In Time by Constance Walker
Author:Constance Walker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2014-06-17T21:10:00+00:00
CHAPTER 8
âI still donât know what to say. Weâve been sitting here for the last fifteen minutes and thereâs so much to figure out and all we can do is stare at each other?â She looked down and suddenly laughed. âI havenât assimilated it all yet. I donât know whether I want to be alone to think about things or to be sitting here with you figuring out things.â
âWant to go back to the hotel?â
âNo. Thatâs just itâI want to stay here with you. I want you to tell me again that youâve fallen in love with me and I want you to tell me how it is that Iâm now 70 some years behind my own time and, oh there are so many things I want to know and yet I simply donât know what to ask.â She fingered the small lavender jade flower that hung from a gold necklace she was wearing. âAnd me? Iâm Allie who has always been accused of asking too many questions about everything and yet here I am and, for the first time in a very long time, I donât know what to ask or what to say. Iâm totally blank.â She raised her hands, palms pointing to the ceiling. âThis is insane. Totally insane. And yet if I believe you, and I think Iâm starting to, Iâve got a huge problem. A couple of huge problems.â
He sat across the desk from her and picked at the keys of the typewriter. âI know. Iâve felt the same way since I first realized this had all happened. Itâs overwhelming, isnât it?â
âTo say the least.â She looked around the room. âWhen I first got here I thought this was all somebodyâs very tacky PR dream to lure in the tourists.â She picked up an oblong eraser and let it fall back onto the green ink blotter covering the desk. âAnd now, and now I find out itâs all real and the only thing out of order here is me.â She put her hand over her heart. âI think you had better tell me how Iâm supposed to feel, Noah, because I havenât a clue. Should I be scared? Panicked?â
âI donât know. You tell me.â
âI canât because this is totally crazy. Things like this just donât happen. Iâm not the type of person who just steps into another century. And I never was the type of person to fall in love in so short a time. This canât be happening to me.â
âIt is.â
âOh, I know it is and, in a way, it makes me very happy so I guess it can happen. But not to nice ordinary women photographers like me on assignment in the middle of the country. Maybe in books or in the movies or TV. Or on sci-fi fiction Internet websites.â She looked at him. âOh, see? I forgot. You donât know about TV and the internet, do you?â
âNo.â He managed a small smile.
âSo why to me? And why now?â She leaned her head onto her folded hands.
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