The Invitation: Invitation by Jude Deveraux

Author:Jude Deveraux [Deveraux, Jude]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Romance
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1994-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

"Better," he said as he tucked the covers about her chin.

"Did you learn how to bathe people and tuck them in from your baby-sitter?" she teased.

William stopped tucking and gave her a very stern look.

"My baby-sitter's idea of bathing children was to yell 'Fire' and have the fire department hose them down."

Jackie giggled. "That's not true."

"Word of honor. And she never tucked us into bed. All she did was say 'Bed!' and by golly, we went. If one of us dared to disobey her, she'd tie our feet together and dangle us over the balcony until we reconsidered our stand on going to bed."

"That's not true either."

"It is! I swear it."

"There must have been something good about your baby-sitter. She couldn't have been a complete monster."

"Mmmm, yes. She was unique. She had no idea what a schedule was, so when we were with her we could eat cereal for dinner and steak for breakfast. And she never tried to force us to be what we weren't."

"Oh?" Jackie said encouragingly.

"Sometimes parents have very odd ideas about their children. They think they should all be alike. They seem to think there is an ideal child, and they try to make them all like that ideal. If a child doesn't like sports, parents say, 'You should get out and play football.' If the kid likes to play games outside, parents say, 'Why don't you ever sit down and read a book?' It seems that whatever kind of a child you are, someone wants you to be different."

"But your baby-sitter wasn't like that?"

"No, she wasn't. She liked or disliked people for what they were. She didn't try to change them."

Jackie found this conversation extraordinarily interesting and very much wanted to continue it, but she was falling asleep. "She didn't try to change you?" she whispered, her eyes closed.

"No. She didn't complain that I was too… whatever. She didn't complain that I wasn't like the other kids, because she was like no one else, either, and she understood what it was like to be different."

"A misfit. You were both misfits." Her voice was barely audible.

"No, we were both unique." Leaning forward, he kissed her forehead. "Now go to sleep and maybe the Good Fairy will bring you what you most want during the night."

She smiled at that and was still smiling when he turned out the light and left the room.

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