All She Wrote by Tonya Kappes

Author:Tonya Kappes [Kappes, Tonya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

I rubbed my hand along the old farmhouse table Julia had kept when they moved in. It had so many memories from when I was a child and from when Grady was a child.

“All of this smells so good. Anything these days smells good.” Julia was busy unpacking the thermal bags of food while I helped set the table. “Bernadette, you with me?”

“Oh sorry.” I put the next place mat down and carried on. “What did you say?”

“I said. . .” She walked over to me and took my hand, placing it on her belly. “Your grandbaby is moving.”

My heart leapt when I felt a little body part move along the pressure of my hand. Julia and I kept our eyes locked, smiling the entire time.

“Gosh. Amazing. Thank you.” My eyes teared.

“What on earth is going on with you today?” she asked and looked out the kitchen window at Grady, who was walking down to the barn while he waited on Mac. Mac was doing whatever it was Grady had asked him for help with.

Mac always came to Sunday family supper, and I wondered if he wasn’t tonight.

“I don’t know. Just emotional.” I wiped the tear that’d fallen from my eyes. But I knew this was the perfect opportunity to ask Julia if she was okay. “I’m guessing the baby is all healthy.”

“Yes. Baby Butler is right on track.” She rubbed both her hands over her belly, which was really shaped like a ball. “I think I got bigger overnight.” She peered out the window. “Oh good. Mac is here.”

“You are glowing.” I couldn’t help but continue to cry. Now I started to cry about Mac showing up, but she didn’t need to know that. For some reason there was a bit of relief that he’d come.

“Bernie, what’s wrong?” She waddled over and pulled out a chair to sit down in and patted the table.

“I don’t know.” I took her offer to sit down. “I guess I’m a little worried.” I had always treated Julia like a daughter and had always been honest with her. It wasn’t Iris and her feeling, not that Iris’s feelings were always bad.

In fact, Iris had a feeling about Julia a few months ago, and we found out Julia was pregnant.

“Coming here and sitting at the table holds so many memories. Most great ones, but some not so great. Like when I sat here after Richard died. I comforted Grady here and fed him. Then when we found out about Richard’s real life. The other woman our entire marriage.” There was a sudden look of concern on Julia’s face as I talked. “I don’t want you to mention it to Grady, but he said something funny to me a couple of days ago, and I just have to make sure you two are okay.”

“What did he say?” she asked.

“Truthfully not much. He mentioned how he worried he was going to turn out like his father when you and I both know he’s nothing like his father.

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