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Chapter 2
I don't know what I was thinking accepting an invitation to stay with another Amish family. Something inside me knew it wouldn't work out, but like always I didn't listen to my gut.
Once I met the family it felt like I fit into a small spacein their hearts. They took me under their wing without any questions. There was Mr. Longacre who may I say seemed very strict, but mother always told me not to judge at first glance. Mrs. Longacre reminded me of my own mother, she was very warm and made you feel like you were worth the time. Then there was Ethan's siblings Charity, Elisabeth, Simeon, and Nathan. I felt like some how Charity would become a good friend to me. Elisabeth, Simeon, and Nathan seemed like they would become my own siblings, the kind that bother you when your trying to be alone because you had a long day on the farm. Everyone in there family seemed to welcome me with open arms, which may I say was very nice.
"Thank you for letting me stay," I said with a smile on my face.
"We wouldn't have it any other way, Leah," Mrs. Longacre said with a beaming smile. I nodded poliety and asked to be excused to my room.
The room wasn't to big, but it was just right for me because it reminded me of home. I was about to lay down on the bed to take a nap when I heard a light tap on the door.
"Leah," the voice on the other side of the door asked.
"Come in," I said warily.
"Diner is in a hour," Charity said walking through the door.
"Would you like me to help in anyway?"
"Ma said to leave you be," Charity said. She stood there and hesitantly started towards the door.
"Is there something else Charity," I asked polietly.
"Well I was wondering where you are from."
"I guess you can say I'm from down the road."
"Then why are you scared to go back," Charity asked with a gleam in her eye.
"Charity, I guess you could say there is more to my story than Ethan has told your family."
"Leah, will you tell me about it when you are ready," Charity asked.
"Yeah, I will tell you when I'm ready."
"Okay, I will see you at diner."
After Charity left the room I took some time to reflect on what I was doing. I wasn't sure if I was doing the right thing by running away from home. My mother always said never run away from your problems because they always follow. I guess I wasn't thinking about that when I decided to leave my ownly true home. But now I couldn't take any of it back because it was just the beginng of a better life or so I thought at the time.
We were all called to diner. It was quiet like any other Amish diner I have been at. The only noise in the room was the scrapping of forks against the china plates. Finally everyone excused themselves, either to clean the diner plates or go to their rooms. But I helped clean up the diner plates, it was the least I could do.
"Thank you, Leah for helping me with these," Mrs. Longacre said staring down at the dishes in her hands.
"Your welcome Mrs. Longacre," I said with a smile on my face.
"Leah, you can call me Tillie."
"Okay, your welcome Tillie," I said. After we were done with taking care of the dishes I excused myself. I didn't want to go to my room so I went for a walk in the night.
It was a beautiful night, the sky was filled with sparkling stars. The only problem was that it was a little chilly. I was pretty cold, so to keep warm I hugged myself. I did this while walking around the Longacre property. I went to take another step when I heard someone coming up behind me. I just stood so still hoping the person was blind and couldn't see me, but I knew to well that the person could see me clearly. Then a hand touched my shoulder making me jump and scream loudly. I turned to see who put there hand on my shoulder only to find a frowning Ethan.
"Ethan!"
"I'm sorry for scaring you, but Ma sent me to give you this," he said holding out a shawl towards me.
"Oh, thank you."
"Your welcome," he said and started to walk away.
"Ethan, why is your familyso welcoming towards me," I asked his back.
"There welcoming towards you because they think your scared of something and they want to make you feel at home," he said with his back still facing me.
"Do you think I'm scared of something?"
"Leah, theres alot of things I wonder about you."
"Like what?"
"Like wheather you are here to change our lives or we're here to change yours," he said.
"Really?And you know this how?"
"I don't, but the Lord does," he said turing to face me.
"Oh, of course," I said as Ethan took a step closer towards me.
"I don't know what it is, but Leah you do something to me that I can't control," he exclaimed. Know he was only inches away from me. Then he took one more step and closed the gap between us and slowly lowered his lips to mine.
Okay, I'm sorry if it seems I moved it to fast, but PLEASE R&R!
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