Chapter Two
"Nova?"
"Yes! It's me Hikaru!" Nova cried.
"But how?" Hikaru asked.
"I'm not exactly sure," Nova admitted.
Nova still clung to Hikaru like she was about to die.
"Lantis misses you." Nova said.
Hikaru smiled down at Nova, "I miss him a lot too."
"I've missed you too Hikaru." Nova said softly.
Nova then let go of Hikaru and stared down at her own hands.
"Have you forgiven me?" Nova asked so softly Hikaru
almost didn't hear her.
Hikaru blinked. "Of course. You are a part of me, and when I
forgave myself," Hikaru paused to wipe a stray strand of
hair from Nova's face. "I forgave you too."
Nova jumped up and down sending her hair back in her face.
"YAY!"
Hikaru nodded. "Yup."
"Hey Hikaru-chan, who's your friend?" Asked Hikaru's
brother Satoru as he came out the back door after noticing Hikaru
and Hikari had run out.
Hikaru looked up at her brother Satoru. "She's my friend
Nova," Hikaru started to explain.
"I'm from Ceph-"
Hikaru clamped a hand over Nova's mouth.
"California. In America. The land of the brave and free. Or
whatever. Um."
Nova blinked her ruby red eyes.
"well she's speaks perfect Japanese." Her brother
pointed out as he raised an eye brow.
Hikaru's eyes swiveled around to look at Nova. "She only
lived in California for two weeks. Then she moved back here. But
I had met her on the Internet. Sometimes I got there and see
people." Hikaru tried desperately to cover.
Nova just kept blinking.
"Um..." Satoru trailed off looking rather confused.
"It's a little dark, should I light him on fire and use him
as a human torch?" Nova whispered to Hikaru.
Hikaru sweat dropped. "Nah my mom would have a cow."
Nova shrugged. "But what's a cow?"
Hikaru's mother came out into the yard in her bath robe.
"Hikaru!" She cried. "What are you doing out at
this hour?!"
Hikaru dug a hole in the soft ground with the toes of her white
canvas sneakers. She stared down at foot as she clasped her hands
behind her back.
"I'm sorry mom! But my friend Nova," she gestured in
Nova's direction. "She arrived here from," she stopped
and held up a finger to silence Nova. "From California in
the U.S."
Hikaru's mother crossed her arms over her chest. She glanced from
Hikaru to Nova with a deciding look on her face.
Nova stood next to Hikaru, also digging her toe into the ground
and clasping her hands behind her back.
"It's very late. Are you going to invite your in or are you
going to ask her to sleep on the porch with Hikari?" Her
mother asked with a warm smile.
A huge grin spread across Hikaru's face and her crimson eyes
sparkled like stars.
"Come on Nova!" Hikaru cried as she grabbed Nova's hand
from behind her back.
She dragged Nova inside the house and slammed the white wooden
screen door.
"Hikaru," her mom sighed as she shook her head.
Hikaru bit her lip. "Sorry... I forgot. I do that sometimes
when I'm excited! You know that!"
Her mother nodded. "But you're always excited."
Hikaru sweat dropped.
Nova looked around at the room she was in. It had a back stove
that had a tea kettle on one of the back burners. The white
microwave door was open, and a brick red coffee mug sat in it. It
was on empty mug but still it sat there as if it were a shelf.
Fresh flowers sat in a glass vase along with some sort of wilted
flowers from the day before. Nova snuck over to the table and
sniffed them. She sniffed loudly.
"I like the pink and white ones much better than these less
smell filled yellow ones." Nova announced.
Hikaru's mother shook her head and left the girl's alone. Hikaru
leaned against a wall. It was hard to see what color the wall was
painted because of the fact that only a single dull light was on
in the kitchen.
Hikaru let out a loud yawn. "Ooops, sorry." Hikaru
muttered before laughing.
Nova had finished with her flower sniffing and her eyes were once
again wondering in search of something new to gaze upon. Her eyes
locked onto a shiny silver object. It was a toaster. She stared
at it with the utmost interest.
She pointed a slender finger in the toasters direction.
"What is 'that'?" Nova practically squealed as her eyes
gleamed.
"It's a toaster." Hikaru replied casually.
Nova approached the toaster. "Toast-er. Toaster." Nova
repeated. "I like the way that word sounds. And it's
pretty!"
Hikaru blinked and refolded her arms.
"What does it do?" Novas asked as she made a face in
the toasters reflective surface.
"You put bread into it, and it heats the bread until it's
crunchy and brown." Hikaru explained while Nova listened
wide-eyed.
"Cool!" Nova cried.
Hikaru nodded wearily. "You ready to go to bed now?"
Nova looked around the room again. There were still many things
that she didn't know the name of. Or what they do for that
matter. But her eyes were straining to stay open. Her lids
screamed to cover her eyes and surrender to the demand for sleep.
"Yeah. I'm tired." Nova replied.
Hikaru stood up straight. "Fallow me." She instructed.
Hikaru kicked her shoes off and threw them in the corner of the
room by the back door. Nova fallowed suit and pulled her boots
off and threw her boots AT the door.
Then the two girls went down the dark hall and into Hikaru's bed
room. Hikaru flipped the light switch up.
Nova looked around the room while Hikaru unbranded her long red
hair.
"Your hair looks good like that." Nova complemented.
Hikaru smiled and opened a drawer in a big wooden dresser. She
pulled out two long night shirts. One was pink and the other was
red. She threw the pink one to Nova.
"You can barrow it." She said before turning around to
change.
Nova stripped off her armor and tossed it in a pial. Then, still
wearing her black spandex like suit, she slipped into the cotton
night shirt.
She looked around Hikaru's room looking for a mirror. A bed with
red comforter sat in the corner o the room by the window.
Trophy's lined the shelves that were attached to the walls, which
were also red.
"You like red ne?"
"Yeah... Though now it really just reminds me of
blood." Hikaru said as she went to the edge of her bed.
Nova's eyes twinkled. "I love blood!" Nova cried like a
four year old talking about candy.
Hikaru pulled a cot out from under her bed. Nova turned on
Hikaru's fan, which sat on her wooden desk. Nova's eyes fallowed
the fan's face back and forth.
Hikaru sighed and looked at he clock.
"Time for a nice sleep," Hikaru said half excited.
Nova climbed onto the creaky cot while Hikaru turned out the
light.
"Bounce." Nova whispered as her cot let out a groan.
Hikaru laughed softly and pulled her sheet up. NOVA lay awake in
her bed. Even though her eyes wanted to close.
Nova twirled a lock of pink hair around her finger. Her eye lids
finally surrendered and her eyes lids fell shut. The sounds of
the night faded and Nova fell asleep.
Dedicated to Nova's Biggest fan: NovaForever!!! Hope you enjoy this. It took me uh almost two hours to finish typing up!