Serena surfed the Internet at great speeds. Every website she found
seemed to be yet another dead-end.
"MOM!" She yelled to the other side of her dark room. A moment later, her mother emerged from a door and smiled.
"Yes sweetheart?" she asked.
Serena sighed and frowned.
"I'm trying to research World War three for school, but I can't seem to find anything..."
Her mother crossed the room and glanced at the computer screen. At once her jaw set and her eyes narrowed.
"I don't think you should be looking on Space Warrior sites for that sweetie," she said in a cold, hard voice.
"Why not?" Serena asked. "I wanted to do something like a report on one of the soldiers who died and how it affected the family's lives."
Her mother clicked the little X in the corner of the screen.
"That sounds like it's fine. But what about the army? Or the navy?"
"Mom," Serena started. "The Space Warriors were the major part of why we were able to win against all the other planets. Wasn't dad a Space Warrior? Maybe I could do a report on him and his friends.?"
Her mother turned her hard gaze on Serena. At once Serena gulped.
"Never mind, I'll look at the army," Serena said, her eyes wide in fear.
Her mother's eyes took on a look of pain before she pulled her gaze away and walked towards the bedroom door.
"And Serena, please," she started turning back. "Please don't go looking for things that you know aren't there."
Her mother left, closing the door behind her.
Serena let out a sigh of relief. Mom is acting really strange. She thought. I know dad died, and I know how painful that can be. But it was so long ago; I'm trying to move on with my life. She should try and move on with hers.
As quickly as she could Serena logged back onto the website she was on previously. She clicked on the sidebar icon that read "Space Warriors". When she was on the website, she typed in a search for her father's name.
An informational page showed up on the computer, showing her father's statistics, and a picture of him. I do look a lot like him. I never knew. She thought. Her father had the same blonde hair, the same sparkling blue eyes, the same sweet smile, and the serious eyebrows. It was almost like looking at her twin.
Serena read the entire page, learning things about her father that her mother had never seemed to tell her. There was also a little blurb about his death:
Robert was the Lt. of the D-Force, on the air-ship Blue 427. The ship went down when it was shot down by an opposing planet's battle cruiser. He was one of the five people to die from the Space Warrior's unit. He was survived by his wife, Karyn, and his daughter, Serena.
Serena closed her eyes in a moment of thought. He was so brave to do what he did, she thought. I wish he were still alive though.
Another link caught her eye: Other members of the Blue 427.
She clicked on it, and found the four other members of the ship also had a statistical page and memorial. Serena didn't know which person to click on first. Mary Johnson, David Streets, Yeguir Manginig, and Gary Watts. David Streets. Click on that link first, she thought to herself.
Serena clicked on the link to David Streets, and there a picture of a man that strikingly resembled Heero greeted her. What in the world? She read the blurb about his death:
David was the Captain of the D-Force, on the air-ship Blue 427. The ship went down when it was shot down by an opposing planet's battle cruiser. He was one of the five people to die from the Space Warrior's unit. His wife, Jade, and his son, Heero, survived him.
"Oh my." Serena gasped.
Our fathers knew each other. Mine and Heero's fathers worked together. We swore up and down we knew each other from somewhere. is that how we met?
Serena clicked on the link for David's address, and brought up and another Internet access and did the same for her father.
What the hell? Not only were our fathers co-workers, they were friends. We lived together. What happened? What in the world happened?
Serena went to a search engine and typed in her father's name. She looked through several articles talking about the hero he was, and then she came upon one.
The headline read: FIVE SPACE WARRIORS KILLED IN KAMIKAZE MISSION
The article went on about how the space ship was brought down, and then it had a small blurb on each other the member's family:
Lt. Robert Opers and Captain David Streets had been best friends since they were five. Both grew up training to be in a branch of the military, and were excited when both were drafted to be apart of the Space Warriors division. Both had extremely close families, in fact, both lived in the same household for many years, with wives Karyn and Jade, and children Serena and Heero. Jade, who worked in the Space Control Unit 935, was attacked shortly after her husband's death. Karyn was left with both Serena and Heero, and shortly after fell ill, giving Serena to her sister until she was recovered, and Heero to an Uncle of his, who from there gave him up for adoption.
Serena cried. Her life finally made sense, and she now knew everything her mother had been keeping from her. Heero was hers, long ago, and they lost each other because their father's had died. Why had her mother never told her?
Why was everyone trying to keep secrets from her? And why, for the life of her, couldn't she remember her full childhood with Heero? Why hadn't she remembered him until just last week?
"MOM!" She yelled to the other side of her dark room. A moment later, her mother emerged from a door and smiled.
"Yes sweetheart?" she asked.
Serena sighed and frowned.
"I'm trying to research World War three for school, but I can't seem to find anything..."
Her mother crossed the room and glanced at the computer screen. At once her jaw set and her eyes narrowed.
"I don't think you should be looking on Space Warrior sites for that sweetie," she said in a cold, hard voice.
"Why not?" Serena asked. "I wanted to do something like a report on one of the soldiers who died and how it affected the family's lives."
Her mother clicked the little X in the corner of the screen.
"That sounds like it's fine. But what about the army? Or the navy?"
"Mom," Serena started. "The Space Warriors were the major part of why we were able to win against all the other planets. Wasn't dad a Space Warrior? Maybe I could do a report on him and his friends.?"
Her mother turned her hard gaze on Serena. At once Serena gulped.
"Never mind, I'll look at the army," Serena said, her eyes wide in fear.
Her mother's eyes took on a look of pain before she pulled her gaze away and walked towards the bedroom door.
"And Serena, please," she started turning back. "Please don't go looking for things that you know aren't there."
Her mother left, closing the door behind her.
Serena let out a sigh of relief. Mom is acting really strange. She thought. I know dad died, and I know how painful that can be. But it was so long ago; I'm trying to move on with my life. She should try and move on with hers.
As quickly as she could Serena logged back onto the website she was on previously. She clicked on the sidebar icon that read "Space Warriors". When she was on the website, she typed in a search for her father's name.
An informational page showed up on the computer, showing her father's statistics, and a picture of him. I do look a lot like him. I never knew. She thought. Her father had the same blonde hair, the same sparkling blue eyes, the same sweet smile, and the serious eyebrows. It was almost like looking at her twin.
Serena read the entire page, learning things about her father that her mother had never seemed to tell her. There was also a little blurb about his death:
Robert was the Lt. of the D-Force, on the air-ship Blue 427. The ship went down when it was shot down by an opposing planet's battle cruiser. He was one of the five people to die from the Space Warrior's unit. He was survived by his wife, Karyn, and his daughter, Serena.
Serena closed her eyes in a moment of thought. He was so brave to do what he did, she thought. I wish he were still alive though.
Another link caught her eye: Other members of the Blue 427.
She clicked on it, and found the four other members of the ship also had a statistical page and memorial. Serena didn't know which person to click on first. Mary Johnson, David Streets, Yeguir Manginig, and Gary Watts. David Streets. Click on that link first, she thought to herself.
Serena clicked on the link to David Streets, and there a picture of a man that strikingly resembled Heero greeted her. What in the world? She read the blurb about his death:
David was the Captain of the D-Force, on the air-ship Blue 427. The ship went down when it was shot down by an opposing planet's battle cruiser. He was one of the five people to die from the Space Warrior's unit. His wife, Jade, and his son, Heero, survived him.
"Oh my." Serena gasped.
Our fathers knew each other. Mine and Heero's fathers worked together. We swore up and down we knew each other from somewhere. is that how we met?
Serena clicked on the link for David's address, and brought up and another Internet access and did the same for her father.
What the hell? Not only were our fathers co-workers, they were friends. We lived together. What happened? What in the world happened?
Serena went to a search engine and typed in her father's name. She looked through several articles talking about the hero he was, and then she came upon one.
The headline read: FIVE SPACE WARRIORS KILLED IN KAMIKAZE MISSION
The article went on about how the space ship was brought down, and then it had a small blurb on each other the member's family:
Lt. Robert Opers and Captain David Streets had been best friends since they were five. Both grew up training to be in a branch of the military, and were excited when both were drafted to be apart of the Space Warriors division. Both had extremely close families, in fact, both lived in the same household for many years, with wives Karyn and Jade, and children Serena and Heero. Jade, who worked in the Space Control Unit 935, was attacked shortly after her husband's death. Karyn was left with both Serena and Heero, and shortly after fell ill, giving Serena to her sister until she was recovered, and Heero to an Uncle of his, who from there gave him up for adoption.
Serena cried. Her life finally made sense, and she now knew everything her mother had been keeping from her. Heero was hers, long ago, and they lost each other because their father's had died. Why had her mother never told her?
Why was everyone trying to keep secrets from her? And why, for the life of her, couldn't she remember her full childhood with Heero? Why hadn't she remembered him until just last week?