Mary’s Son

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Author: Darryl Nyznyk
gray dreariness was finally giving way tobright greens and soft blues as streaks of sunlight began to push their way through the clouds. Wet pavement and leaves bearing drops of rain sparkled in the sun’s expanding rays. Stevens opened the back door of a large white Mercedes. Sarah was dressed in a long brown coat with fox fur cuffs and collar. She marched smartly down the front steps and into the car’s backseat.
    Nicholas came after Sarah. He walked nonchalantly with his hands clasped loosely behind his back and his eyes scanning the beauty of the rain-washed world around him. When he reached the car’s back door, held open for him by Stevens, he turned his smile toward the man.
    “Beautiful day, isn’t it, Jonathan? Much like home for you,” he said.
    Stevens held his head high, trying to ignore the comment but found himself wanting to answer the unusual little man. He couldn’t help thinking that Nicholas seemed to be such a happy, harmless fellow. Yet, in this day, those types could prove to be the worst of all. “You could never know for sure,” he said to himself as he shut the door and moved around to assume his position behind the wheel.
    After Sarah fastened her seatbelt, she watched with some curiosity as Nicholas fumbled with his; but after several seconds, the curiosity was gone. She became exasperated and reached over to fasten his belt.
    “Thank you, Sarah. You know, I never have learned to operate one of these automobiles. Or for that matter any of the belts and things inside.” Nicholas turned forward as the car began moving. “Wonderful invention—much nicer than they used to be.”
    Nicholas nodded once at Sarah and then turned contentedly to his window to watch the world zip past him. Soon, however, he felt Sarah’s gaze boring into him, and he turned to her with his ever-present smile.
    “Where were you hiding it?” she asked.
    “What’s that, my dear?”
    “The umbrella, of course. And how did you change the shoes?”
    “Oh, you saw that, did you?” Sarah nodded slowly and stared intently at the man, hoping to discern the magician’s lie she was expecting. “Well, Sarah,” he continued, “I really didn’t do any of that…Peter did.”
    The girl sat back with a quizzical look. That was an answer she hadn’t expected. Normally magicians conjured stories to embellish their tricks, but this man was taking a different approach. It was an imaginary friend named Peter who had helped him. This could be interesting, Sarah thought.
    “Who’s Peter?” she asked.
    Stevens pressed back into his seat to hear the response.
    Nicholas hesitated and thought carefully before he answered the girl.
    “Well, it wasn’t actually Peter who did it…you see, I told Peter we’d forgotten something…and suddenly…the umbrella was there in front of me and I…had new shoes.”
    Stevens smiled broadly at that comment. In his rearview mirror he saw Sarah’s eyes narrow. He knew the girl wouldn’t believe something so outlandish.
    The girl eyed Nicholas in silence, trying to make sense of what she had just heard. She had long ago given up all her imaginary friends. Yet, sitting next to her was this unusual man who spoke of an imaginary friend as if he was real. This was an area of adult behavior Sarah had never seen except in movies involving crazy people. But this was real. Nicholas was actually sitting next to her, and she didn’t know how to react. Instead, she decided to change her tack.
    “Who are you, Nicholas?” she asked.
    “You’ve said it, my dear. I’m Nicholas. Unfortunately, though, I can’t remember my last name. It’s been so long since I’ve used it.… You and most children would know me as Santa Claus.”
    This time Stevens’ eyes grew wide, and he swerved the car with a quick pull of the wheel. Despite Nicholas’s written claim in the application and his seeming knowledge of things about Stevens’ youth only a “Santa Claus” would know, ithadn’t really struck
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