Theater: MotoNovel | Language: English | NEW
Synopsis
When Jamie, my childhood best friend, shoved a plastic container of durian into the ultra-low-temperature lab refrigerator, I didn't reach out to grab his arm. I didn't snatch the pungent, spiky fruit from the shelf, either.
Instead, I unlocked my phone, opened our department’s group thread, and tagged everyone:
"@All: Jamie just put fresh durian in the sub-zero reagent fridge. Whoever can reach him, tell him to remove it immediately before it cross-contaminates the samples."
In my past life, I panicked. The second he set it down, my scientific instincts screamed, and I yanked that container out myself. But that very afternoon, during our advisor’s high-level synthetic chemistry trial, volatile compounds detonated. The blast shredded through the fume hood, tearing through Dr. Crawford’s chest and arms, landing him straight in the ICU clinging to a thread of life.
When the university launched their emergency investigation, Jamie collapsed into theatrical sobs.
"I didn't know anything would happen! Lauren told me she was craving durian. She begged me to buy it and stash it in the fridge until her shift ended. Check the security cameras if you don't believe me!"
The Dean didn't give me thirty seconds to explain. My enrollment was terminated on the spot. My parents, terrified of the public disgrace and the pending lawsuits, signed a legal severance and locked me out of their house. Dr. Crawford’s grief-stricken wife and grown sons cornered me in the hospital corridor, screaming that I had murdered their father, demanding an eye for an eye.
I didn't learn the truth until after the humiliation drove me into an early grave.
It was all because of a departmental vote two months earlier. When the faculty asked for peer assessments on the endowed emergency hardship grant, I evaluated the applications objectively. I cast my vote for an orphan student working two night shifts just to pay rent, rather than for Jamie.
Jamie had smiled to my face, but underneath, his pride had
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