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“Geez, this just keeps getting worse and worse. So Katie is a Nephilim?” Mark asked, secretly knowing the answer.
“Yes, but let’s just let her have a normal life as long as we can. After all this she deserves it.” Sarah’s voice turned more somber as she spoke of Katie.
“Yes, I agree. I can live with her hating me, if she is safe. Someday, maybe she will find out the truth, but for now she’s safe.” Mark looked depressed again.
Sarah put her hands on either side of Mark’s face.
“You know I care about you a lot. If you need anything, a shoulder to cry on, anything just let me know. I’m here for you. Anything.” Sarah’s expression was sincere and longing.
Mark’s heart raced. He wanted to pick Sarah up and kiss her. Mark pushed the feelings down and tried to respond calmly. “I care about you too Sarah, thanks,” Mark said trying to hide his feelings.
Sarah quickly realized she had shared too much.
“I mean you are very important to this war, any of us would be willing to help you.” Sarah quickly recovered and started to walk on.
“Did you ever find your one?” Mark asked as he tried to keep up with Sarah’s new hurried pace.
Sarah dreaded this question, but secretly, she hoped Mark would ask.
“A lot of times our kind go their whole existence without ever finding the one they were meant to be with. Maybe they died or haven’t been born yet, who knows. The only thing worse than never finding your one is if you find your one and they love someone else. We only get one.” Sarah paused as her pace slowed. This was clearly a sore subject. “Sometimes I think it’s a punishment for all the bad things I’ve done. Or maybe God just made a mistake with me.” Sarah was now the one looking depressed.
“So you found him…or her,” Mark added quickly. He had forgotten who he was talking to for a minute, it might be a her.
“It was a him,” Sarah replied.
“Ok, so you found him and he was already married?” Mark asked, not realizing how serious this was.
“Yes, so it’s just me for all eternity.” Sarah looked down at her shoes again as she walked. This subject was very painful to her.
“Can’t you just find someone else? Or maybe he’ll change his mind. Maybe he is the one who made a mistake?” Mark asked honestly, but he just didn’t understand how much this hurt Sarah.
“What part of one is confusing to you?!” Sarah asked angrily as she stopped to look at Mark. Sarah’s anger quickly turned to guilt. “I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to snap. But seriously we get one and only one, there’s no loop holes, no do overs. We get one.” Sarah started walking again.
Mark didn’t completely understand Sarah’s situation but he understood enough to pity her. How horrible it would be to go through life knowing that your perfect match was with someone else. If they truly were stuck with only one, his perfect match was now dead. His feelings for Sarah, whatever they were, had to be a mistake because Jen had been his one.
The rest of the trip was spent in silence. Mark was dealing with his grief and confusion about his feelings for Sarah. Sarah was mentally punishing herself for disappointing God.
Chapter 10
They reached the edge of town after another hour of walking. The crowds had thinned out as they walked until there was no one left except for Mark and Sarah. They walked through many suburban areas until even those gave way to run down shops and factories. After it seemed they were all alone with the abandoned shops, they came across a shipping facility with many newer cars in the parking lot.
“Here we are,” Sarah finally spoke. Sarah now sounded as depressed as Mark. Normally she would have presented this place with the flare of a game show host, but now she just sounded like she wanted to get it over with.
“Why all the cars? This place can’t have that many employees?” Mark asked curiously.
“These cars belong to customers,” Sarah said strangely. “We use this place as a cover to get to where we are going. They are not about to follow ten trucks, all going in different directions. They would have to split up their forces too much. It’s not foolproof but it is discouraging enough to keep them at bay.”
“So this is also a real shipping company?” Mark asked sincerely.
“Yes, it ships paper products. It’s sort of a hub. Huge stock piles come in and then they are split up and shipped out to various places,” Sarah explained.
“That’s pretty smart. Use a real shipping company to travel around undetected. I’d guess you were behind this, right?” Mark’s tone was more upbeat. His grief was still there, but Sarah’s flare for this was quite admirable. He found himself staring at Sarah again. His admiration for her smarts had caused the feelings to well up again. For a brief moment, he wished that Sarah was his one.
“Of course,” Sarah’s tone picked up as well. Mark was as contagious to her as she was to him. “And over there, those three are mine.” Sarah pointed at three almost new cars in the back.
“You have cars, so why did we walk?” Mark asked, feigning indignance. He had a good idea why they had walked, he wasn’t a complete idiot.
