Her Daughter's Dream by Francine Rivers

Author:Francine Rivers
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Religion, Historical, Inspirational, Adult
ISBN: 9781414334097
Publisher: Tyndale House
Published: 2010-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

Sincerely yours,

Jason Steward

She spent the rest of the afternoon obsessing about Jason’s note. Did he want her to call? Was he inviting her into a relationship? If so, what sort? friendship only or something more?

It took all night and most of the next day to gather enough courage to look up his telephone number. Her heart pounded in her ears as she pushed the numbers. Losing her nerve, she hung up after two rings. She picked up her portable phone half a dozen times before she finally had the nerve to try again.

A woman answered. Stammering, Dawn asked if she could please speak to Jason Steward. The woman’s voice became cold. “Who’s calling?”

“Dawn Arundel.”

“Just a moment.” Dawn could hear muffled voices. Time stretched and with it Dawn’s nerves. Had she made a mistake calling Jason? Maybe he’d sent the note only to be polite.

“Dawn?” His voice made her pulse skyrocket. She hadn’t talked to him in weeks.

“Hi.” She winced at the high-pitched tension she heard in that one word. She let out her breath and tried to calm down. “I just called to thank you for your note.” When he didn’t say anything, she wondered if they’d been cut off. “Jason?”

“I’m here. Hang on a second.” Again, the muffled receiver, the indistinct voices. Then he came back on. “How are you doing?”

“So-so, I guess. Better than my mother. Oma’s death has hit her hard. They were extremely close.”

“Was it expected? Her death, I mean. Your grandmother’s. I mean your great-grandmother.” He let out a tense breath.

He sounded more nervous than she was. That pleased her, for some odd reason. “She was in her nineties. It wasn’t exactly unexpected.”

“Oh. Yeah. Dumb question.”

“I didn’t mean that. My mom and I spent a week with Oma this summer. She was really, really cool.” Dawn rolled her eyes, thinking she sounded really, really dumb.

Jason’s mother said something. He told Dawn to hang on a second again.

“Dawn?”

“Yes?”

“I have to go. I have something I have to do before I go to work tonight.”

“Okay.” Dawn felt heat flood her entire body. “Bye.” She clicked the phone off and tossed it on the bed. She shouldn’t have called. How would she face him when school started?

Kim called later that evening. “Did Jason call you?”

“No,” Dawn drawled cautiously. “Why would he?”

“Well, I don’t know, but he called me an hour ago and asked for your number.”

“He did?”

Kim giggled. “Dad thought Jason wanted to ask me out. I didn’t dare tell him he wanted your number.”

“I guess your dad doesn’t like me very much.”

“Oh, it’s not that,” Kim said quickly. “It’s just that Jason is exactly the sort of guy my father wants me to marry. Are you coming back to youth group? Jason said he had Wednesday night off this week.”

When Jason didn’t show up, Kim shrugged. “I guess he had something else he had to do.”

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