A is for Atomic Number: Science Romance

She always said our relationship wouldn't work because our atomic numbers were too far apart. She was light and quick, up near the top of the scale, and I was heavy and slow, down near the bottom. She flitted around the lab with a smile for everyone (even myself, when I was a new hire and entirely unsure of my way around the science station). She went to every single organized social event--once, after we were together long enough that people assumed it was more than the on-again/off-again temporary linkings formed and dissolved so rapidly in such a small environment, she didn't show up for a shuffleboard night and I had people knocking on my door all evening long checking to see if she was alright. She wasn't. She had received news of her grandmother's death, far away and beyond reach, and it had temporarily jostled her out of her orbit.


Inspiration: Googled "A is for--" and skipped to "Atomic Number."
Story potential: Medium-high potential
Notes: Not a bad idea for a series of stories--or at least a series of writing prompts! Or maybe a story structure that links all the alphabet together, if I wanted to do some stunt writing. This is maybe one of those best-with-unspecified-gender-protag stories, though in my mind it's two females. But erk--a physics and chemistry refresher course would be needed.