Just A Year by Jena Wade

Author:Jena Wade [Wade, Jena]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2018-05-11T16:00:00+00:00

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That night the conversation I had with Betty played over in my mind. I wondered if I was being selfish. Scratch that. I knew I was being selfish, and I knew that Maddox was allowing it. I would make it up to him. I knew I would some way or another. I just hoped it wouldn’t be too late.

Then there was the issue of my parents. Something was going on, I wasn’t sure what. My perfectly laid plans for my life were going up in smoke right before my very eyes. I guess I should have expected that kind of thing after falling in love with Maddox. I didn’t regret it at all. Sometimes not having a plan drove me insane. And kept me up at night like it was right now. Which is why I lay here staring at the ceiling while Maddox snored away softly beside me.

I needed to talk to my dad. He always knew what to do. Tomorrow would be as good a time as any, Maddox had a big event planned at the store. Small business Saturday, he called it. I planned on stopping by to help out, but I supposed I could talk with my dad first. My dad wanted to lay low this weekend and just chill at home with the family. I didn’t have to drive back to Philadelphia until Sunday evening, hell I could even stay ’til Monday morning. But that would be pushing it.

Tomorrow I would sit and talk with my dad and have a real discussion. Find out how Maddox felt about my living in Philadelphia and find out what was up with my dad these days. Even with the decision made, it still took me another hour before I fell asleep. I didn’t wake when Maddox left, I barely remembered him kissing my forehead before he said goodbye.

Once I got up and got dressed, I found my dad in his garage, tinkering with his tools. For a man who’d owned a hardware store his entire life, he really didn’t have that many.

“Hey, Dad” I said.

“Hey,” he said.

I walked until I stood beside him and leaned my elbow against the table edge.

I looked at him, I mean I really looked at him. The lines along his forehead and cheeks had gotten deeper just in the past few months and his hair was now completely gray. Almost white. How had I not noticed this?

“Is everything okay?” I asked.

He startled, looked at me with surprise in his eyes. “Of course, son. Everything’s fine.”

I almost fell for it, but I wasn’t 100% convinced.

I changed the subject, not because I wasn’t concerned, but because I wanted to find a different approach. Dammit, I should’ve put together a plan. A bulleted list of items that needed to be covered. Conversations always went better when I came prepared with a plan.

“So, Maddox is going to buy the store?”

Dad set down the tool that he was cleaning. “That’s the plan. How do you feel about that?”

“Whatever makes Maddox happy makes me happy,” I said.

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