Love Knows No Age [Elvis]

Chapter 9 - Sunday Blues

So, if you're an Elvis fan, you know that he was very influenced by religion, especially religious music, and loved learning about various religions throughout his life, so I decide to add a chapter that takes place on Sunday. Just FYI, there will be some religious themes in the chapter, so I'm sorry if anyone takes offense. That's all I'm adding, though, and maybe some beliefs that Elvis probably had.

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Sunlight warmed my eyelids. Apparently, I forget to close the curtains over my windows. My eyes blinked several times as I tried to focus on the time on the clock on my nightstand. 6:55. My alarm would go off in five minutes. It was a bit irritating that my body sometimes woke me up a few minutes before my alarm would go off. This time, actually, it was the sunlight that was to blame.

"Oh man..." I moaned and ran both my hands down my face, hoping to wake up. What day was it? Yesterday was Saturday, so it was Sunday. Maybe the Colonel would let me have a day off for the Lord's Day. It was unlikely. He rarely let me, and he never let me go to church, either, since I would cause a commotion. I missed physically going to church. In the past, I did my best by reading from the Bible and other religious books. I felt like that was okay in the Lord's eyes since I couldn't go to church. Do the best you can in your situation - that was what I was taught.

I sat up and pulled my blankets from off of me. My mind ran through what happened the night before. I returned home and saw Mary and Earnest saying goodnight to each other at the end of their date. What did they even do on their date? Most likely dinner or a movie. My gut pinched in jealousy, but I had to plaster a smile on my face when greeting Earnest. The guy was nice, yet he was, unaware, a part of this little lover's spat between Mary and me. Could it be called that? That was what we were, right? Lovers? Lovers but not technically together, we just had feelings for each other?

My alarm went off, and I silenced it. I glanced down at the books that were on the little shelf at the bottom of my little bedside table, most of them theology books, including the King James Bible. I had the Gideon Bible as well. I pulled up the King James one. I tried to read some verses each day in the army, but sometimes, I was just so tired at the end of the day, I fell asleep the moment my head hit the pillow. I hadn't read since I had gotten back, either, since I had other things on my mind. Currently, it was that kiss I gave Mary after she admitted to going on that date on purpose just to prove something to me—that we weren't going to happen. That kiss was basically a come-back, saying that I wasn't going to back off. Was that right of me to do? It didn't seem like it. Well, what she did didn't seem right, either.

I sure enjoyed kissing her, though. It sent tingles up my legs, feeling those soft lips of hers.

My own lips stretched into a smirk as my dark bangs fell over my forehead. I opened the bible randomly and came to Leviticus chapter 24. My eyes immediately went to versus 19, 20 and 21:

And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;

Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.

And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.

Now that didn't make me feel any better, mainly because I felt sinner's guilt. Sure, I didn't kill anyone, but I basically did what Mary did to me, to get back at her. It didn't matter if I enjoyed it... it should be made right. I had to apologize, something that I never liked doing.

"Okay..." I breathed and shut the book and put it next to my alarm clock. I didn't have time to sit and read for a while. I had to get ready.

I got to it, and a half-an-hour later, I exited my room, wearing black slack, a white suit coat with a deep-purple shirt underneath, and black and white loafers. As soon as I reached the top of the staircase, someone else did as well—Mary. My heart jumped and started speeding away. She held her head up in a dignified manner.