Chapter 42
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Zack seemed okay with Eve becoming a muslim. With 1136 days until impact many were looking for spiritual comfort. ELE still frightened Eve, but she felt more secure now. She decided to do what she could to help people. Although she'd been offered a summer job at the fashion store, it didn't interest her. Eve thought the owner was rude. She could understand why the clerk had stolen from him, even if she couldn't condone it. They were building a shelter in the mountains of Pennsylvania. School ended next friday, june 17th. On june 22nd Eve could catch a bus to there. If she worked on the Ark for two months she could potentially save lives, and earn 8 more lottery chances. Eve asked her father for permission to go. Eve could've bought forged permission slips, others were rumored to do tis at "Armageddon high." But as a muslim Eve wanted to show her father respect. Zack was uncertain. A lot of convicts were there. But maybe this was Eve's best chance to survive. Also, he knew Eve really didn't want to spend the summer around him and Karen, knowing what they had done to Eve' mother. Eve was grateful when Zack signed the permission slip. She considered it both her religious and patriotic duty. The whole world seemed to be coming together. Israel and Pakistan, Bawa and Askari, America and China. Only North Korea adopted a complete isolationist stance and went solo. Ofcourse some thought they would do a good job because their people were used to living on less food and being told what to do at gunpoint. Eve still prayed for ELE to be diverted or destroyed, or for herself to get into the Ark. If not, Allah wouldknow how she helped save lives. For her final week of school Eve attended all classes, read the Koran at lunch, even cleaned up the grafitti she'd put on the wall. Eve didn't prostalatyze, but if people asked she'd tell them that she was indeed a muslim now. She felt that the best thing she could do was just set a good example. Some found Eve unusual for this, particularly the orn-again followers of reverand Walker. Eve didn't mind those who went door to door preaching about Jesus. They figured they were already saved, yet they took time out of their lives to save others. The ones who really annoyed Eve were the ones who used this salvation as an excuse to sin, and looked down on muslims like Eve. She believed those were the ones Allah would judge for blaspheming the prophet Jesus.