The Lesson (Stoney Ridge Seasons) by Suzanne Woods Fisher

Author:Suzanne Woods Fisher
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, FIC042040, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯), Teenage girls—Fiction, FIC027020, Amish—Fiction
ISBN: 9781441240651
Publisher: Revell
Published: 2013-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

A week later, on Saturday, the sky was filled with dark clouds. The air felt damp and raw and smelled of coming rain. Chris Yoder was out in the west field of Windmill Farm, cutting the last of the hay. M.K. watched the work progress; it was painfully slow, even though Chris was always working when she looked in that direction—a tiny figure bent over the land.

She had just finished baking a few loaves of honey oat bread and decided to give one to him to take home. They weren’t quite as light and airy as Fern’s would be—her bread never was—but it would be good as toast. As she wrapped the loaf in a red-striped dish towel, she wondered what Chris thought of her. It was difficult to read him. He was polite, slightly amused, but just that and no more. The logical conclusion she reached was that he did not want to spend time in her company. And why should he? She had accused him of a heinous crime. Two crimes! One big, one small, but crimes nonetheless.

And yet he didn’t tell anyone what she had done to him. Nor had Jenny. M.K. felt grateful to them both, but she wondered why. Maybe, Chris just wasn’t interested in her.

M.K. wasn’t used to having young men lose interest in her. And, the first few times they had met, Chris Yoder had shown a spark of interest in her—she could see it in his eyes. She could tell he thought she was attractive. That wasn’t an altogether unusual experience for M.K. Boys had always been attracted to her. But that was just it—they were all boys.

M.K. wasn’t the kind of girl who needed attention from boys, and she certainly wasn’t the type who fell in and out of love like her friend Ruthie did. But she did like to be taken seriously. She liked that very much.

Chris Yoder did not take M.K. seriously. And Chris Yoder was the first boy M.K. met whom she considered to be a man.

She found herself thinking of Chris a great deal. She tried to stop herself, but couldn’t. He was a shy man, she decided, and that was another reason why he seemed reserved. Certainly that would pass, she thought, when they got to know one another better, but she wasn’t quite sure how to achieve that. Chris didn’t make it easy.

She crossed through the fields with the bread loaf tucked in one hand and a thermos of cool lemonade in the other. When he looked up and saw her, he stopped the horses and waited for her. The odd feeling that she had been experiencing lately came back. She felt her heart thumping. Ridiculous, she thought. Ridiculous.

She handed him the thermos. “Thought you could use something to drink.”

He opened the lid and drank it down. “Thank you.” He wiped sweat from his brow with a handkerchief.

She held up the bread. “I thought you and Jenny might be able to use a loaf of bread.

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