CHAPTER FIVE. GENES.

Was this girl dumb or what? She was very amused.

"You have to compensate me." The girl demanded. "Why should she compensate you? It was clearly an accident, Clara!" Kay glared at her and a lot of people agreed with her words. "Mind your business, Kay. It's between me and her!" She said with annoyance.

Kay wanted to reply but Rory glanced at her telling her to be quiet.

"How should I compensate you?" She said with a cryptic smile. The girl, who was Carla, smiled satisfactorily. "Wipe off the Mac and cheese from my clothes. Right now."

"Okay!" Rory accepted. She went to a table, picked up the water from there, and walked back to Clara. By now everyone's attention was on Clara. Clara was the school bully and Rory was the new student, so everyone was curious about what would happen. Without saying a word, Rory opened the bottle of water and poured it on Clara's head. She emptied the entire bottle.

"Ah! What did you just do?!" Clara screamed.

"What you told me to". Rory replied with a smirk. She did tell her to wipe the Mac and cheese off her and the water did the trick.

Everyone started laughing and pointing at Clara.

"This isn't over!" Clara declared. However, Rory just walked away and Clara went out of there fuming.

Blaire got a new tray of food for Rory. They got back to eating.

…..

After lunch, Rory was alone under a tree when she heard a voice call her name.

"Rory?" Rory looked up and saw a familiar face. It was none other than Malcolm, the only person who knew about her existence apart from the Devane Family. Her lips curled up and she said coldly, "What?"

"What are you doing here?" He asked, a little surprised.

"Are you stupid? Or are you just fond of asking stupid questions?" She said with a straight face. Malcolm's face darkened. He knew this was a school but why would she be here? He heard that they drove her out of the house a few days ago. So why was she here? Rory couldn't be bothered by this fool, so she stood up and started walking away.

Malcolm rushed to stop her from leaving and held her arm.

She narrowed her eyes at the hand holding her arm and said, "Let me go". He felt shivers running down his spine. He immediately let go of her arm. "We need to talk". He said.

"You and I have nothing to talk about!" She said firmly. Not waiting to hear his response, she left him standing there.

These things were distracting her from her main objective. She needed to stop fooling around with insignificant things.

…..

She went back to class. The Biology teacher walked in.

"Good afternoon everyone!" He greeted the class.

"Good afternoon sir!" The class answered.

"So today we are going to talk about genetics. In our last class, I introduced the topic to you all. Now we will discuss more about genes!" He started teaching. The teacher paused and asked a question.

“How does the alteration in the sequence of nucleotides in a single gene (a point mutation) potentially affect the entire protein structure, and why might some point mutations have no observable effect on the phenotype of an organism? Explain the molecular mechanisms involved.” The question left everyone at a loss of words as they racked their heads for the answer.

“A point mutation, which is a change in a single nucleotide within a gene, can have varying effects on the protein structure and, consequently, the organism’s phenotype. The impact depends on the type of mutation and where it occurs within the gene.” Rory answered smoothly. The Biology teacher became intrigued and smiled satisfactorily.

“What are the types?”

“Missense mutation.” Terrence finally understood the question and replied.

“We also have the nonsense mutation and silent mutation,” Rory added.

The topic of genes had always fascinated Rory and she was happy she read the textbooks Hector bought for Samantha. She even had an idea for a research project and before that was a far dream but now, it was actually possible.

"I see Terrence finally has competition, who knows maybe it would land him in the Top Five for the tests." The teacher had a knowing look on his face. Most students didn't know this but she did. It was truly amazing.

"She is the complete package, beauty, and brain!" Someone said softly.

Everyone silently agreed.

….

School was over but Samantha didn't show up because of her ‘injury’. If they thought that getting rid of her was easy then they barked at the wrong tree. She would make them pay.

As she greeted her classmates goodbye, she came out and saw a black Maybach car waiting outside. When she saw no one looking she immediately went inside the car.

Daniel was in the car.

"How was school today?" He asked.

"It was okay". She replied.

She started talking about everything the teacher said and about her new friends. Daniel listened attentively to her and when she brought up the issue that happened in the cafeteria, he raised an eyebrow and she said, "It's okay. I handled it well!" She said, trying to show off. He smiled. She was talkative.

….

They finally arrived home. Daniel went to the study and she went to her room. She changed into house clothes. In the room, she sat down by her desk and turned on the newly bought laptop. It was the latest model. After she finished all the necessary things, she got down to business.

She had no friends when she stayed in the Devane Mansion. She needed to find someone who could help her.

'Beep'. The notification tone sounded on her phone. She checked if it was a message on her chats.

She opened the chat and saw she had been added to a group called "Rory's Devotees'. Rory facepalmed. herself. What was the need to create a group? The group was created 1 hour ago and there have been 1,567 unread chats. Were these people that jobless? She only gave them her number because she thought they had something meaningful to discuss about the class. If she had known it was because of this she would have never agreed.

The group had all her classmates. Then an idea popped into her head. She privately chatted, with Kay.

Rory:[Hey]

After a few seconds, Kay replied.

Kaylaluv:[Hi, what's up?].

She thought for a while before she typed.

Rory:[I need a favor].