Burn Those Who Burned Me novel Chapter 58

Chapter 58

“You’re joking…right? There’s no way you’re serious…are you?”

I put my pencil down and looked Casey directly in the eyes.

“I’m not. I’ve been working on it for a few years; I’ve finally created the perfect formula combination.”

Casey could hardly believe his ears.

“For a few years?? You mean to tell me you’ve been working on this since middle school?!”

Middle sch…Oh yeah, I supposed that is what I’ll have to say.

“Yeah, I guess so.”

Casey stared at me in total disbelief, just this morning he’d thought this young girl–was just some

legacy kid riding off her parents‘ hype, turns out she may have surpassed even them.

“Clara, you’d tell me if you were an alien…right?”

WHAT!

I let out a loud and hysterical laugh. Though it was understandable why he would think that, it

didn’t make his words any less hilarious. Not wanting to freak Casey out anymore, I decided to give him an explanation about my research.

“I’m not an alien Casey…I promise. Before my mom died, she made a lot of groundbreaking medicinal discoveries, unfortunately she died before she could finish it and put it all together. Once I started studying her work, I was able to put a lot of the pieces together.”

That wasn’t a lie, I had used a lot of my mother’s research to help advance my medicinal formulas

thus being able to create a lot the medications I made in my previous life.

Casey nodded his head, accepting my answer.

“That makes sense. Your mom was amazing.”

I smiled proudly; indeed, she truly was.

“So are you.”

His words caught me off guard, Casey blushed slightly as he looked to the left avoiding eye contact.

“Just saying, you’d have to be a total genius to even understand these equations and an even bigger freak to advance them. That’s pretty amazing Rouleau.”

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I blushed and smiled as I continued my work. Casey stayed in the lab with me until I was finished, he even began to help.

“I should start paying more attention, this could help me as well.”

He said as we began to clean up. By the time we got finished, the sun had already gone down. Casey offered to walk me back to my apartment.

“You really don’t have to do this Casey.”

“It’s cool, I live in the complex too, I’m a few floors up.”

As we entered my apartment, a sweet and spicy aroma hit both our noses. Gloria came put of the kitchen with a slightly angry expression on her face.

“Hey young lady! Where have you been? Classes were over hours ago!”

I couldn’t help but laugh, I was scowled by my roommate for being late. Watching her pout made both me and Casey laugh. Gloria began laughing too, popping my shoulder, she tried to get serious

again.

“Seriously Clara, I was really worried about you. It dawned on my I don’t have your number.”

I apologized to Gloria for scaring her and thanked her for being so thoughtful. I explained to her I

went to a lab for some work. Afterwards, she thanked Casey for walking me home and offered him to

join us for dinner. For the first time in a long time, it felt like I was having dinner with family.

After dinner, Casey updated Gloria on what I was working on. She could hardly believe it.

“So, wait! You created a cure!”

“More or less.”

Both Gloria and Casey looked at me like I had three heads. Finally, Gloria spoke,

“Sheesh! I knew you were amazing Clara, but you’re on a whole different level!”

After we winded down, I walked Casey to the door, suddenly he pulled outside.

“I need a favor Clara,”

Favor?

“What is it?”

Casey blushed and then looked through our window.

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“Help me ask Gloria out.”

Okay…didn’t expect that. Trying to figure out the right words, I scratched my head. Finally, I settled on a simple…

“I’ll see what I can do.”

That was enough for Casey, he hugged me tightly and headed home. Laughing I made my way back into my apartment and finished helping Gloria clean up.

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