“What do you want now?” He watched her shrink two sizes. “I got something to tell you.” She hung her head.
“You ought to be in bed,” he said huffily, mad at himself for cutting her down.
“Ellie and Brenda come home.” “Came. Came home.” Why couldn’t he quit picking on her?
But her news was too delicious to let him stop her sharing it.
“Ellie bought herself a see-through blouse, and Momma’s throwing a fit!”
Good, he thought. “That ain’t nothing to cheer about,” he said.
Baripity, baripity, baripity. “Daddy!” May Belle screamed with delight and started running for the road.
Jess watched his dad stop the truck, lean over to unlatch the door, so May Belle could climb in.
He turned away. Durn lucky kid. She could run after him and grab him and kiss him.
It made Jess ache inside to watch his dad grab the little ones to his shoulder, or lean down and hug them.
It seemed to him that he had been thought too big for that since the day he was born.
When the pail was full, he gave Miss Bessie a pat to move her away.
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