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bad question,’ Alpha said.
    ‘I even signed up for a literature class. My father would freak if he found out.’
    Alpha studied my face for a moment, and then shrugged. ‘We all have to do things our own way. There’s actually no point in following in another’s footprints
too
exactly, you’ll end up leaving no tracks of your own.’
    I nodded.
    ‘The point is that you need to stop worrying about what others think and start concentrating on what
you
want,’ Alpha said.
    ‘I guess that’s where I hit the wall,’ I said. ‘I don’t know what it is that I want. I just know that this …’ I gestured around me, ‘is not quite it.’
    ‘That’s a start, though, isn’t it?’ Alpha said. ‘Sometimes I feel that we all have potential inside us, we just have to discover what our greatness is and how to let it out.’
    ‘I’d settle for quite goodness.’ I said.
    ‘The universe has a way of putting us where we need to be,
when
we need to be there,’ she said. ‘Then it’s up to us to rise to the challenge, or turn our back and let someone else be great.’ She shook her head. ‘You are allowed to tell me to shut up. I mean, the girl most likely to fail school is giving advice on greatness.’
    ‘You won’t fail,’ I told her. ‘You’re a lot smarter than you admit.’
    ‘Yeah, I’m sure you won’t be saying that when I fail Biogenetics. Spectacularly.’
    Before I could stop myself, I heard myself saying: ‘I guess I can help you catch up if you need.’
    There was a moment’s silence that was almost awkward.
    ‘And why, pray tell, would you do that?’ Alpha wrinkled her nose.
    I gave her an answer that wasn’t entirely true. ‘I like to help. Especially my friends.’
    The misleading bits of that answer were: I only have one true friend, and he has
never
needed my help with his studies before.
    But there was something about Alpha that made me think it would be worth helping her out. Because in a few short minutes she had helped
me
out considerably, putting all that stuff into words for me.
    ‘Friends then,’ Alpha said. But there was an odd note of sadness in her voice.
    ‘It’s the least I can do for my identical fruit soy twin,’ I told her.
    ‘You know I
am
going to take you up on your kind offer?’
    ‘Well, let me give you my LinkAddress.’ I offered her my hand and she took it in hers. We both turned on ourfilaments. I gave her my addy, and she blinked to save it, then transmitted hers. I saved it to ‘friends’, bookmarked it too, and smiled.
    ‘I gotta dash,’ I said, standing up. Blades of grass clung to my trousers. I slung my bag over my shoulder. ‘I have to spend the afternoon plotting some quantum uncertainties.’
    ‘Hey, have fun with that,’ Alpha said.
    ‘I will.’ I replied.
    Alpha looked as if she was about to say something else, had her mouth open to do it and everything, but then she thought better of it and gave me a smile instead.
    Walking back towards the Physics block I found myself wondering what had just occurred. I was thinking about the way she was … different to anyone else that I had come into contact with.
    It was confusing and weird, and I still didn’t know why I’d offered to help her out with her coursework, but I suddenly felt like the world had got a little bit lighter, brighter, and a lot more interesting.
    

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