Little Tree by Rafe Jadison

Author:Rafe Jadison [Jadison, Rafe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JMS Books LLC
Published: 2018-11-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

David woke somewhere near daylight to the sound of the house phone. He was so used to using his cell that he had almost forgotten that such a thing existed. He searched for a moment, only to realize that a phone lie on the bed stand next to his bed.

“Hello,” he said groggily, not knowing whom to expect.

“Forgive me for calling so early, but I am old and we don’t sleep late,” Marisol said in an almost lyrical voice. “My daughter is younger than you and she went to bed by nine. I think she was tired putting her own kids to bed at eight. Being a parent will really tire you out. How was your dinner?”

“It sucked. Really badly,” David said.

“That sounds like a dinner that needs explanation. I’m old. Help me out here.”

“I was more than a little defensive. I was a jerk, but he had it coming. He left me standing at the airport. Then, at the end of last night, as I was about to leave, he told me that he loved me.”

“I could have told you that. Did you really need him to? Three houses away. Twenty years later. C’mon. He is lunatic crazy over you. What did you say when he told you this?”

“I said I didn’t know what to do with all the information he gave me.”

“What else did he tell you?”

“He came to Korea.”

“What?” Marisol asked. “You just said he never made the flight.”

“He didn’t. He came six months later.”

“Why didn’t you tell me that? I would have a totally different opinion.”

“I didn’t know. I have a totally different opinion,” David said. “He came there. He said I looked happy and he left.”

“He loved you then.”

“Yeah, but why did it take him six months?”

“Why did it take me fifty plus years? Why does it ever take us more than a moment? We’re stupid, and we second-guess ourselves. People really are stupid. You must understand that. People are genuinely stupid, my love. When you realize that, you will understand them better. It took me at least seventy years to figure that one out.”

David laughed. “You make so much sense. Did you always offer this kind of good advice to my mother? No wonder she loved you so much.”

“Your mother offered me wonderful advice too. She was my best friend,” Marisol said.

“I know,” David said. “What do you think she’d tell me right now?”

“Love with your whole heart, like he’s doing. That’s what she told me when Ferdinand found me.”

“Wait. Mom was still around when you reconnected with Ferdinand?”

“She wasn’t alive then, but I have dreams. Sometimes I feel her presence. It’s like she used to say, Sometimes, you just feel the magic in the air. I know I said it yesterday, but I felt it then. I feel it now. It sounds crazy.”

“No, it doesn’t at all, Marisol,” David said, holding back the tears as much as he could. “I don’t know what to do.”

“So, if you’re going to catch a man, you need a little bait,” Marisol said.

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