Loving Jenna by Amy Lillard

Author:Amy Lillard [Lillard, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zebra Books
Published: 2020-01-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“There’s that boy again.” Mamm’s mouth pressed into the disapproving shape it took on whenever Buddy was around.

Jenna’s heart grew light as she raced to the front window to look out. Sure enough, Buddy Miller had just pulled up in his Sunday carriage.

“Why doesn’t he drive the tractor like everyone else?” Mammi asked.

Jenna wasn’t sure if her grandmother really wanted an answer, so she didn’t respond. She knew that Buddy liked riding in the carriage but also that his parents felt he was safer in a buggy than he was in a tractor as long as he kept to the back roads. And it was easier to bring PJ with him.

“What does he want this time?” Mamm asked. She had been watering the plants on the porch and helping Jenna with the Monday laundry. The last load was on the line and they had a little free time on their hands. Jenna had thought she would spend it crocheting, but now that Buddy and PJ were here . . .

“He wants to take me on a picnic,” she said in awe. True love was persistent. That’s what he had said. Did that mean he was going to come ask her on a picnic every day until her mamm said yes?

Would she ever say yes?

“Didn’t I tell him no yesterday?”

“That was the day before. Yesterday was Sunday.”

Mamm frowned at the door as if she was waiting for him to come through it. A lot of Amish just let themselves into their friends’ houses, but Jenna knew that Buddy wouldn’t come in unless he was invited.

“Come let him talk to you,” Jenna said. She turned pleading eyes to her mother, but that scowl remained in place.

“Jenna, we’ve been over this and over this. You are too young to date.”

“I’ll be twenty-one in a couple of months.”

“You’re too young up here.” She tapped her head.

“I am not.” Jenna crossed her arms.

“You are.”

“How do you know if you’ve never let me go on a date?”

Mamm continued to frown but didn’t answer. To Jenna that just proved that she was right. But she didn’t think her mother would ever admit that. True love is persistent, Buddy had said. And she would have to be persistent as well.

She went to the door and opened it.

“Where are you going?” Mamm asked.

“Out to talk to Buddy.” And she swung out the door and closed it behind her before Mamm could tell her no.

He was already standing at the bottom of the porch steps. PJ was on a bright green leash that he had wrapped around Buddy’s legs as he kept a lookout for birds.

“Hi,” she said.

“Hi.” He took his hat off and rolled the brim in his hands. The loop of the leash was around one wrist. The weight of the hat had left an indention in the sides of his dark blond hair.

“You came.”

He nodded. “I would like to take you on a picnic,” he said. “I owe you one.”

“I would like that,” Jenna said. “But Mamm said no.

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