Chapter 4I’ve developed a real phobia about telling someone I’ll love them forever. In my case I’m quite sure the fates laugh hysterically whenever I do. They’re cruel beyond imagining, spiteful little harpies who delight in tormenting mortals. Our forever love lasted until the first week of January, by then I’d tossed in my job at the Christian book store and landed a job at Eastland in another book store. I never came out to the church but they knew anyway, because Pastor Smith mentioned my name in church just before Christmas and warned the congregation that because I had fallen into sin, I was no longer welcome at church and not content with that he called my mum and told her.
Mum told him to mind his own business and hung up but it left me with mixed feelings because word passed from
