Soul Ties

Chapter 16 [ A Risk Worth Taking ]

Isaiah 1:18

"Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

Ziana Carter
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Word Count: 1900

"And then on the way out of the beast grill his uncle gave me this." I slid the business card with his details and information on it.

Elijah picked it up, reading it with a look of disgust on his face because he flung it back on the table. Scoffing and shaking his head.

"Ridiculous. An arranged marriage? with a complete stranger? This is just madness, this is the last thing that you need to have to deal with. Especially with you about to burst. No." He said plainly before sitting back down beside me on the stool at his kitchen table.

Elijah is rarely ever mad and it takes a lot to get under his skin but right now its more than obvious to see how infuriated he is..

"So what did you tell them?" He asks, but my eyes are glued down to the business card, thinking hard about how much i could do and achieve with the money that they were offering. I know its not all about money in this world but it would really help a lot.

"Zee-"

"Huh?" I say while snapping my head up to him, my fingers playing with the card in front of me.

"What did you reply to them?" He asked while turning to me, hoping that I would tell him exactly what he wanted to hear,

"I didn't say anything Elijah, other than telling them to leave me alone. But I didn't tell them yes or no." I say, he releases a breath of relief before dropping his head down.

I kept silent, thinking about all of the possibilities if things went the way neither of us planned for it to. What if this was planned by God? after all people in the old testament who would get married were strangers too...

"There's a problem, i know because to find you quiet is almost as rare as seeing a dodo bird." He says jokingly trying to lift the mood but all i can do is continue to bite my lip..

"What they said hurt your feelings right?" I shook my head before i looked back at him and finally replied..

"Its not that elijah.. its just-" I took a deep breath before i continued, not even able to comprehend what im about to say.

"Would it be so bad?" His whole face practically dropped onto the table,

"Marrying a complete stranger because you need the money?! Yes! Yes it would be! I mean are you forgetting the fact your a Christian?" His tone was blunt and he was probably right but that's only because he isn't thinking about it from my perspective,

Elijah's life has a lot less issues than mine so of course its easy for him just to think that and pass judgment on me, his mother isn't the one that's in the hospital sick and practically on her death bed. He doesn't understand how desperate i am right now.

"Judge me all you want but all of the other things we have done aren't working! I've been applying to every job that i qualify for and no one has even so much as acknowledged my application, That go fund me page has been up for weeks now and I've raised a total of $47.90 cents and as grateful as i am that just isn't enough, we aren't talking about just my rent anymore, my mothers life is on the line for goodness sake!" I take some slow breaths to calm myself down when i realise my once calm tone has turned to shouting.