After awhile sitting on the floor just was not very comfortable and it was kinda hot, plus her soda was all gone. Violet decided to lay down across the back seat, with her pillow and to just read instead. At some point she fell asleep, because she woke up to a man knocking on the window “Hey little girl are you ok? Little girl wake up!”
Violet woke up and was a little afraid because she did not know who the man was and she was not supposed to talk to strangers. “I am fine, go away.”
The man smiled at her “ok glad you are fine, and I do not want to scare you, I was just worried is all… a little kid all alone at a truck stop.”
“Oh I am not alone I am with my mom, but she is in a truck right now.”
“She is in a truck?”
“Yes that one over there.” Violet turned and pointed to the big truck she had watched her mother get into.
“Ok well as long as you are ok, maybe you should roll the windows down a little more let some more air flow through there.”
“Get away from my car! Who do you think you are!? Get away from my car!” Violet jumped as she heard her mother yelling but the man did not, instead he winked at Violet, stood up and said “Lady just wanted to make sure the girl was ok, little one doesn’t need to be alone while her mother is playing truck stop princess.” And then he turned and walked away.
Her mother unlocked the car, and crawled in the front seat and was clearly upset. “Honey are you ok?”
“Yes mom, I am fine.”
As she turned the mirror towards herself and started to fix her hair she was talking but more to the mirror then to Violet. “Some people just can not mind their own business, I am a perfectly good mother, and we are having a special trip and some fun, nothing wrong with that!”
Violet was not sure why her mother was so angry, but she knew this was not the time to ask. As they left the truck stop and headed back to the freeway they never discussed any of it, just pretended like it had not happened and got back on their way. ©
