No Place Like Home - Love in Seattle by Christina Butrum

Author:Christina Butrum [Butrum, Christina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-12T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

No sooner than she stepped foot into the house, than her mother had her phone ringing. Janelle pulled it from her pocket and answered, “Hello.”

“Janelle, how’d today go?”

The thought of Colin and the conversation they had crossed her mind before she said, “Today was a good day.”

“That’s good to hear,” her mother said, a bit too chipper. “Say, were you able to talk to Kelsie about what we had talked about?”

As much as she dreaded telling her mother the truth, she had to be honest, no matter how upset her mother would get. “No, I haven’t.”

At the sound of her mother’s loud, overly exaggerated sigh, Janelle said, “We were extremely busy today.”

“Well, that’s good,” her mother said, sounding annoyed with Janelle. “Did you have a chance to replace the vase you broke?”

“Not yet,” Janelle said, looking at the empty stand that stood next to the bottom of stairs. “I haven’t had time to do much of anything aside from the coffee shop.”

After a long minute of dreaded silence, she said, “I flipped through applications today and called the ones I think are exceptional for the job.”

“Will you be following up with interviews and discussing each interview with your father and me?”

“That was the plan.”

She couldn’t help but feel irritated with her mother. This whole situation was wedging tension between them and she didn’t like it. If she had been smart, she would’ve passed this favor on to someone else.

“There’s a stack of applications somewhere in the office, on the desk,” her mother said. “Is that the stack you found and chose from?”

Deciding to take the tension down a notch before a heated argument ensued, Janelle spoke in a softer tone, as she explained, “I found ten applications buried in a tray and picked the ones I thought were the best choices for the business.”

“Who’d you pick, dear?” She heard her father ask in the background, confirming they were on speakerphone.

Pulling the paper with the names from her folder, she read the list to her parents. She took the time to read the notes by each name, explaining why she chose who she did. So far, so good. Her parents seemed to be thrilled with her choices.

“They sound wonderful, Elle,” her father said. “When are you planning on interviewing them?”

“As soon as they call me back, I’ll set something up.”

“Can you let us know? I’d like to be on speakerphone through the interview so we can choose who’s best for the job, as we will only be hiring one,” her mother said, the tension nearly gone from her tone of voice.

Janelle felt irked when her mother mentioned only hiring one of the few she had read off. The coffee shop needed more than one more, it needed at least two or three more employees to help fill the schedule, and to allow for days off.

“We’re in the process of something wonderful down here, Janelle,” her mother informed her. She could hear the excitement in her mother’s voice. “We can’t tell you much right now, but we’re planning to fill you in within the next month or so.

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