Instalment Fifteen

There were three atoms in a molecule. As you would imagine they were close; good friends, they were best of friends. Two of the atoms were the same and one was different, let’s say there were two boy atoms(carbon) and one girl atom(oxygen). Their friendship was the bond that held them together and together they were electric. Though such an electric bond can be a burden. A bond like that sets the distance you must remain apart, which can be too far away from the one you love or far too close to one you don’t.

Their relationship bubbled with life; they were the sparkle in champagne, the fizz in soda, they were carbon dioxide.

The two boys loved that girl, which is a story that never ends well. She could only chose one love and chose she did. So there they all were, separately entwined in love, forever combined by friendship and with one heart laid bare. And carbon dioxide is toxic to the heart, so one carbon atom breathed a last breath and expired.

The atmosphere within the once joyous atom became heavy with guilt and venomous with recriminations. The lively atom had transformed to poison. Carbon monoxide.