It was a cool summer night, and Johnny and Dukey were running around the yard after dinner, playing before it was time to go to bed. Dukey was just playfully and carelessly chasing Johnny around.
"Aha! Tag, you're it!" Dukey shouted as he tapped Johnny's shoulder.
"Darn it! Come back here!" Johnny responded playfully.
"I don't think so!"
Johnny chased after Dukey in an attempt to tag him back and escape the position of tagger with a playful smile on his face. But as he couldn't run as fast as Dukey, he grew tired after a few minutes of chasing him.
Johnny soon grew too tired to continue, so he laid out on the lawn in the front of his house. Dukey found him laying down and joined him. The two were silent for a long while before Johnny finally spoke up.
"Space is so cool." Johnny said.
"Yeah, I know. It's so never-ending. There's no 'edge of space'. You could get lost forever up there." Dukey responded, sighing in wonder.
"Yeah. And time stops. So you could be up there for like an hour and it'd be a whole day passed on earth or something." Johnny said.
The two laid in silence for a while as they watched the stars some more until Dukey began pointing out constellations.
"That one's supposed to be Orion's belt," He explained, pointing upwards. "See the three in a line right there?"
"Where's the rest of Orion?" Asked Johnny curiously.
"Around the belt. See the torso above it? It's in a sort of a rectangle shape. His legs are below the belt if you can spot the two lines of stars." Dukey explained.
"Cool."
"And that one over there is Taurus the Bull," Dukey explained.
Johnny started spotting his own and pointed a few out, pointing to the big and little dippers.
"The big dipper actually points to the north star." Dukey explained.
"Really? So where is it?" Johnny asked.
"If you look at the two stars on the outer side of the bowl and look for the star in a straight line from them, you have your north star." Dukey explained. Johnny was silent for a moment as he looked for the north star.
"Oh, cool, I see it!" Johnny said excitedly. Johnny and Dukey went back and forth for a little bit longer, pointing out different constellations. This went on until Dukey looked beside him to see that Johnny had fallen asleep. Dukey scooped the boy up in his arms and carried him to his room and into his bed. Before lying down at the foot of the bed to curl up and fall asleep himself, he ran his tongue across Johnny's cheek. Whether the boy knew the move had been made or not, Dukey didn't care. He appreciated his new home.
Yeah, ik this was short, but I didn't really know what to do for this week's oneshot…its good enough, right? Soo review…