Chapter 11

“They accepted it,” I told Corwin.

“What the fuck,” he responded.

“I’m doing research and study at the same time over there. Can you believe it?” I said happily.

“What the fuck? You don’t even have a bachelor of science, let alone a PhD, and they want you over there?”

“I said STUDY and research at the same time. I’ve got so many recommendations and signatures from my teachers and other professors. They helped a lot. I can’t believe it. I can go there and start working over there.”

“Fuck. You deserve it. I don’t see why they won’t accept you there without any recommendations. But fuck. Should I go and be a teacher’s pet like you? So maybe I’d get a chance to be there too.”

“CERN doesn’t accept dummies, you fucker.”

“You are leaving as a virgin. Goodbye, virgin.”

I smiled. “I am not a virgin,” I responded.

“I didn’t see you fucking any girls in Cambridge,” Corwin said.

David and Winn arrived as well. They joined in our conversation after Corwin told them about the news. They congratulated me the way they knew best, by using my penetralia as their amusement.

“Anyway, you deserve it. Maybe you’ll go there and change their pipes in the toilet now and then,” Winn said with a smile.

“Or th’ir fart sit?” David joined in.

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“What the fuck does that even mean? Fart sit?” I asked with a smile.

“It’s a somth’ng thet you are gong to invent fo gathering other scientists’ farts as your collection,” David said while he was laughing. Everybody joined in and laughed with him.

“It is going to be difficult for me to leave you guys in here. I just made friends in here, and now I have to leave,” I said in a sad voice.

“Don’t worry. We’ll send you the used condoms in post express to wherever you go. That way, you never miss us,” Corwin said, and David and Winn laughed.

“What? You wanna tell me that you are still lonely and watching porn? Is that the message you want to send?” I responded. David and Winn laughed.

“We’ll see,” Corwin said, with nothing better to say.

“Ohh, here she comes. Your crush is approaching. Look,” Corwin said with excitement. I turned around in the direction he was looking. I saw her coming with her friend. She was coming toward us. It was Marina.

Whenever I saw her in the last few weeks, I pretended that I wasn’t into her anymore, that she wasn’t important. However, my heart was beating so fast that it made me sweat whenever I saw her. I would be worried if I didn’t see her for a day. I hated myself for having this kind of feeling for her. I wasn’t important to her anyway. I was another boy who wanted to get to her pants. That was how she thought of me. True enough, because she was beautiful and attractive; it was also false because that was the last thing I wanted from her.

“Hello,” she said with a happy face. She was looking at everyone for a response.

“Hello, how do you do?” Corwin said formally. I tried hard not to laugh. Then he took her hand to shake it.

“H’ello, Love,” David said. She nodded as an acknowledgment.

“Hello,” Winn said with his shy character.

“Hi,” I said it like a whisper. I could barely hear my own voice. I believe I was still pretending that I wasn’t into her, but to make sure she saw my response, I said it while I was nodding my head.

After greeting, she turned to Corwin, and I believe she asked him about his notes in one of our teacher’s lectures. I am not sure what they said, but I knew that I wanted to be with them badly, so to save myself from myself, I told Corwin that I would meet him later that day. I left. My body moved away, but my thought and spirit were still there. I was frozen at the time when I heard her voice again. I was reviewing her slender and delicate body shape over and over again in my head. I wished I were the person who was talking to her. I watched her walk away from me only two times, and I was walking away from the place she was for thousands of times now.

What a day.