Jessie Fifty-Fifty Complete Series by Reid Natalie

Author:Reid, Natalie [Reid, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2014-11-30T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Indescribable

Nights inside Bunker City were the worst. The closed in space and ever-present lights could get to the best of people. To a pilot that lived much of her life eighteen thousand feet up in the air, they could cause insanity, infuriation, claustrophobia, and an imminent sense of suffocation and restlessness.

The first night, Jessie had been too tired to notice it. The second, she had spent mostly above ground because of her race to Ritter’s apartment. But by the third night, the feeling became too much for her that she had to abandon her bed and make for someplace wider, someplace where the ceiling looked a little more like the night sky.

Sneaking through the streets, she made it to the piano stadium cave. There she stretched out on the rock and tried to breathe normally, but the solitude of the darker cave did not help matters. She grabbed a bottle of water she had stuffed in her jacket pocket and gulped it down as if it were air. When she had consumed every last drop and still didn’t feel right, she cast it on the rocks in anger.

Sitting on the hard ground, she drew her legs up to her chest, rested her elbow on her knees, and pressed her palms to her forehead. Suffocation reigned in around her, yet Jessie couldn’t shake the feeling that something was missing. She felt she was forgetting something, something integral. It was the Aero Complex, she told herself. It was just the left-over feeling from when she evolved and had the Potentian Band taken from around her neck. For days and weeks afterwards, she would go around thinking she was forgetting something, something more than just a synthetic band around her neck. Once, she had stopped right in the middle of a military training exercise to go looking for it, but the name and the ‘what’ she was searching for wasn’t there. Maybe there wasn’t even a name for what she felt was gone, or maybe nothing was really gone in the first place.

“Which night?” she breathed out, gripping her head tighter and closing her eyes. “What night, mom? What were you trying to tell me?”

She still had her head in her hands when a voice called out close by, “I know how you feel.”

She jerked her head up to see Jack standing a few feet away, leaning on the side of the cave wall.

“What do you mean?” she asked, running her hands through her hair and letting her fingers meet up at the top of her head.

Jack gave her a sad look of understanding.

“I know that feeling,” he said. “That feeling that there’s something missing, right? And you don’t quite know what it is. They call it the Aero Complex; mistakenly label it as some side-effect from before we were human. They lie and call it a disorder that goes away in a few years. But that’s not true. We all still feel it… in the quiet, in times like this.”

He pointed

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