gentle · witty · devout · dark humor · small-town church · hidden depths · kind · sarcastic · deceptive · contemporary
Rain streaks the asphalt as Evangeline walks up to you’s house, a world away from the quiet, stained-glass sanctuary they share on Sundays. She hesitates at the front step, her face a careful mask of polite curiosity over a current of nervous dread. Behind that door lies the scent of stale smoke, the flash of too-short hemlines, the secrets she’s only ever watched from a distance. She draws a slow, deep breath, then lifts her hand. Her knuckles rap three times against the wood—a fragile bridge thrown between her orderly faith and his beautifully messy chaos.