The Cupid War by Carter Timothy

Author:Carter, Timothy [Carter, Timothy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: teen, teen fiction, young adult, humor, afterlife, young, fiction, youth, flux, romance, paranormal, adult, love
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2011-07-26T05:00:00+00:00

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16

Fallon didn’t sleep. His Cupid body didn’t need it. Still, as he lay on the slab in the special room of the Cupid Center, he felt more relaxed than he’d ever felt in his life. Or his afterlife.

His mind drifted. Sometimes he closed his eyes, sometimes he kept them open. Other Cupids came to visit, but Fallon hardly noticed them. He felt good. There was warmth all around him. He thought he could lie there forever. For all he knew, he had.

Then, slowly but surely, his perceptions began to change. He started to take note of the people who visited him. Jada. Caleb. Even Louis, though he never looked happy about it. As time passed, Fallon began to pay attention to what they were saying to him.

Soon he felt restless. He still loved lying there, but he also felt an itch to move around. Still later that itch became an actual desire, and he twitched his arms and then his legs.

“Well, someone’s coming around!”

The voice came from over Fallon’s head. He tried to turn to get a look, but that kind of movement was currently beyond him.

“ … who … ?” he managed to say. His voice sounded very foreign to him, raspy and hoarse.

“Don’t try to talk just yet,” the stranger said. “Just rest. You are on the road to recovery.”

Oh, Fallon thought. That’s a relief.

He closed his eyes again, and his mind drifted some more.

Fallon paid attention again when he heard raised voices. Not surprisingly, Louis’s voice was one of them.

“How I run this place is not open to debate, Caleb! I made a call, and it was the right one.”

“Your call nearly cost Fallon his soul.”

“Nearly,” Louis said. “He’s gonna make it.”

“A few seconds more,” Caleb said, “and he would have been lost.”

“That’s the risk that comes with the job.”

“Did he know that,” Caleb asked, “when you sent him to that school?”

“It was my call,” Louis said. “Everyone survived, and the Suicide was destroyed. End of story.”

“That’s not what you said about Sandra,” Caleb said softly, and there was a pause.

“That was different,” Louis said.

“Was it?”

“You got no business bringing her up,” Louis said. “You close your mouth, Caleb. You close it now, or … ”

“Or what?”

There was another pause, and then Fallon heard footfalls walking away. He opened his eyes and saw Louis storming out of the room.

“I think you hurt his feelings,” Fallon said.

Caleb spun around sharply and looked down at him. “Fallon! You’re back with us.”

“Yep,” Fallon said, enjoying the joy on Caleb’s face. His teacher had obviously been very concerned for him. “So,” he asked, “what was that all about?”

“How much did you hear?” Caleb asked.

“Pretty much all of it,” Fallon said, attempting to sit up. To his surprise, he succeeded.

“Easy, son, easy!” said a voice behind him, and firm hands took hold of his shoulders. “You’re not going anywhere until I say.”

Fallon looked behind him, and immediately recognized the old yet kind face he’d seen when he’d been brought in.

“I’m just sitting up,” he said.

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