Sabrina was so shaken that she didn't even know what she was saying. "You...Jane...Is that you, Jane?"
Meanwhile, Jane's voice remained calm and gentle as she always had been. "I just want to tell you that it might take me a year or two to pay you back the ten thousand dollars you borrowed me, Sabrina."
Sabrina immediately broke down in tears. "Don't... don't say anymore, Jane.”
She had not shed a single tear back when she was on the run, but she simply couldn't hold it in at that very moment. The hardship of having to watch your own back somewhere foreign with an unborn child, with n o one to depend on, was something only Sabrina understood. Those days had been hell.
"I...I am doing fine," Jane reassured Sabrina.
"Jane...come back. I'll take care of you..."
Jane cut her off and said, "My life has really become peaceful, peaceful and ordinary..."
Jane, who called Sabrina at the time, had truly settled down with a place to stay at the very least. She and Noah were in the spacious field that belonged to Noah.
Ever since Garrett let Jane and Noah go, the two got in a taxi and pushed on. They spent almost three thousand dollars shifting through different vehicles o
n the way and finally arrived at Noah’s home. Noah's house was situated in the depth of the woods. Built with stones, the cabin was built against the mountain. The cabin had already been filled with spider webs by then, but luckily, the old blankets and other necessities were still there.
On the very first day they arrived home, Jane washed and hung all of the blankets herself, while Noah cleaned the cabin. After a whole day of hard work, the place finally looked like somewhere people would stay. That night, Noah went deeper into the mountain while Jane stayed home to keep his mother company. He brought back a roe deer and a few chickens. He left the venison to marinate, went down the mountain to sell the chickens off to farmers and earned over four hundred, which was enough for him to come back again with two big bags of rice, a bag of pasta, a barrel of cooking oil and some vegetables. That day, the three could finally have a steaming hot meal with pickles and the bread that Noah's mother made with vegetable filling. Tears welled up Jane's eyes as she ate.
"Jane, I want to buy a tricycle that farmers usually use with the money you borrowed from your friend," Noah said with an enormous blush on his face. It was embarrassing for him to ask for money from a woman.
"Okay!" Jane agreed immediately and continued before Noah could say anything, "with a tricycle, we will have what it takes to build our lives here. Besides, it's something we can use for farming and fertilizing
work, so we must get it!"
What she wanted to say but didn't do was that she could go into town with him to look for jobs once they had the tricycle. Even a part-time job of washing dishes for restaurants could earn them a steady income of a few hundred dollars each month. They soon got the tricycle which was the one of the middlesized models that was often used for agricultural work, and when Jane took her seat on it, she was at the brink of shedding joyful tears.
"I'll have the empty field behind the mountain cleaned up within these two days and plant some of the crops that are suitable for this season, then I'll go into town t o look for jobs. A lot of construction sites are recruiting workers," Noah said. He was once a factory manager, but coming back to his hometown in such a remote and undeveloped area meant that he could only work as a construction or farm worker. But he would do what he said he would.
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