Pi in the Sky by Wendy Mass

Author:Wendy Mass [Mass, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
ISBN: 0316089168
Google: 3jMCs7d6BgkC
Amazon: B00A2DYNWQ
Publisher: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Published: 2013-06-11T05:00:00+00:00

The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination—stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern—of which I am a part.

—Richard P. Feynman, physicist

This time it isn’t quite as funny watching Annika cough and sputter as she begins to breathe again. Maybe because it took what seemed like a long time for Ty to bring the water (he had to scoop it out of a fountain in a nearby sim). Or maybe because Annika’s grandfather had faded away as he’d held her hand. His shouts of “Come back to us, Annika! Come back!” still ring in my ears.

I help her sit up. She shakes out her arms, and water droplets fly through the air. “Ugh! This is getting old.” She pushes her wet hair away from her face. “Where’s Grandpa?” Before we can answer she’s on her feet, dashing to the four corners of the room, then checking behind the armchair as though he might be hiding there. “Did his next sim start already and he had to go?”

Ty shakes his head. “He’s gone for good.”

Annika bursts into tears. “I didn’t get to ask him anything! Or tell him about Sam, who was born the year after Grandpa died. And he probably thought I died just now and he’ll never know that I just needed oxygen and I wanted to warn him that he was going to be pulled out of time and now he’s gone!” She curls into a ball on the armchair and buries her face in her hands.

I look over at Ty, who motions for me to go over to her. “I didn’t do too well the last time she was crying,” I protest.

“I don’t care,” he says, pushing me. “There’s no crying in the Afterlives! This is a happy place! You have to make her stop or it will upset all the people in their sims!”

“Fine,” I snap. “You don’t need to yell at me.”

“Happy place!” he hisses again as I head over to her.

I put my hand on her shoulder, then lift it off, then place it back again. “Um, Annika? If it makes you feel any better, I’m sure your grandfather knew you were going to be okay.”

“Did you tell him?” she asks between sniffles.

I look up at Ty, who glares at me. I really don’t want to lie, but I guess in this case it’s for the greater good. “Um, yeah, he knew, don’t worry.”

She sniffles again, and wipes her nose on her arm before sitting back up. “Thanks, Joss. That does make me feel better.”

I try to steer the topic away from my lie. “And at least he got to see you and hug you. No one else in the history of the Afterlives has ever been able to do that.”

Ty nods in confirmation.

I hold out my hand. “C’mon, let’s go find that scientist.”

She nods, wipes her eyes once more, and takes my hand. As soon as she stands, we quickly let our hands drop apart. I

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