Tell A Friend...
Mercy *thinks* her prayers for Cindy are answered, and Jequon has a good reason to despise air travel.
[[Chapter 8]]
[[Mercy]] slid from underneath the comforter and got up to close the window. She was cold. The alarm clock read a-quarter-past-two in the morning. She'd only been asleep an hour, and fitfully at that. She watched for a moment as fog crept into the bay and began to veil dock lights shining along the edges of Point Loma. Then she closed the curtains and crawled back into bed, feeling a little anxious, pretending not to know why.
The party had been mostly a success. The kids played along with her admittedly lame attempts at entertainment. Bobbing for apples and pin-the-tale-on-the-donkey held little appeal for teens growing up in the information age, she knew. But sensing her recent fatigue, they stuck with the planned activities long enough to make her feel good about letting them watch horror flicks on the donated big-screen. They even restrained their hormones sufficiently to allow her some reading time while she chaperoned them through a movie marathon of The Exorcist series. Best of all, Cindy text-messaged her just about the time [[Mercy]] had started to wonder why she hadn't made an appearance: He asked me to dinner. Happy?
it read.
[[Golden Boy]] on the basketball court. Good news, but not good enough to trump what Cindy had said earlier regarding [[Henry]] [[Whitmore]]: We're a lot more serious than you realize...
Meaning what exactly? To [[Mercy]], it sounded ominous. No longer the separation of ‘[[Henry]] feels this,' or, ‘[[Henry]] thinks that,' in her words. Instead, the more united ‘we.' Sleep was going to come slowly, if at all.
So she [[pray]]ed. She didn't [[pray]] for herself (which always felt a little arrogant). She [[pray]]ed for Cindy.
You can find the rest of this episode, including e-book formats and a streaming audio version, here: Continued at: Episode 009
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