Family Trust by Amanda Brown

Author:Amanda Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: e9781626819092
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 2015-11-03T05:00:00+00:00

As the days went on, there was more talk about Emily’s parents. They asked about Arthur, but Emily revealed very little in her recollection of her father. Her daddy, she said, loved to lift her up and kiss her on the tummy at the end of the day, and sometimes watch the puppet shows she did in the playroom, but mostly he was at the club until late. She thought that he didn’t hear so well, since he missed a lot of what she said to him. Lots of the time he looked somewhere else and said “What?” In that way he reminded her of the nanny who wouldn’t listen at all to her questions in English.

It was a sketch, only a hint of her childhood, but Emily had stepped towards them in trust. Edward and Becca’s shared gratitude and warmth were mingled.

Becca’s gratitude faded, however—and Edward’s broadened—when Emily suggested that she and Becca should bake a cake.

Becca cringed at the thought of baking, but was put on the spot, and declared without hesitation that she would love to bake a cake. Emily said that the kind she baked with her mommy was called a box cake and you only poured water into the mix. She knew just where it was in the grocery shelf because it was on the same place as all the sweets and icings.

Both Edward and Becca saw the enthusiasm that rose to Emily’s eyes when her mind turned to baking. There was no getting out of it, Becca thought, but a cake in a box couldn’t be too much trouble. While Emily flounced importantly down the hall to get her beaded city, purse, Becca asked Edward for the location of the closest grocery store.

He laughed, since necessity had driven him to take over ordering their sustenance for delivery from the grocery, the greengrocer, and occasionally, when the maid agreed to cook, from the butcher. Becca admired this survival skill. Like morning glories leaning toward twin suns, they had been drawn in the direction of their differing talents. Becca had expanded Emily’s world, taking her to the floor of the stock exchange the way some people take children to the zoo; in fact it was not unlike the zoo, and Emily had squealed with excitement at the frenzied scene. Edward had no innate talent or interest in cooking, but he had a great deal more need for eating, and so by default had been the one to pick up this essential chore.

Emily accepted with a pout that they had to wait until later to bake the cake, since she had another preschool interview in the afternoon, but Edward made her laugh with a ridiculous story of a daddy who ate cake before the interview and then burped at all the teachers. Becca regarded him with admiration as Emily giggled, forgetting what she might have insisted upon, her stubborness washed away in peals of laughter. With Eddie around, Becca thought, things were smooth as silk.

Edward’s manner was

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