Prompt Word: Fray

Minervie and Chip 13

“What are you doing grandma?” Chip stuck his nose above the edge of the table to try to see better.

“I’m patching this skirt of mine,” Minervie answered, pulling thread through the material.

“Why?” Chip asked.

A slight sigh from Minervie started her saying, “It wore out.” She pulled her work off the table to show him the hole and the patch, “so I’m fixing it.”

“Why?” Chip asked.

A longer sigh, and she looked in his eyes.

Satisfied Chip wasn’t actively trying to be annoying, Minervie continued, “See the hole, the threads they, how you say, frey. The material wore through.”

“No, but…” Chip paused trying to figure out how to be understood.

Minervie having pulled the project back to the table top, continued stitching, “Hmm?”

“When I get a hole in my pants, you always give me a new one,” Chip reasoned.

“Oh, Chip, you are always so close to growing bigger than your pants by the time they get a hole, there’s no point,” Minervie explained.

“But grandma, you are growing all the time too,” Chip said.

Minervie turned her head away as she went red, “Chip go read or something.”

Once again, Chip felt he was in trouble, but he wasn’t sure why.

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