MERCY

Patrick #2 made her love Jesus in a way that she was uncomfortable and not prepared for. He made her go to a church outside of the city and outside of her town, to a church where no one knew them.
She was baptized in a pool at a lakeside resort, a beach lodge. She was christened, even though she was not a baby, they have a picture to prove it, or had a picture to prove it. After the baptism, she got drunk and smoked crack with her lover, a blonde shaggy haired butch girl name Reena. She sat on a picnic bench outside of the main house and she and Reena talked about what she was even doing there. She loved Patrick #2 more than life itself she said. The waves of Lake Michigan were 11 feet, crashing and so loud, so loud in enveloped their voices.

You can't stay here with him. You're going to die if you stay here with him.

Winter, before Christmas, Mercy is not alone, she is with Patrick #2 and they are in the car and driving around steep, icy, hilly roads. Mercy is breaking up with him, or at least attempting to, one of many attempts. Patrick #2 is driving fast.

You can't be with me?
You can't be with me?
You can't be with me?
Then you can't be with anyone.
God has put us together, don't you understand
God has put us together
I am sorry but then you can't be with anyone
God has put you with me
and if you can't with me
then you aren't going to be with anyone

and he is driving so fast around the curves and the tires and skidding out, Mercy can hear it, the tires are skidding out from underneath the car and the car goes to the left and then the right and she is so afraid he is going to step on the brakes, he is going to step on the brakes and the car is going to jackknife right into a tree and they are going to die but he doesn't, he doesn't continue to speed up but he also doesn't pump the brakes, she is going to die with him like this with him saying

You can't be with me?
You can't be with me?
Then forget it.
Forget it.
You can't be with me
then forget it
because you are never going to be
with anyone ever again
do you hear me
do you hear me
God put us together
and you can't get out of it