Payback by Francine Pascal

Author:Francine Pascal [Pascal, Francine]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Action & Adventure, Contemporary, General, Fantasy, Suspense, Fiction
ISBN: 9780743434102
Google: 4kyul6bUt-oC
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2001-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

STIRRING

SAM FINISHED REVIEWING CHAPTER seven of his physics book and tossed his mechanical pencil down on top of a pile of dog-eared notes. His eyes were dry, and he felt like he hadn t blinked in hours. Actually, it was quite possible that he hadn't. Physics was just that riveting.

Rubbing the heels of his hands into his eyes, Sam leaned back in his desk chair and sighed. He had about eight more chapters to go through, and his energy stores were sapped. If he looked at one more equation, he was going to snap and do something stupid. Like run through the hallway naked, singing Backstreet Boys songs at the top of his lungs.

Some guy on his hall had done that during midterms. It wasn't pretty.

Sam knew from years of cramming experience that there were three options for restoring his brain to a functional level.

One: caffeine

Two: sugar

Three: exercise

And since exercise could translate into a walk, which could possibly lead to seeing Gaia, Sam opted for number three.

He pushed away from his desk, grabbed his worn wool coat, and was out on Fifth Avenue in thirty-five-point-three seconds, departure time hindered only by a slow elevator. Sam took a deep breath of the crisp afternoon air and turned his footsteps toward Washington Square Park.

With any luck, Gaia would have ducked out of lunch for a quick game with Zolov and he could get a dose of her. Something to tide him over until finals were a thing of the past and he could see her again.

What a joke. Sam knew that if he saw her, it would only make things worse. It would only make it that much harder to work. He shoved his freezing, chapped hands into his coat pockets. He knew he should turn around and head home, but he didn't. Instead he walked directly through the arch at the top of the park and immediately started his search.

He knew it was bad for him, but he couldn't help it. He was a Gaia addict, and this might be the only place he could score a hit.

But it was possible to take Gaia in moderation. Sam nodded as this thought occurred to him, making him feel slightly better about his mission. He could just stand across the park and watch her as she anticipated her next move on the board. He could at least see for himself, with his own eyes, that she was okay. That would be enough.

Or would it?

Now that he'd felt what it was like to have Gaia in his arms, would anything less ever be enough?

He could talk to her, maybe. If he could get his voice box to work in her presence, which almost always seemed to be a problem.

As long as she didn't haul off and punch him, he could, in fact, kiss her.

Maybe that would help. If he did, maybe he'd see that it was just another kiss and not the mind-blowing, shiver-inducing, skin-tingling event he'd imagined it to be.

And then he saw her.

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