16 Aurora
“Nyra Sameera and Aurora Byrne, you’ll be Chemistry lab partners. Ryan Hunters and Jon Bailey . . . Ryan, no, you do not get to change your chemistry lab partner. You don’t get to change your colleague at work when you graduate, so suck it up and stop being a giant baby about to graduate from college. Brian . . .”
It was day one of my six-month exchange student program studying with the graduating students of Crawford University and Chemistry was my second class of the day, but I had little hope that the class would go well.
In my three years of study at Camdine Academy, I’d had shitty chemistry partners who stopped coming to class after day one because they wanted to be warriors, not Scientists, so as I sat beside the beautiful olive-skinned girl with shiny wavy black hair
