CHAPTER FOUR
Mira threw a shopping bag in the car her mother handed her.
“Next stop is the ice cream shop!” Josh said.
Huh. Another stop? When was she ever going to settle in? She felt tired already, and they still had a few more places to go. Mira stretched the seat belt across her and clicked it in. She just wanted to go home; well, home sounded nice, but a new home sounded awful! The car stopped in a small parking space, and the doors all opened. Mira grabbed her crutches and climbed out the door. Mira turned to her mother.
“Are we going home after this?” The way she said it made it sound as if she hated shopping, even though that wasn’t the reason. She loved shopping, but shopping after a busy morning was not her thing. especially with a guy she never met before or liked.
“Why, sweetie pie, you don’t want to shop anymore? I thought you liked shopping?”
“Yeah, but after this can we settle into our new house? I’m really tired, and, well, I just want to go and take a nap.”
“Well, sweetheart, it’s up to Josh if he’s done, but why don’t you run ahead and pick out your ice cream flavor?”
“Sure. I guess.”
Why did parents never understand the way you felt? Well, at least these parents, or more mom and Josh. Mira thought.
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The car pulled onto a long driveway, which met a HUGE mansion house. a lot bigger than her own house back in Maryland. Mira grabbed her suitcase and managed to drag it with her crutches. The door flew open and a lady stepped out.
“Hello, and welcome to your new home! Wait. You’re Amber?”
“No. I’m Miralee. but just call me Mira, or MI. Who are you?”
“I’m Josh’s sister, and I was cleaning up the house. My husband, Matarg, who is Native American, was setting up furniture. Where’s Amber?”
“Oh, she’s coming! just grabbing bags, boxes, and suitcases. Where’s my room going to be so that I can set this suitcase down?”
“Oh my dear! That had to be hard pulling that with those crutches!”
“You sound just like your brother!”
“Here, let me show you your new room! You’re going to love it!”
The women led up a staircase, down a hall, and into a room.
“Thank you! I’ve got two more bags down in the car I’ll grab!”
“Hu. Josh should’ve let you have the main floor bedroom. It got to be hard going up and down stairs with those crutches.”
“No, it’s fine! I had an upstairs bedroom at my old home in Maryland. In fact, I’m glad it’s up here, because it makes it feel more like home in Maryland!” She’d said that even though it didn’t feel at all like home in Maryland.
“Here you stay here; I’ll grab your bags for you.”
“Thanks!”
Mira sat on the bed. Whoa! That felt soft! She peered under the covers to see what made it so comfy.
“Memory foam!” Mira barely breathed the words. She placed the comforter back over the memory foam, just as the women walked in and set the two bags near the suitcase.
“Thank you!”
“Of course! You can call me Aunt Cassady.”
“Okay.”
Mira softly closed the door and opened up her suitcase, which held the most wonderful book: The Holy Bible. Mira turned its pages to John 14.
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.” Mira paused. Jesus’s words sounded so soothing. She needed those words right now. She couldn’t wait to be in Jesus’s house, where there would be no more tears, pain, sickness, and sorrow. where there would be no more death. And she would see loved ones who passed away. And she would see her daddy. and she would see Jesus there, the wonderful one who created her. the wonderful one who died on the tree for her. Just then the door opened up wide, and in walked her mother!
“Here’s your bag of clothes you bought. I’ll set them right here by your bed!”
“Few. That was close!” Mira breathed the words as her mother shut the door.
“Huh, this is going to be hard. but no matter what, I’ll always serve God, no matter what!”