Julia Watts - Wedding Bell Blues by Julia Watts

Author:Julia Watts
Language: es
Format: mobi
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2011-08-19T18:20:07+00:00

CHAPTER 12

“No oozing around the site of the injury?” Dr. Jack’s voice asked over the phone.

“No.” Feeling her throat constrict around the mouthful of yogurt she’d been trying to swallow, Lily wondered if there was a more unpleasant word in the English language than oozing.

“Any pus?” Dr. Jack asked, answering Lily’s unspoken question.

“No.” Giving up on eating any yogurt herself, she instead spooned it into Mimi’s gaping mouth. “Okay, then, why don’t you just bring him into the office in ten days, and we’ll get those stitches out. If he has any problems before then, be sure and call me.”

Lily knew that Dr. Jack was winding down their phone conversation, but she didn’t want to let her go until she had asked her about another matter. “Dr. Jack?”

“Uh-huh.”

“There was something else I wanted to talk to you about.”

“Uh-huh?” She sounded puzzled.

“I, uh ... I don’t think I mentioned this to you the other day, but I write and illustrate — that is, draw the pictures —” She mentally kicked herself for explaining what illustrate meant. The Dr. in Dr. Jack’s name meant she probably understood the meaning of three-syllable words. “Children’s books.”

“Is that a fact?” Dr. Jack sounded mildly interested, but still puzzled.

“Yeah. I was thinking about what you said about going on farm calls with your dad when you were a little girl, and I thought that a story about a little girl who did that might make a good picture book.”

“Ha!” Dr. Jack laughed. “I don’t think anybody’s ever thought of me as literary material before.” She was silent for a moment. “Seriously, though, I like the idea. Daddy died last year. A book like that might be a good way to remember him.”

“We could even dedicate it to him if you wanted,” Lily said.

“Hmm.”

Lily waited for her to add something, but she never did. Finally she jumped in. “The thing is, I’m kind of a city girl, and I’d really need to spend some time around farm animals in order to draw them well. So I was wondering if maybe I could go on a few farm calls with you. I’d stay out of your way, of course —”

Dr. Jack laughed — a deep, low chuckle. “I don’t know. A city girl has to get up pretty early in the mornin’ to go on a farm call.”

“I can handle that. I’m kind of a morning person anyway.” That last part was a big lie, but she didn’t want Dr. Jack to stereotype her as a night-owl urbanite.

“Well, you just keep your drawing things packed then, Mrs. McGilly, ’cause I’ll be calling you one mornin’ without any notice.”

Lily hung up the phone and realized that the conversation had made her so nervous that she had been spooning yogurt into Mimi’s mouth faster than she could eat it.

Dr. Jack hadn’t been kidding about the early part. On Saturday morning, when the clock read four seventeen, the phone rang. “Hello?” Lily croaked.

“Hey. I thought you said you were a mornin’ person,” Dr.

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