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I was in space. Floating among tiny balls of light which were-wait, smiling? I stopped err, gliding across and held one such ball in my hand. It was Elm, the neutrino. She was bobbing up and down in glee. And before I could ask why, she swooned giddily and said something about having a new visitor in the bubble chamber. I followed her curiously as she zoomed through the slush liquid Hydrogen. All the protons were converging around someone and the quarks were just swishing past eccentrically. What on earth was this pandemonium for, I wondered as I pushed myself forward towards Elm.

And it was then I saw him. Standing with a smug expression and 12 hands, each of the hands were holding a bright pink fountain pen. I watched horrified as he autographed 'Li' onto each electron. The protons and neutrinos were eagerly pushing forward in the queue. And from afar, I could see a host of other sub-atomic particles surging towards us. That explained why those idiot quarks were hysterical. They had got the first autographs, apparently.

Ugh! I curbed my gagging reflex and tried to swim away but one of his slimy hands had me already in his grasp. I screamed but only a bubble escaped out. He was growing bigger now, almost twice my size. And he was saying the same thing, over and over again. That he wants to autograph me on my forehead. I pushed myself away but he caught me anyways, opening that horrid pink pen and-

"Sakura!" I woke up startled and looked around frantically, mentally making a note of were the fire exits were located. The lonely laboratory walls seemed to look back at me puzzled. I unglued the paper sticking to my forehead and put it back to its bundle on my desk. Touya was waiting patiently for me to recover. I think he had grown immune to weirdness after being a constant subject to mine and my uncle's eccentricities.

Touya. My harebrained cousin who is "3 hits old" (That was a direct quote). He started of a guitarist in his sophomore year of college but ended up dropping out to pursue his so called acting career. He is doing quite well too. As for my uncle, I have long been his apparent heir to the world of academics and particularly physics. So Touya could be a gigolo if he wants, my uncle couldn't care less.

I look at him, eyes less dilated and wait for him to continue.

"So, I was going to err, meet this girl tonight. Do you think-"I nod my head sleepily, cutting him off. Dating is what Touya does in sync with breathing and what my uncle started detesting after he started changing his girlfriends like twice a day. I am generally thrown, unceremoniously between the father-son arguments and end up as an unwilling shield for my cousin. Like today. Touya would, as usual slip out after dinner and I would have to engage my uncle in another round of discussion.

I sighed, holding my head in my hands. The solution to the problem I was working on was being really elusive. I really need to get the parameters from uncle before proceeding further. The dead end I was encountering since two days wouldn't go. What else could make sleep on my own desk and drool over all the fresh analysis printouts? And that nightmarish dream! Eww. That fool must have taken it as his personal mission to kill me in my dreams. I shuddered at the thought of an inerasable pink letters, glittering and shining as 'LI'. Gross. Multi-gross.

Waving him a good bye I turned to my papers again, trying to make sense of my scribbling. Finally, I decided I need to go down to the library to refresh myself. My brain seemed to have gone into a frozen state and in a very timely manner. I gathered my long hair full of curls into a messy bun again and secured it with a tight clip. Pulling my folder along with me, I stalked out of the Bubble Chamber lab.

The library was in the west wing of the Trinity block. I crossed the registrar's office to walk by the pebbled courtyard of the Trinity block. The red sandstone building contained most of the administrative offices on the east wing and the library to the west. I walked to the left side of the corridor cautiously, making sure not to trip down. It was wide enough to pull a procession of elephants through anyways.

As I walked, I heard the slow hum of the Dean's voice approaching me from the opposite side. It must be some person who donated to the college and was privileged with a mini-pilgrimage across the halls of the main block. I walked ahead, looking down as I would when I heard the visitor stifling a yawn and failing. I suppressed the urge to laugh at his pitiable condition, the Dean could bore any living being to death by just talking and here the visitor was getting a full-on blast. Chuckling silently, I lifted my head only to freeze in my tracks.

And then I ran.

"Oi, girl! I know you. You-"

Like a gazelle.

To the safe confines of the library.

Why the hell was Syaoran Li here? Damn him!

Terminology:

1. Antimatter: The supposed counterpart of matter. It is believed to exist but very hard to isolate or contain. Sort of like the reverse of matter, in all properties. So basically, bring a proton and the anti-proton together, they would go boom, giving out only pure energy and leaving behind no mass at all. cool eh?

2. Neutrinos: Emitted by the sun. Has really less, close to a weight of zero and no charge too. Yeah, they are sort of hollow with nothing to boast about.

3. bubble chamber: A big tube filled with liquid hydrogen that can be used to detect the elementary particles moving through it.

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