The waitress

I would stop at a diner for breakfast and dinner every day I went to work. I was 32 and successful career wise and a failure with relationships. But was getting on well with a waitress (29) at the diner. She was the only woman I could say I was really friendly with. Not that I tried to pick her up, my many failures meant I wouldn't even try. That was 2019 and in 2020 the pandemic started, my work I could do from home and so it wouldn't hurt me. The diner would close for the lockdown, but before the waitress had broken up with her latest boyfriend and needed another place to live. Also, with talk of lockdowns and the virus causing trouble everywhere. She was having a lot of trouble; I'd banter with her before and told her she could stay with me if she was really desperate. The next day it came back to bite me, as her need to move had increased greatly overnight. In fact, she was kicked out on her fanny as she called it, all her belongings were in a backroom of the diner. I fogged her off with if you can't find another better place you can stay with me and you can come with me after work. I only worked a short day as a lockdown was announced and I headed for home via the supermarket getting everything I thought I would need. Dropping it at my apartment and decided to have my usual meal at the diner. I'd forgotten my offer, not thinking it would actually happen. But she hadn't found anywhere else and when she asked me was I still willing to take her in. I just nodded and at first thought she was teasing me, she wasn't. She joined me for dinner, and we headed to my apartment together. I thought a week or 2 at most, not the months it actually was. She had her own room and done all the cooking and even my laundry. By the third week we realized it was going to be a long lockdown. Mainly due the different advice coming from the authorities. Boredom led to sex between us, and it became more and more passionate overtime. Of course, we messed up and she got pregnant and we'd a son together and in the years since a girl and she is pregnant again and test say it's another boy. We married in 2021 and are quite happy no regrets, only major change is we now have a house. The one positive from the pandemic is I've a family now.