This caused her to be unhappy as her outer shell of electrons was not full! She was so unhappy that when, one day, she was floating around, lost in a giant lattice. Suddenly she saw Carl Chlorine looking desperatly unnhappy. He had always been much bigger than her (by about 6 protons and varying neutrons). She sidled over to him.

“Carl, What’s wrong?” She said.

“Charlie Chlorine left me! what shall I do? I feel so empty without sharing her electron!”

“I know you’re used to being a diatomic wonder, but if you take my election then you’ll have a full outer shell!”

“hey, thank you!”

As the election passed across, Carl became negatively charged, and Sally became positively charged. They both felt the irrisistable draw of ionic charges pulling them together, and there they stayed untill mike, a year 9 chemistry student decided to mix them with some potassium fluride.