A Knight to Remember by Yvonne Lehman

Author:Yvonne Lehman [Lehman, Yvonne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781624169014
Google: pnhPJwolL_oC
Goodreads: 16086279
Publisher: Heartsong Presents
Published: 1985-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

twenty

All week Gloria and Thomas reviewed the résumés of the thirteen who wanted help and had set up appointments for the practice interviews. Thomas made them realize that the interviewers wanted and needed the unemployed as much as the unemployed needed a job. He emphasized they could ask what the representative had to offer them just as the rep could ask them that question.

Gloria remembered some of her own interviews. She’d given her résumé then waited like a beggar for a few pennies. She hadn’t been ready.

Here, everyone was learning and being. . .personal. Heather volunteered to cut the hair of the residents instead of their being taken to a barbershop. The church decided to pay her. Caleb and Bobby were spending quality time together.

One morning after the practices, Thomas asked to watch her enter information on the computer since he’d been away from technology for a while. She did and remembered Clara saying, “Ask him.”

Looking at the computer she said casually, “Thomas, are you working somewhere in the afternoons?”

“Every day but Sunday.”

Just as she opened her mouth to ask what kind of job, he said, “But I don’t get paid.”

She looked over at him. “You. . .volunteer?”

He grinned. “You could call it that. I do it voluntarily. Now, what is this Twitter thing?”

She told him and demonstrated how shelters and the center could twitter each other, which reminded her. “Thomas, where do you sleep at night?”

“In a hotel.”

Personal or not the question popped out. “How can you afford it if you have no job?”

“It’s empty.”

Oh my goodness. She immediately started telling him about Facebook and clicked in. Her thoughts ran rampant. If he broke into an empty hotel and slept there, and she knew it, she’d be legally and morally required to report him.

When she finally had nerve enough to gaze into his eyes again, she thought surely the mischief there and his broad smile wasn’t satisfaction about breaking into an empty hotel.

She couldn’t imagine that look was about. . .Facebook.

But she wasn’t about to ask any more questions.

In the weeks that followed she looked forward to the mornings when they worked together, each teaching things to the other. Plans had to be finalized: how the church basement would be set up, which representatives would stay more than one day, who would stay with church members, who would need reservations at a motel, how long each session should last, which reps the interviewees would talk with so no one wasted valuable time.

Finally the day arrived. The job fair started on Thursday and would last through Saturday afternoon. Some representatives stayed the entire time. Some came for one day. Throughout the church basement long tables, covered with white cloths, were set up with two representatives at each table. Chairs were placed opposite them.

The first day was trial and error. For the most part, things went well. She and Thomas had tables set up near the door for the hundreds of unemployed to register and be given the names and table number of the representative most likely to be interested in their abilities.

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