《Gloryland》Memory 17
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>Be Evan.
>Be 12, standing outside church at catechism, waiting in line for the church staff to unlock the doors so classes can begin.
>Lily Trent from down the street comes over and makes small talk.
>What up, Barker the Younger?
>Nothing, he says, teeth chattering. Can't wait to get inside.
>Yeah. Hey, do you know the Nicene Creed?
>The what?
>The Nicene Creed?
>The Nicey Creed?
>No, the NICENE Creed? I have to have it memorized. It's really long. You're smart, so I thought you might know it.
>Oh. No. I had to memorize it too but that was last year. I never had to recite it again so I forgot it.
>Oh. Damn.
>Lily stands there a moment.
>Why do they make us do all this anyway?
>I have no clue, says Evan.
>They're standing underneath one of the snow-covered crab-apple trees that line the asphalt drive in front of the church entrance.
>The tree branches grasp and grope over top of them, dusted with snow.
>All of a sudden, a disturbance in the top of the tree.
>Snow drifts down like powder.
>In the thick of the tree's top branches, a huge hawk spreads its wings and flaps out into view, cruising away over the front lawn of the church.
>Holy shit, yells Lily.
>Evan sees a dead rat or chipmunk or something grasped in the hawk's talons, dangling limply as the hawk beats its wings in the January air.
>Did you see that? Lily shrieked.
>Yeah, it got a rat or something.
>It was eating it. Right above us, the whole time!
>Yeah, I know.
>It was like, why don't you guys shut the fuck up, I'm trying to eat this fucking chipmunk!
>Yeah, it sure was, says Evan. He's shocked by Lily's language. This is the first time he's heard a girl younger than him say the f-word multiple times. And she said it right in front of a church!
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>Lily chuckles.
>She steps closer to him, gets her face right next to his.
>You ever smoke weed? she asks him.
>Uh, no. I haven't.
>You should, she says, her eyes twinkling. It gets you... closer to God.
>She darts off, laughing.
>Evan is good on the weed. His parents would kill him if he ever even thought about it.
>He decides he should probably avoid Lily Trent for awhile. She cusses and is probably a pothead. He'll get in trouble if he hangs around with her.
>He watches Lily join another group of kids, make small talk, and ask if any of them know the Nicene Creed.
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