Page 24 of There I Find Hope

Chapter 10

Noah stood on the ground beside Franklin and stared at the walls of the hotel.

He had been right on when he told Sunday that it would go up fast. It had. In the four weeks since they’d started construction, they had the basement poured, the sides up, and the walls framed out.

He hadn’t answered Sunday’s last letter. She actually asked Business Boy out to eat, when she refused his invitation.

It had struck him as funny but also made him sad. Once she saw Business Boy was him, she wouldn’t be interested anymore.

Of course, it was just as friends, but it didn’t matter. She hadn’t wanted to go out with Noah himself as just a friend, then she asked someone that she didn’t even know.

It bothered him.

“Noah? Did you hear me?” Franklin asked from beside him.

“Sorry. I was thinking.”

“Changing your mind about moving in?” The moving truck was supposed to be unloading their things at their apartments above the old diner as they spoke.

When he went “home” tonight, there should be a bed in his apartment, and his electricity and water should be turned on. There was already a stove and refrigerator provided, and in the landing above the stairs was a washer and dryer which Franklin and he would share.

That was really all he needed.

“No. I’m looking forward to it. I told my realtor to make an offer on the property that I looked at on the other side of the house Griff bought. I haven’t heard back.”

“You’re further ahead than I am. I’m not even scheduled to go look at things until next week.”

“You need to get a better realtor.”

“I like the one I have. She’s cute.”

“It’s more important that she can do her job.” Noah rolled his eyes.

“I know. But I want one I’m not afraid to talk to.”

Franklin had never met anyone he was afraid to talk to. But Noah just shrugged his shoulders and looked away. Franklin was determined to never get married. He decided that he wasn’t the marrying type. Noah wasn’t going to argue with that. Franklin knew himself better than anyone, although he kind of figured that God commanded man to marry. He heard people complaining that the earth was overcrowded, but he figured God knew when the earth was full, and He could do something about it.

Until then, man’s duty was to obey.

Regardless, it was hardly something that he needed to think about now. It wasn’t like he was in any danger of having the woman he wanted want him back.

No. She wanted Business Boy. Someone she’d never even met.

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