Never an ever after

5| Le Augustine

Meanwhile, Blythe Carter and her fellow team of neuroscientist researchers were performing research on the human brain based on mice brains. Mice are kept in the behaviour chambers, where she and the team made the innocent animals reminisce their favourite and fearful memories. Sometimes it showed the elated mouse reaching towards the cheese, but when the negative memory was projected, the mouse seemed to drift away from the cheese, as if it was being traumatized. They recorded the results and it was successful research, but as if most books had plot holes, there were problems with this research too.

Memory altering is mainly done for the easiness of PTSD patients as well as for Depressed patients. But the problem was that it was mice, and it cannot be done with humans. And the human brain, is much more complex, compared to the mouse brain. Blythe speculated whether mind and brain were both and different. She came home at the usual time and had a very good argument with her fiance. It was her point that mind and brain weren't that much different. When Patrizio questioned to "that mind exists everywhere, and you can't tell a definite place for it" but Blythe argued that it was done by the central nervous system and sensory neurons and the brain so it should be the brain because the brain controls the activities by central nervous system and neurons and what Pat just said was nervous co-ordination, a respond to a stimulus. It ended on the terms both of them agreeing to Blythe's opinion, in that scale, Pat was flexible.

Blythe was about to discuss their dinner tomorrow with Pat, where Paula would be going to have a sleepover with Paula's best friend's house, which is a neighbouring house, the woman's name being Claire. Sometimes Blythe thought Pat was the best choice like she always thought. That he would be the person all of her qualifications fitted. Almost like...she paused at the thought. He had the exact Blue eyes and tousled hair, she tried to imagine. There were a few oddities but overall, their choices matched 99%. He was her soulmate, or so she thought.

Pat wanted to surprise her, she didn't like surprises, but she decided to give Pat a chance. "you would love it" he said. It would be a place Pat also adores, that is his way, he takes anywhere she likes as long as he liked the place too. She wanted to guess, but Pat prevented it. "wear the red dress, Blythe. I would love to see you wear it." Blythe hid her flinch. She was not much of a fashionable person, but it didn't mean she was going to wear rags. She didn't look good in artificial red, her hair was Orange, and it certainly didn't fit. Pink went on, but Blythe liked to wear Green, for some kind of a reason, her Orange hair went with Green, although Pat said she would always look good in any colour. He only joked she lacked melanin than others as she had pale skin and blue eyes. Blythe in return joked that he too lacked melanin as he had Blue eyes too. And there was a silence passing between them. This was not the first awkward silence, they were good friends, but, it was, almost, as if this new engagement situation made sudden anxiety that existed in vestiges within their friendship. Blythe wondered if they rushed, but, her life was growing old and Blythe needed to settle down and have a life for her own. Pat was the perfect person, the person who was in her mind. Who satisfied all of her conditions. She might have feared she wouldn't find another person in her life that would fit her conditions like him.

While they were having their dinner, which was a simple salad with boiled vegetables for Pat, who cared extremely about his body, while Blythe had a fruit salad. Paula had already gone to sleep after watching some of her favourite tv series, especially legacies, which she was very interested to watch on. But Blythe had read some of her book to Paula and tucked her into sleep. Pat, who knew Diabetes more than anyone, was strict on his diet. He didn't stop from that, he also went to the gym. Blythe knew his fear of diabetes was not just the fact why he continuously went to the gym. He, before they were engaged, was avid on developing muscles and six-pack. Eventually, the gym did give him what he wanted. Now he looked like he was coming straightly from a Calvin Klein modelling photoshoot. Blythe went to the same gym, but they went at different times. Unlike Blythe, Pat told Blythe that his body never became fat even if he ate a lot. Blythe was the opposite. She blamed the metabolism but she liked to go to the gym anyway, so she stopped blaming her metabolism worked out. Paula had a skipping rope which she practised skipping.