Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Sixteen: Sadness Appearing

One November cold morning, Papa came home from work, (he had a job of selling fruit, I didn’t mention before) and he had a sad look on his face and a worried one too. And when Evelyn saw this expression on his face, she said, “What’s wrong, Papa? And why are you coming home from work so early?”

Papa was just about to cry, but then he answered, “The store I was running, well, it ran out of business.”

“Oh, no! I’m so sorry!” Then Papa quickly went inside to tell Mama.

When she heard what happened, she said with worry, “Oh, dear! This is terrible! What are we going to do?”

“I’m going to have to find another job.” he answered.

“But you know how hard it is to get any job!” cried Mama.

Soon, Rosie came up t her and said, “What’s wrong, Mama?”

And then Mama said almost crying, “Nothing, honey. It’s okay,” and hugged her.

“There’s no choice, I’m going to have to try.” said Papa, looking up at her.

“Alright.” decided Mama, quietly. Then, instead of working on the farm again, Papa just went up to his room to think. Soon, Helen came in and said to Mama, “Is everything going to be alright? If Papa lost his job?” just then tears sprang to her eyes. Then Mama answered while hugging her, “Oh, honey. You don’t have to worry about anything.” Then after comforting her for a little bit, she quickly went upstairs to talk to her husband.

“Tom,” she said, “do you think that maybe….you would be okay without a job for a little while, because don’t we have pretty much all we need?”

“I don’t know.” was his answer. Then Mama looked down at the floor, would this be the most hardest and stress fullest moment of her life? She thought. Papa didn’t want Mama to be that upset because of it and said with a fake smile, “But it just maybe so.” Mama looked up at her husband and let out a big sigh with a dreary smile.

“But you still need to find a new job before we run out of…you know.”

“Yes, I do. But it’s going to be real hard. I don’t know how I’m supposed to do it.”

“We’ll find some way. But let’s just not talk about this with the children.” Then Papa nodded, and the two of them went downstairs.

“Mama, I hungry.” said Joey’s little sweet, baby voice.

“Alright, I will get you lunch.” Mama said.

Sarah still did not know what happened she was outside the whole time. So Evelyn went outside to tell her the big news. When she heard what happened, she looked very sad. “Oh, no!” she cried, “what are we going to do?”

“I don’t know what Papa and Mama are going to do.” answered Evelyn. Then Sarah quickly went inside with Evelyn.

All the rest of that day the whole family (except the people who didn’t understand) was very sad, and Papa was thinking for a long time, already, of what other job he could be hired from.