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sorry. We respect everyone’s beliefs—or non-beliefs—in this house.”
    “It’s okay.” Isaac sat back. “What religion are you?”
    “Funny story: While ninety-nine-point-nine percent of Filipinos are Catholic, my family’s Seventh-day Adventist. Missionaries went over back in the day, and my forebearers were convinced.”
    David pondered it. “I’ve never heard of that church. It’s Christian?”
    “Yep.” Jen swallowed more wine. “Started in Michigan in the eighteen hundreds. In a nutshell, they observe Sabbath on Saturday, which was the original seventh day, and believe that the second coming of Jesus is going to happen any minute now. As such, we should be living clean and avoiding all those worldly temptations.” She smirked as she lifted her glass. “Booze, for example.”
    “I take it you’re not following the church anymore,” David said.
    “Nope. I went to an Adventist school until college, and I couldn’t wait to move away from home and start living . I still believe in God, but not all the trappings made up by men.”
    Excitement rippled through David at the idea of still believing in God without being weighed down by the rules. Trappings . He mulled the word over in his mind.
    Jen sighed. “Don’t get me wrong—I love my family, and I grew up very happy. Adventists are good people. The church certainly isn’t as controlling as the Amish, and even though they didn’t want us to go to movies or parties, we still had a normal life.” She winced. “Not that you guys aren’t normal. I should stop talking now.”
    David huffed out a sudden laugh. “It’s all right. When you think about it, it’s not very normal to live like it’s still two hundred years ago. What’s wrong with everything God’s done in the last two centuries?”
    “An excellent question,” Aaron said. “I think the answer is that there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the modern world.”
    “Your parents still talked to you when you stopped going to church?” Isaac asked Jen.
    “Oh yeah. They were disappointed, but it happens a lot. It’s not really a big deal. Not like it is with the Amish. Adventists still live here in the real world, so it’s not such a culture shock. I was a little sheltered, but college took care of that quickly.” She whistled softly. “Spring break in Mexico. Innocence shattered within twelve hours.”
    David thought of a movie he’d seen at the drive-in about students on spring break. He’d sat there in June’s pickup watching the screen with wonder, confusion, and half an erection.
    “Anyway, back to our epic romance,” said Aaron. “The coffee date lasted about seven hours. We walked down to the water, and ended up going for dinner. Then she really did get paged by the hospital, but she kissed me before running off.” He grinned. “I didn’t even want to brush my teeth that night because I imagined I could still feel her on my lips. I did, though, for the record. We got together again for lunch the next day, and here we are.”
    “It was that easy?” Isaac asked.
    Jen and Aaron laughed loudly, and Jen answered, “Not always. But when you know you’ve found the right person, it’s worth the work.”
    Isaac and David shared a look, and David lifted his glass the way people did in movies. “To the right person.”
    They all drank to that.
     
     

 
     
    As David walked into their room, Isaac was by the mirrored closet doors, and he scrambled, his head down while he yanked the sheet off the bed and wrapped it around his waist.
    David froze in the doorway. “Should I have knocked?” He hadn’t shared a room since Joshua, and it hadn’t even occurred to him—especially given that he and Isaac had done a lot more than see each other undressed.
    “No, of course not. Come in. It’s your room too.” Isaac didn’t look at him.
    David shut the door behind him, but didn’t move any closer. “Are you sure? If you want privacy, I can…”
    “Why would I want