Faith Wish

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today. It just says sometime soon.”
    â€œMaybe I will go today,” said Anne-Marie. “It might be better to get it out of the way.”
    â€œUp to you.” Brooke shrugged again. “It’s no big deal.”
    â€œMaybe I should just do it now. This is study hall.”
    â€œNot now,” her friend replied quickly.
    â€œWhy not?”
    â€œBecause I’ve got something to tell you. You’ve got to hear this.”
    â€œTell me what?”
    â€œChris Weems asked me out.”
    â€œHe asked you out? But you said he’s gay.”
    â€œHe is gay. But he asked me out anyway. Can you believe it? He tells me he’s gay, then asks me out.”
    â€œShut up.”
    â€œNo, for real. He wants to take me out so he can overcome being gay.”
    â€œBut what does that mean?” Anne-Marie already felt sorry for Chris Weems, despite the fact she didn’t know him very well. It was too fascinating, though; Rosario’s note would have to wait.
    â€œHe said I was beautiful,” Brooke replied.
    â€œWell, you are.”
    â€œAnd the same to you. I only wish I had that bustline of yours. Anyway. He said if he went out with me, he might be like attracted to a girl. Or at least he would have a good chance.”
    Anne-Marie was still confused. “Did he mean you were supposed to do something about it? Did he mean he wanted to make out?”
    â€œMaybe. I didn’t ask. But can you believe it?”
    â€œSo what did you tell him?”
    Before she answered, Brooke took her small mirror from her purse and began to check her makeup. “I told him maybe,” she said.
    â€œMaybe?”
    â€œI told him if he took me to the Billy Joel concert over at Ravinia, I might think about it.”
    â€œBut why? Why would you want to go out with a guy who’s gay?”
    â€œJust for fun, I guess. I mean, in a way it’s kind of a hoot, don’t you think? Besides, I just love Billy Joel.”
    â€œBilly Joel is out of touch,” said Anne-Marie.
    â€œBilly Joel is never out of touch,” Brooke said. “He writes all of his own songs, arranges them, performs them, and always draws huge crowds even with high-priced tickets. People who are great musicians are never out of touch.”
    Anne-Marie didn’t feel like arguing. She didn’t even know what arranging a song would involve. Brooke was a violinist, so she had a much stronger grasp of music.
    What did seem to matter was the integrity of it. “But that would be like just using him,” she said quietly. “Those tickets would be expensive.”
    â€œDon’t worry about it. He changed his mind. He said he couldn’t go to the concert because he had to go to another one of those tabernacle meetings.”
    â€œYou mean with Brother Jackson?”
    â€œIf that’s his name. He’s moving on to some other place, so Chris says he doesn’t want to miss out.”
    Brother Jackson is moving on ? “When is he moving on? Where is he going?”
    Brooke shrugged again before she answered. “How would I know? Wow, that guy really got to you, huh?” She snapped the mirror back inside her purse.
    Anne-Marie felt a sudden nervous stomach at the center of a whirlwind of pressing emotions. If Brother Jackson was leaving, where was he going? When? Was it any of her business? Chris Weems was gay. That was a sin, pure and simple. Still, you were supposed to love the sinner at the same time you hated the sin.
    â€œI think he’s real spiritual,” she finally said to Brooke.
    â€œWhatever.”
    Agitation plagued Anne-Marie all the way to the counseling center. She was supposed to be headed to biology, but a sudden burst of guilt and apprehension about her term paper stopped her.
    The counseling center had a large waiting room outside the actual offices. Anne-Marie took a seat at one of the round tables. At the next table a couple of boys wearing
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