Once Upon a Christmas by Kathryn Kelly

Author:Kathryn Kelly [Kelly, Kathryn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Vaughn held the door open while Jonathan brought the tree inside. It hadn’t looked nearly so big growing outside in the wild .

He’d chopped it down, loaded it onto the back of the truck, and now he stood staring at it. The tree stretched across the foyer.

“Will it fit?” She asked.

“It might be too tall.”

“What do we need to do?” She asked.

“I’ll build a frame for it, then we’ll stand it up. If it’s too tall, I’ll cut the top out.”

“Too bad we can’t measure it first,” Vaughn commented.

He shrugged. “We could, but I think it’ll fit.”

The clock chimed twelve times.

“Are you hungry?” He asked.

“A little,” she nodded. The crisp cool air had stirred her appetite.

“If you’ll make some sandwiches, I’ll go out and cut some boards.”

She wanted to watch him cut the boards. She wanted to see how everything worked, but she also wanted a moment to think about what had happened in the woods.

She wanted a moment to cherish the magical moment when he’d kissed her with snowflakes falling all around them.

She’d never been kissed before. And she could still feel the light pressure of his lips against hers.

She nodded and left him to go into the kitchen. She’d watched him make sandwiches yesterday, so it was easy enough to replicate what he’d done. She opened the package of bread and took out four slices, putting them on a plate that she took from the cupboard.

She then opened what she thought of as the cold box and took out other things needed for the sandwich.

Since she’d never been kissed before, she had nothing to compare to that moment with Jonathan. It was all she could think about. His soft, firm lips on hers. She couldn’t help but wonder if this meant they would get married.

Would he want to kiss her again? Her thoughts swirled as she opened another package and took out slices of turkey. Putting them in a pan, she slid them into the little oven sitting on the counter. She mimicked what she had seen Jonathan do and turned a little knob. She smiled when the oven began to heat.

While she waited, she pulled a little book from a stack of mail and flipped through the pages. It was obviously a catalog selling clothing and other items. All the ladies wore dresses that were too short. Like the ones Jonathan had bought her, they stopped at their knees. The images showed them wearing these dresses out in public. This America was much different than anyone had warned her about.

She placed the warm turkey on the bread, cut a tomato, and put that, too, on the sandwich.

She felt safe here with Jonathan. There was so much about this world that she didn’t know about, but it didn’t seem to matter. She stood and stared at the calendar. 1969.

There was so much to learn. Like the motorized truck. The telephone. The short dress.

Taking the sandwiches, she took them into the foyer where Jonathan was nailing boards around the bottom of the tree.

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