Polar Covalence
Author's Note: The story is about halfway over but not much other than that. I just wanted to say that I took Chemistry last year and it was not all fun and games. But some of the things I learned are things I'm applying to the story. This chapter is going to be rather nerdy compared to the others, but hopefully it's still cute and not too confusing. Maybe it'll even get hot, who knows? Please have fun :)
Wednesday
Maurecia's POV
It's a nice peaceful Wednesday and I'm still snuggled up next to my adorable boyfriend. I love him with all my heart and I sure hope he knows that. I look up at his face and notice he's already awake.
"Good morning babe." He says cutely.
"Good morning cutie pie." I say before I kiss his neck. He just chuckles a few times. "So how was last night?" We both exit his bed.
"I really enjoyed it." He says as he puts on his usual blue shirt. "Do you think today you'll go home?" I shrug.
"If I find any reason to leave this house." I put on my shirt and helmet. "Right Fluffy?" Fluffy continues to sleep.
"I think we should let him sleep in, I wouldn't want to deal with an enraged porcupine." We both chuckle.
"Me neither." I say as I put my skates on. "Would you like me to make us some breakfast?" I offer. Todd nods but holds his index finger up.
"That's generous but you're my guest and you did everything for me yesterday." He steps out and I follow him.
"Okay, well is there anything I can do for you?" He grins.
"I love your enthusiasm to help."
"What can I say? It's my favorite trait you have. I might as well do more of that myself." He shrugs.
"Alright but before we do any of that," He faces the stairs to the basement. "I really do need to check on my magnets." I immediately rev forward going at a higher speed than usual.
"I'll race you to the bottom!" I shout as I begin rolling down the stairway.
"Maurecia, wait!" He calls but I'm already at the bottom. I go to the generator and grip the magnet attached to it.
"Come on!" I take a deep breath in, release it, then use every single muscle within my body to just my arms. The magnet flies off the generator and I fall backwards with the magnet still in my hands. I manage to get up just in time for Todd to make his way down.
"Maurecia, what the hell was that?" He looks and sounds somewhat annoyed. I try to look innocent.
"I beat you!" I say holding my fists in the air, only for Todd to notice the magnet in my hand. He sighs and rolls his eyes.
"Maurecia, please never do that again?" I look rather confused.
"What?"
"Rolling down the stairs on that speed. It's extremely dangerous." I look down. "Do you want to end up in the hospital again?" I shake my head.
"Not really, but you weren't there to push me this time." He folds his arms.
"I wasn't there to catch you either. Let's not risk anyone's lives while we're here. While you're in my house, doing stunts is strictly off limits." I frown sadly.
"Fine." Although, hearing Todd take initiative feels kind of sexy. I love it when he enforces rules, he's not annoying at it like Dana.
"And why are you holding one of my magnets?" I hand it to him.
"It was just so shiny that I had to look at it early." Todd flips the light switch.
"Could you see it in the dark?"
"No." I admit.
"You're not Myron. You know there's a light switch." I giggle.
"Just another decision I rushed." He smiles. I've relived he's not on to me anymore.
"Okay, but you didn't take the other one out?" I open the box and remove the magnet.
"I've got it now." He smiles and withdraws his magnet monitor.
"Okay that's good." He places his magnet next to the monitor then plugs it into his laptop. I notice what looks like a line graph with different colors growing and shrinking.
"What is that?" I ask. He turns around looking incredibly humble.
"I'm glad you asked." He turns the computer to the side a little so I can see it better. "These graphs represent the electronic force within them. Every second the protons and electrons move closer or further apart of each other." This is very interesting to me.
"That's so cool. How do magnets contain these electrical forces?" I ask curiously. Todd responds in a wise tone.
"Well actually, everything made of cells has an electrical force running through them. Including us humans." I never knew that.
"We do?" He nods. "How come we don't feel a spark every single time we touch one another?"
"Well babe, our skin has a slight voltage resistance to the point where we often can't even feel it. But metal objects have an easier current path within them. Protons and electrons want to come together but they don't want to be near other atoms with the same charge." A lot of this makes sense.
"Is it like you and me?" He looks slightly confused. "We're two straight people of opposite genders who would rather be together than other people of the same gender." He raises an eyebrow proudly.
"I've never thought of it that way." I smile. "Today I've learned something from you." I giggle.
"That's a rarity." I say as he shakes his head.
"No it isn't. Being you're boyfriend teaches me more and more things each day." I shrug.
"I think you learn more about yourself and your feelings with me. Not like you get much smarter with me around." He chuckles.
"I have a lot more to learn myself babe, but you seem to be learning at a faster rate when you're around me." Does that really surprise him?
"Well you do say a lot of smart things whenever I'm around you." He folds his arms and grins happily.
"I'm not so much smarter than you say I am." Look at him, trying to be humble.
"Not like building a rocket ship is something I'll ever do."
"You do know Miss Mush helped me with that right?" I nod.
"But neither of you would've been able to do it alone. Except maybe you could." He chuckles.
"It'd take me a long time to build a rocket on my own." I concede.
"Well if you insist you're not a genius, whatever floats your boat, right?" We both laugh after that. Then I move on. "Have you ever thought of our relationship as a bond?"
"Oh the chemistry talk huh?" He shrugs. "No, I don't think I have."
"Would you like to analyze it?" I ask him as he nods.
"Sounds like a lot of fun. Hm…" He puts his left hand on his chin and looks upright. "Are you familiar with the three types of bonding?" I shrug.
"A little. Aren't they ionic, or covalent?" He nods.
"It seems you know this." I read a book about bonding a while back thinking it was about relationships. It's not like I needed any help though.
"So what bond do we have?" I ask. He thinks for a few more seconds and then speaks up.
"We have an ionic bond." He concludes.
"Can you explain the three types?" I ask curiously.
"Sure thing. The two types of Covalent bonds are Polar and Nonpolar." He stares at his magnet. "Nonpolar bonds have a small difference in electronegativity. But they share their electrons equally. Sometimes one atom has both electrons, sometimes the other has both, and sometimes they both have one." Impressive.
"Fascinating. Please continue." I say.
"But the electrons spend roughly the same amount of time within both atoms and that's why they don't split up."
"That's pretty cool." I say.
"Polar covalence on the other hand has a stronger grip on an electron. Two protons both want the same electron but they don't want to be near each other, so the negative charge shares them evenly." He pauses. "A good example would be water."
"Water?" He nods.
"H2O consists of two positive hydrogen atoms and one negative oxygen atom. The atomic number in the oxygen is negative two and that's why two positive ones need to be in it." This is making a lot of sense now.
"So the two atoms can balance out?" He nods happily.
"Exactly, they both want to reach their maximum amount of protons and electrons on their level of the periodic table." I give a dumbfounded expression because that sounded confusing.
"So… essentially what?" I ask.
"If an atom has plus one electron then they want to give it up or if it's minus one they want to gain another one." I sigh.
"That's easier. So they share an electron?" He nods.
"Uh huh. And that's what holds them together, creating the bond." I feel like I'm missing something but that makes more sense. "Now the ionic bond…" He pauses dramatically.
"The ionic bond what?" I ask. He smiles again.
"Let's pretend I'm a proton." I nod.
"So I'm an electron?" He shakes his head.
"No, your heart is an electron."
"My heart? Why's that?" I ask.
"I'll tell you that." He holds his magnet a little higher. "Ionic bonds have two atoms with an electronegativity difference so large, the proton will essentially grab the electron away from the other atom entirely to complete the level." I nod slowly.
"Alright then." He proceeds.
"That being said, you have a bunch of feelings within your heart but they were all negative before our relationship began, and so I captured your heart." I laugh a couple of times.
"You stole it from me?" He lowers his eyelids.
"I stole your heart from anyone else's grip that is. Your feelings are mine now and those other guys can't have them!" He gives a hearty laugh. "And now that I have your heart, I become a negative since I have an additional negative electron. Meanwhile you become a positive since you lose a negative so you have a positive charge. And what do positive and negative charges do to each other?" I smile.
"Attract?" He closes his eyes proudly.
"You can say that again." I look down at the magnet one more time, and then back up at Todd's face.
"That's cute Todd, but I don't know if that's the way I'd see it." He opens his eyes slowly in confusion.
"What bond would you call it?" I smile.
"I think we have a polar covalent bond." He pauses.
"Hm. Care to educate me on that?" He asks. I think it through pretty quickly and begin.
"Let's pretend we're both atoms with an additional electron on the outermost energy level and our heart is the atom with the negative two charge."
"Our heart?" I nod. "Don't you mean our hearts?" I wink.
"Don't be silly cutie pie, if we're both protons with the same electron then we already have a perfect balance." He nods.
"Okay."
"Metaphorically, they say two lovers share one heart that contains both of their feelings." He looks rather surprised.
"Interesting, continue please."
"So yeah, the heart we share didn't exist before we met or maybe it did, but we just hadn't seen it before. But we both want to complete this charge by equalizing the force right?"
"I guess so."
"Then perhaps our heart, wants to satisfy both of us and it wants to take the electrons from both of us, or the electrons are our feelings since we share them for each other within this large heart." Todd looks like he's having an epiphany. "Now that the heart we share has both of our feelings we cannot leave it and so, we're forced to hold onto it in both of our arms forming the covalent bond."
"And you said I was good at analyzing things." He says. I skate right up to him and hold our magnets together. He looks at the magnets for a second, then back up at my loving face.
"Or maybe our hearts are like two magnets that want to stay together and never let go, and our feelings are the electric current flowing through them." A single tear falls out of his left eye as I wrap my right arm around his back while my left arm is still holding the powerful magnet.
"Maurecia, you might just be the smartest girl I've ever met." I feel my heart flutter.
"Awe Todd, that is super sweet of you to say!" I pull his face in and kiss him with every bit of strength within my lips. He closes his eyes and engages in the arousing kiss. But instead of continuing to make out with him, we stop. "How did that feel?" I asked seductively.
"It felt like an electrical charge went through my entire body and your lips were the power source." I kiss him on the cheek.
"I love it when you talk scientifically. Now should we continue our chemical bond upstairs on the couch?" I wink.
"Yeah, let's build onto our electronic structure." We set the magnets back inside the box and make our way upstairs. When we get there Todd lies down on the couch, I remove my helmet and skates, and then climb on top of him. I adjust to laying on my stomach while he continues lying on his back. Not more than a second later we hug each other and begin making out.
"Do we, really have electricity, flowing through our bodies?" I ask as I go on and off during our kissing.
"We sure do. Electrons run, through every, very object in, the world." He responds through the intense make out session.
"Kinky." I say.
I begin sucking on his lower lip. He reacts by sucking on my upper lip. I insert my tongue into his mouth and lick his shiny teeth. I feel his tongue enter my mouth as well and he begins rubbing it across the top of my mouth just behind my teeth. Both of us are breathing very deeply through our noses. I begin to lose the feeling throughout the rest of my body and rely only on my mandible to endure this powerful battle. Todd doesn't slow down though, he continues to inhale what little oxygen I have left in my body while I fight to steal his. I can feel my heart thumping intensely and my lungs expanding and contracting the air that I breathe. I playfully lower my own teeth catching Todd's tongue. He flinches and opens his eyes. I close mine and wrap my tongue around his. At this point there isn't any saliva left for either of us because our throats are so dry. I hug his head extremely tightly and our faces are closer together than ever before. I then let up for one second, take the deepest breath I've ever taken in my life, then kiss him. Todd breathes out a little but I don't allow him to breathe back in. Both of our faces are locked to one another and our lips are now an unbreakable bond. Both of our breathing patterns are halted and our blood flows pulsate in unison. I hold the kiss for as long as I can before I eventually let go and almost faint. I can hardly move any of my muscles now and Todd is the same way. I lay my ear on his chest, listening to his heart beat at an extreme force. Both of us are breathing heavily and rapidly. After almost two minutes we're barely any stronger before Todd chokes out.
"Wow." He barely is able to speak. "That, was, incredible." He continues breathing as I begin to regain my physical feeling.
"No, kidding." I manage to say. I continue to hug his overheating body and it actually feels like we're in a sauna. After another minute we begin to breathe slower, but barely any less forcefully.
"That was fun." Todd says. I wink at him.
"Always my pleasure." I say as I regain control of my lungs.
"I've never felt more aroused in my life." He says in the middle of inhaling.
"Neither have I Todd." We lay there for another three or four minutes until I'm finally strong enough to walk again. We both get up off the couch and head towards the kitchen.
"We've never gone half as far into making out as that time." I can't disagree with him.
"I know." We look into each other's eyes smiling.
"When did you decide to learn how to make out like a goddess?" I giggle.
"I felt a powerful force deep within me. I stole every electron you had as you stole all of mine. Both of them now reside in the powerful heart that we've created together." He smiles passionately.
"I love you Maurecia."
"And I love you Todd."
Author's Note: Hope you liked that one. It took me a while to perfect it but I did it to the best of my ability. Hope you enjoyed. Have a nice day. :)