The Amish Voice (Amish Romance) by Hannah Schrock

Author:Hannah Schrock [Schrock, Hannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Novella Length Short Story, Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Christian Stories, Faith Based, Inspirational Reads, Denominations & Sects, Love Inspired, Bachelor, Single Woman, Amish Christianity, Pennsylvania Dutch, Traditional, Clean Romance, Farming & Animals, Simple Living, Plain Clothes, Mennonite, Buggy Travel, Amish Country, Amish Courting, Old Fashion Ways, German Language, Hearts Desire, Bible Teaching, Life-Changes, Second Chance Reunion, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Lifetime Love, Love-Family & Forever, Action & Adventure, Small Town & Rural Area, Rumspringa
Publisher: Hannah Schrock
Published: 2019-04-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

It had been a week since he and Becka had argued at the farm stall. He had gone by three times this week but Becka had not been there. He had hoped to see her at Sunday service when he would be baptized. Aaron didn’t need a long rumspringa to realize what he wanted from his life. He wanted to be part of the community in which he was raised. He wanted to spend his life living the plain way and also raise his kinners plain.

On Sunday morning Aaron had looked out for Becka at church, but she wasn’t there. He had seen the Raber familye arrive, but Becka hadn’t been with them. A fist as cold as steel and as strong as iron wrapped around his heart when he noticed her mother’s sad expression. Where was Becka? He had hoped she would be here on this important day, but she was nowhere to be found.

When he stood in front of the congregation for the bishop to baptize him, his gaze had caught Becka’s mother’s eyes. She was sad and Aaron could tell she was blinking back tears.

Guilt washed over him after the service when he wondered if pushing Becka had caused her to leave. Had their fight resulted in her telling her parents she didn’t want to join the church? Did they make her leave?

Aaron had spent most of Sunday thinking about Becka until it was time to go to his first singing. He had considered not going, but it was tradition to attend your first singing after you were baptized. He missed Becka, he had hoped to share this with her, but he had driven her away instead.

When he arrived at the singing, he was welcomed heartily by the other young members of their church. They sang from the ausband and praised the Lord in a distinctly more relaxed environment than the three-hour church service he was used to. The broke for refreshment an hour into singing, and Aaron headed to the refreshment table.

His throat was dry, his heart loaded with guilt, and right now he just wanted to be home. But he couldn’t leave just yet. He wondered about Becka, where she would have gone, if she was all right and if she had made the right decision. He missed her terribly and couldn’t imagine never seeing her again.

He was thinking about her when he felt a hand on his arm.

“Hullo, Aaron. Congratulations on your baptism,” Mary Leipz smiled brightly, her blonde hair intricately braided before it disappeared beneath her prayer kapp.

“Hullo, Mary. Congratulations to you, too,” Aaron smiled and handed her the juice he had poured for himself.

He and Mary had attended school together and had been friends as kinners, but since growing up they hadn’t really seen each other much. Aaron couldn’t help but notice how pretty she had become since they had last spoken.

“It feels strange, doesn’t it?” Mary whispered. “It feels like we’re adults now?”

Aaron grinned and nodded at her. “Jah, it does feel strange.

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