In high-school chemistry classrooms across the country, you are forced to memorize all of the different lab equipment. They never tell you to memorize the constellation of freckles spattered across the bridge of your lab partner's nose, but you do it anyways.
You learn about Marie Curie and radioactive decay, but you find you are more interested in the way his smile starts small and grows to light a fire in your cheeks. You blame it on the Bunsen burner.
You study polyatomic ions and how they act as a single unit, and it reminds you of how he winks at you right before quizzes and you find you can't focus on anything at all. You blame it on the lack of breakfast.
You test over periodic trends and ionization energy, but all you can think of at night is the way he taps his fingers and maybe it's why you can't sleep at night. You blame it on a restless mind.
In high-school chemistry classrooms across the country, you are forced to be careful when handling Erlenmeyer flasks. They never tell other students to be careful when handling your heart. They never tell you how much easier it is to clean up the mess from a shattered beaker than it is to clean up the mess from your shattered heart.