No posts for the weekend. -I was tied up with other things.

I will probably drop down to posting once a week eventually, but in this case, I was away from my computer and didn't get around to posting.  Today, I will select a different spot from one of the stories and post it here.
I have selected the start of chapter 2 in the first book, Soul Keeper. This section holds the introduction of one of the main characters, Kevin, and his father, Mike. (Mike will play an important part in later stories.)
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Chapter 2 – Friendship Lost

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Safe and strong, our Alma Mater,

Greenbriar ever stand.

Send us now your son or daughter,

to our hidden land.

—First verse of the Greenbriar School Song.

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If you asked any of their neighbors, they would tell you that the Wells family of Toledo, Ohio, were perfectly ordinary people.  Mrs. Wells was a fine homemaker and kept a beautiful garden all summer.  Mr. Wells had a good solid job as a shift foreman at the Toledo Jeep plant.  The men working under him respected Mike Wells, because he was no common management type.  He had worked his way up to foreman after years as a skilled laborer on the assembly line.  He had been a line worker before the new series of automation robots, and had the muscles to prove it.

The other member of the Wells household, Kevin, was a quiet boy who never bothered anyone, although some of the other boys at his school bothered him.  None of them wanted to be his friend, and it is difficult for a boy to have no friends.  Apart from that, Kevin Wells was lucky in one respect.  He did have a friend, –just one, –but even that was hard for a boy his age.

The problem was that his only friend was a girl.

He had not planned it that way, but she was the only one in the neighborhood who was his age and would talk to him.  He told himself it was better than having no friends at all.  However, he had just learned something that could end that friendship forever.

Kevin realized now that there had been clues all along showing his difference from the other boys.  Being the only boy around with two-tone hair might have been a clue.  Most of his hair was medium brown, but there was one patch at the back, nearly the size of his fist, that was very light golden blond, more like gold than any normal shade of blond.

Why hadn't he figured out before that he wasn't like the others?  In many ways, Kevin Wells was like his father.  He didn't join in with a crowd just for the sake of belonging.  He was fussy about his friends.

Since Kevin didn't talk to the other boys, they hadn't learned about his friendship with a girl.  That was better to keep secret.  The other boys would never stop teasing him about it.

When he was around, Patty would set up tea parties with her dolls.  She always wanted to play "house" or "school", and he pretended right along with her.  Sometimes, they pretended so well that it even seemed like her dolls really drank the tea and talked, but he was glad no other boys saw him.  He shuddered to think what they would say.  He could well imagine what names they would call him.

He didn't really like to play girl's games, though.  When he saw her starting to set up teacups and saucers, he suddenly got busy with a video game, but it seldom succeeded.

Sometimes they would play school.  When they did, Patty was always the teacher and he was the student.

She had to be the teacher.

            She owned the green chalkboard.