Finding Mrs. Wright by Sherri L. Lewis

Author:Sherri L. Lewis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2013-01-04T05:00:00+00:00

Twelve

Me and Cassandra decided to drive separate cars and meet at the restaurant so she could go on home and I could head back to the hospital after we finished eating. She pulled up beside me in the parking lot and we walked into Applebee’s together.

I didn’t realize how hungry I was until we walked in the door and the smell of steak sizzling on the grill filled my nose. My stomach started turning some serious flips. Thankfully, it didn’t take long for the hostess to get us seated in a booth near the door.

For some reason, I was feeling a little twitchy. I tried to tell myself that it was because of everything going on with Brianna. But honestly, after Cassandra had worked her magic with explaining the diabetes and helping Brianna through getting her finger stuck, I felt much better about the whole diabetes thing. It was still bad, but for the first time, I felt like we could actually manage it. The twitchiness had to be coming from somewhere else.

When we got seated at our table, I flipped around with the menu, even though I knew what I wanted to order already. I said to Cassandra, “Thanks for everything you did for Brianna. She’s been so sad all week, crying and sleeping all day. I didn’t know what to do with her. I guess I was kinda sad myself.”

“My pleasure, Devon. She’s such a sweet little girl. I hate that this happened to her but you both can’t let it take over. She can still have a wonderful, happy life.”

“I know. Just . . . thanks.”

“Don’t go all soft on me, playa. It’s what I do.”

“It’s what you do?” I figured this was as good a time as any to get some of the blanks filled in about her. “What exactly do you do? Who you work for that you can get off at two in the afternoon?”

“Myself.” She flipped through the menu, frowning like she didn’t know what she wanted.

“Yourself? You have your own business?”

“I have my own nonprofit. Kidz-Arts. I get grants to take the arts to kids in different churches and youth homes. I do the Saturday arts classes Brianna is in as part of a contract with my church.”

“Wow. That’s cool. How’d you get into that?

“I used to teach school but wanted to do something different. And I wanted to work for myself. So I thought it up, launched it, got some great grants, and here I am.”

An ex-schoolteacher. Made sense. Maybe that was why I liked her so much. They say men marry their mamas and my mom was a retired school teacher. It also made sense that she was so good with Brianna.

After the waitress came and took our orders, Cassandra asked and I told her about my boring job in IT.

“Do you like it?”

“It pays the bills.”

“That’s not what I asked you. Do you like it? Is it what you always wanted to do?”

“You can only ask that question because you don’t have any kids.

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