Martin Sandeke, my year-long chemistry lab partner and all-around most unobtainable person in the universe-who I never spoke to except to ask for beakers, relay findings, and request modifications to the heat level of my Bunsen burner.Īnd by Bunsen burner I meant, literally, my Bunsen burner. Martin Sandeke, unrepentant manwhore extraordinaire and kind of a jerk-faced bully. Martin Sandeke, the six-foot-three modern day physical manifestation of Hercules and captain of our university’s rowing team. We were scientists, politicians, and scholars. However, unlike Martin’s family, we weren’t billionaires. I also came from a notable family-my mother was a US senator, my father was the dean of the college of medicine at UCLA, and my maternal grandfather was an astronaut. Martin Sandeke, the heir to Sandeke Telecom Systems in Palo Alto, California, and smartypants in his own right. The name Martin, in particular, made my heart beat faster. Martin is, what? Like, twice the size of the girls you usually dope out?” I tried not to huff in disgust at his foul language as he continued.

The female was closest to my hiding spot in the chemistry lab cabinet her words were, therefore, much clearer.

If you do your job then he won’t even remember it,” came a feminine reply. “…think that he’s going to want to fuck you? After what happened last Friday?” The words were a hiss emanating from an unknown male voice I tensed at the use of vulgarity. I guessed two, also because only two voices were audible. I held my breath and strained to decipher how many sets of feet were represented by the approaching shoes. The voices from beyond the cabinet grew louder and were accompanied by the click of heels and the dull echo of tennis shoes. Yes, recalling synonyms while anxious was a bizarre coping strategy, but it worked. This game comforted me, calmed me, settled my nerves. Quiet, silent, muted, hushed, stilled, reticent… I moved my mouth, breathed the words-soundlessly-from my hiding place. To the figurative Bunsen Burner in pants everywhere.ĬHAPTER 5: Basic Concepts of Chemical BondingĬHAPTER 7: Molecular Geometry and Bonding TheoriesĬHAPTER 8: Bond Polarity and ElectronegativityĬHAPTER 11: Stoichiometry: Calculations with Chemical Formulas and Equations No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, photographed, instagrammed, tweeted, twittered, twatted, tumbled, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without explicit written permission from the author. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead or undead, events, locales is entirely coincidental if not somewhat disturbing/concerning.Ĭopyright © 2015 by Penny Reid All rights reserved. Names, characters, places, rants, facts, contrivances, and incidents are either the product of the author’s questionable imagination or are used factitiously.

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