The House on the Hill, a Short Love Story ~ continued

"The sitter left me all alone, Mr. Zane. Said she wasn't staying if there wasn't a tv."

"You mean - she just walked out of the house?"

"Uh huh. Right after Aunty Jane left. Took the necklace, too. I'm hungry. Do you have cookies?" Nadine asked, her eyes looking so wide and innocent.

"You bet! And some milk, too."

"Some for me?"

"Absolutely," he assured.

"Oh goody!" Nadine yelled out, wrapping her tiny arms around him and delivering a hug to Zane's neck.

"Let's leave Aunty a note on the front door, okay? Then we'll go have those cookies," he told her.

Nadine nodded and he set her feet to the ground, then held her tiny hand as they walked into the back door to locate some paper and a writing instrument.

After a bit of roaming through the house, Zane stood frozen in time as his eyes dusted over the pristine area which was void of furniture. No fridge in the kitchen, no dining room table, no sofa, no pictures, no beds - just one lumpy looking sleeping bag.

"Nadine, where is all your stuff?" Zane eased out, disturbed by what he was seeing.

"Aunty sold it all. We were going to move to Colorado for her new job. Only we got a call saying that they changed their mind. Wonder why they did that, Mr. Zane?"

"Well, I suppose they must be idiots," he told her, Nadine giggling in the process as he bent down and tweaked her nose. However, he had to admit that he was glad the job had fallen through. To think that he'd come so close to losing her. Losing her? But he'd never even had her, he silently reflected.

Nadine rushed to the side of the sleeping bag and produced a small box, then handed Zane a red crayon and a tiny sheet of paper embossed with a blue dolphin.

"Will this do?"

"Great!" he assured, taking the paper and crayon, then jotting out a short note to Jane: 'Nadine's with me. Zane.'

When Jane materialized, he had just put down Nadine for an afternoon nap.

There was still half a pizza left in the kitchen which he'd prepared for Nadine to enjoy alongside the cookies and milk.

He nodded towards the pizza and eased out to Jane, "Frozen and nothing like something you would create, but it's tasty. Would you like some?"

She nodded after a hesitant pause, her hunger appearing to override the moment.

As they settled in at the oak table in the kitchen, she told him, "Zane, I can't thank you enough for rescuing Nadine. If something would have happened.... I-I don't even want to think about that."

"Well, nothing happened and she's very safe," he reflected, unsure of how to pose his question to Jane, but knowing that he must. He watched her take several bites of the pizza, deciding that she was as hungry as Nadine had been. Then carefully, he probed, "Jane, Nadine tells me that the job in Colorado fell through."

Jane looked a bit startled, then sighed, deciding that it was useless trying to glitter the situation.

At the moment, she just wanted to slip into Zane's warm embrace and be comforted. If not for Nadine, she would have given the handsome Zane a run for his money long ago. There was a definite attraction - had been from the beginning and something bubbled deep inside of her, something much deeper than friendship.

He was a great catch, but she knew that by the time she would be able to pursue something more than friendship with him, he would have already been caught by a beautiful mermaid.

Even so, she couldn't imagine her life without Nadine. Although the job in Colorado had fallen through, in some odd sort of way she had been relieved, leaving Zane a bit painful to think about, much like her thoughts concerning Nadine when the sitter had stranded her.

She told him,  "Yes, that's right, Zane. Unfortunately, I quit my old job and had everything in place for the transfer. Then everything went to hell in a hand basket. When I tried to secure my old job, another chef had been hired. And once word gets around, it's hard securing another position."

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