A Watch in Time – Chapter 10, Part 1

A WATCH IN TIME

A Full Length Short Story by Golden Keyes Parsons


2-7-06 022 Chapter Ten – Part 1


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David smothered Lily Kate in a bear hug leaving her breathless. Something between a sob and a giggle erupted as she buried her head in her brother’s chest. Stepping back she brushed the tears from her eyes, then touched his cheek. “You’re clean shaven. I haven’t seen you without facial hair for a long time—in this century or the last.” She couldn’t help grinning.


David’s glance darted over the crowd. “Shhh. Someone might hear you.”


“Then it really is you.” She flicked her wrist. “Even if they did, how would they know what we were talking about?” She pulled his handkerchief out of his jacket pocket—a white freshly ironed cotton handkerchief with an “M” embroidered on it. Not something in vogue in their time. “You look pretty spiffy in a suit.”


Straightening his tie he winced. “Yeah, but this thing is driving me crazy. Can you believe the guys in 1946 wear suits to class?”


Lily Kate pulled David down in a chair beside her. “Fill me in. How long have you been here? Obviously we are OldMainstudents at Baylor. What classification are you—am I? How’d you get here? What do we do now?”


“Slow down. I don’t have answers to our dilemma any more than you do.” He leaned forward with his elbows on his knees. “I’ve been here only a few days. Evidently I’m a freshman and you’re a junior. And I’m on the committee that has been planning this student revival.”


“You?”


“Yeah, that’s a kick in the pants, isn’t it?”


Lily Kate folded his handkerchief, and replaced it in his pocket. “Maybe not. This whole youth movement thing seems to be the real deal.”


“So, are you going off the deep end here and getting ‘religion’?”


She shook her head. “No, but I … I genuinely felt something, and I wanted to respond. I did respond. I walked down to the front and …”


“I know. I saw you.”


“It was real, David. It is real. I accepted Jesus, and I feel as if a ton of bricks has been lifted off my shoulders.”


“Okay, that’s fine, whatever. I believe you, but right now we need to figure out how to get back to our own time.”


“Yes.” Lily Kate paused. “But first I want to tell you about a couple of things.” She fidgeted with her purse. “A couple of important things.”


“Go on.”


“On my last ‘trip’ I met my mother. I was a nurse during World War I, and I was working at the Red Cross. Ivy—that was her name—Ivy worked there too.”


“I thought she was a prostitute.”


“She was, but the law closed The Reservation down and all those poor women were desperate for jobs. I don’t know how she existed on her pittance of a salary.”


“Did you tell her who you were?”


“She guessed—recognized the watch, and then my name. Although at that time I was going by ‘Katherine.’ But she put two and two together. My father was actually one of our relatives, and she truly did love him. She never told him about the baby, uh … me, Katherine. Whoever. I’m so confused I don’t know who I am anymore, however, in some strange way, I feel I know more about who I am than ever—understand what has been sowed into our family heritage.” Lily Kate drew a deep breath. “Ivy died while I was there, but I believe I helped her find forgiveness. She had already sought God’s forgiveness, but she needed to forgive herself.”


“That’s quite a story.” David stood and stuffed his hands in his pockets.


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