Comet! (an Ell Donsaii story #5 ) Read Online Free
Author: Laurence Dahners
frowned, “So I ... need to … ‘sweep you off your feet’ or something like that?”
“Sure, something like that. But you’ll probably need to be patient too. I agree with your grandmother. I’m too young to settle down yet. So for a while you’re going to need to be my boyfriend but maybe not my exclusive boyfriend. Do you think you can hack that? ”
He stared at her. “How would you feel if I was going out with other girls?”
She shrugged, “OK,” she wrinkled her nose, “maybe they’d smooth off some of those rough edges you’ve been displaying here the past day or so?”
Roger closed his eyes a moment. Would I be able to stand it? Yes! It isn’t that she already loves someone else. It’s that I need to earn her love. He opened his eyes and grinned at her. “Maybe they could give me the ‘sweeping off feet’ practice I apparently need?”
Ell put her hand over his on the armrest, “Yeah! That’s more like the Roger 1.0 that I used to know.” She leaned back and frowned, “But, no breaking other girls’ hearts! I don’t like mean boys either.”
He sat up straighter and said, “So, tell me about your ‘or’ from before?”
“OK,” Ell said, looking at him intently, “I’m figuring that if most of our D5R team is breaking off to build businesses based on what we’ve already done with ports, we need a new team that can focus on what new things we can do. Not on building businesses out of what we’ve already figured out, but on new research to see if there’s anything else we can do? I’m hoping you’ll join that team?”
“Sure! What are we going to work on ?”
“ Whatever grabs our interest, but for sure your research on whether we can send living beings somewhere?”
Roger’s eyebrows jumped up, “Oh! Yeah , we do need to keep working on that.”
Ell grinned, “I have a few other ideas too.”
Roger rolled his eyes, “I’ll just bet.”
Chapter One
Kitt’s Peak National Observatory , Arizona — The Observatory confirmed the discovery of a new comet by amateur astronomer Wilson Daster . Though the comet is not very large, i nitial observations suggest that this comet will pass fairly close to Earth so it should put on quite a sho w when it does …
The D5R charter landed and taxied to the terminal at the RDU airport. People got off in good spirits. Ell thought about making an announcement to everyone about the formation of the new companies but decided to wait until their first day back at work on Friday. Sitting in the back of the plane with Roger she was one of the last ones off. As she walked down the jetway she felt like something was odd or different from usual. Is there something different about the jet way for charter flights? She wondered. The lights in the terminal seem really bright. Then Ell stepped out into the terminal and suddenly the difference and the lights responsible for it became blindingly obvious.
Video crews with high intensity lights surrounded the gate. Ell blinked and shaded her eyes. I knew they’d find us, just not this soon!
Reporters began calling, “Ms. Donsaii, Ms. Donsaii! Please?! How was the Space Station? What are your plans for…” They waved their hands and stuck microphones in her face.
Ell stopped, closed her eyes a moment, then opened them and smiled. “Yes, I’ll answer a few questions.” She passed her bag to Roger and asked him to go on ahead.
Andrew Bilstock watched the young strawberry blond move over to one side trailing all of the reporters. She wore jeans and a t-shirt with running shoes. The t-shirt said “E=MC 2 ” across the front. He considered. One would expect her to look plain and ordinary in such typical everyday clothes . Clothes like hundreds of other travelers wore right here in this very airport. She should look rumpled after a plane flight . Yet, somehow the plain clothing looked stunning on her. She looked fresh as a model just made up for a photo shoot. He would have sworn
“Sure, something like that. But you’ll probably need to be patient too. I agree with your grandmother. I’m too young to settle down yet. So for a while you’re going to need to be my boyfriend but maybe not my exclusive boyfriend. Do you think you can hack that? ”
He stared at her. “How would you feel if I was going out with other girls?”
She shrugged, “OK,” she wrinkled her nose, “maybe they’d smooth off some of those rough edges you’ve been displaying here the past day or so?”
Roger closed his eyes a moment. Would I be able to stand it? Yes! It isn’t that she already loves someone else. It’s that I need to earn her love. He opened his eyes and grinned at her. “Maybe they could give me the ‘sweeping off feet’ practice I apparently need?”
Ell put her hand over his on the armrest, “Yeah! That’s more like the Roger 1.0 that I used to know.” She leaned back and frowned, “But, no breaking other girls’ hearts! I don’t like mean boys either.”
He sat up straighter and said, “So, tell me about your ‘or’ from before?”
“OK,” Ell said, looking at him intently, “I’m figuring that if most of our D5R team is breaking off to build businesses based on what we’ve already done with ports, we need a new team that can focus on what new things we can do. Not on building businesses out of what we’ve already figured out, but on new research to see if there’s anything else we can do? I’m hoping you’ll join that team?”
“Sure! What are we going to work on ?”
“ Whatever grabs our interest, but for sure your research on whether we can send living beings somewhere?”
Roger’s eyebrows jumped up, “Oh! Yeah , we do need to keep working on that.”
Ell grinned, “I have a few other ideas too.”
Roger rolled his eyes, “I’ll just bet.”
Chapter One
Kitt’s Peak National Observatory , Arizona — The Observatory confirmed the discovery of a new comet by amateur astronomer Wilson Daster . Though the comet is not very large, i nitial observations suggest that this comet will pass fairly close to Earth so it should put on quite a sho w when it does …
The D5R charter landed and taxied to the terminal at the RDU airport. People got off in good spirits. Ell thought about making an announcement to everyone about the formation of the new companies but decided to wait until their first day back at work on Friday. Sitting in the back of the plane with Roger she was one of the last ones off. As she walked down the jetway she felt like something was odd or different from usual. Is there something different about the jet way for charter flights? She wondered. The lights in the terminal seem really bright. Then Ell stepped out into the terminal and suddenly the difference and the lights responsible for it became blindingly obvious.
Video crews with high intensity lights surrounded the gate. Ell blinked and shaded her eyes. I knew they’d find us, just not this soon!
Reporters began calling, “Ms. Donsaii, Ms. Donsaii! Please?! How was the Space Station? What are your plans for…” They waved their hands and stuck microphones in her face.
Ell stopped, closed her eyes a moment, then opened them and smiled. “Yes, I’ll answer a few questions.” She passed her bag to Roger and asked him to go on ahead.
Andrew Bilstock watched the young strawberry blond move over to one side trailing all of the reporters. She wore jeans and a t-shirt with running shoes. The t-shirt said “E=MC 2 ” across the front. He considered. One would expect her to look plain and ordinary in such typical everyday clothes . Clothes like hundreds of other travelers wore right here in this very airport. She should look rumpled after a plane flight . Yet, somehow the plain clothing looked stunning on her. She looked fresh as a model just made up for a photo shoot. He would have sworn
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