Angel Flight
Copyright© 2023 by Mark Randall
Chapter 3
I was the first one up in the morning. As I built a fire and set up a pot of coffee, A small voice behind me said, “Can I pet your doggy, mister?”
I looked over my shoulder and found a little rag-a-muffin girl child. Her black hair was tussled from sleep, and her brown eyes were red from crying. She was wearing one of my long-john shirts. It hung past her knees, the arms bunched up at her elbows.
“Well, I don’t know, sweety. I think Shadow would like to be introduced first.” Shadow did not need any introductions. His tail was going ninety, and his doggy grin could have lit up the moon’s dark side.
The girl slowly edged up to him and whispered, “Hi, Mr. Shadow. I’m Kathy.” Shadow took a delicate sniff at her fingertips as she slowly held her hand out. Then, he licked her hand. It was like a dam broke. She wrapped her arms around Shadow and turned on the waterworks again.
I was not sure what to do. Then a voice whispered in my ear. “Let her cry it out, Matt. She needs it right now.” Suzy had come up behind me and was watching the whole event.
After about ten minutes, the crying died down. Suzy gently pulled Kathy from Shadow and spoke. “C’mon honey, let’s get you cleaned up and into some clean clothes.” Then she told me, “Matt, why don’t you put some water on and get some hot chocolate for us.”
While warming up the water for the chocolate, I also started frying the bacon and setting up the eggs for breakfast. We had some leftover baked potatoes from last night, so I diced them up for hashbrowns. By the time Suzy and Kathy had finished their morning preparations, all I needed to do was start frying the eggs to order.
Kathy wanted scrambled eggs, which were my specialty. Suzy, knowing my abilities with eggs and with a mean grin, ordered sunny side up. I grinned back, “You got it, honey.” I set up a plate of scrambled eggs for her. As I handed her plate to her, I said, “Sunny side up, just as you asked.” I then set up my plate with some of the best sunny-side-up eggs I had ever made in my life.
I grinned at Suzy and said, “Wanna swap?”
She grinned at me, “You stinker.” and took a big bite of her eggs.
For the rest of the morning, Suzy kept Kathy busy with things that little kids liked. Things like looking for pretty rocks and flowers and skipping stones in the lake. At the same time, I kept my eye out for aircraft of any kind.
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