In Time by Constance Walker

In Time by Constance Walker

Author:Constance Walker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2014-06-17T21:10:00+00:00


CHAPTER 8

“I still don’t know what to say. We’ve been sitting here for the last fifteen minutes and there’s so much to figure out and all we can do is stare at each other?” She looked down and suddenly laughed. “I haven’t assimilated it all yet. I don’t know whether I want to be alone to think about things or to be sitting here with you figuring out things.”

“Want to go back to the hotel?”

“No. That’s just it—I want to stay here with you. I want you to tell me again that you’ve fallen in love with me and I want you to tell me how it is that I’m now 70 some years behind my own time and, oh there are so many things I want to know and yet I simply don’t know what to ask.” She fingered the small lavender jade flower that hung from a gold necklace she was wearing. “And me? I’m 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 don’t know what to ask or what to say. I’m totally blank.” She raised her hands, palms pointing to the ceiling. “This is insane. Totally insane. And yet if I believe you, and I think I’m starting to, I’ve got a huge problem. A couple of huge problems.”

He sat across the desk from her and picked at the keys of the typewriter. “I know. I’ve felt the same way since I first realized this had all happened. It’s overwhelming, isn’t it?”

“To say the least.” She looked around the room. “When I first got here I thought this was all somebody’s very tacky PR dream to lure in the tourists.” She picked up an oblong eraser and let it fall back onto the green ink blotter covering the desk. “And now, and now I find out it’s all real and the only thing out of order here is me.” She put her hand over her heart. “I think you had better tell me how I’m supposed to feel, Noah, because I haven’t a clue. Should I be scared? Panicked?”

“I don’t know. You tell me.”

“I can’t because this is totally crazy. Things like this just don’t happen. I’m 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 can’t be happening to me.”

“It is.”

“Oh, 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.“ She looked at him. “Oh, see? I forgot. You don’t know about TV and the internet, do you?”

“No.” He managed a small smile.

“So why to me? And why now?” She leaned her head onto her folded hands.



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