CHEMIST by Jessica Harris


There is a boy named Nick, living his best life in the four corners of his room. He never care. NEVER, except for one girl. He is a perfect son any parent wish to have. He is an obedient son, kind, generous, and smart or intelligent rather. Nick has a wonderful talent, drawing that's why he a taking up Architecture but he didn't really like it. He wants to be a chemist, but his dad pushed him to take his present course because his dad is an Architect.

His life takes place in 2 settings: house & school; not actually house because he never leaves his 4 cornered, airconditioned room, with drawings of everything related to chemistry and even bottles of chemicals. He is working on something; he wants to make a real love potion using these formulas and chemicals he is in possession right now. Nick believes that love is just a chemical reaction in our brain; having oxytocin which deepens feelings of attachment, and vasopressin which has been linked to trust, empathy and sexual monogamy.

He's been working on it for months now and once he finished it, he will make Danica drink it, the girl he cares about more than himself. Just a little history about Danica; she is Nick's classmate since gradeschool. They've been friends but not bestfriends like any other childhoodmates. Danica are friends with Nick but she never liked him in a way that he wants it to be. He attempted to court Danica when they were in high school, but Nick was busted right in that moment that he was just confessing his feelings. She told him exactly these words, "Sorry, we can't be together". That 5 words in a sentence, broke him into pieces. So being a chemical genius, he planned making a love potion that can literally exist.

The time came... Nick finished this liquid in a bottle and ready to give it to Danica, he got a mail in a mailbox from her.
TO: NICK
FROM: DANICA
"Dear Nick, we've been friends since we were kids and it is really good to be your friend. I know that we've never been bestfriends. As much as I want to be your bestfriend, I can't, because we can't be attached to each other, because I was scared that you'll develop feelings for me. You can't have the same feelings as I had since we were in 5th grade. In highschool, the day you confessed your feelings for me, I didn't know what to feel. I didn't know if I should be happy or sad, or broken because you fell in love with me, with a girl that can't be with you for the rest of your life. I have a heart disease and I don't want to do the operation. So, by the time that you're reading this Nick, I am gone. But I want you to know that I loved you; and I love you still 'til my last breath. I will be yours, forever. In heaven. Your love, Danica"

Nick was broken, into pieces, powdered into every ash he can be. He can't believe it. His world was gone, it was taken. He wished that if Danica gave him a chance to love her, even in just short of time, maybe she died happy. From those 5 words, "Sorry, we can't be together" turned into 3 words, "I am gone."

People may be asking Danica, “Why? Why didn’t you tell him? Maybe you could've use those times to be happy.” We can’t blame her for what she did. Danica doesn’t want Nick to get attached to her and be heart broken when the time comes. She wants him to live his life as normal as possible, without pain, heartache, suffering. Love is not just a chemical reaction in our brain. It is a feeling. We can’t choose a person whom we fall in love to, but it is our decision if we want to fight for that love or just let it go away without giving it a chance even in the shortest time you've got.

by: Jessica Harris
your girl with big dreams

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