Five Stories in One- The five senses - Touch

Five Stories in One

The five senses

Touch
June 04, 2007
5:13 PM

fiction
edward w pritchard


Attorney Kate Johnson grabbed her four year old daughter's arm a little too roughly.

Her daughter looked at her calculatingly, like Abraham Lincoln in a Civil War Picture.

" What are you not telling me young lady"

" I don't think I should tell you Mom, Let's wait for Dad"

" Don't patronize me Missy" talking to her daughter like her Grandmother used to talk to her"

Her daughter backed up a step, and said "OK, I'll tell you Mom, but please sit down"

Kate desperately wanted to know what was going on so she complied.

" Mom, Rex listens to the same song over and over and does the same stretching exercise each time he listens to it. "

Kate looked at her daughter afraid to ask the next question, " How many times"

Jessie looked out the window, then back at Kate, looking like her Father, and then softly said to her Mother,
'" about ten thousand times so far"

Sharply " you don't know ten thousand times pirate, a pet name from when Jessie was one"

"One thousand, three thousand twenty seven, 9 thousand six hundred forty two"

"Why does he do it"

Jessie kindly, "I am not sure Mom"

Kate" worried " Why does he exercise"

" he needs to keep moving and no one gets mad at him if he exercises"

Kate " Jessie, How did you find this out about your older brother"

" He asked to borrow money from me to buy another new CD, its starting to skip"

Kate fell across the bed and closed her eyes.

Jessie turned down the volume on the cable TV show she had been watching, switched to a soft music channel, went into her Father's closet and got his old Indian blanket and draped it across her Mother, and went downstairs to make her Mom something in the kitchen.