Here in My Heart: A Novella (Echoes of the Heart) by DeStefano Anna

Author:DeStefano, Anna [DeStefano, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2014-09-30T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

“Wow!” Sally said, the Friday night before Christmas. She and her parents had just walked into the Dream Whip.

“I know, right?” Dru laughed.

She balanced a tray on her shoulder. It was overflowing with cups and plates and wrappers and disposable salad bowls. She couldn’t get over it. The entire community of Chandlerville was swarming the restaurant after the football game. All night she’d been bussing tables and booths, turning them over. As fast as one group of people left, another claimed the open space.

Dru had never been so thrilled to be dead on her feet.

“We’ve never had a Friday night like this,” she said, “not in all the time I’ve worked here. The new promotion—”

“The one in the program from the game?” Sally held up her copy. “Officer Douglas was so right!”

“I can see that.”

Brad had been right about many things over the last few weeks. The SEE YOU AFTER THE GAME coupon in the football program was only his latest suggestion. His experience working food service his first year in Savannah had become a gold mine for the Whip.

He and Dru had bickered back and forth about most of his suggestions for changing things. Sometimes he’d won, sometimes she had, but they’d put the business first always, and Dru had secretly come to enjoy the friendly sparring. It had felt like old times.

And it had made Vivian’s day every time she’d caught wind of it. Dru and Brad tried to downplay the confrontations and focus their reports during their visits with his grandmother on their compromises, and how they were improving the restaurant. Meanwhile, as expected, Vi’s contacts in the community had entertained her with stories about each row.

Dru had relented about the football program ad and booked it herself. She’d held her ground with Brad for longer than she’d actually disagreed with him about running a coupon. Not because she’d thought he was wrong. It just felt wrong sometimes still—making decisions with him, working with him, and liking having him around more every day.

She kept reminding herself that even though he had continued to be the same great guy who’d helped out with her radKIDS, Brad planned to leave town once they’d fulfilled their commitment to Vivian.

Dru shrugged off the reminder of his grandmother’s rapidly declining condition.

She smiled at the Beaumont family.

“Sorry,” she said. “It’s going to be a bit of a wait for a table. We can’t keep up with the turnover, even with me helping bus the dining room, and Brad in the kitchen flipping burgers with Willie and dropping fries like an all-star.”

“No rush.” Dan hugged his wife to his side. “We’ll catch up with folks we didn’t see at the game. It’s just a relief to be inside, warming up.”

“What a great idea”—Charlotte was a willowy older version of her knockout-gorgeous daughter, making even her team jersey and jeans look classy—“giving away hot chocolate and fries to anyone with a ticket stub from the game who orders a meal.” She held up her

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