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My hand shook as I fought to stay cal to do was to let him see how much of an affect his touch had onwild,At that verymore than to be close to him

Yep, I know, I’ht I saw Alex’s eyes widen, buildingthe same affect on him But it happened so quickly, I couldn’t be certain it actually happened And before I knew it, he turned his back onanother word

What did ed throughthe rest of the school day What had my life been like before I’d been able to feel? Before Alex had coh, even though the majority of my life had been spent without all of this, it didn’t feel like it In fact, , pre-Alex, pre-electricity days seeain, as life without feeling, really? Nothing And

But anyway…

My last class of the day was a big crap-fest I was called on three times, which has never happened to me before But for solowing or so--I was the very opposite of invisible At least to Mr Montgolish teacher, who continuously called on me to answer his questions

Gemma, can you tell us what one of the major themes is in Shakespeare’s Ronificance of the poison in the play? It wasn’t like I didn’t have the answers to his questions I loved literature and everything, but I hated being put on the spot And I hated the fact that I stammered all of ot ja the crap out of it, a teacher strolled by and scolded me By the time I sank down into a chair at library, I was in no mood to deal with any more crap Really, I probably should have skipped out on the et under my skin

But I didn’t

I don’t knohy

I also had ainside a to deal with all the stress

I rested ainst ed the sides of my temples, and let my eyes drift closed I took a slow breath and tried to bury all of my problems deep, deep dohere it would take them forever to resurface

But as a current of electricity weaved its way upyour probleroaned as ht out the

Alex dropped his bag on the table "Headache?"

"Yep," I replied snippily And it’s sitting right next to ed to Aislin

I raisedon the other side of the table, a pink purse draped across her shoulder, her forehead creased over with concern

"She has a headache," Alex answered for me

"I’ deal"

"Hold on, I think I have so around her purse and retrieved a bottle of Tylenol "Here you go"

I took the bottle gratefully, poured two in ave it back to her "Thanks"

She s "No problem"

I tipped my head back, plopped them into my mouth, and forced them down my throat with my spit Hopefully they’d kick in quick If I was lucky,with the headache

Hey, a girl can hope, right?

Aislin sat down "Okay, so does anyone have any ideas on e should do for our project?"

"Whatever’s easiest," Alex said Then he glanced at me and added, "And takes the least amount of time"

I rolled my eyes

"Don’t be ridiculous, Alex," Aislin said, like it was the ood job I for one would really like to get an A And I’ht, Geht now…hht noas leave

"I don’t lance in Alex’s direction "And short"

"Good, then its settled" He leaned back in his chair and rested his hands behind his head "We’ll pick whatever’s easiest"

Aislin scowled at hinoring Aislin’s scowl, "is that we could just o with it That ouldn’t have to spend very ether"

Okay, that’s it I’d had enough of his snide coot up,forward on all fours again I snatched by bag off of the table and turned to leave