Welcome back! Chapter two is rolling around the corner. ON TO THE STORY!


Amy fell asleep on the couch, leaving the TV on. The scientific rambling of Morgan Freeman ringing throughout the house. Her dad came home for lunch. He found her with her head in the floor and her rear in the air, she was barely on the couch any more. He picked her up and put her on the couch again.
"Muur." Amy grunted as Daryll laid her down.
"Wakie wakie lemon shakie." Her dad nudged her shoulder and chuckled.
"Uhrg." Amy grunted again.
"Come on." Her dad poked her belly,"Wake up."
Amy woke with a fit of giggles following her startled yelp of surprise. She gulped in air and let it out in quick bursts of laughter.
"St-Stahhp." Amy giggled out. Her dad stopped as soon as she signaled that she was awake. He knew, unlike most people, that tickling is only enjoyable for the first few seconds.
"Morning sleeping beauty." Daryll grinned and sat down beside hid daughter. Amy stole a look at the clock. It was 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
"Your a bit late there dad." Amy giggled.
"It was a figure of speech." Daryll chuckled,"And besides, you were asleep and you're beautiful, so it's mostly true."
Amy rolled her eyes. Teenagers are so fickle sometimes, as children, we're on top of the world, but as soon as the "P" word sets in, it just becomes a mess of hormones and feelings. She obviously didn't share her father's opinions.
"Yeah right." Amy said incredulously.
"What? It's true." Her dad told her,"I know it's corny, but don't let anyone tell you 'you aren't beautiful'."
Amy's dad looked at her with a look of despair and anger on his face.
"Whatever." Amy brushed him off.


Sherman was sitting under the huge oak tree in the park, headphones in his ears. He was alone. Twenty-one pilots on his phone. He hummed along, his head bobbing along to the beat. He looked up to someone approaching him, Penny Patterson. She certainly grew with her age, her height almost doubling. Her bust had grown to a modest size. Her blonde hair was cut short for the new term at school. She wore a black leather jacket along with her usually pink attire. Sherman on the other hand, had grown almost three times his eight year old height. His shoulders broadened to where he would be mistaken for a quarterback from behind. His fiery orange hair had stayed relatively the same, but a noticeable line of hairs were growing along his jaw, most of it gathered around his chin. He wore a black tee with a white hoodie and a pair of black pants.
"Hey Penny." Sherman said as he stood up.
"Hey Sherman." She walked over and offered her hand to Sherman. They weren't an 'item' yet, but Penny had a plan to ask him out the first week of the new term.
"How was you weekend?" Sherman asked, trying to start a conversation.
"Good. I was able to go and pick out my new car for when I get my driver license." Penny led him down the sidewalk.
"Oh yeah, you'll be driving soon... The streets will be safer, the sidewalks... Not so much." Sherman playfully teased Penny.
"Hey..." Penny punched Sherman's arm with an equal amount of playfulness. The two continued flirting with each other until they reached the penthouse.
"Be careful going home." Sherman waved to Penny as she made her way home.
"I will." Penny smiled. Sherman took the elevator to the top level. Mr. Peabody was waiting for him.
"Sherman, I know it's late, but the school first term PTO meeting is tonight, but I have something important at the observatory, could you go and grab it? You know the way." Mr. Peabody asked Sherman. Sherman nodded and turned around and took the elevator down to ground level, grabbing his bike along the way. He looked up to the hills behind the city, he made way to them.


Amy decided to go out after her dad left for work. She hiked up to the local observatory. The hike itself didn't take long, it was getting into the building that proved to be a challenge. The building was abandoned, but due to the service it provided in the 80s it was preserved and kept out of the hands of hoodlums. The result was a beautiful marble pimple on the side of the hill. After scaling the ten foot chain link fence and many other obstacles, Amy opened the huge oak door and found something beautiful, more so than the observatory itself. It was a collection of miniature stars, all of them glowing on their own accord, some brighter than others. Millions of colors shined inside of the building. Amy stood, awe struck, with her mouth open, staring at the wonder that was before her. Then before her eyes, small galaxies formed to make multicolored pallets of varying shapes and sizes. Amy reached out to touch one of the brighter stars and an automotive voice rang out, scaring the crap out of Amy.

"The Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy that has a diameter usually considered to be roughly 100,000–120,000 light-years but may be 150,000–180,000 light-years. The Milky Way is estimated to contain 100–400 billion stars, although this number may be as high as one trillion. There are probably at least 100 billion planets in the Milky Way. The Solar System is located within the disk, about 27,000 light-years from the Galactic Center, on the inner edge of one of the spiral-shaped concentrations of gas and dust called the Orion Arm. The stars in the inner ≈10,000 light-years form a bulge and one or more bars that radiate from the bulge. The very center is marked by an intense radio source, named Sagittarius A*, which is likely to be a supermassive black and gases at a wide range of distances from the Galactic Center orbit at approximately 220 kilometers per second. The constant rotation speed contradicts the laws of Keplerian dynamics and suggests that much of the mass of the Milky Way does not emit or absorb electromagnetic radiation. This mass has been given the name "dark matter". The rotational period is about 240 million years at the position of the Sun. The Milky Way as a whole is moving at a velocity of approximately 600 km per second with respect to extragalactic frames of reference. The oldest stars in the Milky Way are nearly as old as the Universe itself and thus must have formed shortly after the Big Milky Way has several satellite galaxies and is part of the Local Group of galaxies, which is a component of the Virgo Supercluster, which again is a component of the Laniakea Supercluster."

"Whoa..." Amy gasped, the observatory was an information bank. The observatory continued with information about it's age, arms, and the neighboring clusters of stars around Sol and it's solar system. Amy found a arm chair and sat down, enjoying the presentation.


Sherman looked around to see if anybody was watching and opened the secret entrance to the observatory. A rock covered door opened vertically, revealing a small six by four tunnel. He ran along the corridor, wanting to get home and sleep. He wasn't expecting someone to be in the building, let alone working the holograms inside.


Okay, so chapter two was a bit longer. The info on the Milky Way came from Wikipedia, so it's basically open to the general public. I have to say, I am loving how this story is turning out. And finally, I know it's futile to ask, but OCs make the world go round, and there's only so much one man can do. Leave a comment on whether it would be a good idea to incorporate your characters into the story. Also, since this is not part of the main series of stories regarding Rerenhaw Chronicles, I can make it however long I need. I'm planning for it to span to around 25 chapters, I don't know. Anywho, thank you for reading and tune in next time for CHAPTER 3!