Healing Thoughts
Copyright© 2007 by Nyramilac
Chapter 3
Work passed uneventfully. My job was not very taxing even if I was a bookkeeper for a stationery store. Maureen, my boss, hated it when I said stationery, because she claimed to make custom textiles for special occasions. She made paper. Paper is stationery. Somehow she always sighed when I gave her that logic. Still the day passed quietly with just some simple accounts payables needing attention.
Since the scene on the train in the morning, I had avoided thinking about my knitting. Telling myself it was all just muscle memory at work. My hands could knit an afghan in my sleep probably. How I completed such a large one in half an hour was pushed firmly aside until I got home.
Stirring a pot of sautéed onions, bell peppers, and garlic together I wondered what else to add. Rather than bother with browning ground beef I opened a can of kidney beans I had bought for chili months ago. Some rice and water soon followed and dinner was simmering under a lid quite nicely.
When John came home he found me peddling the stationary bike in the basement in shorts and a tee shirt of his. I was fretting about the weird things that kept happening when he walked in looking slightly freaked out himself.
"Karen, something strange is going on here."
Nodding my head I looked at him, and almost fell off the bike. His beautiful silvered temples were gone. Shiny and healthy blondish brown hair was in its place, blending into the rest of his hair so well it looked completely natural. It took a moment for my pedaling to slow down as I sat there blinking at his younger looking profile.
"You are right John, something strange is happening but I don't know what, or why!"
We sat down together on the weight bench and looked nervously around, as if we could find something else to talk about and avoid this situation. Still it was not just going away like I tried to believe it would. Sighing I started at the beginning.
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