Valentina's limbs were growing numb, but she kept going over the wet spaces in the dining area of the bakery with the shop vac. Perspiration beaded down the side of her face. Honestly, she felt a little dizzy. Still, her mind kept thinking of what she'd seen last week at Adventureland.
Oddly, Ollie's back was turned so he hadn't noticed Ivy and the guy talking since he was so busy talking to her about the rides, and the places they needed to check out. Valentina shook the thought. She needed to keep going. She knew they needed to open the bakery soon. Suddenly, the shop vac stopped. Just what she needed, to lug all this water out back. She turned to see Ste unplug the vacuum.
"You should go home," He said. She was too tired to sleep.
"I don't want too." There was so much to clean after the place flooded. It wasn't awful, mainly damp. The place needed to air out. Honestly, she'd slept through the storm. She didn't think anything really bad would happen.
First, it was the power. Then seeing so many trees down. Even a house caught on fire from a lightning strike. Now it was the tedious work to get everything up and running.
"Then have this." He had a bottle of water waiting for her at the counter and a sandwich. Ste was already baking.
She yawned but finally took a bite of the turkey sandwich.
"What a terrible way to start the summer." Ste shrugged with a smile. He told her he'd been through some big rains before, back from the place he grew up in England, but nothing quite this drastic. "And I know this nothing compare to what those folks in Florida and the Carolinas are going through.
Valentina nodded. She was thankful the river didn't swallow the main street. After all, the little town had pushed its self back to higher ground over a century ago. Yet new development had come in with soccer and baseball fields hoping to bring in more families to the river. Unfortunately, those places were washed away not so long ago.
She managed to devour the sandwich and a few potato chips. It was time to get back to vacuuming water. She had no time to wonder what Ivy was really up too. She had a good mind to tell Will this, but she'd wait. Maybe it was nothing, anyway.
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