B&C III - 47

Brian and Christine
Book Three
Saint Jane's
Part 47

But Christy ran up the stirs into her room and closed the door.

Wendy was standing there watching and Brian said “Maybe you should go to her.”

“No, Brian, I don’t think so. She needs to be alone.”

Brian was very perplexed. What’s she doing?”

“She’s probably crying.”

“Why?”

“Because she loves you.”

“Well if she loves me why is she crying? That doesn’t make any sense.”

“If you were a girl it would.”

Brian was still confused but he deferred to Wendy’s wisdom.

“Okay” he said.

“Now come and sit down, have your drink and relax.”

Brian sat but was not relaxed. Why do I always manage to say or do the wrong thing, he wondered. What did I do wrong this time? I feel hopeless and useless.

“I know what you’re thinking” said Wendy, “but don’t worry about it. She just has to sort things out in her head. And she will. You’ll see.”

“I hope so.”

They sat silently for a few moments and then the buzzer rang. Wendy crossed over to the door and pressed the speaker switch “Yes?”

“Mr. and Mrs. Parks at your service” came a voice over the speaker. Wendy smiled and pressed another button. She stood by the door for a moment and then opened it to let in Allen and Felicity Parks.

Mr. Parks was in his fifties, with gray hair, a stern expression but with a twinkle in his eye. Felicity, his wife, was a slender woman with thinning ashen blond hair and a big smile.

Introductions were made all around, seats were taken, drinks were made and distributed all around and conversation ensued.

“So you two want to get hitched, do you” said Allen.

“Yes we do” said Brian.

“I think it’s just wonderful” said Felicity, “that the two of you found each other after all the years you’ve lived.”

“Thank you. I guess it is” said Brian.

“How did it happen?” she asked.

“Wendy came to represent me in a legal matter and we hit it off right away.”

“Wendy?”

“That’s about it” said Wendy. “Neither one of us were looking. That’s why we found each other.”

“Isn’t that grand?” said Felicity.

Then Allen said “I thought you told me that the girl from the orphanage who blew the whistle on them was here with you?”

“She’s upstairs now, dealing with something. She will probably come down when she gets hungry. You will like her.”

The conversation went on with small talk about this and that until Wendy said “Well, dinner is ready, if you’d like to come in and sit at the table. So they did.

Wendy’s dining room had a medium sized wooden table, circular when the side flaps were folded up. There were place settings for five. Wendy went to the bottom of the stairs and called up “Christy? Dinner’s ready.”

There was no answer.


(To be continued.)