Lost by Nadia Simonenko

Author:Nadia Simonenko
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Young Adult, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781482683141
Publisher: Nadia Simonenko
Published: 2013-03-23T08:00:00+00:00

Saturday, March 2 – 7:00 PM

Maria

The sky is black and the air freezing cold by the time I get out of lab and start the long journey from the far eastern edge of campus to my apartment back across the west bridge. It’s a forty-minute walk at its easiest, and the ice on the dark sidewalk isn’t doing me any favors tonight. My hands and toes are numb within fifteen minutes, and I haven’t even made it to the steep hill down to west campus yet.

Freezing cold or not, I’m excited about tonight. I’m going to Owen’s apartment tonight to help him grade homework! It might not sound very exciting—Tina certainly didn’t think it was—but it’s safe and relaxing. I’ll be comfortable and be able to talk to him without getting too nervous. ‘Safe’ is exactly what I need right now.

I take tiny, precarious steps down the slick sheet of ice coating the west campus hill and then trudge back up the opposite side to the bridge. The thick pines give way to the gorge, and the wind howls through the open air, chilling me to the bone. By the time I make it across, my nose feels as brittle as an icicle.

I can’t wait to see Owen. I imagine the warmth of his apartment as I trudge down the steep slope to our apartment complex, getting out of these soaking wet shoes, and taking off this uncomfortable, scratchy hat. Maybe he’ll make cocoa.

Maybe I’ll be brave enough to touch him again.

The porch light is on when I get to his apartment, and I hardly have to wait at all for Owen to open the door after I ring the bell. I really like that he was waiting for me.

“Hi Maria!” he gushes happily as he invites me in. “Thanks so much for helping me grade all this crap.”

“Hey, no problem,” I answer, a wide smile spreading across my face as I take off my shoes and coat.

Owen plops down on the couch in the living room and stares at the impressive stack of homework assignments looming before him. Even with two of us, it’s going to be a long night.

My eyes light up when I see the two steaming cups of cocoa, and I hop onto the sofa and sit cross-legged to his left. I’ll put up with an awful lot for a cup of cocoa on a cold night like tonight, even grading statistics homework.

“Let me know if you see anything wrong, okay?” I tell Owen, and I grab a red pen and get to work.

Page after page flies by in silence, and the questions are so easy that I don’t even need Owen’s help for any of them.

“What is this? Stats 101? Algebra?” I ask, scribbling away with my red pen. “I can grade most of this stuff on my own and I’m a biologist!”

“Yeah, it’s a basic stats course for people who just need a course to graduate,” he answers, and he points at an incorrect answer for me to mark.

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