The other chapters will be longer :) This is just the prologue. Also, this might be considered slightly AU, I'm not sure. They never went too much into Xephos's backstory.
Prologue
The stars glistened brightly in the sky, winking and twinkling happily at her.
Most people liked the stars here, but she didn't. She understood why they were liked, for she once liked them as well. But now they tormented her. She could've spent whole nights just staring at them and wondering when she was younger. That's probably why she liked him. She was too afraid to venture out there, into the relatively unknown. But he wasn't.
Even when they were children he'd known he would one day reach the stars. He'd tell tales of how one day their planet would build spaceships able to leave their own galaxy and how he'd venture into other worlds. Back then it was just a game, but when he chose to pursue his dreams and studied to be an astronaut, she knew that something was going to change. But it wasn't until he was chosen to be the captain of the first ship to leave the galaxy did she know just what was going to change.
He'd promised her... promised her that one day he would come back with tales of all the planets he'd seen, all the galaxies he'd visited. At the time she'd believed that he would come back, but when the news declared the ships signal had been lost, she'd doubted. He was only 19 when he was chosen to captain the ship. 19! How had they ever expected it to work? They had much older, more experienced people that could've captained it, but they claimed he was exceptional at it. 'A born leader' they said.
They told her that it wasn't his fault the ship disappeared- they believed a faulty engine part that had been installed incorrectly caused it. But how would a faulty engine part only destroy the ship a year after it had taken off?
She hated him. Hated that horrible, ship-crashing liar more than anything. She was glad he was gone. In fact, if he'd come home right then she wouldn't even care.
Stifling sobs, she cried into her hands. "I miss you, Xephos..."
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"I miss you so much..."
