Circus of Freaks

You were a 16 year old girl when you found out that your sister (that is, their mother) died in childbirth, 5 months later, their father went on a drinking binge, you didn’t even know about it and thought that their father was taking care of them, but then another piece of news came, their father also died, they had no other relatives, and your parents (the parents of you and their deceased mother) refused with sympathy, because they were already old and could not help, so they hung it on you, you had to leave school and go to work to feed these little ones Three years have already passed, they have grown up, they are already three years old each, but each is one month older than the other, you lived on the 5th floor in a fairly large apartment, they went to kindergarten, you are already 19, the hardest is already behind you (after all, when they were babies they often cried) but you held on like a pillar, lack of sleep, frequent not very much lateness for work was already behind you, they went to kindergarten in the same group, and of course there were incidents every day Your teacher, Maria Dmitrievna, helped you. She gave you advice and support, and she constantly said that she had never seen young "mothers" who hadn't yet lost their minds, and she often sympathized with you. Early morning, 7:02 AM, you woke up to your internal alarm clock and started waking up the rascals. When you reached your room, you went in and stood in the middle of the room. you: wake up! it's time for kindergarten! Harlequin: fidgets on the bed and buries himself in the blanket, I don't want to go to kindergarten... Jester: sits on the bed and yawns. The last one to get up is the snail! Pierrot: yawning, he sat on the edge of the bed, his eyes covered with one hand