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Can Anyone Fine a Gas Station? – Page 2

“Well, seeing as though no female in this place has shorted out, the potency of the formula must be wearing off.”

“You’re right. Maybe we should test and see if it’s still in effect.”

“How?”

“Well, I’ll go order the food. You take Laura and Katie out to the car.”

“Awe rats.” Noah said. “Hey, how are we going to test me?”

“Well, you said Laura’s grapefruit should have worn off by now, we’ll test her that way.”

“Shoot. You came up with an idea.”

“Here comes Laura and Katie now. Take them out to the car, and I’ll be right out.” Noah grudgingly followed orders while I went to order. No one was at the counter, so I just walked up. “I would like two Big Joe’s, a Julius salad, and a Smiley Chicken Meal.”

“That comes to ten ninety five.” The girl said. No effect, not even a sign that the formula that once tortured me was still in effect. I turned to walk out and the girl jumped over the counter and came over to me. Shyly she said, “Sir, you forgot your change.”

“Keep it.”

“Sir, where do you live?” I gave her my address and telephone number, then left. She waved to me. I walked over to the car to see Noah laying on Laura’s lap. I got in the car, and we drove off to some secluded place. Laura treated Noah like a king, while Katie and I talked to one another. My formula had been significantly decreased so that it had no effect on the love-sick Laura. I deduced this because the girl at the McDuncans didn’t even try to flirt with me. The test would be if she called or wrote me.

We stopped off at a picnic area a little way from the restaurant. Getting out, Noah and Laura went to sit by a nearby lake. Katie and I took a little walk, admiring the South American scenery. We stopped a little ways, and I picked up a skipper stone and skipped it across the water. “Adam?” Katie asked.

“Yes?”

“Adam, why do you and Kristin keep trying to get me to go to your church?”

“Well, Katie, our church believes that there is only one way to heaven, and that we are sure that we will go there when we die. We just want to make sure that when we go, you are there too.”

“But God will let us all go to heaven, it says that he is not willing that any should perish.”

“True, but the punishment for sin is death. And since all have sinned, all are doomed for hell.”

“True, but God is fair, and he will look at my life and say that I was good.”

“God is fair, and all it takes is one sin to stay out of heaven. Would you like to be sure that you will go there when you die, or the Lord comes?”

“Sure, how?”

“The way to accept Jesus is simple. Believe that you have sinned, and he came to take away those sins. Ask him to come into your life and take away your sins so you can live with him forever.”

“It’s that simple?”

“Yes, would you like to do it now?”

“Right now?”

“Yes, God doesn’t care where, he just cares that you do. He loves you Katie.”

“I don’t know. What will my parents say?”

“Who is more important, your family or God?”