Passion Rising by JA Huss & Johnathan McClain

Author:JA Huss & Johnathan McClain [Huss, JA & McClain, Johnathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Science Future Press
Published: 2018-05-07T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen - Maddie

December 30th

One Day Until New Year’s Eve

“OK, great, thank you very much,” I say before hanging up the phone.

I was just talking with the Afghan Foreign Ministry and am a little surprised to discover that getting visas for me and Tyler basically just requires filling out an application. I thought for sure that Tyler would have to pull some strings with someone at, like, The State Department or something, but apparently not. In fact, they actually seemed more shocked that I was so eager to come for a visit.

Two months ago, I was working in a strip club, dreaming about how to get my real estate drone business off the ground and today I’m working on getting travel visas for me and Tyler Morgan to go to Afghanistan and build schools for girls.

This year is not ending up at all the way I would have imagined.

I’m finding myself thinking about my life more than I ever have. More accurately, thinking about my future. Which is new for me because I don’t feel like I really believed before that I had much of a future, so I never spent much time considering it. It was always just about putting one foot in front of the other. And now, I’m making plans to, like, try and help change the world. Wow.

I remember once there was a big Powerball. Like huge. Seven hundred million dollars or some ridiculous number like that. And you can’t buy a Powerball ticket in Nevada, we don’t actually have lotteries here because… well, who knows why. So people get in the car, drive to California, and buy tickets. Then if they win, they have to pick their money up across state lines. It’s dumb, but whatever.

So I was in the grocery store while all this Powerball mania was going on and the woman in front of me must’ve known the checker because they gabbed for a good seven minutes about what they were gonna do with their money if they won.

Buy big houses, fancy cars, go to Europe, put all their kids through college. Shit like that. And I remember thinking, “I honestly have no clue what I would do with money like that if I won.”

And now I have won, and this is what I’m doing.

I’m tempted to feel proud, but then I remember that this is how Scotty lived his whole life. In service to something greater than himself. And he never once asked for a pat on the back. He just did what he thought was right. And while I’ll probably never be as un-selfish and noble as my brother, I can at least try for the “not being proud of myself” part.

Tyler is gone right now. On his way to talk with Dr. Eldridge about how he’s cured—I have to chuckle, because that’s how he’s been phrasing this visit. He’s “cured.” So I’m here alone. And this house, man… it’s something else. Huge, like so many bedrooms, and so many living

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