Forever & A Day by Maurer Donalyn

Author:Maurer, Donalyn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

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It doesn’t take long for everyone to meet, because being out on the lake all day has left us starving. I’m thankful the cafe is only a ten minute drive from the resort. When we get inside a hostess nods and smiles.

“The McGinty party?” she asks with a southern drawl.

“That’s us,” Violet replies.

“Well, come on. Y'all are going take up our backroom, but we don’t mind. Matter-of-fact, when I told Skeeter, the owner, we had a large party coming and your name, he remembered y'all. Said you hadn’t been up in couple of years. Wasn’t sure what happened,” she rattles on as she grabs a stack of menus and guides us to a back room. “So, where y'all been?” she asks, joking, but we all take on a somber face.

“We should have come sooner.” It’s Grandma who speaks up. “It’s what my husband would have wanted. It’s just been tough,” she replies to the waitress. The sweet woman reaches out and gently squeezes her arm, offering her condolences.

“Lost my Van last year, I understand. Nothing seems the same or worth doing, since he left me.”

“Luckily, I have all of them to remind me to go on,” Grandma shares while looking at all of us, and the waitress gives an understanding smile.

“I have ten grandchildren, and boy do they keep me busy.” She gives a soft laugh, and Grandma smiles. She leads us through a maze of tables and chairs, until we walk under an arch that leads to the back room.

“How’s this?” She points to the tables pulled together to make one long one.

“It’s perfect,” Grandma says, and sits down towards the end.

We all gather around taking seats, with Bradley and Conner sitting close to Grandma, and Uncle Duke and Aunt Savannah flanking her other side. I give my attention to our waitress as she hands me a menu, and see she’s in jeans and a Blue Bonnet Cafe shirt. Her name tag reads, Rose, and she has super short gray hair that’s styled really cool. She makes her way around, continuing to pass out menus while taking drink orders. It’s not hard; pretty much everyone orders sweet tea or lemonade, with a Dr. Pepper and Big Red thrown in here and there, and waters all around.

I attempt to study the menu, but my thoughts stay on what Grandma shared with Rose. She’s suffering much more heartbreak than I realized. I mean, I know she misses Grandpa, but she doesn’t talk about it. I guess her and I are alike in that way. We just don’t want to burden anyone with our pain. Now I understand what Max meant when he made me promise to let him help me. I want to help Grandma, but she’s keeping her pain inside just like I did. And I know that it would never matter how close I stay to her, or how much I love her, or any of us do, it will never be enough to fill the void of Grandpa not being her with her.

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