Science and Sake 1

Calista Akechi sat in the main room in her parent's house as she listened to the chaos going on around her. The third oldest of the Akechi clan, she was the oldest still in the house. At nineteen, she was already ahead of her sisters Reena and Gina in college at the same age. Calista was going to graduate three years early in the field of astrophysics. She was the only one who took advantage of the high school program to get college credits while still enrolled in high school. She only had to do a few classes at the college to finalize her good fortune. She knew she would have to go to graduate school but wondered about the when of that.

“Mom, how the hell do you think with all this noise?” Calista called out as she looked at her mother, Krissy, in her office.

“I learned to block them all out because of you four.” Krissy laughed as she turned back to her computer. Krissy was the county pathologist reviewer, and she still held her p