Small Town Lover by Mia Archer

Author:Mia Archer [Archer, Mia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-26T22:00:00+00:00

15

Rachel

“I just can’t believe he was gone so soon,” a lady with white hair done up in a beehive that hadn’t been fashionable since well before she was born said.

Coming back here was like visiting the land that time forgot. Up to and including seeing people walking around in fashions and hairstyles that hadn’t been in fashion since Eisenhower was in the White House.

“I know how you feel,” I said, and I was a hell of a lot more sincere now than I’d been earlier in the receiving line.

Maybe it was the booze coursing through my system, but there was something different about the line of people showing up to pay their respects to my father. There was something about all of it that felt more real than it had earlier.

I wasn’t sure what it was that’d changed, but whatever. I found myself smiling at people, reminiscing with them, listening to stories of my dad from people I’d never met, and thinking about the good times rather than dwelling on the horror of the past couple of months as he was diagnosed with a terminal disease and then sent on to his eternal reward a hell of a lot faster than anyone expected.

“Anyway, I should probably be by at some point this week to get my paperwork. It’s going to be a pain traveling over to Grantville to take care of this from now on, but I suppose that’s what I’ll have to do.”

I frowned. “What are you talking about?”

She smiled a kindly smile that was only slightly marred by the tears welling up in her eyes. “I’m sorry. This isn’t the time to talk about business. You take care.”

And with that she was moving on.

She wasn’t the only person coming through the line who’d had genuine tears in her eyes either. No, the more I talked with people, the more I looked at the line of well wishers that’d been stretching out of the funeral home all night long, the more I was starting to come to a realization.

I’d always been annoyed with the way my dad would talk to anyone growing up. The way he was always asking after this person or that in their family, or telling a joke I’d heard a thousand times before.

I’d always thought it was insincere. That he was just doing it as a ruse to try and get people to come to him for their accounting. Only now, as I saw the concrete evidence of the impact he’d had on this town, I was starting to look at things differently. I was starting to realize how much love had been going out into the town and coming right back in at him.

It was almost enough to move me to tears again. It didn’t help that I was already barely holding it together thinking about never seeing him again.

Viewing hours went on for a hell of a lot longer than I’d thought they would. Like we’re talking it was at least two hours past the time we were supposed to close down, and people were still coming through.

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