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Native American and Mexican
heritage.
    She had
laid out several research books, and while she flipped through the pages of
one, she unconsciously twirled a strand of long blonde hair that had escaped
its ponytail.
    “Well,
you’re on the right track with the mirrors,” he said. “That helps to prove the
theory of infinity. The next step you need to work on is to prove that the
electron can be in two separate universes at the same time. Once you get that
figured out, you’ll be on the right track.”
    Jenna
looked at him with raised eyebrows and tucked the strand of loose hair behind
her ear. “It sounds like you’ve done this before.”
    “Oh, I
have. I was fourteen.”
    “ Fourteen ?
You certainly didn’t waste any time, did you? All of the fourteen-year-old boys
that I knew were busy figuring out the theory of the best way to score with a
girl. You probably had that figured out by the time you were eight, right?”
    “Not
exactly. I definitely chased after a girl or two when I was in high school, but
I wasn’t exactly head of the football team or anything. Most girls weren’t too
interested in the president of the physics club.”
    She
smiled. “Well, I don’t know why. Those girls didn’t know what they were
missing.”
    “Oh
yeah? You dated a lot of science nerds, did you?”
    Jenna
paused for a moment. “Well, not exactly. Though deep down, I was a science nerd
myself. I just didn’t announce it to the world. I had two older brothers who
were both varsity quarterbacks. By the time I got to high school, my brothers
had graduated, but my name was already known because of them. It didn’t take
much to become the cheerleading captain. I was very talented at cheerleading,
don’t get me wrong, but popularity will get you a long way in high school.”
    “And so
naturally you dated the quarterback. You were probably the prom queen and no
doubt the class president as well.”
    “Well,
yes…and yes, but I wasn’t the class president.”
    He
laughed. “Oh, well in that case, forgive me for assuming.”
    “I was
the vice president,” she added, with a meek smile.
    He
chuckled. “How silly of me to assume. How did you ever end up here?” He
indicated the science lab around them. “Not exactly a place one would expect to
find the cheerleading captain. Forgive me for being presumptuous.”
    “Don’t
worry about it. I know what you mean. Like I said, deep down I was a science
geek. While I was busy going to cheerleading practice after school, during
school I was acing all of the science and math classes I could take. I just
didn’t advertise it.
    “Looking
back on it now, I would have done things differently,” she continued. “I had
nothing in common with my quarterback boyfriend, and my lab partner in
chemistry was one of my best friends. He was pretty cute, too, but I never gave
him the time of day, even though I’m pretty sure he had a crush on me. If I
could go back and do things differently, I would. These days I know exactly
what I want and I’m not afraid to say so.” She looked at him with a twinkle in
her eyes.
    Eddie
caught the slight innuendo, and even though she presented the perfect
opportunity to advance their friendship to the next level, he didn’t pursue it.
A relationship would only get in the way of his research. He would have plenty
of time for dating, in the future. Perhaps after the semester was over, he
would ask her out. Instead, he turned the subject back to her parallel universe
study.
    Time
flew by easily as they laughed and chatted and occasionally remembered to work.
Jenna’s laugh made him smile. Yeah, when this semester is over , he
thought, I really need to ask her out . He glanced at the clock and was
shocked to realize the time. “We’ve been here for two hours? I need to get
going, pretty soon.”
    Jenna
followed his gaze to the clock on the wall. “We haven’t accomplished much
today, have we?”
    “No, not
really.” He picked up his gray and black, knit