Life After High School - Ten Years Later
By Risty and Silver
Disclaimer: Uh...err...heh...Oh damn, we don't own them.
Summary: ::yawn:: read and find out.
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Kane and Vince raced outside with me. Kane was right, Silverwood was a beautiful place. I wished my mum was here to see it. We walked down the main street until we came to a corner store.
"I just gotta get some batteries for my Discman and a pack of gum. Come on." I said, hauling the two into the door.
After we got my batteries and gum, we kept walking around, Kane and Vince pointing out their favourite things and places. When we got back to the tavern, Benny was already there, having a bowl of soup with Lucas. Seriously, the guy looked dead on his feet. We wandered into the living room and sat with Galia, who was holding Chrystal, and watched 'The Nanny' and I imitated Fran Fines squeaky voice. It sent Galia and Kane and Vince into laughter.
Later, I was sitting on the camp bed in Galia's room, looking at the photo similar to the one I had put in the envelope about a month before. The only difference, was that our respective dogs were sitting by each of us. I stroked the image of my dog, Starlet.
"What's that?" asked Galia. I started. I hadn't heard her come in.
"Just a photo of my family and our dogs." I said, continuing to stroke the still image.
"Cute dog. What's it's name?"
"Starlet, and that's Casper, Johno, Dino, Diana and Millard." I said, unconsciously shedding a tear.
"Hey, are you crying, Ria? What's wrong?" Galia sounded sympathetic. I couldn't tell. I'd buried my head in my hands.
"I miss my mum. Dad, even my brothers and sister. I haven't been separated from my mother for more than three days. And that was when she was sick, in hospital. But that wouldn't really be separated, I was by her side every spare minute." I said, wiping away the tears furiously. I rarely cry. Like mum.
"What was wrong with her?"
"She...went weird. I don't know. I was only six. She began crying and throwing stuff around, but I remember clearly that she was screaming that she wanted to be friends with Emma again. Saying stuff like Emma was like the twin sister she never had. They looked out for each other."
"Wow. Powerful friendship. Hey, you know what I like to do when I'm feeling down?"
"No, What?"
"Sing and dance to the silliest song I can find. Come on!"
Galia flipped through her CD collection and brought out a couple of whoppers.
"Okay, we have, The Happy Hamster Dance, The Macarena, Tweety Bird, or The Galaxy Song. Take your pick." She said, grinning. I grinned too, feeling stupid but anyway.
"I can't choose. How bout them all?"
"Good choice!" Galia laughed. So she put each of the songs. I didn't know what the 'Galaxy Song' was, but when I heard the lyrics, I burst out laughing.
"I know this song! It's off Monty Python's Meaning of Life!"
"Yeah! The best comedy of them all!" We began to sing to the lyrics together.
"Just remember that your standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
It's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
On an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles an hour
In the galaxy we call the Milky Way!
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light years thick
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point
We go round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go - the speed of light you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is
So remember when your feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray there is intelligent life somewhere up in space
Because there's bugger all down here on Earth!"
Galia and I collapsed in a heap on her bed, laughing uncontrollably.
"What are you guys doing?"
It was Kane and Vince. They must have been standing there for half the song at least. It just made us girls burst into giggles again. I'm sure the boys thought we were completely off our rockers.
By Risty and Silver
Disclaimer: Uh...err...heh...Oh damn, we don't own them.
Summary: ::yawn:: read and find out.
************************************************************************
Kane and Vince raced outside with me. Kane was right, Silverwood was a beautiful place. I wished my mum was here to see it. We walked down the main street until we came to a corner store.
"I just gotta get some batteries for my Discman and a pack of gum. Come on." I said, hauling the two into the door.
After we got my batteries and gum, we kept walking around, Kane and Vince pointing out their favourite things and places. When we got back to the tavern, Benny was already there, having a bowl of soup with Lucas. Seriously, the guy looked dead on his feet. We wandered into the living room and sat with Galia, who was holding Chrystal, and watched 'The Nanny' and I imitated Fran Fines squeaky voice. It sent Galia and Kane and Vince into laughter.
Later, I was sitting on the camp bed in Galia's room, looking at the photo similar to the one I had put in the envelope about a month before. The only difference, was that our respective dogs were sitting by each of us. I stroked the image of my dog, Starlet.
"What's that?" asked Galia. I started. I hadn't heard her come in.
"Just a photo of my family and our dogs." I said, continuing to stroke the still image.
"Cute dog. What's it's name?"
"Starlet, and that's Casper, Johno, Dino, Diana and Millard." I said, unconsciously shedding a tear.
"Hey, are you crying, Ria? What's wrong?" Galia sounded sympathetic. I couldn't tell. I'd buried my head in my hands.
"I miss my mum. Dad, even my brothers and sister. I haven't been separated from my mother for more than three days. And that was when she was sick, in hospital. But that wouldn't really be separated, I was by her side every spare minute." I said, wiping away the tears furiously. I rarely cry. Like mum.
"What was wrong with her?"
"She...went weird. I don't know. I was only six. She began crying and throwing stuff around, but I remember clearly that she was screaming that she wanted to be friends with Emma again. Saying stuff like Emma was like the twin sister she never had. They looked out for each other."
"Wow. Powerful friendship. Hey, you know what I like to do when I'm feeling down?"
"No, What?"
"Sing and dance to the silliest song I can find. Come on!"
Galia flipped through her CD collection and brought out a couple of whoppers.
"Okay, we have, The Happy Hamster Dance, The Macarena, Tweety Bird, or The Galaxy Song. Take your pick." She said, grinning. I grinned too, feeling stupid but anyway.
"I can't choose. How bout them all?"
"Good choice!" Galia laughed. So she put each of the songs. I didn't know what the 'Galaxy Song' was, but when I heard the lyrics, I burst out laughing.
"I know this song! It's off Monty Python's Meaning of Life!"
"Yeah! The best comedy of them all!" We began to sing to the lyrics together.
"Just remember that your standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour
It's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
On an outer spiral arm at forty thousand miles an hour
In the galaxy we call the Milky Way!
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light years thick
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point
We go round every two hundred million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go - the speed of light you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is
So remember when your feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray there is intelligent life somewhere up in space
Because there's bugger all down here on Earth!"
Galia and I collapsed in a heap on her bed, laughing uncontrollably.
"What are you guys doing?"
It was Kane and Vince. They must have been standing there for half the song at least. It just made us girls burst into giggles again. I'm sure the boys thought we were completely off our rockers.