Gemotions

The email arrived during her physics lecture, a notification about an emergency meeting. Her fingers flew across the keyboard as she quickly scanned the message, her heart beginning to pound in her chest. A small laugh escaped her lips; it was a release of pressure she’d been carrying around for weeks. She'd been feeling suffocated, trapped.

She leaned back in her chair, the hard plastic digging into her back. The professor continued droning on about quantum mechanics, but she wasn’t listening. Her mind raced with possibilities, envisioning the freedom that awaited. She mentally checked off items on a mental list – apartment hunting, new job applications, and her new life.