“Your son is fifty two and smells like fish. This boy can do better than
that.” Edna said and took a good long look at him. Her eyes narrowed. “I
mean, not a ton better, but certainly some better.”
“Thank…you?” Jacob was unsure how much of the compliment to
accept. He was suddenly anxious to change the subject. “By the way- what
is it we’re doing here?”
“Cutting veggies for the soup kitchen. Our pastor Joe runs it through
the week giving people a healthy meal. He gets the neighbourhood kids
and the unemployed to tend the gardens and then we all cook it up when
there’s abundance available.”
“Wow- he’s really something isn’t he.” Jacob smiled to himself. “He is. Works too hard. Needs to find himself a lady that one.” Darlene
laughed.
“Oh, I don’t know. I reckon he’s got something going oncurrently.”
Rhonda winked. For a moment he contemplated if she was a witch, but
decided against it.
“Here young man- you throw all these items you’ve been chopping into
the soup and I’ll get it all ready to cook tomorrow. We got a long day ahead
of us- but feel free to come by anytime. We appreciate the help.” Edna
responded as she wiped her brow and made her way slowly out of the
kitchen.
As they all packed up the last of their peeled, chopped and prepared
veggies, the three of them left, leaving Jacob to wander back to the
sanctuary and spend some time with his thoughts.
He looked over to Teddy who was still snoring on his shoulder. He
debated on poking his bird awake, but decided to let him sleep. So he decided to sit and wait- up until Serena called.
“Ola?” Jacob tried his best Spanish accent.
“Tell me everything. What happened? Was he good?” She asked. “It was good.” Jacob responded.
“It better be good.” She chuckled.
“It was really good. Quite good. Actually, it was great. Definitely great.” “What happened?” She sounded excited.
“Shouldn’t you be working right now?” Jacob asked, checking the time. “There’s like two people in here and Garret is polishing the plastic
