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.“Everything stinks to you two this morning, doesn’t it?” Lillian pulled both her girls into a hug and basked for a moment in the comfort of family, promising herself that there would be no more worrying.She had her husband and children, and they were all healthy and safe.So much to be thankful for.“I love you both.It won’t be like this forever.” Lillian eased out of the hug.“Your daed should be home from town soon.He went to buy some plumbing supplies, and David should be back from the grocery store before long also.” She walked into the den, Anna and Elizabeth following, and picked up two boxes of old pictures from her former life, before she’d converted to the Amish faith and married Samuel.“I’ll be right back.I’m going to go put these things in the basement.”IT WAS THREE hours later when David turned into the driveway of what was supposed to be their new home.He grimaced as he maneuvered the buggy to the left of an old tractor partially covered in snow and blocking part of the driveway.The snow had stopped shortly after he left the Detweilers’ place, and the trip to Monte Vista hadn’t been as bad as he’d feared.It was longer than he cared for, but most of the snow on the roads had been cleared, pushed into mounds on either side.Now the sun shone brightly atop the glistening snow that surrounded their house.Why here? He knew land prices were high in Lancaster County, and that farmland was becoming scarce there, but his father had plenty of land for all of them.It didn’t make any sense.He unhooked Buster and led the animal to one of the four rundown barns on the property, his black boots sinking to his ankles in the snow as he walked.Shaking his head, he couldn’t believe that his daed had sold their home in Lancaster County so quickly to make this move, despite David’s many objections.And why did Lillian go along with it? David recalled the look on her face when they pulled onto the property yesterday.He thought she might cry.Then she saw the outhouse, and David knew that it was only a matter of time before Lillian would convince his father to move back to Lancaster County.It had to be.At least he hoped so.Without his own money, David had no other choice but to live here too.After he secured Buster, he started to walk toward the house when the sound of hoofbeats made him turn.His father was pulling up the driveway.As he waited, he scanned the yard around the house, much of which was covered in snow.But even the snow couldn’t hide the litter.A pile of tires, some old chairs, and a whiskey barrel were visible beneath a thin layer of white, and to his left was a pile of tin.So much debris to be carried off.Then there was the house.Badly in need of a new roof, new floors, and some insulation.In his upstairs bedroom, he had actually felt the frigid wind blowing through the cracks in the walls last night.Even the bathroom was poorly put together.It had a tub and sink with running water, but no toilet.Why? Wouldn’t it have been just as easy to put in a commode?“How was your trip to town?” Samuel trudged across the yard with a smile stretched across his face.“It’s a long way to Monte Vista from here.” David met his father in the yard and took two large plastic bags from him.His father balanced long white pipes across his shoulder, and David could see more of them hanging out of the back of the buggy.“After you put those bags in the house, can you go get the rest of those pipes and haul them upstairs?”“Sure, Daed.” David eased his way up the porch steps ahead of his father, then into the den.“Samuel, is that you?”“It’s both of us, Lillian.Daed is coming in behind me.” David held the door as his father wound through the threshold with the plastic piping still draped over his shoulder.“Where’s the toilet?” Lillian met Samuel at the doorway.His father put the piping down, then stroked his dark beard and grinned.“Toilet? I must have forgotten that.”Lillian slapped her hands on her hips.“You better not have returned to this house without a toilet, Samuel Stoltzfus!”Samuel pulled her into a hug and nuzzled her neck.“Or what?”“No more meals until me and the girls have a toilet in this house! Do you hear me, Samuel?” She eased him away, but Daed grabbed her face in his hands and kissed her.David shook his head.“Stop it.Not in front of your sohn.” He couldn’t help but grin.His father and Lillian were as happy and affectionate with each other as the day they’d gotten married.David regretted that he’d never have that, someone to love for a lifetime.“Where are Anna and Elizabeth?” David set the bags on the floor with a thud, hoping to break up the smooching going on.“H-E-L-L-O?” He knocked on the wall beside him.“Ach.Sorry, David.” Lillian grinned at David briefly, then turned back to Samuel and pushed him away.She put her hands back on her hips [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]