Psion Beta (Psion Series #1) by Jacob Gowans

Author:Jacob Gowans
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2010-12-10T23:00:00+00:00

12. Girls

THE SENSATION SURROUNDING the fight in the cafeteria died down faster than Sammy expected. He and Kobe avoided each other now and Jeffie still didn’t talk to Sammy, so things were pretty much back to how they’d been before the fight. At headquarters, routine was like a tiger trap: so easy to fall into. Before he realized it, weeks had gone by, and he hadn’t kept his promise to Feet. It wasn’t that he forgot, he just had a lot on his mind.

The summer threatened to end unseasonably early, and Brickert wanted to visit the NWG Museum of History before the weather turned sour. Sammy agreed to go on a Sunday afternoon, thinking it might be his opportunity to open up to Brickert about his past. However, Capitol Island was known for its fickle weather, and a severe rainstorm forced them to postpone. This didn’t bother Brickert. He was dying to play the new game at headquarters: Star Racers Turbo.

Sammy wasn’t so eager. Most of his problems stemmed from consistently beating people at games. And since Star Racers Turbo was not that much different than Star Racers, he flatly refused each time someone invited him to play. He didn’t mind spending the day in the rec hall playing pool and catching glances of the Turbo matches on the screen, but he frequently caught himself silently critiquing the playing styles of his friends. After watching a handful of matches, he figured out exactly how he could win every game using the new weapons and features.

That night, as he stared at the stark whiteness of the ceiling from his top bunk, Sammy thought about Jeffie. She’d dumped Kobe the moment Byron let him out of solitary. Brickert had told Sammy all about it while Natalia filled in the juicy details. And though Kobe never showed signs of being upset, Jeffie just wasn’t the same.

Does she miss Kobe? The thought made him queasy.

But what irked him the most was that even though the crimes he and Kobe had committed were enormously different, she punished them the same. All Sammy had done was lie to her so she wouldn’t be jealous. Kobe had filmed them making out and used the tape for revenge. How could she think those two transgressions deserved equal punishment?

What has she got against me? The question bit at him like the fleas he’d gotten once from sleeping in an old junkyard while on the run. He needed more information. And the only person he could turn to was Natalia. He approached her at breakfast the next day.

“You should have seen her when she found out what Kobe did, Sammy,” Natalia said, not even touching her bowl of cereal. “And with her own camera.”

They were huddled in a corner of the cafeteria with Brickert, who was keeping a watch out.

“Me and Kawai had to physically stop her from going to solitary and finishing what you started. I mean—wow—you know? She was so scary, it was like—”

Brickert interrupted Natalia’s description with

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