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"Lionel!" Vicki scolded.

"I'm just sayin , the line has been drawn. You crossing the line, Ryan? Or are you with us?"

"I'll think about it," Ryan said, and he was gone. The others heard him banging around in the bedroom he
had been assigned.

"We need to pray for him," Vicki said. "It's hard enough for us, but imagine what it's like for him. We
know where our parents are. If he believes like we do that our parents were raptured and his weren't, he
has to accept that his parents are in hell. Think about that. He's going to fight this a long time, because
even if he wants to become a believer, that means he's accepting that his parents are lost forever."

"It sure would be nice if we could some-how find out his parents, or at least one of them, was actually a
Christian or became one before they died," Lionel said.

"Get real," Judd said. "That rarely happens in real life."

"I know."

Lionel was dealing with his own dilemma. His uncle had left a long message on Lionel's answering
machine, going on and on about killing himself and feeling so bad that he had influenced Lionel to not be a
Christian. He was clearly drunk or high or both, and Lionel had been convinced that andr├й had killed
himself. When Lionel and Ryan had ridden their bikes all the way to andr├й's neighbor-hood one night to
investigate, the cops had told them andr├й's body was at a nearby morgue. It had indeed been a suicide,
they told Lionel. Because andr├й, had had enemies to whom he owed money, and those guys had moved
into Lionel's house and kicked him out, Lionel figured they had murdered andr├й and made it look like
suicide.
 But when Judd had driven Lionel to the morgue a few days later so Lionel could iden-tify the body, he
had run into a shocker. While the victim was the same height and weight as andr├й, and while he had
carried andr├й's wallet and wore andr├й's clothes and jewelry, the body was clearly not andr├й's.

Finding the truth about that mystery would be Lionel's mission over the next sev-eral days. Meanwhile,
he was as eager as Judd and Vicki to learn more about what life was supposed to be like, now that
Christ had rap-tured his church.

Judd agreed that they should pray for Ryan, and that in fact they should pray at the end of all their little
house meetings, the way Bruce had them pray at the end of their meetings at church. But first he asked,
"is there anything else either of you needs to talk about now?"

"Yeah," Lionel said. "I just want to say that I'm not really trying to put down Ryan. I'm trying to toughen
him up the way I did my little brother and sister and the way my sister did me. I don't want to make him
mad or feel bad, but he's such a wuss. It's time for that boy to grow up."

"It's hard to grow up this way," Vicki said. "I don't know about you guys, but I'm hav-ing trouble. I have
bad dreams, have trouble sleeping, find myself crying over my family as if they're all just dead and gone
and not in heaven where I know I'll see them someday. I know we're all going to be called back to
school one of these days, and I can't imagine sitting through class with all I know now. If this Antichrist
guy shows up soon and does sign some sort of a contract with Israel, we're gonna have only seven more
years to live."