A Lancaster Amish Love Story for Jacob by Rachel Stoltzfus

Author:Rachel Stoltzfus
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Global Grafx Press
Published: 2015-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

“Let me get this straight,” Thomas said, sitting across the table from Jacob. “You need MY help sorting this thing out. MY help? When do you ever come to me for help?”

“I’m coming to you for help now,” Jacob said. “I’m ready to listen to whatever you have to say, just fix this.”

Thomas sighed. They were sitting in the kitchen, probably the most popular place in the Mast house, but right now there was not a scrap of food in sight, and Jacob found himself across from Thomas in the one position he swore he would never be in. He needed Thomas’s help if he was ever going to see Elizabeth again.

“I don’t know if I can help you,” Thomas said, as the sky outside worked on turning to dusk. “Let me ask you a question, Jacob, what are your plans?”

“What do you mean, my plans?” Jacob demanded. “I don’t have any plans.”

“That’s right,” Thomas said. “You don’t have any plans. You don’t know if you’re staying here; you don’t know if you’re going somewhere else; you don’t know if you even want to be Amish.”

“I guess I do,” Jacob said. “I mean, it’s better than being most other things.”

“I’m going to need more of a commitment than that if I’m going to help you,” Thomas said. “And I don’t need you saying the words just to make this happen. I need a good, honest commitment from you.”

There was an urgency in Thomas’s voice, one that Jacob had never heard before. Though he had come to Thomas with this problem, he couldn’t help but shake the feeling there was something else going on here, something that was related. He didn’t have time to worry about that now, however. All he could think about was Elizabeth and her long hair. She did have some long hair, didn’t she? He remembered how her mother had snapped at her, telling her to put it up in that traditional Amish bun, and how he’d tried to hide his disappointment. Then, he wondered to himself, why he was reminiscing about events that had only happened a few hours ago.

“Let me explain something to you, Jacob,” Thomas said. “You’re a stranger here. You may have learned our ways, and you may fit in pretty...okay, you may fit in to a point, but you’re still young and we have no way of knowing what it is you’re going to decide when you get old and grown. You might decide to quit this community and go out into the world. Maybe you’ll go get a factory job in the English world, or maybe you’ll fancy yourself a movie star. Any of those things could happen, you know? Elizabeth is an Amish girl, and she’s getting close to courting age. You can’t just run off, see her for a few years, and then decide you’re not going to marry her. It might suit you to run off and see the world, but she’ll be stuck here, years of her life wasted, and that’ll be your fault.

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