“Come in…” she spoke loud enough for the person to hear and the door opened with Mrs Botha poking in her head with a smile on her face

“Are you done dear? Dinner is almost served”

“Almost done. Just arranging some clothes” she replied, turning her attention to the person at the door

“Alright then, just come out to the sitting room when you’re ready” she said, pulling out from the room, closing the door behind her, the smile never leaving her face for a minute

“Okay” Sarah said more to herself than the woman with a smile on her face too. Her stay was going better than she thought; no harsh or mean attitudes so far. That was a good sign. She picked up the last piece of cloth, folded it and placed it in the bag. She zipped up the bag and returned it back to the side of the wardrobe next to the others. She returned to the bed to straighten it when something under the pillow caught her eye. The reached under the pillow and pulled it out. It was exactly like Debra’s bible except this was made of cream leather. How many bibles did Debra have? Did she like the bible so much that she had to get it in two different colors? She opened to the first page and was not surprised when she saw ‘THE HOLY BIBLE’ written just like it was in the first bible but instead of ‘The English Standard Version’ written, ‘New International Version’ was written instead. Debra must have enjoyed reading both versions, she thought to herself and flipped to the next page and was surprised when she glanced through the Ownership form page. Instead of Debra’s name, she saw, scrawled in the same handwriting ‘Sarah T. Johnson’. She looked at the next column where the name of the person giving it as a gift was required and on it was written; ‘Debra A. Botha’. In the column of date; ‘march 25th 2014… your birthday’ She quickly skimmed through the other columns till her eyes rested on the column for favorite passage and this was where there was a change of handwriting she concluded was hers




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