Emily had kept the knowledge of her Le Bab romance secret for four months. Now as the Christmas break fast approached and the cold weather returned, Emily's mood turned melancholy. How much longer could she continue her veil of secrecy? And it wasn't lost on her that Le Bab spelled backwards was in fact Babel! In Genesis 11, God confused the common language of all the people of the earth, because they had become too clever, built a tower stretching to heaven, and aspired to be as God. So God named the place Babel, for confusion. And now this app essentially reversed that! God would surely send her to Hell for this! She truly was a mess...
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Paulo was not faring much better. He became less interested in art, basketball or his friends. He felt as if his life was a tangle of cords; the more he wriggled to work himself loose, the tighter the knots became. His chest was heavy with anxiety. It had been 3 days since Emily's request for a self-imposed break from Le Bab. It already seemed like an eternity to Paulo. Pedro and Catherine noticed their son's miserable countenance immediately, but he would not talk to them about it. They were in the dark as much as Noel and Angela, two people they had no clue about. Paulo only got defensive if they pushed him too far. They could only worry and wait...
12:30am Asheville, NC USA
12:30pm Manila, PH
"Do you think we will ever get to touch - you know hold hands as we take walks together in the Blue Ridge Mountains, or on a Pacific Island beach? Or tenderly kiss as the sunset fades into the horizon."
"If God wills it, we will."
"How I want my will to be God's will; but I know it doesn't work that way."
"I know what you mean! But surrendering to God means trusting that His plan is far better than ours. And if we are unable to physically meet in this life, we shall surely be together with Christ in Paradise! We must cling to that."
"Am I so bad that I want paradise in this life too, like right now? Forgive me Lord!"
"Of course not! I want that more than anything. But not my will, but Thine be done O God."
"This is killing me! If only you could see my tears, you would know..."
Paulo looked up from his memory, and silently wept himself...
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Half A Day Away
Historia CortaWritten for the #SummerBreeze writing contest hosted by @shadowswithinme A short story about two young people from different parts of the world who fall in love online and struggle to maintain their relationship while keeping it secret from their fa...
