My son's mother

Chapter 2

Lipsa's pov

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"...Hit, hit, hit, hit, hit me with lightning

Handle bars, and then I let go, let go for anyone

Take me in, and throw out my heart and get a new one..."

Ughhhh!

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"...Oh, everybody's starry eyed

And everybody goes

Oh, everybody's starry eyed

And my body goes

Whoa oh oh ah ah

Whoa oh oh ah ah

Whoa oh oh...."

Da*n it...

" AUBREY!!!... Please for God sake switch off Your speaker..." I groaned loud " ... Someone's her trying to fu****g sleep!" but I doubt she even heard me over this loud music... make it noise.

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"...Next thing we're touching

You look at me it's like you hit me with lightning..."

See told ya...

I am Lipsa McClain, I am a first year student in Biotechnology Research department in Masters program at New York University. I am from Indiana. I was orphan untill 5 years old when my now parents adopted me from the orphanage, from then they are everything for me. I am 23 years old and recently moved to New York, alongwith my bestie or rather add annoying bestie. I was excited when I got acceptance letter from NYU, it was my dream to become a biotechnologist.

You see when I was 8 my parents got me a cute puppy, I called him Ace. He was an Alaskan dog breed and a cute fluffy thing. But after 3 months, one day I was walking him in our nearby park when some stray dogs suddenly attacked. We tried to ran away, but how much far a 8 year can ran and a puppy just 6 month old . I tried to shoo them away even though I was afraid as hell, but I couldn't beat them. They were 4-5 in number. Ace was also trying to scare them as hard as he could but no use. All the dogs attacked us, one dog bit me on my calf successfully tearing some flesh. I was scared, and the pain was making it hard to keep my eyes open, I could hear people shouting but their voices were very faraway. I was slipping into darkness... the last thing I saw before getting unconscious is Ace who was on the ground, lying in pool of blood of its own.

After that we were taken to hospital by some locals I guess it was them who were shouting. I was bruised here and there, my calf has more than 25 stitches. But Ace couldn't make it, the doctor said that the dogs who bit us, well if you will call them that, I mean which stray dog bites like a hungry wild animals... anyway those dogs have some kind of poison in their teeth or saliva that was fatal for him. The doctors said that it's not harmful for human so I was safe.

I was very sad, devasted to be exact. He was like a brother to me. From that day I decided to be a vet. But I was more interested in medicine than in surgery, so I chose biotechnology.

Currently our department is working on some medicines related to canine species. And me being me, was so excited that I immediately agreed when one of my senior asked me to become their helping hand .

But I think I shouldn't have, cause no one ever told me that being a helping hand means you are a f****ing free worker for them. They have to write lots and lots of reports and guess who do the "important" work as they would tell me (include eye roll there)... yup

it's me.

Generally I don't have any problem in writing some stupid reports. I mean that's what I am good at, you see I am not much of a social animal and I would rather be with some books than sneaking out of house for some stinking party just to get super drunk. But I can never compromise with my sleep and these reports are seriously challenging my sleeping hours. I have to write them till late night and submit them, so I steal some sleep during our lunch break which brings me to now, when I was taking my beauty sleep after a long long night of reports writing... yay lucky me and my annoying a*s of a bestie decided it's best to disturb me with Elle Goulding's voice.

Aubrey and I became friends in high school when we somehow ended in detention because if a fight over food. Did I told you I am a foodie.... I guess no. So she and I were fighting over a last piece of donut and I have kind of got a sweet tooth. So in detention we made peace and from then on we are inseparable.

Sometimes i think how I am friends with her like now. I swear if had enough energy to get up from bed I would have blown up that music system.

Now I am wide awake lying on my bed as staring at the ceiling, my sleep long gone replaced by a mindfuc***gblowing headache.

I hear my bedroom door open slowly, the first thing hit me was the delicious smell of pancakes and if I am not wrong it's blueberry pancakes... Eeeeee... my favourite.

I sprang to my feet and reached to my now startled friend just in seconds

"God!!! Lipsa....can you try not to give me a fu**ing heart attack. And what did I told you about sneaking around..."

She scolded me like a child

" First it's your fault so it's a payback bi**h and secondly I was not sneaking, I was just lying on my bed..." I argued and took the delicacies she brought for me and glanced at her. She was looking at me with on raised eyebrow

" And what is that I am guilty for..." she put emphasis on guilty

With my food filled mouth I tried to reply, keyword tried

" You wock... we uff..."( you woke me up)

" Sh*t, can you either eat or talk... Ewww"

Did I told you she is a neat freak, well now I did.

" Okey Doky, now I am descent" I said after wiping my mouth with tissue she placed with the tray, see neat freak

" So give me a good reason why you were swaying your a** early in morning to Elle Goulding"

She scowled

" well sleepy head its already past 11..."

" your point...?"

" my point is I was preparing brunch for you ... so you have to wake up to savor them"

She gave me all megawatt smile and explained in a very business like manner. I slightly rolled my eyes

"Wow today I again broke my record"

"Seriously babe, are you sure they are not bullying you? or does anyone have some grudges against you.... or something...?" she is reffering to my job as research assistant

She made airy hand gestures

" It's nothing like that Bree, and beside there is something good about this..."

".... and what is that?" she c****d her eyebrows at me

" Tomorrow I am going on field trip to the forest at outskirts of the city, and I am really excited"

As all the seniors need to do field research they are going to visit that forest and so I am

" Well I guess you are happy then..." she stated, Bree knew me like back of her hand. She is my partner in almost everything, minus some me time.

" Happy?... I am the happiest"

She chuckled " Ok eat your fill and do your thing, I am off to class meet you at dinner babe"

with that she went out. I had my fill, which is whole 7 pancakes and slept some more. The day was uneventful except some more reports and last minute packing.

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Today finally the day I am visiting the forest. I wore a black halter crop top and high waisted denim shorts, paired it with floral flowy short kimono and my ankle raise boots. I took a look at myself in mirror, my hair in a tight high pony tail. I don't use much makeup but since it's outdoor activity I applied some sunscreen and a light eye liner to highlight my light blue eyes. I have a naturally tan skintone and with my tall curvy body I am girl of every man's dream, a dangerous combination... I know. But I like my long legs more, they are toned and long making me feel more confident.

Honestly I am not a outdoor person but this time I think it's different. Something About this forest is attracting me, sort of beckoning me to go there. I don't know maybe it's me overthinking but I really am curious to know.

We are all packed in our university bus and now on road. As I told my attraction to this forest , it's now becoming more and more strong . As we entered forest boundaries, my heart beat was picking up pace. Maybe I am nervous or excited, but it's odd of me.

" ... You know they even say animal sighting is common in here, and no one is allowed to go deep inside forest" a senior having dirty blonde hair , Claire said

" Girl it's a freaking forest... it's ought to have animals and this forest looks dense, anyone can easily get lost here"another senior Sarah added.

"Yes animal are common, but the animal that are rumoured to be found here are more human than animal. They behave more civilized..."

Almost everyone on bus was giving her a deadpanned look

Sarah broke the silence" Girl decide first ... it's either animal or human, and why is your a** on fire if animal here behave civilized.

"God... Sarah , it's animals I am talking about. Have you seen any animal till now, even though we are like only few miles away from the deep forest?" Clarie retorted

Now that she said that I noticed just how deep we are in forest, here trees are bigger and dense, giving forest an eerie look. If it would have been another time or day I would have been scared to sh*t, but today something is different.

We reached our temporary stay house, beautiful cottage with natural vibe are all around here. After everything is settled we were instructed to follow our team members to forest. Armed with our required tools we sat off to forest.

I am in a team of three, with my senior Trevor and Annie. We headed Northeast, after walking for what felt like hours we took a rest.

"Lipsa, can you please arrange the samples collected according to coordinates, me and Annie are going to refill our bottles, I think I heard a waterfall or river.And should we refill yours also?" Trevor handed me his and Annie's bag, I took it from him and said

" Sure, no problem. And thanks but I still have water with me" I said while showing my full bottle.

"ok we will be back after half an hour or something" he said and went off.

I arranged the samples in about 40 minutes, Trevor and Annie are still not back yet so I decided to stroll around.

I was just walking around a minute or two, I heard a scream of someone. From the voice you can identify whoever the owner is in need.

I didn't think twice and ran towards the voice, but not before gathering my handy first-aid box and a pocket knife. For all I know there may be a danger or worse whoever voice it was,he or she maybe in immediate medical need.

After running some meters, I saw something moving, I followed it and the site before me was on of those movie.

There was a boy around four or five years old running, followed by 3-5 large almost the size of a cow dogs but on second thought these are not dogs actually... THEY ARE FREAKING WOLVES.... O MY JESUS!!! Sh*t the child was in danger.

I ran behind them, you must think of me as crazy as to why I am not scared of bunch of bloody Wolves as any sane person will run for their life, but I am not scared. Dis I mentioned you that I am a black belt in weapon martial arts .... sorry I forgot. Well due to some past incident I started learning martial arts and now I could be called a pro. ( yeah narcissistic, I know)

I can handle many weapon easily and spear is my speciality. Alongwith it I am also experienced in hand to hand combat. So these bunch of wet dogs are a piece of cake for me.

While running I picked up some strong, thick fallen branches and using my pocket knife to sharpen it's one end to make it into a spear, this will have to do.

After running a bit farther the boy suddenly fell and was now surrounded by these wolves. I could now take a clear look at the boy and my heart melted at this sight.

The boy was having messy dark chocolate brown hair and cute chubby cheeks. I couldn't take a look at his eyes but I bet it's also beautiful. His cheeks are tear stained and dust stuck on it. He is like a baby angel.

GRRRRRRRR.....

I was brought out of my trance by a loud growl and saw one of the wolf running towards the boy ready to kill.

My blood boiled to even think about the boy getting hurt.

I took one of my spear, angled it and threw in the air and as estimated it struck the running wolf right at its chest, it fell in front of the boy dead. This stunt brought attention of other wolves who are to join the party and who I am to say no! and the chaos being.

.I was throwing branches after branches at these wolves who are now advancing me. One wolf somehow doged my attack and came almost foot close to me, I dived below it avoiding it's sharp teeth and with the help of my pocket knife I tore its chest successfully.

After killing the last one my hands are covered in blood which stink like gutter and the blood is more black than red, see what I told about some mysterious food....

I now turned my attention to the boy, still on ground. I can now take a good look of his face, he have tears stained cheeks now dust is stuck on it but despite it you can see he is so cute. His light forest green eyes are now looking at me with different emotions, but what stand out the most is love and longing.

He must have beautiful parents, but speaking of parents where are his? Why is this little boy out alone in forest? And I know for sure there are no human habitation around this part of forest.

I crouched in front of him to his eye level, he was still looking at me with those big eyes which are now glossy.

" Hey darling... what's your name?" what can I say, every cutie pie is a darling to me.

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I tried again"My name is Lipsa, what's yours?"

He didn't reply but hugged me... Yes he wrapped his little arms around my neck as tight as he can. And did I mind? No! I am spent for cute adorable kids and he is too on the list.

"...sob...so-oob..."

Light sob near my neck brought me out of my thoughts. Not knowing what to do I lightly patted his back. Poor guy, he must be hella scared, heck even I am scared although I acted badass.

" Hey baby.... don't cry.... I am here aunty is here, come on. You did really well, and see I got you" I cooed him in best baby voice I can do.

" ... sob... Mo-mmy..."

Awww... he must be missing his mom.

" Hey, look here...." I brought his face to look at me, I wipe his tears with my hands.

".... I will take you to your mom, now what's your name? " I smiled at him

" A-alex..." he wishpers, he have sweet voice.

" Ok Alex baby, so do you know your way home so I can take you to your mom?"

"I-I don't have a mom" he replied, once again tears glazing his eyes

"Hey it's ok, I also don't have a mom or a dad"

He looked up at me, curiosity clear in his eyes " Really, you are alone like me? Are you also a monster or bad girl? But you seem nice, then why you don't have a mom?"

What did his family taught him, a monster! seriously!!

" No baby, I am not a monster and who told you that bad boys don't have mom ? Everyone have a mom, some have their really close to them and some have a little away from them." I tried to reason with him

" But I don't have one..." he said in a small voice. This poor boy has seen more than his age, atleast at this age I had my adopted parents but I don't think he have someone even close to mom.

" You are beautiful, just like my dream... like the angel mom... " he added, his eyes shining brightly.

I chuckled a little, children and their fantasy... I picked him up and carried him

" Well thank you my dear, now can you tell me where is your home or do you remember contact number of anyone from your home?"

His smile dropped, he clutched my kimono tightly and shook his head negative

" I don't want to go home... please. Can I go with you? I will be a very good boy and I will not eat anymore cookies... please?" he pleaded with his what I assume the best puppy dog face and I am sold. Oh god he's I the cutest thing.

" Ok I will not take you to your home and you can stay with me but you have to tell me where is your home,ok?"

He nodded his head and pointed towards the more deeper part of forest, well I guess I had wrong information about the area.

I followed his given direction and started walking towards it. Alex is holding me tight, his small hands curling around my cloth. I don't know why but I feel attracted to him, not the cute adorable type attracted but more of a bond type like that of a mother and son, what?! ... did I just thought that? from where it came?

To ease up the boy who is still tensed, I made small talk " Alex, baby why are you alone in forest?"

"I was sleeping under a tree, bad rouge wolves attacked me, mommy " his tone was of complaining.

" Baby you should call me aunty" I corrected him, but seeing his expression I should have not. His face changed to almost crying," are you sad?" he asked, face down.

Sh*t, how can I resist that?

" No darling, you can call me whatever you want, it's just maybe your father won't like it..."

" He will never knew" he gave me a megawatt smile. I guess coming to this forest was worth it, still I want to have a word or maybe two with his father who are so careless about their child. If I would had a child like Alex I would have given the whole world to him. Even with Alex I feel same.

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to be continued....