Cassie didn't know how she'd ended up in a church youth group, but she was even more baffled wondering how she ended up with her dad's former parole officer as her youth pastor.

She had nothing to do on Wednesday nights, and having nothing to do was the worst. Some days, all she could do was lay on her bedroom floor, staring at the ceiling and thinking about how much of her world was nothing but dust. She wondered why so many people she had loved and who had loved her were gone while she remained. She wondered if her dad was alone when he died. He was her hero, but he and so many others had somehow not been enough. So yeah, having nothing to do kinda sucked.

"Do you ever just… think too much?" she asked her friend Emma on their way home from school.

"All the time, why do you ask?"

"My mom has some online meeting and Paxton is working, so I'm not exactly looking forward to spending the rest of the day by myself."

"Ah," Emma replied. "I would come and hang out, but I have youth group tonight. Unless you want to go with me…"

"I'll take whatever I can get."

Weird games, pizza, and a little bit of religion couldn't hurt too much. It was just one night, right?

Wrong. So wrong. So so wrong on so many levels.

She walked into the church basement to see a face she hadn't particularly hoped to ever see again.

"Hi, welcome to youth group!" Jimmy Woo shook her hand enthusiastically. Then, his face changed. Brows knit together in thought, mouth agape, Jimmy absentmindedly didn't let go of her hand, the pace of his handshake only slowing. "Have we met before?"

Cassie was taken aback. "Uh…"

"Oh, it's probably just me. Anyway, it's time to get started."

A small cloud of teenagers descended upon an obscene amount of mismatched couches as Woo took the front of the room.

He held up a single playing card. "All right, guys! Let's talk about how Jesus makes your sins…" He waved his hand slightly and fumbled the card, dropping it on the ground. He frantically picked it up and started over. "Makes your sins… disappear!" He succeeded on the second attempt, managing to slip the card into his sleeve. Cassie put her head in her hands and groaned internally.

It was going to be a long night.

Author's note: If Marvel thought I was going to forget this throwaway line from Ant-Man and the Wasp, they were wrong.