Suddenly I got very uncomfortable. I glanced at my watch–the one thing I left on that didn't go with the rest of my costume.
"Uh... I think I got to go... I told my dad I wouldn't be out long," Okay, so I lied... but I could have told him that... I look at her eyes, their smiling. No really, her eyes are smiling. I didn't have to look at her mouth to see that she was smiling. Uh-oh. She didn't buy my lie.
"Oh, no, you can stay! See, I called your dad, he said it was okay," Mina's strange smiling eyes told me.
"Okay, but... Wait, you called my dad?" I can't believe what I'm hearing.
Darn...Mina, can't you keep anything to your self? I thought to my self. (Which I tend to do a lot.)
"Oh, I wasn't sure that you would remember, so I went to call you...and I just meant to...I didn't even..." she went on and on. I wasn't even listening. I watched the smile leave her eyes. Now they just looked...well...empty. I didn't like it. I had to make her laugh again.
"Why did the chicken cross the road?" I interrupted her incessant babbling.
"–Oh...What?" She stopped, surprised.
I repeated myself, "Why did the chicken cross the road?"
Finally, she smiled, "That has to be the oldest joke in the book–To get to the other side of course!"
What do I say now? She knows the joke... "Good job... it took me three weeks to get that one." She laughed again. This time, her smile broadened in her mouth as well as her eyes. Note to self: Learn more jokes.
That was random... But hey! At least he's still wearing the tunic! And maybe I can keep him here long enough to tell him what I really wanted to tell him. I sit down again, and motion for him to follow suit. I don't know why, it just always easier for me to think when I sit down. He sits too. So far so good. In search for words I look at the sky.
She's looking at the stars now...or should I say the lack of them. I thought there'd be a whole lot more, considering we're on an island and everything. She must have heard me gasp because the next thing she said was regarding the stars.
"So you see it too? There disappearing." She lies down in the grass. I copy her. I lay my head in my hands on the soft cool grass beneath us. Suddenly, I see a falling star. Mina, next to me suddenly bolt up right. I look for her eyes. Tears. She's crying. I sit up too and wrap my arm around her to comfort her.
He put his arm around me! For a second, I forget about the star.
"Hey it's okay," he tries to get me to stop crying...and it's kind of working. I sniffle.
"It's only a shooting star," he says, "now you can make a wish."
A wish? He wants to make a wish at a time like this? Does he know what's happening here?
"Are you kidding?" I shrug off his arm. "Do know what's happening?" He doesn't reply, so I continue.
Mina says that the stars are falling from the sky, one by one. She believes that their little worlds disappearing into nothing. She thinks that we can't just sit here and watch and make wishes. And I agree...but what are we supposed to do?
Oh. No.
He's not moving, "Are you okay? Did you hear me?" I ask, "I said that the universe needs to be our Link, and bring back the worlds–and the stars."
"You're kidding." I say... but she doesn't look like she's joking. "Oh, boy."
She rolls over on to her knees and claps her hands together.
"Please o please o please?" she begged. She looked pathetic... but then again, I'm a sucker for pathetic blondes. I sigh...
He's sighing... is that a good sign?
Here goes nothing...
I hold my breath, squint my eyes, and wait for his reply...
"Sure..." I finally say, "When do I start?