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I made a left at the front of the church and stepped through a little arched doorway which led to a small nook. It contained shelves lined with copies of His Word for church services, and a small chalkboard.

On the chalkboard was a schedule for this week’s Faith Formation evening.

The event was held every two weeks, and from what I’d been told, it was essentially a group of plays put on for the children and toddlers of New Eden to teach them important lessons from His Word. Apparently it was more ‘fun’ and interactive than making them sit through long, dragging scripture lessons every single day, though if I had to guess, I’d say it wasn’t actually any normal human being’s idea of fun.

As a relatively young and unmarried man, I’d been asked to participate in the plays. My name was down on the chalkboard next to a girl named Martha Chase. She must be Elder Chase’s daughter.

Frowning, I moved my index finger down the board until I spotted Jolie’s name. She’d been assigned to a short performance with some guy named Danny Miller.

“Sorry, Danny, whoever you are,” I said with a thin smile, rubbing out Jolie’s name. I replaced it with ‘Martha Chase’. Then I rubbed out Martha’s name next to mine and wrote Jolie’s name in the empty spot.

That would get us some time together without making anyone too suspicious. After all, we needed to rehearse our play, right?

My grin grew wider as I saw the theme next to my name; the deadly sin our play had to be based on. Lust.

Well, well… this actually might be kinda fun.

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