“Kendra, get your mind back to the problem. We have to finish this project before tomorrow.”

Julie looked across the table and the pizza boxes scattered across it at me. It was late at night, almost early in the morning. We were the unlikeliest of partners. I could not guess what had Dr Benedict assign us partners on this assignment.

Julie was the top in our exploratory geophysics class. I wasn’t the worst but I was definitely the underachiever of the bunch. I did the half of the work that I would turn in correctly and usually finished the tests, but I still would only put in a partial effort. It helped that I understood well logs, but gravity surveying was another matter.

We had spent a weekend gathering data the data we needed for the assignment, measuring gravity reading across the small campus on our college. We had been working on the number crunching since that Monday afternoon. I was tired and...

Julie’s brown eyes were the prettiest things I had ever seen.