Chapter 7Roland held the device close to his heart as he stepped into the hotel elevator. The vibrations of the battery seemed to sync up with his heart.
Oh, he was crushing hard. Was he too old to crush?
Probably.
But then again, the testosterone vials that he injected regularly had restarted his puberty. He was only something like ten or twelve years into this new timeline, so he was only like an early teenager. He could still crush.
Yes, he decided. He could still have crushes.
And he had a crush on Martha.
He was still thinking of her hair, her hands, and the fact that he had seen her, and liked her, on the Vacation Station. Up close, she wasn’t as beautiful as she was from afar—but that didn’t diminish her at all. It made him like her that much more. It was like the gold threads
