A Watch in Time – Chapter 10, Part 2

A WATCH IN TIME

A Full Length Short Story by Golden Keyes Parsons


2-7-06 022 Chapter Ten – Part 2


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


Lily Kate stood as well. “Where are you living?”


“In the dorm.”


Lily Kate nodded in the direction of a covey of girls chatting on the other side of the tent. “I gather I am too, since Claire, that pretty redhead over there, keeps calling me ‘roomie.’” Claire waved at her. “Why do you suppose we’re not living at home?”


“I don’t know, but I think we should go over to the house and see if we can find the album to get back to our century.”


“Do you have a car?”


David frowned, and shook his head. “No.”


“We’re not that far. We can walk.”


David raised the side tent flap as they ducked under and headed toward their house, or what they remembered as their house. He motioned toward the neckline of her sweater. “Where’s the watch?”


“That’s the second thing I needed to tell you.” Lily Kate took her brother’s arm as they walked. “I gave it to someone.”


“You what?”


“I gave it to a soldier I met—a pilot stationed at Rich Field. He went overseas, and I gave him the watch to remember me by.”


They walked for a few moments in silence. “This sounds like it was serious.”


“It was. I … love … loved him.”


They stopped, and Lily Kate pulled David’s handkerchief from his pocket again. She dabbed at the gathering tears. “But, of course, I’ll never see him again.” Her voice broke. “I think he must have gotten sh … shot down over Europe during the war.”


“What was his name?”


“Clay Cole. Lieutenant Clayton Burl Cole.” She started to stuff the handkerchief back in his suit pocket.


“Keep it. Seems you need it more than I do tonight.”


Lily Kate smiled and put it in her purse. “Seems I do.”


“That must really hurt to know that you loved someone, and you’ll never see him again. Did he know about … about who you really were?”


“No, I had decided to stay in that time period. I enjoyed nursing. I fell in love. It was an accident that I came back. I suppose it was simply not meant to be.”


“I’m sorry, Lily Kate. I truly am.”


“Thanks, Little Brother. I think I needed to experience this revival, the Lord. I feel like we are in one of those domed scenes with snow that falls when you shake it. Except that the scene changes at each shaking, and we are where we need to be for a particular reason at the appointed time.”


David laughed nervously and patted her hand. “You’re getting philosophical on me now.”


“Sorry. I just have a very real sense of being guided along this path.”WacoHistoricHome


They turned the corner and saw their house down the street. Interior lights cast a soft glow into the spring evening with a weak porch light struggling to dispel the darkness. As they got closer, a tilted “Rooms For Rent” sign, partially hidden by the shrubbery, came into view.


“Ah-h-h.” Lily Kate felt as if she’d been punched in the stomach. They stood on the sidewalk and stared at the beautiful house, in much need of repair. The steps were crumbling. The shutters hung crooked, and the whole house needed painting. “It’s a boarding house. Did our family not own the house during the ‘40s? If we no longer own it, the album’s not going to be here, and we’re stuck in 1946.” A flood of panic rushed through her. “How are we going to get back home?”


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Join us next Friday for part 1 of chapter 11.


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