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Atlas: Chapter 48

Boston was different from Milwaukee or Chicago.

Of course it was different, it was the East Coast.

If you asked me seven years ago if I'd return to the East, I'd have shrugged my shoulders. If you asked me from six to up till five months ago if I'd move to the East, I'd say no.

Now I'm back for a job.

I enjoyed what I did. It was stressful, but I liked it.

I checked my phone to see a text from Charlie. He was telling me about the robotics club he had become president of. That kid has never failed to impress me.

Levi
5:17 p.m

You start work the day after tomorrow yea?

yea, why?

Okay, find a bookstore and get this book I'm about to send you. I'm telling you dude, the guy you're working for is obsessed with it. He gets everything he knows from there and uses it everyday.
You want a raise in less than a year? Read it.

I stared a at the link for a couple seconds before clicking on it. It wasn't new. It was a few years old.

Actually, it was more than a few years old. It was on finance and from the after the depression of 2008.

Crap. I needed to find a bookstore. I walked around the area, hoping to find something or even someone to help me find a bookstore.

Maybe it'll look better if I skin read and annotate it.

I looked around the area with a medium shade of brown bricks. Going Store front after store front, I couldn't even find one.

God. I ran a hand through my hair before I bumped into someone.

"Do you know if there's a bookstore around?" Without stopping to see who it was.

"Yea sure! Follow me. It's not too far."

It wasn't that far. We went in and I began searching the shelves for the book, and almost failing.

I was going to check one last section. Hopefully, I could find it. I followed him through the bookshelf— I was surprised he stayed with me— as then he bumped into someone.

Not just anyone.

Arabella Rosalyn Turner.

"Oh, Kai! Hey!" She greeted Kai, was his name, and picked up her phone.

"Sorry. I was showing someone around the bookstore, he looked confused when I walked in," Kai said. She looked up at me. If there was any shock or recognition in her, it didn't show. "Well," Kai started. "I better get going I have a shift starting in thirty. Bye!" We waved goodbye, and I was terrified of turning to meet her eyes.

I finally look at her. She looked the same, but older, of course. Her grey eyes seemed more cloudy than stormy, more at ease. Her curly hair was shorter. I had never thought about her in shorter hair, but it suited her so well. It framed her face so elegantly. She was in scrubs and wore a long sleeved black shirt underneath and carried a large bag on her arm. It's not that I had never seen her after I high school, I just hadn't really looked at her. She ran her tongue over her lips before speaking.