son, if you don’t drink your green milk and you see what your brothers and maybe Cassie can do and you won’t be able to do, then you’re going to be very sad and very angry with yourself,” he said solemnly. Jackson nodded.
“Okay, Dad, but it had better be good,” he told him. Harry grinned.
“Oh, it’s better than good, it’s magical,” he said and they were all mystified but that’s all he would say except to tell him when their telekinesis was working. They all agreed to drink a gallon of green milk a day because they were intrigued.
Once the bins were delivered they began work on the buildings and they had a lot of trees to chop down. All of Harry’s siblings joined the project and Jake’s siblings except for Abby and they had a full crew of forty because they all had partners who wanted to help and Harry thought that wonderful. He always loved being surrounded by young people and some of the partners were his old friends.
DJ was in love with his daughter Emma and his friend Mike was with his daughter Cassie. Carl was happy as hell that he was going to be related to Harry. Dr. George’s son Georgie was Sean’s partner and one of the Patterson twins Billy was Adam’s partner. Sarek’s twin son John was Jackson’s partner and James Campbell was Ryan’s partner and in a twist, he was Harry’s son with Cindy Campbell so that was pretty neat. Ryan only had a little of Harry’s DNA and he did have his purple eyes and James had his purple eyes so the two men looked a little like brothers instead of lovers and more than a few people thought they shouldn’t be that but Harry thought those people should mind their own business and leave the men alone. Love wasn’t always planned it just happened and it had happened to those two.
The other Patterson twin Bobby was partners with Harry’s youngest sister Karen and his friend Davy Marshall was his sister Allison’s boyfriend. His sister Tracey was partnered with Frederick von Helsing and his brother Travis was in love with Hope, Sarek and Myla’s daughter. His brother Alex was in love with Irene, DJ and Grace’s daughter and his brother Kent was partners with Hans and Nyla’s daughter Ruth.
In the Jackson family, Monroe was in love with Jasmine White which made Dr. Jackson angry, he didn’t want his sons marrying white girls and he hated the fact that his son was living with the daughter of Jan and Joy the two lesbians he had hated for years. Then his third son Dwight embarrassed him by living with a man, Calvin Carbonari, a white man like Jake did and Dr. Jackson threatened to disown him too but Dwight ignored him like Jake did and the older man was very frustrated but at least this son couldn’t give him fishy freaks for grandchildren.
Then Pearl moved in with Susie and continued to live with her for over a hundred years and nothing anyone could say to her would change her mind. Susie’s mom Edna loved the two girls and had them over for dinner all the time. Sissy was jealous of the other women’s close relationship with her daughter and wondered why she couldn’t have the same. She never got it that all of the lectures and when are you going to marry a nice boy talks drove her daughter to Edna who loved her and welcomed her as a daughter and didn’t ask stupid questions like that.
Charlotte was involved with another White, Jason White and Mabel was living with Cameron, Kathleen and Steve’s youngest. Yvonne and CJ were a couple while her twin Yvette was living with Isaac DJ and Grace’s son. None of the Jackson children were with any of the Emery children a fact that frustrated the two men and irritated their mothers. But what could they do, all of the children insisted that they had slept with each other and while it had been fun and they liked it, they didn’t fall in love and they weren’t going to marry people they weren’t in love with. They did promise to have at least one black child for the gene pool and their parents had to be satisfied with that.


Chapter Ten

Harry had his early mornings free during construction of the warehouse stores. None of the kids were used to getting up that early except for the few who still had cows to milk, the rest of the them bought their milk from the alterian dairy so he had a couple of free hours in the morning. So Harry did what he and Jake had loved to do with their dogs, he took them to the beach and ran with them.
The first couple of days he did this, he had no troubles; they ran along the shore and had a marvelous time. He did notice, however, that his favorite beach had been taken over by the alterians but his kids had marked it clearly with a big sign reading: Harry Talbert Beach. He didn’t mind sharing and it looked like they kept things very neat and tidy with lots of trash cans, several bathrooms and showers plus refreshment stands and a nice boardwalk so he was happy with his beach.
The problem came the fourth morning when a patrol car came and stopped him. Two policemen wanted to know what he was doing on his beach. When he informed them he was going to run with his dogs, they pointed out a big sign that read: No dogs allowed on beach.
“Yes, I understand that, but I’m Harry Talbert. This is my beach and if I want to run with my dogs on my beach then I can,” Harry reasoned with them. They didn’t look impressed.
“Do you have any I.D.?” one of them asked. Harry was shocked because, of course, he didn’t, everyone knew who he was. He shook his head.
“We’re going to have to ask you to leave, mister,” the other policeman said and Harry sighed and took his dogs with him. Then he hopped back in his helo and flew home and drove to City Hall to get some I.D.
There a snooty David Marshall informed him that if he wanted a driver’s license he would have to get Carl or Frank to give him the test and sign off on the report. Harry was shocked.
“You’ve got to be kidding, David, I’ve been driving for a hundred and twenty-six years, this is ridiculous,” he said as calmly as he could. David shrugged.
“Those are the rules,” he informed him smugly. Harry sighed and took the report and found Carl in his store and handed him the report to sign off of. Carl looked at him and judged his mood incorrectly.
“You know, Harry, I’ve got a free hour, I can easily give you the driving test right now,” he offered generously. Harry stared at him like he was insane.
“Carl, I’ve been driving for a hundred and twenty-six years and I can fly the Elizabeth in space. Sign off the damned thing before I lift you off you feet and you wake up next Tuesday with the biggest headache I’ll ever heal,” he informed him. Carl raised an eyebrow and signed the report. Harry turned around the walked out of the store and returned to City Hall. David was on break and he had to wait an hour for him to return which only irritated him more.
“Fine, that’ll be twenty dollars,” David said as he stamped the report and typed into the computer. Harry sighed and reached into his wallet. David frowned and tapped the window where a little sign read: Checks only, no cash. Harry was astonished. David grinned.
“It’s easier to keep track of the money if it’s in check form, we only take checks,” he informed him smugly. Harry turned around and walked out to his car. He drove home and got a million dollars from his supply and drove to the bank. Of course he’d have to open another checking account since he hadn’t gotten around to doing that after the divorce.
Brian at the bank laughed at the bad day his boss was having and opened the account for him. Then he remembered a package that had been dropped off for him thirty years ago and went into the office and dragged it over to the desk.
“Jake dropped this off for you about thirty years ago, it’s real heavy,” he told him. Harry opened it and grinned. It was gold and he suspected it was a million dollars, his share of their two million dollar checking account. They counted it and he was right.
“I knew Jake wouldn’t steal from me,” Harry sighed with relief. Brian grinned.
“You want to put this in your new account?” he asked and Harry nodded.
“Might as well since it’s already here,” he decided. They set everything up and Harry picked out cute checks with kittens on them which both he and Brian thought were damned cute. Then he took his ten temporary checks and returned to City Hall for the last time or what he hoped would be the last time. David smirked when he saw him.
“These checks don’t have your name and address on them, how can I be sure you’re really who you say you are, you don’t have I.D.?” he snickered. Harry shrugged.
“Well, since you say you don’t know me then when I reach in there and beat the crap out of you then you won’t be able to identify me to the police as your assailant, will you?” he sneered and David got pale. He stamped the check angrily and glared at Harry.
“You think you’re such a smarty-pants don’t you,” he sneered back. Then he handed Harry his forms and told him to take them to Doug for his picture card. Harry checked everything carefully and started to turn away. David called him back.
“You didn’t have to fire me from the bank, I really liked my job there and it wasn’t my fault Jake left you for Violet,” he whined. Harry shrugged.
“It was your fault that you told Jake to close out our joint checking account like I was going to leave him broke and penniless if he didn’t,” he informed him calmly. “That was cute, David, and cute doesn’t belong in a bank. Cute belongs in a video store or an arcade or any other store but it doesn’t belong in a bank where so much money is involved and it doesn’t belong where people use their personal vendettas to interferer with their professional lives. You should have never let your wife convince you to use your job at the bank to get even with me, that was wrong and you knew it. As a lawyer you should have known you were crossing the line, but you did it anyway and that proved to me that you couldn’t be trusted with everyone’s money. People are very protective of their money and