The Hidden Message
Jonathan pulled his jacket tighter around him as he braced himself against the strong winter wind. His mind was racing as he tried to think of a solution. It seemed like it had happened so fast. One day he had been employed part time at the gas station and attending classes at the local community college. The next he found himself the sole guardian of his younger brother Simon when their mother had died suddenly of an aneurysm while mopping the floor at the grocery store she had worked.