Intro:
I saw this image when I was a kid, the photograph of jupiter taken by NASA's voyager. Beautiful. But nothing special to show in rapid succession. Suddenly jupiter was alive, breathing, I was hypnotized.
I was 17 when I got my acceptance letter from Juilliard I felt like anything was possible, and it was.
Story:
I started the engine of the car, blasting the radio louder then usual; "yo what's up baby is you're boy flava F.L.A.V.A that's you're dude with the big mouth yo, I don't know if you heard the news but the scientist say they just discovered another planet super close to us that can possibly support life, really? well now its visible up in the night sky they say if you just look east of the north star you will see it, It's a little blue spot. I want all you lovers out there to make a wish on the little blue spot"... the radio station faded out of my mind as I kept looking up to see this new planet. I kept squinting trying to focus just to catch a better look at this planet believed to have life on it. My curiosity was getting the best of me I couldn't stop trying to look at it.
Next thing I know I hear this loud noise and a pain shoot through my body as I hear the front of my car smash into something, not knowing what I hit. Everything goes black for a few moments, I smell the fuel of the car when I wake up, it's strong. I try blinking my eyes; blood dripping from my nose from hitting the steering wheel. My hand grabs the handle of the car trying to get out, once i finally get my car door open I fall out on shattered glass. I Drag my body to try and crawl to get myself up and steady, I get up slowly on my feet. And thats when I look to see what I hit, I can hardly breath at first. It was another car. Smashed into the side of a pole. I walk over to it slowly limping trying to examine it from a small distance, once i walk a few feet closer to the car I feel my throat swell up and my ears go numb, the sight of a man on the passenger side had blood all over his face well his eyes were open in a blank stare. I throw up immediately, coughing and clenching my stomach with my hands, trying to breath. I turn back around and walk over to the other side of the car and open the door. I see a women knocked unconsciously or maybe even dead, I start to shiver and feel my hydrenaline pumping feriously. I look inside the back seat window and I see a stuffed animal, I start to panic; I walk away from the smashed vehical and a few feet away I see a little boy in the street lying in his own blood. I hear syrines and everything is over.
4 Years later
I've been in juvenile for the past 4 years after what happen that night, It was November 15, 2012 when I got released. I signed myself out after serving my time for those few years that felt like nothing but at the same time an eternity. I remember that night like it was yesterday, it's the clearest memory in my mind till this day.
I wait outside for my family to come and get me, trying to figuare out what to say after these 4 years of being away from them and not for a good reason at all. A few moments later their car pulls up and I get in, I look at my dad, and mother and they don't even looking at me, while I get into the car next to my little brother, who now is in high school and very much older looking. Prior thinking of what I was going to say to them flew out the window, I choose to remain silent instead. I look outside the window, seeing how much has changed since I've been locked up, everything except the sky; When we finally arrive to our house I walk up to my room putting my bag down and sitting on my bed looking at my room, examining it, still left just the way I had it. I hear a faint knock at the door, and see my mom strut in with clean towels. Setting them down next to me, I felt this weird tension and awkawardness feel the air. She smiles at me for only a split second. as she is about to walk out she tells me goodnight. The only word I heard her say to me since I've been home and I tried to hold back the tears as she leaves and whisper a faint "goodnight" back.
The next morning I wake up and I hear my brother talking with my parents downstairs, about how they are giving a free trip to the other planet that I now know is called 'earth 2' to a lucky person who writes a 500 word essay exsplaining why they should win the trip. I get up trying not to make a lot of noise so they won't hear I'm up just yet. I grab my laptop and log onto the website '.com' I scan the website and a automatic video starts to play describing how the trip to earth 2 will be the best thing to happen to you. I click to enter a essay but I hesitate and shut my laptop. An hour later I pack a few of my things In a couple of boxes and take it to the attic where I decided to move my room to, I unpack my lamp, books, and place my mattress down on dusty floor, hanging a poster above me of the galaxies, just staring at it until I finally drift off to sleep.
The next two day's I finally go into town, taking the bus to apply for a job; I wait pationtly as the lady looks over my paper work and resume. "I was thinking, I would like to do something with my hands you know maybe outdoors, maybe not". The lady interupts me "oh come on you could do something with you're hands but you have such a great mind". I look up at her "I don't really want to be around too many people or do too much talking". She looks at me like I'm weird and turns to her computer and begings to type in some information. "Alright well Brittany, theirs a maintniance position open at William mckinley High school" I give her a blank stare and the next thing I know I except the job.
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