One Small Wish: Day 15

Word Total: 90,001

Year to Date: 90,001

Summary of Events:

Fancy arrived home from work and had an argumentative discussion with Grandma over the value of news as presented in newspapers. Vaughan arrived at the Maple home and told Eirenna who he really was before getting confronted by Fancy and then giving a lengthy explanation of why he'd granted Eirenna's wish; Fancy then barraged him with questions . . .

Excerpt of the Day:

""So then are people who aren't Christians, but do nice things, actually unknown Christians?" Miss Maple asked.

"No," Vaughan replied. "And, oftentimes, people who aren't Christians will do nice things to try and get something back. Real Christians are the only people who have the ability to give without expecting anything in return because God gives them the ability to, as no one has that on their own."

Miss Maple looked sceptical.

"I gave you what I did out of my own pocket, with no expectation or desire to be reimbursed, because God has given me so much more, and it pleases Him to see me give similarly," Vaughan said. "I did not do it to in any way upset you, or to show you up, I did it to help, somewhat, but more so even to show you that someone cares."

"If you care then why are you associated with those people?" Miss Maple challenged.

"Because God only recently showed me they were wrong through the persistent witness of my Grandpa," Vaughan replied.

Everyone startled at the sudden sound of music. Vaughan pulled his phone out of his pocket. In slim, white capitals it announced to him that it was time for him to get going to Chelsea's, as she'd invited him over for dinner.

"Yes, yes, yes, shush," Vaughan said to his phone, swiping the screen to silence the alarm. "Unfortunately I have an appointment to keep, but I'm pretty sure you're not done asking questions, and I'm more than willing to come by and talk more with you."

"Your appointment's that important?" Miss Maple asked.

"It's a good thing to be a person of your word," Vaughan replied.

"Then go," Miss Maple said, waving dismissively before stalking off toward the house. . . .

. . . Shifting his jaw, Vaughan contemplated another thought: if it weren't for Eirenna, none of this would have happened.

She'd had the courage — much less the ingenuity and perseverance — to travel ten miles all to make one small wish, and that one small wish had changed a lot of things, and that was thinking only in terms of his own life.

He'd sunk well over a hundred dollars into a family he didn't really know just because he had the money to do it. As much as he hated to admit it, he never would have done that a month ago.

In addition, he'd listened to Grandpa's correction, and not tried to distract himself from it to avoid the bad feelings Grandpa's correction always gave him.

To top it all off, he'd actually said something. He'd stood up, spoken out against the wrongs that he'd seen before him, and he'd forsaken those who practised them. Unless he was in physical pain he didn't typically speak out against anything.

Vaughan could hardly believe it now that he thought about it. He'd undergone an incredible change in just a month, all because of a little girl who'd decided that a voluntold actor at a church ten miles away was her best chance at getting the Christmas she'd never had."

Next post will be January 31.