The Journey

It's a short little story about the transitions of a molecule of H20. I'm not sure why I wrote it but here it is.

The Journey

States of Matter Short Story

By: Samuel Collier

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I am a molecule of H2O, I lived in a large community. The whole community is a Bose-Einstein Condensate, of course, that meant that we all chilled out around -273.15oC. But something really cool is that everyone around me acted as if they’re one, singular entity, we all join together into a quantum wave of sorts. We all help each other; I scratch your back, you scratch mine; that whole mentality. But I found that really weird, I really didn’t feel like an individual. I wanted something different, I wanted an adventure. But what happened next was something I had never wanted.

A while after that the molecules around me started getting into heated arguments. The whole area around me rose to a higher temperature of  -200oC. Everything pretty much stayed the same, everyone kept on doing their normal things. But everything seemed a bit shaky. It would only be a matter of time before thing broke down. This would happen sooner than I had thought.

Our community kept on getting hotter and hotter, until one day the temperature reached 0oC and our solid community melted away. Everything had started to break down, breaking down into a liquid. Once close partners had started to drift apart, the ones who left still stayed near to their neighbors, drifting closer and flowing further away. The once strong bond our community had, had disappeared.

Despite us trying to hold on, our arguments got hotter reaching a boiling point, the space around us was a sultry 100oC. At this point, our formerly stable community was gone. Everyone was alone, I was alone. Once close friends were running away from each other. I did too, I ran and ran into the vast infinite expanse beyond.

For years and years I ran, my anger heating me. I hated myself, I hated them, I hated what had happened, but one day, when the temperature around me reached about 12,000oC. I became happy. My electrons- the parts of me that bonded my being- those parts, they escaped me. I had been heated to the point where I, myself was breaking apart. But despite all that was and is happening. I remained positive. I felt a charge to forgive my past partners. I can’t really explain where the charge was coming from, but all I knew was where the charge was coming from, but all I knew was, where I was today, was what I had wanted all those years ago. And I closed my “eyes”, waiting for the day our community would grow back together.

Author's Note

It's kind of a nonsense story that I through together, so it's probably not my best work.