Ten Thousand Truths by Susan White

Author:Susan White [White, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781894838887
Publisher: Acorn Press
Published: 2012-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

The Start of a Plan

March break was a wet, cold week, but Rachel was glad for the holiday. Jodie took two days off from work and came up to stay on Wednesday night.

“I got another letter from my grandmother,” Rachel said as she and Jodie watered a line of seed pots on a table in the parlour.

“Did she get your picture?” Jodie asked.

“Yep,” Rachel answered. “She wants me to go out to visit her this summer.”

“Wow!” Jodie said, looking truly excited for Rachel. “Is she going to pay for you to fly there?”

“She probably would, but I’m not going to ask her,” Rachel answered. “I’m going to ask Amelia to drive me to British Columbia.”

“You’re going to ask Amelia to what?” Jodie stopped watering and sat down on the sofa, waiting for Rachel to tell her more.

“You know how Amelia always talks about her dream to someday have tea at the Empress Hotel?” Rachel started. “Well, I don’t think I could get her to go all that way just for tea, but if I tell her I really need to go see my family, she might force herself to go. So I’m going to ask her to take me to BC to meet my grandmother and see my father this summer, and then afterwards, since we’ll already be in the province, we can keep going all the way to Victoria to have tea at the Empress.”

Jodie didn’t say a word. She just sat on the couch processing what Rachel was telling her.

“I think I could put on a really convincing act that would make Amelia think I desperately need to connect with my grandmother and father,” Rachel continued. “I thought maybe Zac could fix up a car for us to take. I know Amelia can’t leave the other kids alone, but I thought you might be able to come and stay with them. And Zac is around to help, too. You get holidays don’t you?”

“You’ve been giving this a lot of thought, haven’t you?”

“I have,” Rachel said. “Ever since I got the second letter from my grandmother, I’ve been wondering what she’s like, and what my dad is like. I keep picturing Golden and thinking of it as a place that I have always needed to go, a place where I might belong. I can even picture my dad, though I have no idea what he really looks like. I see him sitting waiting for me on a bench beside a sign that says “Top of the World Ranch.” I know this is crazy and Amelia will never go for it, but I can’t get it out of my head.”

“Well it’s definitely crazy,” Jodie said. “But I’ll do my best to help you. We’ll have to take this in baby steps, though. We’ll have to work on convincing Amelia that she can leave Walton Lake first, and then work our way up to the BC idea. None of us have ever tried to get Amelia to

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