Hypnotizing Chickens by Watts Julia

Author:Watts, Julia [Watts, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781594933967
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2014-04-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“Hello?” Chrys was still in her pajamas, a cup of coffee in the hand that wasn’t holding the phone.

“Chrystal, honey, I’ve got a splitter of a migraine, and I ain’t gonna be able to take Nanny to church this morning.” Her mom’s voice sounded strained.

“That’s okay. Just get some rest and feel better.”

“I thought you’d pitch a fit.”

“Because you have a migraine?” Really, did her mother think of her as that insensitive?

“No, on account of you having to take Nanny to church.”

Chrys clearly needed more caffeine. Her brain wasn’t firing on all cylinders. “I didn’t say I’d take Nanny to church. I just said it was okay that you didn’t.”

“Listen, hon,” Mom said. “Your nanny ain’t never missed a Sunday of church unless she’s been in the hospital, and even then she didn’t think it was much of an excuse. Your daddy and brother’s off fishing, and Amber’s taking Peyton to that Methodist church over in Morgan. That just leaves you to take Nanny.”

Chrys remembered all too well the hard pews of the Piney Creek Free Will Baptist Church and the even harder line taken by the preacher on the subject of sin. “Mom, this is the one thing I’m afraid I can’t do.”

“You know, when you was a little girl, I never heard you say ‘I can’t.’ If somebody told you you couldn’t do something, you’d try extra hard to do it, just to prove them wrong. I’ve prayed a lot on it, Chrystal, and I know you don’t believe like your nanny does. I don’t even believe all the way like she does. But I ain’t asking you to believe. I’m just asking you to drive your nanny to church and wait in the parking lot till she’s done. You can get one of the deacons to help her in and out of the building.”

It had always been next to impossible to say no to her mom, and she knew church was the only place where Nanny got to socialize with ladies her own age. “Okay, but this isn’t going to be regular thing.”

“It’ll be just this one time, I promise.”

Nanny had three different “good dresses” she alternated between for church. Today it was the light blue one with the white eyelet jacket and white orthopedic sandals to match. Her hair freshly coiffed from yesterday’s beauty shop visit, she smelled of rose soap and talcum powder. She draped her white purse over her forearm so she could hold onto her walker. “I’m sorry Joyce is feeling poorly, but I’m awful glad you’re taking me,” she said. “I ain’t missed a Sunday unless I was in the hospital.”

“I know,” Chrys said. “Papaw used to say you were at church every time the door was open.”

Nanny grinned as Chrys held the front door open for her. “And he never went but for Christmas and Easter and funerals. He always said, ‘I married a virtuous woman so she’d do the churchgoing for both of us.’”

“I know you said your mama thought you were marrying a bad boy.

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