Again I have missed this self-created deadline. I hate disappointing people, and for those of you who are disappointed in me, know that I'm mentally beating myself up like Mike Tyson in Punch-Out!! (That wasn't meant to be exciting, there are just two exclamations in the title.)
Oh, this is going well. My tangents increase exponentially when the sun goes down.
Aaaaaaannnnyyway, this chapter begins with Juliette glossing over a two-week long time jump by saying Adam's "nice" to her.
She's still babbling metaphors and numbers, still writing, of course, which I have to realize is pretty weird because as the books progress there are some...things...that happen that would take very accurate memory to write down later in such detail.
He asks what she's writing, but this time he's smiling. She doesn't answer, though, and he sits next to her, wrapping her blanket around her shoulders.
(slaps inner hopeless romantic) Get yourself together, woman. It's only the second page.
She's still silently wishing he would, I don't know, smother her or something, and says nothing.
She looks into his eyes and finally, finally, finally remembers him.
He babbles, an unfortunate habit everyone right now is sharing, about The Reestablishment destroying language. This is really starting to sound like 1984.
She starts shaking and then he pulls her into his arms, contact she hasn't had in years.
Well, I'm gone. Let's pack our bags, hopeless romantic me. I tried to avoid it. I know what's behind Juliette's Door Number Two, but it's late and I'm listening to Dylan Marron (aka Carlos on Night Vale) tell Cecil that he loves him and it's a long wait until Other Guy stops being written in as the asshole character. We're moving (temporarily) to Team Adam.
Ok, no more tangents. This isn't geometry.
After he hugs her and she gets over the contact, she moves away.
"'You can't t-touch me.' My breathing is shallow and hard to swallow, my fingers shaking so fast I clench them into a fist. 'You can't touch me. You can't.'"
Dammit Juliette, yes he can!!! Hang on, just let me check...76 more pages? I guess I'll just have to reread Across the Universe or something for the time being.
They start arguing about why they're there, etc., and then Juliette has to lie to the both of them.
"'You can talk to me. Just don't touch me.'
7 seconds of silence join the conversation. 'Maybe I want to touch you.'
There are 15,000 feelings of disbelief hole-punched in my heart. I'm tempted by recklessness, aching aching aching aching, desperate forever for what I can never have. I turn my back on him, but I can't keep the lies from spilling out of my lips. 'Maybe I don't want you to.'"
They get all huffy and "you don't know what you're talking about" before returning to silence.
This chapter ends with Juliette setting up exposition that will come...I'm not exactly sure when.
Next chapters of both this and The Night Circus will be up later today.
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