My Name Is Chloe by Melody Carlson

Author:Melody Carlson [Carlson, Melody]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-56468-9
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group
Published: 2002-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

Ten

Friday, October 25

Try as I might, I can’t seem to patch things up with Allie. And it sure doesn’t help that she’s not talking to me. I asked her if she was coming over today to practice drums, and she just gave me “the look.” The look is when she narrows her eyes and tightens her facial features and basically tries to freeze you up with an icy stare. It’s pretty intense and I wonder if she isn’t chanting some kind of secret witch spell in her head, although she’s told me over and over that her witchcraft isn’t to hurt but to help. Still, I wonder. Not that she scares me, because really she doesn’t. Mostly I feel sorry for her because she seems so lost most of the time. And now I’ve gone and alienated her.

I’m really praying that God will help me break through to her. For some reason it seems like an important friendship. I’m sure music has something to do with it, and she’s really gotten pretty good on the drums. But there’s more too. And it makes me sad to think I could be losing her as a friend. Even Cesar seemed concerned at lunch today.

“What’s the deal with you two?” he asked me after Allie stormed off.

“I said something stupid.”

He leaned forward with interest. “What?”

“Oh, I kinda made fun of her witchcraft thing, and it hurt her feelings.”

He laughed. “Hey, we make fun of you and your Christian thing all the time, and you seem to take it pretty well.”

I smiled. “Yeah, well, maybe that’s because ‘my Christian thing’ has made me a lot happier than the way I used to be.”

“Yeah, I’ve kinda noticed.”

We were the only ones at the table now, and it was almost time to go to class. But for some reason I felt I was supposed to say something. I just wasn’t sure what. So I asked God (silently, of course) to help me. “Yeah, I wasn’t enjoying life too much before.”

“You were a pretty gloomy girl.”

I laughed. “It’s like everything just seemed so hopeless and futile and basically cruddy to me.”

“And now it doesn’t?”

“No. Now it’s like everything’s different. But I realize that I’m the one who’s changed.”

“My mom’s pretty into religion. She goes to Mass all the time and would never dare to miss her precious confession. But I haven’t been inside the doors of the church for years. It really makes her mad.”

“Well, the truth is, I’m not too crazy about the whole religion thing myself.”

He looked puzzled.

“I mean, I’m still not sure what the purpose is for all these church denominations, or why they’re all different and why some don’t get along with others. I think that’s pretty weird, and I’d really like to know what God thinks about the whole thing.”

“I never thought of it like that—like what would God think.”

“I just don’t think it’s what Jesus intended,” I said.

“What do you think He intended?” “I think He’d like for us all to just live like He did.

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