Nina glanced at her
watch through the waterfall of her tears.
It was nine-thirty at last. She
laughed, rolling her eyes.
A paper towel commercial
faded away into the opening theme of Facing
the Unknown. Nina scrubbed at her
tear ducts with the back of one hand and squeezed the armrest of her couch with
the other. The pain in her chest
subsided along with the song.
The opening scene left Nina
racked with laughter. She laid her head
against the couch cushion during the following commercial, remembering how she
had been racked with weeping minutes before.
“Stupid boy,” she muttered.
The next scene unfolded
like a love note. Nina sat herself up
straight and stared at the screen. Her
pulse quickened along with the main guy as he poured out his feelings to the
main girl. The girl in the show froze
and drifted away, off to some other wing of the high school she attended. Nina parroted her motion, starting toward the
fridge to find a heap of comfort food.
Then she saw it, just
before the cut to commercial. A little
gold cross set against the main guy’s chest, dangling from a hidden chain. “How did I never notice that before?” she
asked herself aloud.
She plucked a
dust-coated Bible from the drawer of her side-table and peered at the
words. When Facing the Unknown returned, she focused on the cross
necklace. It was beautiful. She hung on the main guy’s every word and
realized that spoke not only like a sweet teen boy, but also like a genuine,
admirable young man with morals.
Nina turned back to her
Bible, flipping to the book of 2 Samuel.
“Samuel,” she whispered. “He’s a
Christian. And I think he said he liked Facing the Unknown yesterday.”
She folded her hands,
closed her eyes, and prayed a simple prayer, thanking God for her favorite show
and this sudden change of heart. All the
pain from her evening of crying was gone, replaced with mirth. How?
Why? “Maybe I should talk to
Samuel about it. I bet he’d make a much
better boyfriend than Todd,” she said to herself.
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