SARA, BOOK 2 by Esther And Jerry Hicks Page A

response to his asking, that I have returned.
    Sara smiled. She felt such joy and such love, and such an excited feeling of eagerness.
    Sara, I’m going to leave it to you to introduce us.
    “But Solomon, what should I say?”
    Use your own judgment. I’m sure you will think of the right thing to say. Tell Seth about me tomorrow, and when the time is right, I’ll join you.
    Have a wonderful evening, sweet Sara. I’ll see you later.
    “Solomon, I am so glad to see you again.”
    Well, Sara, it’s nice to be seen.
    Sara laughed.
    Solomon lifted from the branch, made one very large circle in the sky, and then flew out of Sara’s view.
    “Yippee!” Sara’s voice echoed through the trees. She ran and skipped all the way home.

CHAPTER 20
    No Turning Back
    O h, darn, it’s raining! Sara could hardly believe it. It almost never rained in Sara’s town. During the winter there was lots of snow, and then during
     the spring and summer the snow slowly melted, providing all the water that Sara’s community, and many other communities downstream,
     needed. Rain was rare.
    Of all the days for it to rain. This was the day Sara had planned to tell Seth about Solomon. But we can’t go to the tree house in the rain, Sara silently complained.
    The final bell rang and Sara waited inside the building. She laughed as she looked out into the school yard watching students
     running here and there like chickens with their heads cut off. No one had an umbrella. Some were holding jackets over their
     heads, some tried to shield themselves with books, and all of them looked disoriented and awkward. Good grief, Sara thought, it’s only a little water. It’s not like they’re going to melt or anything.
    “Hey, Sara,” Seth called, as he ran down the steps toward her, “I’m glad you waited. I was afraid you’d go on home on account
     of the rain.”
    “Yeah, bummer. Guess we can’t swing from the tree today.” Sara hadn’t planned on doing much swinging, anyway. What she really
     wanted was to sit and talk with Seth.
    “We probably shouldn’t swing today, but we can go to the tree house anyway. I put a tarp up this morning on my way to school.
     It should be fairly dry under that. Mom says I can hang out an extra half hour. Since it’s wet out I don’t have so much to
     do. Wanna go?”
    “All right!” Sara was grinning from ear to ear. Not only was this unusual rain not a problem—it was turning out to be a help.
    “Hey, what made you think of the tarp? It wasn’t raining this morning.”
    “My mom said it would rain before the day was out. She says she can feel it in her elbow. She never misses. It’s a gift.”
    “You have a very weird mother,” Sara said, laughing.
    “Takes one to know one!” Seth laughed back.
    Sara laughed. Well, he’s about to find out just exactly how weird I am.
    But for some strange reason Sara wasn’t really worried about this. In fact, it seemed to her that a whole series of rather
     odd circumstances had perfectly set the stage for her long-overdue chat with Seth. She could feel that the timing for this
     was just right. The whole thing seemed to have a sense of inevitability about it. It was as if it were all in motion and there
     was no turning back—and no desire to turn back.
    This feeling reminded Sara of sitting on a gunnysack sled at the top of the giant slippery slide on her first visit to the
     amusement park. She remembered how hesitant she had felt, how unready she really was, but then her brother, Jason, shoved
     her from behind, and an instant later she was barreling down the slide. She knew that there was no turning back, and in the
     fun of the ride down the slide, she no longer wanted to.
    All of this felt just like that. And Sara knew that she was about to begin her joyful ride down the slide.

CHAPTER 21
    A Teaching Owl
    S ara and Seth sat high in their tree. “Do you think your parents know about this place?” Sara asked Seth.
    “I’m not sure. But I can’t