"It took less than a minute until I saw a similar pattern though much smaller within the unit. Adjusting the molecules were no more different than bef...re. The pattern in my head required me to start in one place in the crystal. It was like playing Lego as I broke down a crude structure and built a much neater five dimensional shape with it.When I finished, I looked at the crystal and found it only a fraction of its original size.Nadac said, "You have completed this task satisfactorily. You have. "I saw you watching me and I wanted to say, I've been watching you as well." Did my ears just lie to me? Did she, this most beautiful goddess, say that she has been watching me too? "Arya, did you hear me? I said, I want to get to know you better." As Rebel spoke to me it was all I could do to not grasp her by the back of her head and pull her into me. I focused on her lips as I watched those two pink glossy lines make out the words that she was saying. I had to have her, I needed her to be. I guess you first met him this year in Latin Club?”“That’s right. He also plays chess, right?”“Yes. We were both on the chess team together in ninth grade. I ended up dropping off the team in tenth grade because I wanted to work on computers. You heard about the computer dating stuff at the High School, right?”“Yeah, some girl named Beth runs it.”“She’s my business partner. I wrote the original computer dating program with her and we ran it in tenth grade. We also ran it for some other schools.. Theonly possible answer made me smile nervously. I fluffed my hair androlled my eyes at myself. 'Dork,' I thought to myself and laughed at mynervousness.When I finished my hair and couldn't think of any other reason to avoidgoing down stairs, I made myself leave the room. I was so shaky goingdown the steps I almost tripped and broke my neck. (Just what I needanother trip to a hospital!) I stopped, took a couple deep breaths andtried to collect myself. When I was reasonably sure I was all set.