Enders by Lissa Price

Author:Lissa Price
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780385742498
Publisher: Random House Children's
Published: 2014-01-06T23:00:00+00:00

A Place to Be Somebody Else.

Where I first met Madison and Blake.

We all stared at it. “Club Rune?” I said. “My father?”

I couldn’t imagine why my father would have a card from Club Rune. It was a hangout for renters and regular teens. What would a Middle—especially my father—be doing there?

Hyden picked up the box. “We should go.”

“Just give me a minute,” I asked. “Please.”

“It’s not safe for the three of us to be out here,” Hyden said.

“Hey, give her minute, will you?” Michael shifted a box he was holding on his hip.

“You don’t get it,” Hyden said, putting down his box. “I do, because I know how the chipspace works.”

“You’re the one who doesn’t get it.” Michael practically threw his box down. “How about thinking about her? You, you can’t even touch her unless you’re in someone else’s body.”

I breathed in and stared wide-eyed at the two guys. “Michael!”

Hyden froze. I held my breath. They were like two animals, wound as tight as possible, ready to strike.

“No,” Hyden said sadly. “He’s right.”

“Hyden … ,” I said, wanting so much to reach out.

He picked up his box. “Go ahead, Callie. We’ll wait for you outside.”

He left. Michael looked at me. “Take your time,” he said before he followed him.

I sighed as I stood in the middle of my father’s office. What to do with my last precious minutes? I wanted something of his, but what?

One of his watches lay on a stack of papers on his desk. It was old-fashioned, like from his old movies that he loved. He had a couple of these; they were rare. Collector’s items.

I put it on my wrist. It was too big. Heavy. I slipped it off and put it back. My eyes desperately scanned the room and stopped on his bookcase. At the top, hanging on the edge, was his old fedora. I used a fishing pole to get it down. I put it to my nose and breathed in. It still smelled like him, a tweedy, woodsy scent. I held it there, pretending he was with me.

Could I remember that scent? Memorize it so I could call it up when I ached for his arm around my shoulders?

I pulled my face away from the hat and stroked the felt. It still had his shape. But it wasn’t him.

I left it by the watch so they could be together.

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