Chapter 43
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School let out on june 17th, Eve didn't go to build the Ark until june 22nd. She spent the four days in between with Nadia. Nadia was spending her summer doing relief work in another country. Eve would miss her new friend. They had only recently met, but Eve felt she literally owed Nadia her soul. Nadia helped Eve learn the Koran. Eve tried to show Nadia a good time. They went to a Phillies game, payed for it. They didn't sell Halal hot dogs go the girls got Kosher dogs. Kosher and Halal were almost identical. Later the girls went to a movie. The plot involved a woman taking her nine year old daughter in order to protect her from her sexually abusive father. Nadia and Eve were shocked by the ending. When capture became inevitable the woman killed her own child, rather than let her be taken. Movies did seem to be getting darker these days, but then so was the news. One news show did reports of a teenage babysitter running a prostitution ring. College fraternities and sororities fighting deadly duels with pistols and swords. An elementary school teacher and single mother who was moonlighting as a hit woman. And a secret store that sold people, not only weapons to commit murder, but ways to dispose of the bodies. Eve wasn't sure how much was true. This particular "journalist" was looked down on as a tabloid prson even before febuary 4th. But if any of this was remotely true, it was greatly disturbing. Eve understood why the gun control bills were passed, best to keep a populace this angry away from fire-arms. There was little doubt that things were getting darker. Eve was new to this, still had much to learn. She had offerred Nadia a ciggarette, which Nadia declined. Eve realized that she was working on the Ark partly because it meant more chances in the lottery. Nadia was doing charity work purely out of love for Allah. Eve feared this meant that Nadia was a better person than her, even though Nadia never even implied this. Eve feared that she might give into temptation and fall back into bad habits. She would take her Koran, pray every day, and just try to be faithful to Allah.