Melinda Metz - Roswell High 07 by The Vanished

Author:The Vanished
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-06-01T18:30:55+00:00

Chapter SIX

“How is anybody supposed to eat this?” Liz asked her friends, all of whom were seated around a long table in the school cafeteria. All her friends minus Alex, of course. And Adam. They still hadn’t figured out a way to register him for school without every social services department in the country swooping down on him. So Adam hung out in Michael’s apartment alone during the day.

Adam. Liz had woken up with an odd feeling about him this morning—a pleasant feeling, too. But she couldn’t put her finger on where it came from.

“That’s why I brought tuna fish,” Maria said. “You couldn’t pay me to eat this cafeteria garbage.”

Michael looked at them with feigned shock. “What are you talking about?” he protested. He added extra pickles to the top of his slice of sausage pizza. “This is a gourmet meal.”

“That is the most vile thing I’ve ever seen,” Liz said, pointing at his lunch.

“Seriously,” Isabel said. “You could have at least added some Sweet’n Low.”

“Oh, yuck!” Maria said.

“Fine. More for me, then,” Michael replied with a smile.

Liz smiled, too, but she was wondering why Max had been so quiet all lunch period. He hadn’t joined in any of their joking around, and he hadn’t even sat beside Liz at the table. Max was sitting on the other side of Isabel, across from Michael, lost in his thoughts. Drifting to … wherever.

“Max,” Liz said. “Earth to Max.”

He looked up at her, surprised. “Oh,” he said, a faint blush coloring his cheeks. “Sorry. I was just thinking about the cave.”

“Isabel’s memory?” Maria asked.

Max nodded. “I’ve been wracking my brain for any distinguishing factors, but so far … zilch, zip—”

“Nada,” Isabel said. “Me too. It’s all a blur. I wish I could remember it better, but—wait, scratch that… . I’m glad I don’t remember. DuPris’s a pig.”

“What do you remember? Is it like your cave?” Maria asked, referring to the cave where Michael, Isabel, and Max had broken free of their incubation pods. They used it as their hideaway from the rest of the world and had brought Liz, Maria, and Alex there when they’d first started hanging out together. Now they often used it as a sort of crisis headquarters.

“You mean our cave?” Isabel said, looking at Liz and Maria meaningfully. Liz smiled at her. She knew it took a lot for Isabel to include her new friends in something so close to her heart. “DuPris’s cave was a lot bigger,” Isabel continued, “but it had all your basic stuff—stalagmites, stalactites, bats, darkness, the works. A cave.”

“There are a million places like that in New Mexico.” Michael groaned. “Max and I have been searching the desert for years, and we’ve only hit the smallest fraction of the caves out there.”

“It doesn’t even have to be in New Mexico,” Liz added glumly. “DuPris can teleport, remember? He followed us back to the museum from the ranch house. And he took the bounty hunters along with him that time, so he could have transported Isabel and Adam, too.

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