Dear to Me by Wanda E. Brunstetter

Author:Wanda E. Brunstetter [Brunstetter, Wanda E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2011-10-26T15:51:35+00:00

A piercing scream halted Melinda’s thoughts. Had Gabe been hurt? Was it Isaiah?

She dropped the corn, leaped off the porch, and dashed across the yard.

When Melinda arrived at the dog run a few seconds later, she discovered Isaiah holding his thumb and jumping up and down. “Ouch! Ouch!” he hollered. “Ach! That hurts me somethin’ awful!”

“What happened? Are you seriously injured?”

“He smacked his thumb with the hammer,” Gabe explained. “But he won’t let me get a good look, so I don’t know how much damage was done.”

“Give me your hand,” Melinda ordered, grabbing hold of her brother’s arm.

“Don’t touch me!”

“I need to see how bad it is.”

“You’d better let her look at that,” Gabe put in.

Isaiah whimpered but finally released his thumb for Melinda’s inspection.

She held it gently between her fingers. The skin was red and swollen, and the nail was beginning to turn purple. “You might end up losing that nail,” she said with a click of her tongue.

Isaiah sniffed, and a few tears trickled down his cheeks. “How can ya tell? You ain’t no doctor.”

“No, but she’d like to be.”

Melinda glared at Gabe then looked quickly back at her brother. What was Gabe thinking, blurting out something like that in front of Isaiah? “What Gabe meant to say is that I’ve doctored enough animals to know many things. Besides, I lost a couple of nails myself when I slammed two fingers in my bedroom door when I was a girl.”

Isaiah rocked back and forth on his heels, moaning like a heifer about to give birth.

“You’d best go up to the house and ask Mama to put some ice on your thumb. If it’s cared for right away, the nail might not come loose,” Melinda instructed.

“Guess I won’t be able to help ya no more, Gabe. Sorry about that,” the boy mumbled.

Gabe patted Isaiah on the shoulder. “It’s okay. I’ll do what I can on my own. We probably wouldn’t have gotten it all done today anyway. I’ll come back in a few days to finish the project.”

“I can help you,” Melinda volunteered after her brother had scurried away. “After I’m done shucking corn, that is.”

Gabe’s expression was dubious at first, but then he nodded. “I’ll take any help I can get.”

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