”“I’m really sorry this has happened.”“What would happen if the situation was reversed?” Alyssa asked.“We’d never kick someone out of ...he church for something their kids had done, nor would we treat anyone who left voluntarily like a pariah. Most of the time, it’s because they marry outside the Church. As for those who leave for other reasons, they usually cut themselves off from us, not the other way around. That said, there are some fundamentalists, especially Greek Old Calendarists, who not. Beth walked over to Lola who was laying on her bed with her head in a book studying. Beth sat on the side of Lola's bed and asked if they could talk some more about what they had been talking about downstairs. Lola put her book down and said she would like that cause she was feeling confused.Beth told her about when she was in University sharing a room with an old friend and how they would talk about other guy's in Uni, and they both shared stories of past boyfriends. Beth then told Lola that. That was probably what excited the spectators so much.After the fake orgasms there was a round of quiet applause which only seemed to add to the embarrassment the women were feeling. The daughter got up on her hands and knees facing the audience and her mother got to her knees beside her. I saw movement out of the corner of my eye. The men and women in the audience, or at least most of them, were getting up from their tables.I thought at first that they were leaving and a sense of relief washed. “What’s up, A-Train? You good?” Frank asked.“As well as can be expected. What brings you around to my neck of the world?”Frank turned and tilted his head toward Tim, “Go ahead. Tell him what’s up.”Tim stepped forward and began explaining his problem to A-Train. “Friday night after the game, my parents picked me up, and we rode home all together.” A-Train nodded. “While we turned onto Walzem to turn around out toward our house, someone pulled up alongside of us and poured paint all over my dad’s.