“What are you majoring in? Do you know?” “Pre-med.” He let out a low whistle. “A brainiac.” Heat crept up my neck. “I just like science.” That wasn’t completely true. I loved the subject, sure, but it was more. It was as though I thought if I learned medicine now, I could go back in time and save my mom and dad. I knew it was silly, but I needed to learn it. To understand how to heal the body. And if I couldn’t save them, at least I could save others.
