The Kids Grow Up by Trish Hanan (novel24 .TXT) 📖

about their busy lives. This really sucked. Violet shrugged.
“We should have our own beach party and invite everyone except for Harry and his family,” she snipped. Jake looked at her.
“Not invite my children, you forget those are my children too and I’m not having a party without inviting my children,” he told her firmly. She pouted.
“Well, they didn’t invite you to their party,” she said. He shrugged.
“It’s not their party, its Harry’s party and since it’s his party, he can invite anyone he wants and all of you people have always hated him and always called him names so I don’t know why you’re surprised when he doesn’t invite you to his party or takes you on a tour of his crystal cave. I’m surprised you would think he would,” he said and they all shrugged.
“He always invited us before,” June declared. Jake laughed and got up to leave.
“Maybe he’s had enough of your shit,” he said and left. Max glared at the closing door.
“He’s getting to be a real pain in the ass Violet, it might be time to get rid of him, so what if he has a big dick,” he stated. Violet laughed.
“That’s not what you were saying last week,” she teased and he laughed.
“Fine, but keep him away from our dinners then, let’s just invite him to the parties,” he suggested and they all agreed.
One day Harry was in his office at the main store, the one with the clothes and toys when Danny came in with a couple and a young girl. He looked sheepish when he realized that he had disturbed his dad’s lunch but he marched the alterians in anyway.
“Dad, I want you to meet John, Mary and their daughter Megan, I found them in the doll department looking at Barbie Dolls and I knew you would want to meet Megan so I brought them to meet my father, King Harry,” Danny said cheerfully. Harry took one look at Megan’s scared eyes and blind gaze and moved his lunch to his desk drawers. Her mother saw this and protested.
“Oh, we didn’t mean to interrupt you lunch, King Harry, please forgive us,” she stammered. Harry grinned and held out his hand. He shook both of their hands. The man looked at him and then at Danny and obviously saw they were related.
“You are his father?” he asked suspiciously. Harry smiled and put his arm around Danny’s shoulder.
“Yes, this is my son and I’m his father,” he declared and the parents both nodded.
“Hello, Megan, I’m Harry; how are you today?” Harry asked the little girl who looked about nine who giggled.
“Hi, Harry, you smell nice,” she said. Harry laughed and directed her to his chair; he put her mother in the chair next to her. Her dad stood leaning against the desk and Danny smiled and leaned against the door.
“So you like Barbie Dolls, do you, my daughters loved Barbie when they were little girls,” he told her. She nodded.
“I love Barbie, tomorrow is my birthday and Mom promised me Malibu Barbie,” she informed him. He smiled.
“That sounds lovely, I love Malibu Barbie myself, she’s so tanned and beautiful, so, what happened to your eyes, have you been blind a long time?” he asked gently. Megan shook her head.
“No, only for three years or so, a drunk driver ran a stop sign and crashed into me and I hit the window, the doctors couldn’t save my eyesight, I’m used to it and they’re getting me a dog soon, you have dogs in here, I can hear them,” she said and her parents beamed with pride. Harry laughed.
“Yes, I have Gertie and Bo with me, I take them with me everywhere, you can meet them in a minute, but first I want to try a little experiment,” he said softly. He looked at her parents.
“You may not know it Megan but as well as being Danny’s father, I’m also a healer and I want to put my hands over your eyes and heal them, does that sound okay to you?” he asked her and held her hands. She nodded.
“Sure, Harry, but the doctors said my eyes can’t ever be healed, they did two surgeries and nothing helped,” Megan informed him. Harry shook his head thinking of the unnecessary pain that must have caused her.
“I’m not a doctor, Megan, so I don’t know what they said, I’m a healer and that’s different,” he told her. “Now I want you to hold your mother’s hands now,” he said and placed her hands in her mother’s. He stood behind her and rubbed his hands together.
“Now, Megan, my hands are going to be a little warm and I’m going to place them over your eyes gently now and I want you to tell us everything that you remember that was blue, can you remember the color blue?” he asked her and she smiled.
“Sure, Harry, the sky is blue and the ocean, wow, your hands are warm and they tickle,” she said and laughed. Harry closed his eyes and he searched her eyes and found disconnected nerves and reconnected them and healed her. Megan kept listing all the blue things she could remember. Then Harry took his hands off and her parents gasped because all of the scars were gone. Then Harry sat down and rolled Megan around to face him.
“Okay, Megan, open your eyes and look at me, can you see me?” he asked and she smiled and nodded. Her parents looked shocked and as if they didn’t believe her. He smiled.
“Now what color is the shirt I’m wearing?” Harry asked. She looked down and grinned.
“Blue,” she said and her parents gasped. Then Harry rolled her around.
“Now what color is the blouse your mother is wearing?” he asked and she grinned.
“Yellow, that’s my favorite color,” Megan declared and her mother began to cry. She held out her hands and Megan rushed into her arms. “I can see, Mom, Father Harry healed my eyes,” she told her. Both of her parents hugged and kissed her. They hugged Harry and her mother kissed his cheek. Her father reached for his wallet. Harry waved him away.
“Healing is always free in my store,” he told him. Then he looked at Megan who was beaming. “Now Danny is going to take you back to the dolls and I want you to pick out the Barbie you want and it’s on me because it’s your birthday,” he told her and she hugged him.
“You don’t have to do that,” her mother protested. Harry held up his hands.
“Oh, please let me, I love children, I have seven of my own,” he told them and they looked shocked that a man his age would have seven children. He looked at Megan again and bent down to speak softly.
“Now I want you to pick out five outfits for your Barbie doll and I bet when Danny’s not looking you could probably sneak a sixth outfit in and he won’t even know it,” he whispered loudly and she giggled and nodded. Danny grinned.
“Oh, thank you, Father Harry,” John gushed as they left the room. Mary hugged him.
“I will bake you a chocolate cake, Father Harry,” she promised. Harry smiled and kissed her cheek.
“See you later, Father Harry,” Danny said loudly and they left. Harry grinned and finished his lunch; this had been a great day.
A few weeks later John brought his neighbor Mrs. Erwin to see Father Harry because her knees were bad and she had serve joint pain and couldn’t walk very well. Harry took her in the back office where he and the girls had set up an exam table, some nice chairs and Cassie had hung a pretty picture of a large daisy with the word Nirvana on it and Emma put some plants.
“Now, Mrs. Erwin, I’m just going to put my hands on your knees and they’re going to feel a little warm okay?” he told her. The old woman nodded and then giggled when he put his hands on her knees. John laughed.
“I bet a man hasn’t done that in years huh, Doris?” he teased and she blushed. Harry smiled. Then he took his hands away. He looked at the thick glasses she was wearing.
“Why don’t we have a look at your eyes too, darling?” he asked. She nodded.
“I haven’t been able to read for years, Father Harry, if you could give me back my books, I would be eternally grateful,” she told him. He nodded and walked behind her and removed her glasses. He rubbed his hands together and placed them over her eyes and healed them; then he did her ears too.
“Let’s give your heart a tune-up too since you’re already here,” Harry suggested and she giggled.
“I can see perfectly, you’re a miracle worker,” she gushed and John beamed.
“I told you Father Harry would fix you right up, Doris,” he said proudly. Harry tune-up her heart, lungs, liver and kidneys and she was ready to go. She handed him her walker with a big grin.
“Give this to someone who needs it, Father Harry, I certainly don’t,” Mrs. Erwin said firmly. Harry grinned and hugged her.
“No, you don’t, darling,” he told her and put the walker in the corner. He gave her a coupon for a pair of walking sneakers and John took her down to the shoe department. Harry laughed and walked back to his desk.
Mary, who had come in the week after he healed her daughter with a chocolate cake for Father Harry and brought her neighbor Henry who was having surgery on his heart and who was really having trouble hearing. They wanted him to heal his ears so his son could explain his surgery to him. The son yelled at the old man and looked helplessly at Harry who smiled and took the old man into his office and healed his ears, his heart and his liver which was also going. The son met them afterwards and yelled as usual at his dad.
“How do you feel, Dad?” he yelled and the old man looked surprised and smiled at him.
“There’s no need to yell, Son, I can hear you perfectly,” he told him. The son was amazed. He looked at Harry with wonder and shook his hand.
“Thanks, Father Harry, you’re a miracle working,” he said. Harry grinned.
“I also gave his heart and liver a tune up so he won’t be needing that surgery and I worked on his knee joints too so he can get some exercise and do a little walking,” he informed the son who looked shocked. Henry handed Harry his cane with a big grin.
“Give this to someone who needs it, Son,” he told him and Harry grinned and they hugged.
When the alterian doctors wanted to schedule Henry for his surgery his son informed them that he had taken his dad to a healer and the old man felt terrific. They said that was ridiculous and insisted he bring him in for a scan. They were amazed that his leaky heart valve had repaired itself, the liver damage was fixed, his knees had grown new cartilage and his ears were remarkably healed. They were so excited they called the head of the hospital Dr.