Lumen Cove by Dianne Frost

Author:Dianne Frost [Frost, Dianne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HDC Libri
Published: 2017-10-04T16:00:00+00:00

Kelsey was sitting at her desk working on a word problem that didn’t seem to have an answer. Adult Male seeks Kid Female. Kid Female acquiesces Adult Male. Kid Female and Adult Male become friends. Kid Female and Adult Male become more than friends. Adult Male becomes distant. Kid Female bridges gap. Adult Male pulls back. Kid Female pushes forward and so on and so forth. She knew it could be a differential equation; perhaps something like

dK/dt = xA.

Kid Female’s behavior (K) changes in an instant (dt). The amount of change (dK) is just a multiple (x) of the Adult Male’s (A) current behavior towards her.

Kelsey frowned, tapping her pencil irritatedly. In this light it showed that the female’s behavior adjusted in direct proportion to how much the Adult Male responded.

She tried it from another angle.

dA/dt = -yK.

She bounced her pencil again. The negative in front of the constant y reflected (A)’s tendency to cool off when (K) was pursuing.

With these equations and making the assumption that they felt nothing towards each other initially (K and A at beginning of time; t+0) she could use simple calculous to inch K and A forward, incident by incident. In this way she could figure out how much A felt (or didn’t feel) for K at any future time.

Romance, it turned out, was a simple harmonic oscillator; a force that pushed them together or pulled them apart.

Her phone buzzed as she was about to start figuring and she glanced at it. The screen did not light up. She looked back to her paper, about to scratch out another differential but stopped, throwing the pencil down and picking up her phone, accessing her hidden messages.

Alex: What are you doing?

Kelsey bit the inside of her lip, eyeing her paper.

Kelsey: Math.

Alex: Are you home?

Kelsey swallowed hard, looking around her bedroom.

Kelsey: Yes.

Alex: Is your dad there?

Kelsey snorted, jabbing at the screen with a little more force than necessary.

Kelsey: Sully is not here. Been gone for days now. Think he got some poor woman to take care of him. Likely won’t be around for at least a month.

There was a long pause then. Kelsey eventually set the phone down and picked up her pencil again, which was when her phone buzzed.

Alex: Can I come over?

Kelsey’s eyes bulged then flicked around her room nervously. Her clothes were still piled high on the chair in the sitting area. She had to call Good Will about Gram’s clothes. She had a precarious pile of research books stacked on one bed side table and an assortment of drinking glasses on the other, all in various states of fullness. Her desk was covered in open textbooks. She could see her towel on the floor in the bathroom. Not to mention whatever state the rest of the place was in. Her phone buzzed again.

Alex: Please. I’m sorry.

Kelsey made a strangled sound in her throat, her chest pulling tight and she knew what Reva would say. Reva would tell her to make him sweat. To make him grovel.

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