Sufficient Grace by Jessica Greyson

Author:Jessica Greyson
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780988461413
Publisher: Ready Writer Press
Published: 2016-03-05T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

It was the first day Grace could get out of the house after the party. Her father had forgotten the list of supplies they needed, again. If she was going to make dinner tonight, she needed certain things. Off in a thoughtful world of her own, she found her elbow hooked into someone else’s.

“Hello, Grace.”

“Oh, hi Ruby, how are you?”

“I am well, and you?”

“Good.”

“We missed seeing you on Sunday.”

“My mother was feeling ill. I couldn’t really leave her.”

Grace felt her elbow squeezed in a friendly manner. “You seem like you are an extraordinary girl, you know that?”

“What?”

“You seem extraordinary.”

“How is that possible?”

“If I were left at home as much as you are, I would complain, I think. No, I know I would. But you, you never say a thing.”

Grace didn’t know what to say.

“I couldn’t believe what Jane did at your party. Someone so arrogant should…I hope she doesn’t last. No one really likes her teaching style. You should hear the stories my younger siblings come home with, and he has only been teaching them for two days.” Ruby shook her head.

“I thought I would like teaching. I wanted to stay at finishing school to be a teacher’s assistant, but my parents needed me here.”

“Is it hard for you to be in the west?” asked Ruby looking at Grace with concern.

Grace laughed. That question is too complicated and heavy. I love it here but some of the people, even the ones I live with, are just…difficult. “I love the west, I was born and raised here until I was twelve. I love that there is not too much fuss and feathers, no pomp. You don’t have to be a somebody out here to become a somebody if you know what I mean.”

Ruby nodded.

“There is nothing I really miss from the east, maybe the green, but not too much.”

“Oh, I am stopping here, Mother asked me to pick up something for Chris’s cough, do you need anything for your mother?”

“The doctor delivered her medication last week, and I really need to head on to the Cunningham’s store.”

“Hopefully, I will see you there then.”

“Yes. You will.”

“See you in a bit Grace.”

A few steps later Grace was on her back. Miss Jane Vanholt lying beside her, tears streaming down her face.

“What is the matter? You came running out of nowhere,” said Grace picking herself up and offering Jane, a hand.

“I hate children! I hate school! I hate the west! And I hate your little town!”

“What happened?”

“Those—those children!” Jane burst into tears and fled across the street to the hotel.

Grace turned in haste down the alley shortcut, from which Jane had emerged, making her way to the school house. The schoolyard was in chaos, children were running in all directions, some were screaming, some crying, but all making a ruckus.

Grace leaped up on the little porch and rang the bell. The children stopped to look at her in surprise.

“Children, I want you all to come in here single file, we have some things to talk about.

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