6 - Jeremiah: Tate's Crossing by Jeremiah (epub)

Author:Jeremiah (epub)
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Tate's Crossing#6
Published: 2024-06-26T02:10:01+00:00

Chapter 6

Ten years after the death of Elizabeth Mary Pritchard

It didn’t take her long to get into the groove of teaching. Lexy had been a teacher before, of course, but with the things that she had at this school, all the up-to-date things that made her job easier, she thought for sure that she could go on forever. Lexy smiled to herself. She didn’t want to be a teacher forever. Having money made her think that there was more in life than working. She wanted to play, and hang out with Jeremiah. Get to know his family too.

“Mrs. Lexy Tate?” She smiled and turned to Josh. He was the only student that she couldn’t get to stop calling her Mrs. Lexy Tate. She sometimes wondered if he referred to her that way to his parents, too. “Mrs. Lexy Tate, I don’t remember how to spell my last name. It’s a big one.”

“You do have a long last name, Josh. Here, let me write it out for you so that you can copy it. And you can just call me Mrs. Tate.” He nodded as he did every time she asked him about her name. “There you go. Windermere. Can you copy that now?”

“Yes, ma’am, Mrs. Lexy Tate.” He made his way back to his table and sat down. The little guy would make her smile every time he sat down to work. The way he stuck his tongue out to concentrate would make her smile no matter the mood she was in. He was the highlight of the day to her.

When it was nearly break time, the kids got an extra thirty minutes outside today. She bundled them up and made sure that everyone had gloves. Just last week, she’d gone to the dollar store and had picked up two cases of little gloves. She and her dad had been sharing them when the students seemed to lose them every couple of days.

Her dad was out with the little ones, and today, she went out too. She was supposed to take a break in the offices, but Jeremiah wasn’t in today, having a meeting across town he had to go to, so she didn’t have anyone to eat with. Dad was forever happy to see her.

“I have three absent today. How about you?” She told him just the one. “I thought for sure, with the colds going around, that we’d have a lot more out. I guess they’re used to the cold weather. I’m certainly not.” Lexy laughed. He said the same thing every year, like it was some kind of contest with him. She loved him for it.

She and her dad were closer than most daughter-to-dad families. She supposed it was because they were all they had while she was growing up, but she dearly loved him. Thinking about the holidays that were coming up, knowing that they would be spending Christmas with the Tates, she asked him if he had asked Joyce.

Dad had been the man about town when they arrived.

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