The Energy Room (The Elementum Trilogy) by Styna Lane

Author:Styna Lane [Lane, Styna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-01-02T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Jaloux Petit Hamster, Reprise

I rehearsed our future conversation in my head, tapping my fingernails against the railing of the elevator as it steadily carried me down to The Village. I would knock on Eric’s door, and tell him we needed to talk. I would tell him I was sorry for being catty with him. I would explain that I cared a lot for him, but that I thought we were better off as friends.

I blushed as the memory of kissing him in my apartment raced through my head. Even though I knew the elevator was empty, I looked down in embarrassment. ‘None of that,’ I thought. I shook my head in an attempt to force the memory out, bouncing on my feet in anticipation. It couldn’t be that hard, could it? It couldn’t be that hard to break up with your best friend.

I bit my lip as the elevator doors opened to what would surely be my doom. I scrambled to press the ‘10’ button, releasing a long sigh as the doors closed me back in to the protective lift. I was banging my head against the cold white wall of the elevator by the time the doors revealed my empty floor. I growled in frustration, punching the ‘16’ key again.

“Pull yourself together, woman,” I said to myself, cracking my neck as if I were about to enter into a boxing ring.

“What are you doing, Angela?” a voice with an English accent unexpectedly called over the speaker in the elevator.

“GOOD GOD!” I shouted, jumping what felt like three feet into the air, “I hate when you do that, William!”

“You’ve been up and down in the lift four times,” William stated, obviously waiting for an explanation.

“I’m trying to get the nerve to talk to Eric. Stop spying on me,” I said bluntly, the doors opening, once again, to The Village.

“I like to think of it as monitoring,” William said. I could tell he had a satisfied look on his face.

“There’s nothing to monitor. You won’t let me do labs, and my Electro-Cuffs are set to kill. Don’t you have anything more important to do?” I glared at the small camera in the front, right corner of the elevator, jamming my hand in between the doors as they attempted to close.

“Nothing is more important than the safety of our residents, Angela,” William said in a stern tone.

“Right,” I said under my breath, deciding whole-heartedly that whatever would happen with Eric had to be twenty times better than talking to William.

I was very aware of curious eyes watching me from behind the closed blinds of nearly every house. I was guessing the news had gotten around that I had set fire to my new shrink. The part where it was an accident and I tried to heal him with a bagilliondy volts of electricity coursing through my body, had most likely been left out of the general story, which had spread around like a virus.

I shook my head as parents ushered their kids inside, issuing me nervous glances before locking their doors.

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