Endyein Dimensions

1. Day-in & Day-out

"Well, I've a question for you to test your understanding. See, one aspect of standard model is that a d quark can transform into a u quark, an electron, and an antineutrino by means of the weak interaction. What is the connection between this process and nuclear  ß(-ve) decay?"
Mrs. Sally Scott asked the question to the class she was attending to with a hopeful glimmer in her eyes, anticipating a satisfying answer from among the A-group students. But the class seemingly  dozed off already. No one really was paying attention. You see, Cosmology isn't actually a boring subject but pupils do not seem to mind the useful distractions.
However, amidst the thick silence, a timid 'I've got it' was heard followed by a tiny raised up hand in the air.

Yes you're right, she is the female lead of the story you've started to read.

Mia Parker.
A nineteen year old 'big specs bummer'. She's not a teacher's pet rather a teacher's nightmare  cause she asks questions no one knows the answers of. The one strange little animal (considering human beings are animals too) that always wear some pastel color sweatshirts and dark skinny denims to lose herself in the unknown swarm of study-bees, the antisocial one who've  never had a best friend let alone a boyfriend. Her dark locks when fall over her face, you can easily tell that she is innocent, that she needs to be protected. Not just her locks, her aesthetics scream innocence. She was curious, determined and very intelligent and to say the least, her  curiosity never ceased to any degree and that solely, was the reason why she had no friends.

It once so happened when Mia went to high school with Lucas, they seemed to be the best of friends to the naked eyes but she was just Lucas's homework file. Realising that her abilities were being misused, she gave up on Lucas.
Sure, she wanted to help him but giving all her homeworks, assignments, essays was all too much. He even dared to kiss her in front of everybody claiming her to be his girlfriend while in reality, he never looked at her. Thinking about that, she always goes back to counting the types of germs and their harmful effects her lips probably had to go through (yet) from that hell of a kiss.

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Mrs Sally, however, knew that she'd be the one to answer and not just that but would also be the one to counter question her.
Realisation hit her nerves and she quickly asked her to just copy the notes and write the answer instead of saying it out loud and saving her another trouble of counter questioning her with a tough one.

The class ended after what seemed like years. The boys ran through corridor, bullying the freshmen, some were even out to the 'secret hub' to drink and commit some other deeds that Mia wasn't friendly with. The girls queued in front of the washroom to check if their makeup was still intact.
Ignoring these hooligans who just come to pass time in the university, she walked up to the teacher's room to clear a few doubts she'd gotten along solving a handful of calculus. And yes, everyday went like this in the university. Mia's life was thus, perennial to the universe.

But like every other thing in this big bad world; nothing remains constant except change itself, Mia's life too had to accept acceleration or may be a big drift. Little did she knew that destiny had a surprise planned for her.

It was late in the evening when she arrived home from the uni. 'Home'; a word almost tear-jerking to Mia. Her parents died a year or two ago in an airplane crash. Since then, she never felt home. She knew that she'd never feel safe again cause you only feel the safest and at peace when you sleep next to your mother; holding her tight as if your life depended on it and your mother, in return, to comfort you patting your back as if you're the most precious thing to her that ever existed on the face of earth.

A heavy sigh escaped from her lips. She grew tired but the bug of over achievement never left her. Turning on the laptop, she started writing notes. A few distractions here and there would annoy her but work first. May be in this case, grades first. With the dimming of the neighbouring lights and faintness in the daily noisy bustles, she started to feel sleepy. The coffee that she had poured herself was long cold just like the dreary nights.
But she knew why she started cause her purpose to excel wasn't a mild one. It was a revenge, well... to make it sound less scarier let's rephrase it to 'challenge'. If not a nasty one, it'll be intellectual so that no one, I repeat no one would ever dare to look down upon her and question her capabilities. Soon she'll start a startup business that'll deal with aircrafts and with that thought stuck to the intricate parts of her little brain, she wished upon her lucky stars; her mommy and daddy and turned the lights off falling in the vacant arms of a dreamless slumber.