Bridgeworld (Bridgeworld Academy) by Travis McBee

Author:Travis McBee [McBee, Travis]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Juvenile Fiction
Publisher: Hydra Publications
Published: 2011-08-19T04:00:00+00:00

Lunch that day was an awkward affair for the four friends as the not so love birds shot menacing glances at each other through the silence that was thicker than the glosh that sat on their trays. Will was quite certain he had never been a part of such a somber meal and was ecstatic when the bell rang to send them to their classes.

His ecstasy departed him as quickly as it had come when he sauntered into his science class followed by the entire cast of the most awkward lunch of a lifetime. He had forgotten that he shared the same lab station with his three friends and didn’t look forward to an hour addendum to the misery.

That class would easily have been the best Basic Sciences class if it hadn’t been for the looming shadow of a dying relationship. They were set to the task of creating an acid that would only eat through a specific alloy and to do so they had to employ Bridgeworld’s version of Bunsen burners.

There are few things boys enjoy more than fire and acid may very well be one of those things. Jon and Will soon found themselves cackling like mad scientists as they dissolved material after unlucky material into the acidic brew that sat bubbling over an open flame. Even Corey found himself smiling at more than one point as testosterone told him that fire was good and scientific destruction was better.

Abby on the other hand was not a boy and as such did not find any amusement in either the little flame or the beaker of acid that it fueled. Instead she grew increasingly foreboding as anger creased her usually beautiful face and anger distorted her charming voice.

“Will you clowns stop messing around!” she yelled at them.

Will stopped laughing and pulled out the sizzling piece of metal that he was dangling into the beaker. He hung his head to avoid looking into the eyes of the incredibly angry Abby. Jon stopped laughing instantly as well and jerked his own piece of metal out of the acid. He didn’t do it quite as gracefully as Will had managed however and as he withdrew the small rod of metal it clipped the edge of the beaker.

“Look out!” Corey warned, his eyes widening in horror.

The beaker of acid had been precariously balanced over the flame that heated it and the slight knock from Jon had set it to teetering like a toddler learning to walk. Will’s first reaction was to back away from it. Jon’s first reaction was to grab it.

Now ordinarily grabbing teetering objects is one of the best ways to stabilize something. However when said object has been sitting over a flame, said object is very hot. Jon’s hands grasped the beaker alright and Jon’s hand’s began to sizzle almost instantly as he made contact.

“Yow!” he yelped and jerked his hands away from the steaming beaker.

That jerk fixed the teetering problem alright. The beaker stopped teetering about and fell. It fell directly into Jon’s lap spilling acid across his monogarb in a pool of sizzling corrosion.

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