Amish Romance Boxed Set (12 Stories) by Sicily Yoder

Author:Sicily Yoder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: religious fiction, short stories, literary fiction, amish, mennonite, amish fiction, amish books
Publisher: Sicily Yoder

CHAPTER ONE

New York, New York, 1959

Miriam Ruth Yoder took her hands and patted her face. Quietly, she tried to get rid of all of the hurt that flowed down her rosy-red checks.

She could not do it.

She demanded the tears to leave. “You’re going to embarrass yourself, girl, please stop it! You’re not a boppli!”

She leaned over her lap and grimaced as she lifted her bottom off the warm metal seat. Had it always been this hard? Miriam remembered that it hadn’t always been this way; she’d once enjoyed the perfect life. A sharp pain ran down her left leg. Her eyes traveled down, past her golden locks and saw that the navy leg brace was still bundling her broken leg. It was good to protect the bone until it healed, but it had kept her off the football field, making her secluded from the normally active life of a high-school-aged girl.

If only I hadn’t tried to impress Jared Huber. Guilt and recklessness emerged, needling her whole body. There had been a lot of “ifs’ and trying to impress an Englischer had been one of them. Pretending to be Englisch when they were really Old Order Amish to the core had been one, too. Turning sixteen and acting like you’re not a woman, staying in school, had been the biggest one. She was restless, knowing well enough that her former Old Order Amish community was right: you grow up at sixteen, join the church, and get married.

Truth be told, she certainly wanted to kiss Tony Huber, Jared’s younger, more studious brother. Jared had dared her to jump into the hickory tree that stood within one foot of the open upstairs bedroom window. Her prize: to lock lips with Tony Huber.

Tony had softly smiled and given a quick, cheerful nod when Miriam had glanced at him for approval of the dare. It seemed that he’d wanted to be kissed.

Impressing the high school quarterback was a trophy in itself; adding a kiss from his brother, the “Most Likely to Succeed” student, was confetti and thick icing on the cake. If she made the jump, she’d be the most popular girl at New York Day School. If she didn’t make the jump, she’d be the most unpopular one.

There she sat, pitying herself for acquiring the heavy leg cast. She wished that things would have turned out differently. Why had she gone to Ida’s rural weekend home for the slumber party? Ida had always been a trickster. The relaxing thoughts of rolling and giggling in cotton pajamas and munching on birthday cake and popped corn had been flawed.

They hadn’t even sung “Happy Birthday” to Ida when she’d motioned for them to follow her up the swirled staircase to see her new gift: a hot pink pair of roller skates. A tan shoe box had housed the gift. Everyone had watched as Ida had neatly opened the cream-colored tissue paper.

Ida had gotten a Saturday job at the Scoop Ice & Burger Shop. Miriam was now wishing that she’d never recommended her for that job.

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