Chapter 3: The Strangers

Chapter 3, coming through.  Wishing more followers for me.
*sigh*
You guys are STUBBORN.
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                                                                     CHAPTER 3
    It had been a normal day.  Grace had gotten up, taken a shower, eaten breakfast, and then gone down to work in her workshop.  Bob, the barber, came to have a rouge buzzer fixed. “It keeps on turning on and disturbing Scissors,” he said.  Scissors was his tabby cat.  Grace opened up the buzzer, and inspected it.  Surprisingly, it took her several hours to find and fix the problem.  Just as she was screwing the cover back on, the bell on her door jingled.  She glanced up.  Three strangers were standing in her shop.  A young man, probably in his thirties, was standing at the counter.  The young woman beside him looked to be his wife, and the boy—who was rather cute—might have been thirteen.  The man and boy looked like they had greenish-blond hair.  Grace started.  She looked again.  Their hair was only blond.  She decided it must have been the light.
    “Hi!” said the man. “I’m Robert, and my wife’s name is Rosie.  This is our son, Russell.”  Grace mentally placed all of the first letters of their names together to make RRR.  This family obviously likes alliteration, she thought.  Then the man named Robert began to speak again, breaking her train of thought. “We were traveling through, and we thought we’d stay here.  Is there a hotel here somewhere?” he asked.
    “The nearest one is the Forde Inn.  Right down the street.  Hi.  I’m Grace, by the way.” Grace said.  The boy named Russell snickered.  “What?” she asked.  “Sorry,” Russell said, “but it’s just that now I know three girls named Grace.”  Grace snorted.  She knew Grace was a common name, but it was hers and she liked it.  There was no reason for this boy to point out it was common, but then again, she did ask.

    “Thanks,” the man said.  “You’re welcome,” said Grace.  The family left.  She looked back down at the buzzer, but her mind was elsewhere.  She felt.......drawn to this family, as if something greater than her was working.  She shook her head to clear her thoughts.  Resolving to check the family out later, Grace looked down at the buzzer and continued to screw on the cover.
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~~Zoë Wingfeather

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