The Fresno Incident by Philip L. Rettew

Author:Philip L. Rettew [Rettew, Philip L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781467073035
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2012-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 51

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Denver, Colorado

Jake arose early to make his favorite meal of the day. While he was preparing scrambled eggs, link sausage, orange juice and two slices of toast, he casually turned on his laptop computer on his kitchen table, which also served as his desk, to get ready for a day of preparation for his presentation at New York University on October 3. After taking his toast out of the toaster, he logged on to his computer, and clicked on the internet icon and returned to tending to his sausage in a frying pan on the stove. After he browned the sausage links to his satisfaction and placed them on a paper towel on the counter to absorb the excess grease, he wiped most of the remaining grease out of the pan, and then cracked two eggs and dropped them into the hot skillet and scrambled them. With the eggs cooked to his satisfaction, he put all the food on one large plate and set it on his breakfast table with a large glass of orange juice with ice cubes in it, and then went to the stove again to make sure the gas was completely off. He returned to his seat at the table, and started to eat.

After swallowing the first fork full of eggs and sausage, he glanced at his computer monitor and immediately choked for a few seconds on the next fork full of food. He finally understood why Sasha did not show up at Eddie’s last Monday evening. Joe’s ‘poster’ project had filled the internet with such thorough and intense saturation that Jake simply could not avoid the message. His heart raced as he read the poster and then stared at the picture of Sasha, now in full realization that either she had died in the explosion, or was seriously hurt because of it. Otherwise, he most certainly would have heard from her by now. His emotions were ‘red-lining’ his capacity to sit still. On the one hand, he was overjoyed that she did not ‘stand him up’ at Eddie’s Place last Monday. He felt completely reassured of her love once again. However, the simultaneous anxiety about her welfare, even her life, dominated his consciousness and ripped at his emotions. He simply had to know whether she was alive or dead, and until he actually heard her voice or saw her within reach, he would have to maintain even the most improbable hope of her survival. To assume that she was dead was impossible. She would remain alive in his heart and mind until he had incontrovertible proof that she was dead. That meant he would have to see her lifeless body with his own eyes. His intelligence, his psychological training, his education and his professional experience in life were no match for his simple basic human emotional demand for her survival. Under the circumstances, he translated that into concern about whether she had been mercilessly murdered or maimed along with hundreds of other innocent people, whether she had suffered, or was still suffering.

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