Unbound by J.B. Simmons

Author:J.B. Simmons [Simmons, J.B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-09-13T04:00:00+00:00

MY FIRST WEEKS back at boarding school were like a long hangover. I made it two days before I reconnected V. I talked to Naomi every day after that. I could check her location and her body temperature any time, but it was not the same. Our week together had come and gone and left in its wake my failure on the ISA-7 exam.

Classes and senior-year parties were not much help. That one week with Naomi felt more important than all of it. I wondered if such a small stretch of days could outweigh the rest of my life. I wondered why my dreams had gone blank. I wondered whether they had meant anything after all.

At least today I had a new distraction. It was the first Sunday of February, Super Bowl Sunday. I didn’t care about football, but if I was going to attend a game, it might as well be the hundredth Super Bowl. The World Football League was making this more than just a football game. It was a party, a festival, and a worldwide extravaganza to celebrate the centennial. No other city but my hometown could have been fitting as the site, especially with the New York Giants playing.

I’d stayed in my family’s place the night before. My dad was in Geneva on some urgent business. Nothing new there, but that’s why he’d given me his two tickets. I probably could have bought a parcel on the moon with them, but I already had one of those. Might as well go and see the spectacle.

Now I was waiting for Charles, which was odd. He was never late like this. I had a lot of valid reasons for inviting him. He was a friend. He was fun. Like me, he didn’t really care about the football. He’d be interested to watch the Shanghai Dragons play. This was the first time a Chinese team had reached the Super Bowl since they joined the league years ago. I was hoping Charles could also tell me more about where’d he been and what he’d been doing with ISA-7. I’d barely seen him since returning to school.

Those were all valid reasons, which made it even easier to hide the true reason for giving Charles my other ticket. I needed to understand the warning about Naomi. I still had no clue why Charles had passed the message through Aisha, or why he’d wanted to warn me in the first place. The two times I’d tried to bring it up, he’d come up with some excuse to leave. I figured the Super Bowl was a great way to make him sit beside me for a few hours. It was a promising sign that he’d accepted without hesitation.

But now he was late, really late. The crowd around me was getting smaller, with almost everyone already in the stadium or on their way. I checked with V again. No messages. Naomi was still in North Carolina. Nothing unusual about her stats.

I blinked the screen off and gazed out toward the new stadium.

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