Chemistry Countdown (Part 9 of 10)
"You girls all moved away before I could tell it," replied her mother. "Now, about your fairytale. How do you want your story to go?"
Mary sat on the back deck of her parents’ house. Was Justin meant to be her midnight kiss? She shook her head.
“Fairytales,” she muttered.
“What was that?” asked her mother. The question startled Mary as she turned around.
“Sorry,” said Mary. “I thought I was alone.”
“I didn’t mean to startle you. What were you saying?” Her mother sat down beside her on the bench her father had made. “Something about fairytales?”
“Melany was giving me a hard time in the car about some guy I went to school with. She thinks there’s something between us, but… I just don’t see it. Something would’ve happened while we were in school, right?”
“Did you ever ask him out?”
“No…”
“Then how do you know? If I hadn’t asked your father out, who knows what would’ve happened?”
“You asked dad out first? I didn’t know that. How’d you do it?”
“We met in college, as you know, and we had a class together. Was it science? That wasn’t it.”
“Chemistry?”
“No. I think it was history, actually. Yeah. It was history with Mr. E. He insisted we all call him that. He seemed tickled at how it sounded like “mystery”. I can’t even guess as to what his actual last name was. But that’s beside the point. It was in that class where I met your father.”
“Did you sit near each other?”
“Eventually. At first, I sat in the front row, right smack in the middle. I noticed him entering class on the first day… Ten minutes late, I may add.”
“Dad being late? He’s always so strict about being places on time.”
“He wasn’t always that way. On that first day of class, we locked eyes. Since he was late, the only open seats were in the far back. It wasn’t until a week later that I found him waiting outside class before it started.”
“What’d you say to him?”
“I asked him what he was doing, and he of course replied ‘waiting’. I asked for what and he blushed. Before he could reply, I asked if he’d want to get a coffee after class. It turned out he wanted to get to class early so he could get the seat next to me.”
“That’s too cute. Why haven’t I heard this story before?”
“You girls all moved away before I could tell it,” replied her mother. “Now, about your fairytale. How do you want your story to go?”
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