The Odds of Lightning by Jocelyn Davies

Author:Jocelyn Davies
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Lu

The crowd was a moving, living, breathing thing, and it swept her right up.

Even if Lu wanted to swim against the current back to her friends, she wasn’t strong enough to do it. Lu dove right into the throng. Lu dove headfirst into most things.

The mass of people was moving east, toward Broadway. Lu moved with them.

“Guys!” she yelled. “I’m stuck!”

“We’re right behind you!” Will’s voice echoed from somewhere nearby.

The streets were packed with people.

“So this is where everyone in Manhattan is,” Lu heard Will shout.

“People are even stupider than I thought!” That voice belonged to Nathaniel. “An End of the World rally? Really? Why does everyone think the world is going to end tonight? There is no scientific proof! None at all! It’s just speculation! It’s just—”

“A feeling!” Tiny shouted.

Someone on a bullhorn shouted something, and the crowd roared, surging forward.

“Hey!” cried Lu. “Someone stepped on my foot! Hard!” It was weird, though. She sensed the pressure on her foot, but she couldn’t feel the pain. At all.

She looked up at the signs paraded above her head.

THE END IS HERE.

LET THEM TAKE US.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

“Uh,” said Lu. “Well, this is terrifying.”

The crowd was so loud, she could hardly hear Will shouting as he pushed his way toward her, or Nathaniel and Tiny, who were yelling and pointing behind her. The bullhorn-shouter yelled about something being nigh, or pie, or something.

Lu spun around. A wild-looking woman was coming at her with a kitchen knife. Lu’s first thought was that it was to cut the pie. But she looked way too angry for that. “Sinner!” the woman yelled. “Sinner!” Lu stood there in her PROSE BEFORE HOES T-shirt and eyeliner and platforms. She knew she should run. She knew this woman was going to stab her with that kitchen knife. She wouldn’t feel it, but she would bleed, and she would die.

She would never be able to tell her mom she loved her.

She would never be able to say sorry to Will.

The crowd was closing in on her, and she knew she should move, but she didn’t know what direction to move in. Everywhere she looked, there were people. In the great debate between fight or flight, Lu felt nothing. She stood there, paralyzed.

Then, someone picked her up from behind and flung her over their shoulder.

“Hey!” she screamed. “Put me down! Will! Will! Where are you?” She wasn’t sure what she was thinking, though. Now that Will was basically Owen, he didn’t have a lot of muscle. Lu wasn’t fully confident he’d be able to fight his way through the crowd to get to her. For the first time all night, Lu felt panicked. She felt alone.

It was a feeling she didn’t like.

This lightning power was turning out to be more of a curse. She would so much rather be numb on the inside than numb on the outside.

“Okay, Lu! It’s just me!” Nathaniel shouted over the din. He carried her as if she weighed no more than a feather, and was sprinting through the crowd, knocking people over with just a touch.

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