Up in Heaven, Collin was eating and chatting with his new friends in a beautiful little café decorated tastefully in black and white like a chic tea house.
"I'm so glad Jesus fired Dearie," said Anna, sipping on her bubble tea.
"Me too," Collin said, putting down his coffee. "When it came to the rules, she was very unfair."
"I'm glad you stopped hanging out with our identical twins, too," said Eustace, after swallowing a bite of his sandwich. "They were so nasty to you."
"Yeah, I was so slow to catch on to that," Collin lamented. "I can't believe it. God even made the message on the poster in the office tell me I should leave them. The poster's message usually changed daily, but it stayed the same message for a long time. God Himself was telling me to find better, real friends, and I just didn't catch on."
"Well, now you're in better company," Anna said comfortingly. "And you're doing something even more remarkable!"
"Yeah, I wasn't very gracious to Moxxie when we first met," Collin said regretfully.
"He wasn't gracious to you either," Eustace reminded him.
"I know, but we were all told that imps repenting was possible," Collin reminded him. "I guess I was so used to seeing them as my enemies that I forgot that they were misled and that their ancestors made that choice for them. I hope he accepts my apology I added in a book."
"I am sure he will, Collin," Anna reassured. "God is changing Moxxie's heart even now. He sees you as a friend, and he'll only keep growing. We just need to be there for him."
"I doubt he'll completely reform!" The irritating voice of Cleetus snarled.
Eustace looked over to see his twin brother and his girlfriend Anna's twin sister sitting at the next table.
"Cleetus, what are you doing here?" Eustace asked annoyedly. "Are you stalking us again?"
"No, I'm not!" Cleetus cried defensively. "I can be at a café too you know!"
"Is that why you're sitting next to us when there are open tables in this café?" Anna retorted.
Both of Collin's old coworkers looked at each other.
"Well, you two are both wrong about Moxxie!" Collin cried. "He sprouted his wings, and he has healed someone today. He's on his way to becoming a cherub, so whether you two like it or not, Moxxie's joining us!"
Keenie scoffed in disbelief and said, "After everything he did to us, you're going to stand on his side?!"
"Yes," Collin asserted. "God forgives and so do I!"
"You'd do well to remember that, Keenie," Anna fired back.
Keenie harumphed and turned away with her nose up in the air.
"Why do you have to be such a snob?" Anna asked with a scoff.
"Because we are better than them!" Keenie asserted. "You should at least act like you know that. I mean look at how you're dressed."
Eustace and Anna looked at each other in their goth-styled clothes and both said, "So?!"
"First of all, we've been over this," Eustace said with an eyeroll. "How we dress has nothing says nothing about kind of people we are on the inside."
"Second, maybe we didn't rebel, but God welcomes back all repentant rebels and that includes Moxxie whether you like it or not!" Anna retorted.
"Why can't you even try to see the good in him?!" cried Collin.
"No way!" shouted Cleetus. "He and his other abominable friends almost got us kicked out of heaven forever, Collin! Do you know what would have happened if we got kicked out of heaven forever?!"
"We're supposed to forgive and love our neighbor," Collin protested.
"Yeah, not imps!" Cleetus fired back.
"If we betrayed our Father, we could have been imps ourselves," Anna pointed out.
"But we didn't," argued Keenie. "That makes us better!"
"No, we're not," opposed Collin.
"Yes, we are!" returned Cleetus. "I don't even know why God lets them come back!"
"Well, he does and there's nothing you can do about it!" cried back Collin. "You shouldn't be so cruel to them!"
"And you shouldn't be so kind," Keenie fired back.
"And you should be more kind," sneered Collin.
The manager finally yelled from across the counter, "Guys, your group needs to tone it down or I will be asking you to leave."
"I apologize, sir," Anna said, getting up from the table. "Collin, Eustace, let's leave. We musn't disturb the other customers."
"You two are just mad that I have new friends who actually care about me now," said Collin. "You need to cut it out."
"Oh, you give yourself way too much credit, Collin," Keenie said cruelly.
"And that's why I dropped you two out of my life," Collin said confidently. "I have no room for your toxicity."
"Well, mark my words, Collin!" vowed Keenie. "We will get revenge on that little imp. He will never be one of us!"
"I beg to differ," Anna interjected. "Now, if you'll excuse us, twin sister, we will enjoy our lunch elsewhere."
"Yeah! Leave us alone, you bullies!" Collin yelled back a final time before the trio departed the café.
Meanwhile, Keenie and Cleetus stayed behind and began forming plans of their own.