2 – When Sean spoke to Kalanne (or at least tried to) #LoveStoryChallenge

Sean saw his window of opportunity when she was sitting at the church café after service on the fifth Sunday. She had a cup of tea and a novel open in front of her and was smiling to herself as she read, her lips moving inaudibly. On second thought, he was content just watching her. He wondered what she was reading, who the author of the book was, what it was about, what kind of books she read, what kind of television shows she might watch, what kind of food she liked. He bought himself a cinnamon roll and took a seat at a table by the entrance of the café, where he could watch her in peace, before the youth meeting was over and he would again have to be bundled into the men’s home van and driven to downtown Middlesbrough, where they kept ex-convicts like him who needed a second chance at life, and definitely needed Jesus. He looked up from his cinnamon roll and she was suddenly walking towards him, or towards the door, but she was looking right at him, and the shine in her eyes was gone. “It’s rude to stare,” she said quietly, as she walked past him and out the glass doors.