The Worlds We Make by Megan Crewe

Author:Megan Crewe [Crewe, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Tags: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Romance, Young Adult - Fiction
ISBN: 9781423146186
Amazon: 1423146182
Goodreads: 17373172
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2014-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

“Woohoo!” the girl cried, and the others started to laugh, the tension breaking. Even though my pulse was still pounding, I was grinning so wide my cheeks hurt. Leo handed the boy down to his mother and slid off the storage box. He walked straight to me and tugged me into a tight embrace.

“The unexpected benefits of having an animal-obsessed best friend,” he said, but despite his joking tone, I felt a tremor ripple through his body. I hugged him back, and right then there was nothing awkward about it, just the immense gratitude that we’d all gotten through one more crisis okay.

“You did some pretty quick thinking too,” I said. “If you hadn’t raced in there, I don’t know what it would have done to the kid.”

“Yeah,” he said, sounding almost startled, as if he’d forgotten how he’d ended up in the situation in the first place. “I probably should have handled it better, but the bear was coming at us so fast, my mind went blank. I just didn’t want to make it angrier.”

“Well, you managed that. And I don’t think the kid’s mom is complaining.”

She was waiting nearby when Leo eased back from me, her son clutching her leg.

“Thank you,” she said. “I—I don’t know what to say. You saved his life.”

A faint blush crept across Leo’s face. “It was Kaelyn as much as me,” he said, but his eyes had brightened.

“The bear will probably steer clear of this part of town from now on,” I said.

“Good,” the older man said gruffly, but then he added, “We’ll know what to do if it causes any more problems, thanks to you.”

“You look as if you’ve been traveling for a while,” the woman put in. “Would you stop and have lunch with us?”

“Yes, you have to!” the girl said, bouncing on her heels and beaming at us. The older man inclined his head. The younger guy was still scowling, but he didn’t argue.

A sort of exhilaration swept through me. We were standing here, talking like people used to, before the friendly flu and the Wardens. Not like enemies, not full of suspicion and threats, just like…human beings.

I’d almost forgotten what it felt like, to smile at a stranger, to invite someone to share a meal. It was so normal. And it was the most incredible feeling in the world.

This was what I wanted. I could survive without computers and malls and processed food. But what was the point in surviving if we could never go back to being regular people with one another? Working in harmony, sharing resources, accomplishing far more than we could have alone.

If you’d asked me a day ago, I wouldn’t have been sure it could ever happen. It had seemed pretty much impossible. But right now…Right now I could see reason to hope all around me.

I let myself linger in that rush of joy for a few seconds longer, and then reality sank in. As much as I longed to stay here and keep the feeling of normalcy alive, we did still have the friendly flu and the Wardens to worry about.

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