Part Three Very Late Sunday Evening
Lila and Reid were in the closet on the third floor. It was really cold tonight and this room was always the warmest. Hannah was at a friend's sleepover. Usually they would check their e-mails but they were tired. The Christmas Program had lasted 3 hours.
It had been about two months since the two had been intimate with each other. Neither one of them were dating others. A CD of Christmas Jazz Music was put on. They fell asleep in each other arms.
The next morning Reid left to go to the airport.
Horror was the reaction when Lila saw the You Tube Video shortly thereafter. Many people at first assumed that Mark and Lila were acting in a home movie, except in this movie everything was real. However the movie narrative had political overtones to it the culture wars being the prominent theme of it. Mark was portrayed as the one who was led astray while Lila was repeatedly referred to as a Jezebel. One time she was called a harlot. Her paternal grandfather was portrayed as one who represented the devil and who was possessed by the devil. The scene of him coming into the church and cursing at the pastor and in the town square cursing was shown several times in the movie. In the 1960's, he'd been arrested for protesting the Vietnam War and cursing in public. Anti-American and left-wing radical was what the video said about Lila's paternal grandfather.
Her other grandparents and parents did not escape criticism. Feminist grandmothers and anti-establishment parents. No one in her family was spared.
Everyone in town had seen the video and had people all over the world. Mark Quinn was also mortified when he saw the video. It didn't make sense since neither he nor Lila was involved in politics.