Die Again To Save Tomorrow (Die Again to Save the World Book 2) by Ramy Vance & Michael Anderle

Author:Ramy Vance & Michael Anderle [Vance, Ramy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2021-06-28T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Sunday, May 21, 8:30 p.m.

It was getting late, and Buzz had his mansion to himself. He’d worked most of the day on research about Pete as well as on some of his projects. He’d checked in on Rueben and Aki, and he wondered how the Marshall babysitting thing was going. That, he knew, was probably going to end badly.

Buzz leaned back in his cream leather armchair and sipped a drink. He closed his eyes and savored the vodka as it warmed his body and calmed his nerves.

Buzz suffered from severe anxiety. He often described living in his head as being trapped in an amusement park. Every waking minute, hundreds of ideas and thoughts and facts and theories and numbers and scientific laws bounced around, bumping into each other. He had learned that this was anything but normal.

In fact, if there was anything Buzz knew in life, anything at all, he knew that he was not…normal. Whatever that was. He’d known that when he was four and in preschool.

While the other kids played with blocks in Ms. Jessica’s classroom, he was bored out of his mind. He eventually wandered off, and when they finally found him, he wasn’t outside on the playground.

No, Buzz Lugger ran away from preschool to hide in the book closet. He had stolen Ms. Jessica’s college math book and laid on the floor and read math theory.

He found it scintillating to try to grasp the principles of college algebra. Numbers weren’t just numbers. It wasn’t just one, two, and three like Ms. Jessica tried to make the class believe.

Numbers were so much bigger and more exciting than that. They were dynamic entities moving about on a number line on a balanced scale of equality. They were quantities, objects, even ideas. It was like math was a language, almost an art.

Although much more controlled and predictable than the Crayon washable paints in Ms. Jessica’s classroom, math was like a painting, but with known quantities.

The first thing he asked when they discovered him was, “So, how can changing the quantities of X and Y move the bell curve?”

Ms. Jessica, the slender, blonde twenty-three-year-old teacher, grabbed the text from his hand and scanned the page. “You want to know the truth? I don’t know.”

Buzz was the only kid in the history of St. Bartholomew’s Day School to get kicked out for being too smart.

No, Buzz was far from normal. So neither was the noise inside his head. Most people did not have Ali Baba’s circus tramping about upstairs every waking minute.

He had learned to relate to normal people by understanding that if total brain usage were a scale, most people spent their daily lives operating on a level five. When they were at the point of extreme concentration, all neurons firing, and their brain pathways lit up like an airport runway, they were at level ten. These were the kids who were fine with painting in Ms. Jessica’s class.

Then there was him.

Buzz estimated that daily, he operated at about a level thirteen or fourteen.

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