FEUDING WOMEN EPISODE 5

"All newly ordained ministers should wait behind to see the Pastor..."

Syntyche groaned as she thought of the additional time she would spend in this meeting. Pastor Gabriel had no qualms starting another sermon as part of the meeting; the man loved talking! She was kind of hoping to finish watching the movie she had borrowed from her colleague and she still had a 40 page report to review. Well...

She looked to where she had seen Cletus earlier and he was gone. He couldn't even wait for the service to end. She felt the familiar sadness. After all she had given up to give him a good life, Cletus was bent on making her life miserable. Sometimes, she wondered if he had managed to track Stephen down and was learning how to annoy her from his father...He knew the buttons to set her off...As she scanned through the hall, she thought she saw someone like Sylvia but maybe her eyes were playing pranks on her.
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As Euodia heard the announcement, she groaned inwardly. Who wants to spend two hours of their lives listening to Pastor Gabriel repeat what had already been preached during service? The man was incapable of having a brief meeting. She was really hoping to finish the 'business' Archippus started earlier. She was ovulating and this Pastor Gabriel's meeting may very well be an obstacle to her miracle! She quickly checked her thoughts and reminded herself that at the appointed time, the Lord would visit her.

She thought Archippus was acting strange but she wondered if it was her nerves. She had turned back to see him looking lost during the ministration. He seemed to be holding on to his phone a bit tighter than he normally did. She was itching to leave church so they could talk about whatever news he just received.
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Stephen thought again about Syntyche. She was so nice when he first met her. He was the choir master and more or less Pastor's right hand man. It took a lot to keep the ladies at bay. However, his guards failed him the first day he saw her. He knew she had to be his.

She was such a free-spirited lady that laughed a lot. No matter what he said or did, she found something funny to laugh about. Which red-blooded man could resist a beautiful woman who found him funny? Every choir rehearsal only brought them closer. When he couldn't keep his hands to himself anymore, he figured out it was time to make it official. Church folks kept asking if he had prayed and he told them 'yes'. The truth was that he didn't need any prayers in deciding to move forward...

"Mr., please can I have my money? I need to get back to school."

The girl from last night brought him back to the present.

"Oh. Please hold on..."
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Sylvia was so happy to have Cletus so close to her. She had definitely missed him and his active imagination. He was telling her a ridiculous story of how he and his 'gang' stole his stingy classmate's notes and made her beg for days before releasing them to her. She was thoroughly entertained. She wished she had been more supportive when Stephen left her sister to care for an infant. She was so caught up with people-pleasing.

She turned as she heard her name and look straight into Syntyche's icy glare.

Author's Note: Euodia and Syntyche's story is found in Philippians 4:2-3. This is a very very fictionalized version...Stay tuned for Episode 6.