As Time Goes By (The Californians 2) by Lori Wick

Author:Lori Wick [Wick, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Christian, Historical Fiction, Frontier and Pioneer Life - California, Fiction, Christian Fiction, Historical, INSPIRATIONAL ROMANCE, General, Religious
ISBN: 9780736919463
Google: RHkJ6Ex0P_YC
Amazon: 0736919465
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Published: 1992-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

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when Pastor Keller came to see me with the idea of the guys asking the girls to the boating, I grabbed at it with purely selfish motives. I planned on asking Sylvia.

Jll six of us guys came here, and it didn't take very long for everyone to see that two of us wanted to take Sylvia. That left an extra girl, and that girl was you." Jeff

stopped because he was feeling a little sick inside. "Go on, Jeff. Remember, I did ask."

He took a deep breath and studied the face across from him. Bobbie became more attractive to him every day. But it wasn't just her looks. There was something won derful and special about her to which Jeff was terribly drawn. Right now he could see she was trying to cover the vulnerability she was feeling inside, and once again he wanted to hold her.

"We hid in the barn to draw straws, which tells you how ashamed we felt, but we were too selfish to let that stop us." There was no reason to go over what happened at the lagoon; they both knew it well, so Jeff skipped ahead to when he dropped off Bobbie.

"I went straight home after I left your house and waited for my folks. They weren't long in coming and they knew everything. The church has matured since then, but unfortunately the gossip was pretty rampant. To say that my folks were upset would be a gross under statement. I've never seen my mother like that, but I had no one to blame but myself.

"I came the next day to see you, but you'd already gone. My dad went the next day to see Richard and Sylvia because I'd told him everything. He was very upset over the way you were treated at the lagoon. He talked with them privately and then left it up to them to tell their parents. I honestly thought they'd written

you." Jeff paused for a moment in thought, remember ing that at least Sylvia said she had sent a letter.

'Anyway, Pastor called all of us together to apologize too. He felt responsible. It just never occurred to him that there would be a problem; they were really trying to give us a special day."

Bobbie and Jeff stared at each other in silence. "I'm sorry, Bobbie," Jeff finally said.

"I'm sorry too, Jeffrey, for the years of hurt and scars. I don't harbor any bitterness in my heart, and I hope no one else does either, but it was time for me to hear the entire story. For that I thank you."

Bobbie slid her hand across the table and Jeff took it. There was nothing romantic about the gesture; it was a friend reaching out to another friend in comfort and caring.

Not long afterward Jeff drove Bobbie home in the wagon. Their conversation moved to Cleve again, and Bobbie said some things that disturbed Jeff tremen dously, but he was in no position to offer advice to anyone on her romantic life.

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