The Sovereign Era (Book 1): Brave Men Run by Selznick Matthew Wayne

Author:Selznick, Matthew Wayne [Selznick, Matthew Wayne]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Superpowers/Sci-Fi
Publisher: MWS Media
Published: 2014-01-19T05:00:00+00:00

From The Journal Of Nate Charters – Twenty Eight

We followed Lina back into the house and upstairs to the master bedroom.

The room smelled of old dust, like it didn’t see regular use. Above the king sized bed was a huge, framed photograph of a middle-aged couple I assumed were Car’s folks.

I stood by the door. Lina propped herself against a tall chest of drawers. Teslowski sat on the edge of the bed with his hands between his knees. He looked at us.

I nodded. “She knows,” I said, “and it’s cool. You can trust her.”

He paled a little and his eyes went big. “You told her?”

Lina shrugged. “Don’t freak out, man.”

“Byron, what’s going on? How’d you know I was here, anyway?”

“I went by your house. Convinced your mom to tell me.”

“Okay… so?”

He squirmed a little. “Remember what I said a few days ago? About watching out for each other?”

“Sure.”

“I got called into the principal’s office this morning. My parents are there, and Ms. Elp, and this dude from some medical place.” He paused to bite at his left index finger. “Dude said he wanted to talk about my sports.”

I didn’t get it. “Why?”

“He says he always sees my name in the paper, any time Abbeque Valley wins a game. He’s like, ‘I wanted to meet the young man who is so good at so many things.’”

I shivered. “You think..?”

“Well, yeah, dude, of course I do! Turns out he’s been talking to my parents all week about me doing some survey, or test, or some shit, at this place in Irvine.”

Lina tilted her head. “What place?”

Teslowski took off his baseball cap and scratched his head. “Tyndale Labs?”

“What kind of survey,” I asked.

“Like, a physical, and stuff. He said it was this study on, like, the physical development of adolescents, or whatever. But, no shit, dude, this guy wasn’t no doctor. I know it.”

I might have been infected by my mother’s attitude about this whole thing, but I was certain Teslowski was right. I still tried to sound skeptical. “How would you know, though?”

He shrugged violently, and waves of anxiety rode on his sweat. “Dude, I know it! I’ve been waiting for something like this to happen.”

“Look,” I said, “I know you said that on Monday. But why couldn’t this guy be legit?”

Lina surprised me. “If he was, why come to the school? Why not just meet you at your house?”

“I guess he was looking at my records,” Teslowski said.

I frowned. “Can just anybody do that?”

Lina said, “I don’t think so. Not unless his parents okayed it.”

“They probably did,” Byron said ruefully. “Anything to promote my sports, my dad’d be into. Plus, the guy said he’d pay us.”

Lina nodded. “Yeah, like this friend of mine who signed up for all these clinical trials for money. Screwed him up, kinda, too.”

Byron frowned at her. “Thanks a lot.”

I'd seen so much crap on the news all week, it was way too easy to think the absolute worst. “Forget that,” I said. “When do they want you to do this?”

“Next Friday after school,” Byron said.

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