Sour Cherry Turnover by P. D. Workman

Author:P. D. Workman [Workman, P. D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: pd workman
Published: 2019-04-19T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

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he waitress brought Erin’s and Vic’s meals and took Beaver’s order. Erin looked down at her food, no longer hungry.

“Don’t wait for me,” Beaver said. “I’ll probably catch up to you. My parents always did say that I eat way too fast. I never slow down and enjoy the meal.”

Erin didn’t believe it. Everything about Beaver was thought out and deliberate.

“Where did you say you’re from?” Erin asked, though she knew very well that Beaver hadn’t said anything about where she hailed from.

“Here and there,” Beaver said. She creased her napkin and unfolded it again several times. “I’ve been all over.”

“Like Erin,” Vic offered. “I think she’s been everywhere. Me, I just grew up on a farm here in Tennessee, and I’ve hardly even been out of the state. Redneck girl if you ever saw one.”

“I haven’t lived everywhere,” Erin countered. “Mostly northeast. I spent my first few years around here, but after that… Maine, New York, eastern seaboard… other places. I haven’t lived west coast or anywhere past the Midwest.”

Beaver nodded. “I’ve been everywhere.”

“Army?” Vic suggested.

“Army brat,” Beaver admitted. “Never got the knack for staying in one place after growing up like that. I stick around too long, and my feet start to itch. My mom said she always knew when she got to the bottom of the moving boxes… then it was time to start packing again. Didn’t matter whether it took her two weeks or two years to get everything unpacked, as soon as she emptied that last box, Dad would get new orders and they’d be on the road again. So I’m more comfortable living out of a suitcase than confined to one place.”

“That’s hard for me to believe,” Erin said. “I was always being moved from one place to another. There was nothing I wanted more than to just have one family and stay in one place. I love having a house of my own, knowing that I don’t have to ever give it up to go somewhere else. It’s mine for good.”

“Never say never,” Beaver warned. “Fate is always listening, and just like my mom unpacking those last boxes… as soon as you say you’re safe and secure and no one can take anything away from you… that’s for sure when you start to tempt fate.”

“I don’t believe in fate.” But Erin couldn’t deny the foreboding Beaver’s words stirred up in her. Had she become too complacent? What if something did happen? What if she did lose everything, like she always had before?

“I think Erin’s been through enough in life,” Vic said. “She’s burned through all of her obstacles. Leave some for the rest of us.”

Erin chuckled and shook her head.

She was trying to eat her ribs daintily, but it was no use. She couldn’t help getting sauce on her fingers and on her face, and eventually, she just had to give up trying to keep them clean. “Just don’t look at me,” she said. “This is way worse than it should be. You’d think I would have learned how to eat by now.

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