Dana“Yes Mama. Yes, I hear them now.”
I listened as my mother barked orders at my father on the other end of the line. When I thought I had her attention again I told her, “Mama, I don’t need you to come down here. Jef isn’t even here and Mel just called to say she’s on her way home. We got this. You just get the store closed up properly and I’ll call you if I need you.”
“Well, where is Jef?” she asked me.
“He’s fine Mama; I gotta go. They’re knocking.”
I hustled from the kitchen where I’d been trying to put something together for Mel for dinner, across the sitting room to the front door we rarely used. After jiggling the old skeleton key in the lock for several seconds before it decided to turn and then sliding back the nearly as ancient bolt that helped to keep it all secure, I was f
