Maybe if I kept telling myself that, I’d wake up. My life had changed so much in the last forty-eight hours—or was it seventy-two hours now?—it felt like it had to be a dream. This sort of thing just didn’t happen, and if it did, it didn’t happen to normal people like me. And that’s what I was. Normal.
If you really squinted, you could say being a woman in a science field as male-dominated as aerospace engineering was a bit abnormal. But the only reason for that was the status quo. Even if my classes had been dominated by men, the split wasn’t terrible. Besides, I had ended up in the education component, which was my real passion, and I certainly fit right in with the other employees at the learning center.
A pang of homesickness moved through me as I thought of Abi and Kevin. I even mis
