An Amish Spring by Zondervan

Author:Zondervan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2018-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

Irma Rose sliced the pie with the pocketknife the nice guard named Peter had given her. They are very trusting in the jailhouse, she thought as she handed the guard a slice, the same man as yesterday. In her mind, if she were extra sweet to the people who worked here, they would be nicer to Jonas. She owed that to Jonas’s mother. Sarah Jane was still in the hospital, and she would want someone tending to her son. But when Jonas walked into the room, she admitted to herself that coming here wasn’t just about doing the right thing for Sarah Jane Miller.

“I don’t know if you should be coming here, Irma Rose,” Jonas said after Peter left with his slice of pie. “Is my mother all right?”

“Ya. Elizabeth went to see her this morning, and I stayed with Missy and did a few things around the house while Mae and Annie went to Bible school.”

Jonas put his hands flat on the table and hung his head. “I should have found a way to pay the fine. I thought Mamm would be home way before now.” He looked up at Irma Rose. “I don’t like you coming here,” he repeated. “I love you for doing all this, but this is not a gut place for you.”

Love? It should have rattled her, but instead, she was pretty sure she heard angels singing somewhere in the heavens. Whatever this infatuation was for Jonas, she needed to move past it. She’d thought that if she forced herself to be around him, maybe the clammy hands and pounding heart would go away. Now she was hearing choirs of angels.

“These are all things you should have thought about.” She smirked as she handed him a plate with pie on it. He set it back down on the table.

“I told you, I will make it up to you somehow.”

“I won’t be by tomorrow unless there is news about your mother. Even though it’s Sunday, I’ll visit Elizabeth tomorrow morning to make sure everything is okay. There’s no church service so I’ll offer to stay with Missy so Elizabeth can take Mae and Annie to visit your mother. But I have a lunch date after that.”

“Date?” He folded his arms across his chest.

“Ya. With Jake. It’s our second date. We went to the singing, remember? The one you were supposed to take Mary to.” No need to tell Jonas how the first date with Jake had gone.

“How was the date?” He looked her in the eye. “Please tell me Jake didn’t kiss you.”

You had to ask, didn’t you? “That’s none of your business.”

“Ugh.” Jonas lowered his head and gently hit his palm on the table. “That means he did.”

Irma Rose avoided his eyes as she re-covered the shoofly pie with plastic wrap. “This is mostly for the guards. So they’ll be nice to you.”

“You’re bribing the jailers, kissing Jake Ebersol, and . . . what else are you up to, Irma Rose?” The hint of

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