Hope in darkness

Reunion

Susan whips around to Savanna and spurts out "So how long have you and Sam being together? You guys are not doing anything are you?"

"We just got together last night although we have been friends for years even after Missy ditched us," she says eyeing the red headed girl across the room who quite obviously is not willing to even speak to her.

"Are you staying with him?" Missy asks knowing her history of life and abuse.

"Yes but it is not what you think I sleep on the couch," she says leaving out the part where she fell asleep in his arms because what she does not know will never hurt her.

"Welcome to young women's I am Sister DeVault or you can call me Rae?" a curvy woman in a long floral dress with ambre brown and blond hair says.

"Hi Rae, I am Savanna I am a friend of Sam Harrison and Susan Craft here," she says with a smile.

"Well I know you learned about some of the plan of salvation and this week our lesson is about agency? we are going to dive a little deeper on this topic," Rae says passing out handouts that have different scenerios on them.

"Before each of you partner and discuss your scenario who can tell Savanna what agency is," Rae asks and a girl with black hair and caramel skin who looks about fourteen stands up.

"I will, agency is the ability to freely choose for ourselves what we will do in our life everyday. My name is Claire by the way and you have really pretty eyes," she says with a smirk as she sits down.

"Good now everyone starting with Cami let's go around and say our names for Savanna and is there a nickname you prefer," Rae asks and Savanna sits there a minute and stares at the wall across from her and decides there is.

"Savvy," Savannna says with smirk  grabbing a piece of chalk to spell it out for everyone else to see what it actually looks like.

"I love it and I am Cambriella, or Cambri for short," a twelve year old with dreads says.

"I am Jenny," an oriental girl with crimson lipstick says with a grin.

"I am Larissa," a girl with long blond hair, sharp nails and braces says.

"I am Nicole," a girl with brown hair, blue eyes and tan skin sings for everyone to hear to the tune of Let it Go.

"I am Sister Gordon or Amanda," a woman with curly black hair and pale white skin and cherry lips says and there is one more but she cannot speak. She signs 'my name is Alice.'

  Luckily, Savanna learned sign language from her brother who has a deaf and mute wife.

"Her name is-" Rae begins but Savvy interupts.

"I know what she said," Savvy says with a smirk.

"Cool, well now each of you partner with someone who is not next to you and discuss what you would do in these different scenarios," Rae says and Savvy heads for Nicole who seems like a really nice fifteen year old.

"Wanna be partners?" Savvy asks her.

"Sure. Ok my scenario is you are invited to go watch a movie with a group of friends but your little sister is at home with depression what would you do? I personally would stay home because I have been diagnosed with depression before and it is not fun to go through alone what would you do?" Nicole asks her yearningly.

"I would invite her to come with us to the movie, they say with depression it is best to get people out because staying couped all the time can make it worse," Savanna says.

"I never thought of it like that but my thing is what if she did not want to go or does not like your friends or the movie," Nicole asks.

"Well then of course I would stay home with her it is the right thing to do. My scenario is you  have a choice to go on a mission or go to college after you graduate high school and turn nineteen what do you do?" Savanna says pausing at the word mission.

"Mission, what is that" she asks.

"It is when a young woman or man goes to another state or country to preach what we are learning here going door to door. Men go for two years and women eighteen months," she says with a smirk.

"So those were the men I saw the other day with white shirts?" Savvy asks.

"Yes, I would go for a semster and then go on a mission because my birthday is in june but my older brother got back from his last week and it sounds so exciting seeing people get excited about Christ," she says with a smirk.

"Alright now everyone let's gather back did you notice any patterns?" Rae asks.

"They were all choices that were not wrong choices, but good and better," Savanna states with a smirk.

"Yes because sometimes the choices we make are between two good choices," Rae says with a grin