Choosing One Moment by Marja McGraw

Author:Marja McGraw [McGraw, Marja]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mystery, Humour, Romance, Time Travel, SciFi, Paranormal. Fantasy
Amazon: B01FV3FISO
Goodreads: 30230745
Publisher: Marja McGraw
Published: 2016-05-17T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-two

After the McGee brothers left, I went upstairs to change clothes. I smiled to myself, remembering that Nathaniel was whistling Camptown Races as they left.

Tess was waiting for me in my room. She held something in her hands, and when she saw me she slipped whatever it was under the pillow on my bed.

She spoke without preamble. “You made me feel bad. You lied to me.”

“I… What?”

“That was no rock in your apron pocket the other day.” She pulled my cellphone out from under the pillow and held it up. “What’s this? It was this thing, wasn’t it?”

I took it out of her hand, although she tried to hang onto it. Thankfully, it was in a case so she hadn’t gotten a good look at the whole phone.

As a writer, sometimes my thoughts come in a hurry, and that’s what happened. “I found that on the road. I don’t know what it is, but I figured it was interesting. If I had to guess, maybe it’s an invention of some kind that someone driving down the road dropped.”

“Uh huh,” said the young skeptic.

“I wouldn’t tell Mama or Papa about it. If it’s important, someone will come looking for it, and if it’s an invention they might want to keep it to themselves for now.”

“You’re lying to me again. I can tell. Think about what you’re doing and maybe your conscience will make you tell me.” Tess stood and watched me while she slowly made her way to the door. She shook her index finger at me and left the room.

She was too smart for a nine-year-old.

I knew I should have hidden the phone elsewhere. Hey! What was Tess doing, searching my room? She had to be searching for something. I had a bad feeling. I shoved the cell phone back under the mattress.

“Tess!” I called to her because I wanted some answers.

She didn’t reply, so I called to her again.

She walked into my room slowly. I could tell she didn’t want to be there.

“Tess, why did you search my room in the first place?”

She watched me for a moment. I had the feeling she was trying to gauge my mood.

“You’re not in trouble,” I said. “I just want to know what’s going on.”

She sighed, as only a child can. “I called you a liar. Now I guess I have to tell the truth, huh?”

“Yes.”

She stared into my eyes as though trying to read my mind. Had I been honest when I said she wasn’t in trouble? It took a full minute for her to make up her mind.

“Elsbeth asked me to look through your bedroom when the two of you were gone.”

“Why?” I couldn’t imagine why my aunt would put her up to this.

“Some things were missing from her bedroom and she wanted to know if you took them, or borrowed them.”

“What kinds of things?” I asked.

She rolled her eyes, looking resigned. “Some jewelry, and her diary was gone, too. She said a couple of – “

I interrupted her as it struck me.

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