(1) The Days Of Tommy

by Dequincyx

9-year old Tommy Turbo starts having visions of himself and millions of people getting beamed off the face of the Earth-believing it to be a sign of Jesus' soon return-so he commits his life to God and tries to be a great Christian. Meanwhile, others are trying to minister to Clare Dunning, a CPS worker who's caught up in living for the present with little concern for the future.

3. (3)-Advice From Billings

(3)-Advice From Billings.

Two days later, at Clare's house, the 35-year old CPS worker used an old folded up newspaper to kill a bug on her window in her kitchen by the sink. She then dropped the newspaper in the trashcan.

Tommy rode through the suberban neighborhood of Mount Prospect Heights, Illinois on his bike-which had a basket in front-and rode up to Clare's house. He got off his bike, put the kick-stand down, and ran up to the front door of Clare's house. He knocked on the door and Clare answered it.

"Hey, Tommy." Said Clare.

"Hi, Miss Clare. May i come in?" Said Tommy.

"Yes, of course." Said Clare before standing aside, allowing Tommy to enter inside the house, and then she closed the door.

"Do you have some extra soda for my Dad?" Tommy asked as he and Clare walked into the kitchen.

"No, i gave the last of mine to Miss Irene." Said Clare.

"Well, that's that, i guess." Said Tommy.

"What do you mean?" Clare asked.

"Have you seen the new life-gaurd at the pool?" Tommy asked.

"No." Said Clare.

"Well, Chloe has." Said Tommy.

"Oh. You know, that really suprises me. I thought that guy she met at the Carnival really got to her. You know, David?" Said Clare.

"Oh, i didn't meet him." Said Tommy.

"Oh, that's right. You went back to the youth center to hear more of what that preacher had to say. Aw, that's too bad. We met a couple of really nice guys." Said Clare.

"No. That's not too bad, i met Christ." Said Tommy.

"What?" Clare asked.

"I met Jesus Christ. I know what that guy was talkin' about. I'm a christian now." Said Tommy.

"Well, that's great, Tommy. I hope it works out well for you." Said Clare.
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That same day, Tommy had met up with Raymie, who was in the park, sitting under a tree on a blanket with a group of other kids that were ages 10, 11 and 12. Sitting in front of the kids was none other than pastor Billings himself.

Irene had stayed in her car and was on her cellphone, trying to get ahold of her pilot husband Rayford Steele, to no avail.

"Has anybody said anything to you about becoming a christian, Tommy? Maybe giving you a bad time about it or something?" Billings asked

"No. Not really. Of course i've only been a christian for just a couple of days." Said Tommy.

"Let me tell you something. Pretty soon you're gonna run into difficulty. I don't mean just people either. You see, the Devil isn't very happy about you deciding to give your life to Christ. He's just gonna do anything he can to try to get you discouraged and get you depressed. He'll tell you you're not really a christian or tell you you can't live a christian life. Just anything he can to try to get you down. Christ will give you the strength and the encouragement you need to overcome all your difficulties...if you'll let him. Talk to him often, Tommy about everything. Through Christ, you have availible to you all the power of Heaven...to overcome Satan. Isn't that neat?" Said Billings.

"Oh, i'm glad i caught you all together." Said Clare as she walked up to the kids.

"What's up?" Tommy asked.

"Well, Andrew and i-you know, the guy i met at the Carnival?-we wanna go water-skying Saterday at the dam. We want everybody to go." Said Clare.

"Sounds good, yeah." Said Tommy.

"Sounds great, i'd like to go." Raymie added.
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