The Unsound Theory (STAR Academy Book 1) by Emilia Zeeland

Author:Emilia Zeeland [Zeeland, Emilia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Emilia Zeeland
Published: 2018-01-26T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17. Back in Business

THE WAVE OF GOSSIP that followed Alec and Dave’s adventure into the hidden room was unprecedented, even by STAR Academy standards. Somehow, everyone knew what had happened, or a version of it. Yalena and Eric’s involvement in the story was the part that received more than generous attention, and even more so—speculation. The versions ranged from Eric staging the whole thing to rebel against his father to Yalena making Eric interfere because, for some unexplainable reason, she was being mean to Chris. Needless to say, the frog-like mouth behind that last one was Natalia—the major source of gossip.

Yalena, however, noticed the rumors hardly bugged her this time. Everyone who mattered to her knew the truth, and it made her feel lighter and free, even if the only thing that had changed over the past few days was the lunch table arrangement. Eric, Jen, Nico, and Yalena now found themselves at the biggest table with the Martians, where Heidi never left Dave’s side and Alec and Reid threw in jokes, usually at the expense of the inexperienced pilots.

Positively at her happiest, Yalena felt the days fly by. With Alec eventually ending whatever was going on between him and Natalia, the gossip the Moonie liked to spread quieted. Yalena certainly hoped it taught Natalia a lesson in sensitivity, which she desperately needed. By the time they finished the extra detention hours, the only excitement in sight was the Spring Gala, which Yalena’s mind drifted off to in the depths of their morning Space Travel classes.

The students had been sitting in the plain, white, oval classroom for the past hour, looking at the holographic design of a migration ship without necessarily seeing the point Professor Howards was trying to make. His voice was quiet and monotonous, and to make matters worse, he repeated his sentence over again once he had finally finished it.

Having drifted off more than once during class, Yalena tried to force herself to listen. She had peeked at the extra difficult homework they would have for the day after, and it gave her some motivation to put the Gala temporarily out of her mind.

“So, we’ve used the Galactic Coordinate System almost exclusively since the Migration for providing coordinates for an object. What’s interesting about it is that it assumes the Sun as its center. Its primary direction is aligned with the approximate center of the Milky Way. This makes it a rather convenient universal system, since we do not necessarily use Earth as a center nowadays.”

Yalena’s fingers slid across the surface of her tablet, already browsing through the reading for their next class. Jen elbowed her, nodding at the hologram representation of the Milky Way galaxy hanging above the round table.

“Pay attention,” she whispered, making Yalena snarl on the inside.

Even though Jen was right, she could hardly focus on anything but counting down the minutes until the end of class. In a last-ditch attempt to engage with the topic, she opened a blank page and noted down a few of the main points the professor had made.

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