Glimpse (The Tesla Effect Book 1) by Julie Drew

Author:Julie Drew [Drew, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ring of Fire Publishing
Published: 2014-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

At 4:10 Sam rode up to the library and stopped right next to the sidewalk. Tesla leaned in so he could put the helmet on her, and then she climbed on the back of the bike, both of them oddly comfortable in the routine they’d established only a few hours earlier.

“How did it go at the library?” he asked, his face turned to the side so she could hear him over the sound of the engine, which rumbled low as it idled.

“Good,” she answered hastily, not eager to remember that she had lied to him earlier. “I found some stuff that might be useful, and I took some notes, so I guess it was a good day.”

Sam nodded. “Where to?” he asked.

“Can we just drive around a bit?” she asked, hesitantly. “I don’t want to put you out, but this is kind of cool for me, you know, to be here.”

“Sure,” he said easily. “We’ve got time to kill. We can’t go back to the lab until nine, when my shift starts.”

“When do you sleep?”

Sam laughed. “Tomorrow. You caught me on a weird day. I don’t usually work a double like this.”

He drove away from the curb before she could respond, turned left at the stop sign, and headed down University Boulevard, which cut directly through the center of campus.

“There’s physics,” he said.

“Oh, yeah,” she said weakly and resolved to become a better liar.

They rode slowly, and Tesla was able to look both left and right as they went. She noted how much—and how little—had changed over eight years. Sorority and fraternity row was exactly the same. The student recreation center was older and smaller than it would be in 2012, though Tesla could not remember when the newer one, which she was familiar with, had been built. The student union was the same, few of the classroom or administrative buildings had changed, and the open green spaces, where students played Frisbee or sunbathed while they read, their heads pillowed on their backpacks, all made her feel like she hadn’t travelled in time at all, that then was now and now was then, and she could ride up to her house and find Max in front of the TV with his X-Box.

When they rode past Angelo’s Sam reached down and squeezed her hand, and she smiled, though she faced his back, glad to feel less alone on this strange mission. An ice cream parlor that no longer existed, but was clearly in operation now, jolted Tesla with a sudden, unexpected memory in which she held her mother’s hand as they walked into that shop, a little string of bells on the door announcing their arrival with a jingle that sounded, somehow, like strawberries and rainbow-colored sprinkles. She clutched Sam’s shirt front, leaned into him and craned her neck to say in his ear, “Take a right on Webber.”

He did as she directed, and they left the town square behind them for this quiet, shady street of old trees and neat, modest homes.

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