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Three weeks later

Monday, June 26, 2017, 21:25pm

"It's totally unfair... he keeps throwing homework at us" Peter grunts and I just sigh without taking my eyes off the book

 '...Suppose a thick target of thickness X is placed in a monodirectional beam of intensity I/zero and a neutron detector is located at some distance behind the target as shown in Fig 3.2....'

I blink twice, maybe more. My eyes burn at how intently I've been staring at those inked words

"Let me propose something... I'm this close to rip my hair too... what if we have an existential crisis together Ummm... next weekend?"

"That's too far away!" Peter fretts, I look up to him... Geez

The dark circles around his eyes are not subtle and his face looks tired. Do I look like him too? Maybe worse.

"I think I need a break" I push the book aside and slightly jump to the edge of the bed, my feet touch the floor as I stretch my arms and back, a small sound of my spine bones cracking and I let out a sigh

"Don't go..." Peter pouts and I look at him, he's stretching his legs across the width of his bed with his back leaning against the wall

"I'm staying... I just need to... stop reading" I mutter and bite my lip, sideways I see Peter grabbing the book I pushed aside

"What is this? this is massive" he awes feeling the weight of the book in his hands

"No kidding... Essigmann left us to read the first twenty chapters"

"For tomorrow!!?" Peter's eyes go round and I shake my head

"No way, no... until the end of the course but... there's  too much information" I bite the inside of my cheek and Peter's fingers stroll through the pages

"In which chapter are you?" he pinches his nose and darts his eyes to me, I approach the edge of the bed and sigh once again

"Chapter thirteen...I'm reading about the intensity of uncollided neutrons, what about you Parker?"

"Me? oh well, I'm just doing some exercises... worksheets I need to fill with Python commands" he pinches his lips

I shake my head "Imagine seriously being on College"

"Thanks but not for now... and all of this?" he waves his hand to the pile of books and scattered papers  "I'm blaming you" Peter mocks and I lift one leg on the bed and open my mouth agape and dramatically gasp

I jump in front of him and with my arms, I start shaking him from his shoulders "oh no... you little spider! Take that back!"

"Never!" he replies with a loud laugh and trying to fight me back

I suddenly stop the attack and climb down the bed "I'm going to go"

"Tannie..." Peter says with a warning voice

"Peter..." I mimic him

"...you're still using that Quantum vision?" I look at him, he's trying to read my body language

"Yes I am... it helps me to relax... and to sleep" I admit and cross my arms around my chest

"I'm worried" Peter states and I analyze his tired eyes a flicker of concern in his orbs

I tilt my head and flash him a reassuring smile "Nothing bad happened these weeks"

"Nothing bad?! what about when you saw those fat bugs, huh? you ran away from your room and you didn't want to go back" Peter crosses his arms and I snort

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