Lacy's Lane by Strefling Patricia

Author:Strefling, Patricia [Strefling, Patricia]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2013-08-20T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

Lacy watched two old movies back-to-back on TCM station, then flipped off the television with the remote and slid down into the hospital bed and turned on her side.

Twice she woke and saw the blue letters keeping time and both times she prayed for Thad, to sleep and to heal and to know that God loved him. Then she drifted off again.

When she heard quiet knocking on the other side of the door that led into the hallway, she whispered for them to come in.

An aide smiled, set her tray on the bed table and pulled it into place.

“Good morning.” Lacy noted the young girl’s cheery voice . “Did you sleep well?”

“Like a baby.”

“Good. Enjoy your breakfast.”

A quick glance at the clock again and it was nearly nine am. A long day was ahead of her before Thad arrived in the room next door. She would have to find something to do.

She ate, leaving not a single morsel behind. She marked lunch and dinner, circling every item on the list and placed the menu where they would be sure to see it. She’d starve to death around here.

After two morning shows and a few more boring pages of a magazine, she took out the paper pad and wrote down, “books, donut, and sewing needle, thread, material and scissors. Her hands longed for something to do.

Around 11:30 a tap sounded from the hall door and in bounced a spunky dark-haired woman, talking as she came into the room, just like Allison.

“My name’s Justine. I’ll be with you for the next twelve hours. You and I are going to be friends.”

The first thing Lacy noted was her big smile. The big voice didn’t match her tiny frame. She began peeking inside the window frame, curtains and lamps, then ran her fingers underneath the counter, over bed tray and guest chair. “Just looking for bugs. “ She bent awkwardly looking inside lamps.

“Bugs? What kind of bugs? In a hospital?”

“Not the kind you smash with your foot! Oh, can’t stand spiders.” She shivered. “ I am looking for the kind that sneaky folks try to get in so they can hear conversations.”

“Oh, those kind. I thought you meant roaches or something.”

“Child you better not tell folks you seen roaches in this hospital. You and me both’d be fired. And I can’t afford to lose my job. I got two girls to raise. So, you are hungry?” She picked up the menu noting Lacy’s selections and laughed. “What do you need? I’ll go down to the gift shop. Anything you want?”

“Anything?” Lacy played along.

“Anything they got,” She laughed.

“I’d love a donut, a book, needle, thread and material. Oh . . . and scissors.”

“Can’t help with the needle and thread or material, but I can get you books—all you want—and that donut.”

“That’ll do just fine. Sweet Romance, historical if you can find it.”

“Come to think on it, Jon’s wife sews all the time. She makes my girls the prettiest dresses you’ve ever seen. Made two matching ones for Sunday church and started a fire.

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