The Life and Times Of Ralf Wylde! Chapter 18



Over at Willow Creek things are back to normal. The bout of flu that plagued so many of the peasants has run it's course and all have recovered.



Raulin and Olivia Wylde's daughter has grown up into a toddler. She was out outside playing with her ragdoll when . . .



Ralf came along.



When she saw him, she came running as fast as her little legs would carry her.



He picked her up and threw her in the air. Sarah loved the attention from her grandfather.



"Hello Ralf, glad to see you're out and about", said Caleb.
"Yes, the same to you", said Ralf.





As Ralf was carrying Sarah to her house, he remembered when Caleb was her age. He would have liked to have paid more attention to the boy but being the way things were, it would have caused more suspicions than anything else. "Why did that son have to look so much like me?", he thought to himself.



After he took Sarah to her house, Ralf went to his friend Jasper Ousby's house. He had been friends with Jasper and his wife Sadie since they were all childern.
"Jasper sit down over there with Sadie. I got something important to ask you both", said Ralf.



"You've both known me for quite a while now and I reckon you know all there is to know about me", he said, "What I want to ask you is can I have your permission to marry your daughter?"



"Ralf you're a lot older than Abra. You have a son older than her and besides that, you're a grandfather now", said Sadie.



"Ralf, do you love our little girl?", asked Jasper.



"Yes I do", he said, "And I know I can be a good husband to her."



Jasper whispered something to Sadie while Ralf waited for their decision.



Then Sadie gave a "thumbs up" to Ralf's request.



Jasper gave his old friend a friendly hug.



Ralf sit on the fisherman's stage and worried that Abra might turn him down.
He hadn't felt this way about a woman since his Sarah. He knew he could be a good husband if he was given the chance.



He lay back and watched the clouds. Abra came along and asked to join him.



"What were you thinking about?", she asked.
"You", he said.


She jumped up.
"You were thinking about ME?", she asked.
"Yes, actually I was", he said, "There's something I want to ask you."



"Abra will you marry me?", he asked.
"Oh Ralf I'd like nothing better, but I have to get my parents permission", she said.



"I already asked them", he said.



"Then YES!", she said.



"I love you Ralf", she said.
"I love you, too", he said.



To be continued . . .