Unable to stand being in his dorm room for one moment longer, I had left as soon as I could see through my tears and pain. I had considered going back to my own dorm room, but there was no way that I could have let Kasey see the black eye that I knew was forming. She would have hunted David down and tried to kill him. Although her rage probably would have made up for it, she is smaller than I am, and I hadn't wanted to find out what he would have done to her had she tried to hurt him. So I had left campus instead. I had gone on foot, not knowing where I was going, just that I needed to move.
I had ended up in a cathedral of all places. The building had been huge, empty, and eerily quiet. I had slid into the back pew, as silent as my surroundings.
During the times that I had gone to church before my father left my mother and I – after his departure, I had refused to attend – church had seemed like a happy place. At that moment though, alone in the cathedral, the silence had just seemed dark and oppressive. So I had broken that silence, letting the sound of my soft sobbing echo around me.
The tears had only made my eye hurt worse, but I had continued crying for awhile until I once again felt like I had no more tears left in me. And that's when I had noticed the tract. It had been forgotten by someone and left in the pew near where I had been seated, a simple, unassuming little piece of green paper folded in thirds and bearing the declaration "Jesus Loves Even Me (and YOU!)" But in the half an hour that had followed, that tract had been the tool that God had used to change my life irrevocably and give me "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding."
And against all odds, I had left that cathedral with my mind made up, a smile on my lips, and an absolutely unforgettable peace in my heart.
Finally, the drabble-sized chapter that I've been promising you! And that ray of sunshine, too! Please tell me what you think and stay tuned for the next chapter! Thanks!:)