THE SEX REBEL OF JESUSLAND, chapter 148

148. THE AFTERMATH.

The next morning Adam couldn’t find her. Eve was gone.

“There’s a car missing. She must’ve taken it. I’ve sent some guys out to look for her.” Ezra was calm, but Adam could tell he was upset. “Maybe she went for a joyride.”

“Maybe,” said Adam.

“First Jeremiah goes missing, and now Eve. We’ve got a plague of missingness going on,” said Ezra, and laughed, rather uncomfortably.

Adam wanted to see Eve very much. In the middle of the night he had woken up and Eve had woken up too, for a moment.

“Hold me,” she had said, and Adam had held her. Then he had fallen asleep, smiling. But when he woke up, he was alone. He went looking for her, immediately, and ran into Ezra, wishing he hadn’t. He wished he didn’t have to ask Ezra where Eve was, forced to acknowledge that Ezra had his own knowledge of Eve. But Ezra didn’t know where she was either. Neither of them did. Adam desperately wanted to see her, to check the loss of his bearings against her presence, to see if seeing her would knit his bearings together again into one concordant feeling. But she was gone. His feeling had no place to go. He was lost.