Answer Me Jesus

If I were to write a youg adult novel, I might start it like this:

Krista Sheen is the girl next door. She epitomizes that image. Think Meg Ryan in junior high school and you have Krista Sheen. She’s the head of the seventh grade class at Bradley Junior High, she’s a popular cheerleader, a princes at all the school dances, and is dating the cutest boy in the whole school: Jarred Powers. However, that’s not her reality. All Krista has on her mind is her parent’s recent divorce and the malicious rumors that her “friends” have started about her. As she lies in her tear stained bed on a cold Thursday night she realizes that thins is in fact the end of her proverbial rope. “Can things get worse?” Krista questions the darkness. That’s when she looks up to her shelf to see “Answer Me Jesus”. The eight ball Jesus had been a joke given to her by her friend Macy for her last birthday. They had asked “Answer Me Jesus” questions about who liked who and if Teresa was ever going to get together with Taylor, but that had been the end of it. Now, in an act of desperation, Krista grabbed “Answer Me Jesus” from the shelf and shaking him wildly asked what she really needed to know in her time of need. She needed God more than ever as her world was obviously falling apart, or at least it was really bad. She heard the words slip past her lips “Do you really exist God?” She turned “Answer Me Jesus” over and the words slowly lifted themselves out of the blue; “Ask again later.”

Yeah, I guess it needs some work. There goes my career in writing teen literature. I had such high hopes too. Books like “Dragon Land Is No Democracy” and “Gossip Killed Mrs. Jones and Not actually A Meat Cleaver” will never be published now. But really my intension was to give Answer Me Jesus a little blog space. When I first saw him in Urban Outfitters the story above kinda popped into my head as a possible real life scenario. To me it’s one of those stories that edge on the side of either funny or sad. Oh, and I took a picture of him with my cell camera. The picture included here is infinitely better though.