Lullaby (2015)
“For an elective.
I did codes, Theo chose cooking. The codes teacher was like Maggie. Not in the way I look like Theo. If you analyse it, feature by feature, nothing matches up. But considered as a whole, they’re the same person. They have the same feel about them.
I only had that teacher for three months, but she was my favourite. I had a sort of crush on her.
‘Did the death of your parents make you and Theo closer, do you think?’ ‘We were already close.’ ‘That doesn’t answer the question.’ ‘Have you heard of the Pauli exclusion principle?’ I hoped she hadn’t. I hoped it was the sort of thing only people with mothers like mine knew about.
‘If any two electrons are too close,’ Maggie said, ‘then the combined probability of them being anywhere cancels out. It’s only through being apart that they can exist at all.’ ‘It’s why you and I don’t fall through the floor.’ I was disappointed—I wouldn’t get to explain it to her.
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