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Zoey woke the next morning to pouring rain outside her window. "Ha...today is going to be a thinking day, should I stay? Or should I go?" She sighed as she sat up, stretched and headed to the kitchen for a glass of milk.

She looked out at the pouring rain and yawned, "Hm, my cat instincts are telling me to go right back to bed, while it rains...but, I know if I'm not at the cafe by at least 9am, Elliot will come banging on my door, then I'll have to answer one of his, 'why were you late' questions, and I do not want to have to do that today." The red haired kitty, set her glass on the counter and returned to her room, where she gathered her things and went to have a shower, not forgeting te possibility that she maybe watched, but she truthfully didn't care right now. All she wanted was to shower, change and head off to work before Elliot barged in, in a big huff.

She turned on the water and let the shower run for a moment, and looked at her ceiling. "Okay, just an hour alright! Take your eyes off me for just an hour." She said, hoping that the 'all seeing mirror' thingy that Dren had, picked up sounds. Once she was ready she stripped and got into the shower. "Awww...this is just what I needed to wake me up..." Just then, as luke would have it the phone rang. "I think un plugging the phone whenever I take a bath or shower would be best next time!" Zoey groaned and hurried to answer the phone.

"Hello?" "Hell, miss Momomiya?" "Yes, this is her," "Good-morning, I'm from the contest that you have won the space station trip from." "Oh, right," "Well, slight change of times, see instead of the shuttle leaving at 9pm, it'll be leaving at 10am this morning." "What!" "I thought I would just remind you, so that you do not miss your flight." "Ah...yeah, thank you." "My pleasure, good-bye now." Zoey hung up the phone and groaned again. "hm, what time is it?" She glanced at the clock it read 9am.

"An hour! I have an hour to be there and ready to go!" She was freaking. "This is nuts! I'm not going to make it there in time...thats it! I am not going." Zoey said and went back into the bathroom, then after turning off the water came zooming back into her room, packing as fast as she could.

It was nearly 9:30 when a knock came to the door. "Come in!" Zoey called from her bedroom. "Zoey?" "Hey, everyone, sorry to have woken you up so early..." "Early! This is not early, early is 3am, thats early." "Alright, Elliot, can the rundown okay, I only have half an hour to get to the shuttle." "Huh? Thought it was leaving at 9 tonight?" "They called and said it had been rescheduled for 10am this morning." "Wow!" "Tell, me about it." "Need any help?" "Yeah! You can give me a ride to the shuttle." "Sure, I suppose I can do that." Zoey smiled as she carried her things out of her room, Elliot took her suitcases. "I'll take these down with me, hurry up, or, I'll have to drive like a maniac," Zoey shuddered at the memory of the first time she'd ridden in Elliot's car. He was a speed demon. Plain and simple, that was the best word to describe him when he's driving, speed demon.

At exactly 10am, Zoey was at the shuttle, her stuff had been loaded on and she was just finisheing saying ehr good-byes, to her dearest friends. "You be careful up there," "Sure will." "Don't forget to come back, ok." "I wont forget." "Oh, and..." "Yeah, yeah, I'll stay as far away from them as I possibly can, okay?" "Guess so." "Um, if Mark calls, tell him I miss him, okay," "Sure, have a fun trip, see you in 2-3 years." "Yeah, see you." Zoey bid farewell to her parents as well and boarded the shuttle, along with a middle aged man and woman, their daughter, an old man, and a fairly young man. They were the other winners of the contest.

Zoey sat down and looked out her window as the shuttle started up. She waved to her friends as the shuttle launched itself into space, headed for Japan's space staiton.

"Ah, finally, now, we can undo and move around the shuttle." Said the man, to his wife and daughter. Zoey watched them get up and stretch, and walk around.

"Hi," "Hm? Oh, hello," "My name is Lila, and those are my mom and dad." "It's nice to meet you Lila, my name is Zoey." "Zoey, pretty name." "Thank you, you have a very pretty name as well." The girl sat down beside Zoey and just stared out the window. "Are you excited Zoey?" "Excited? Oh, well, yes and no." "How can you not be excited! I mean we get to spend 2-3 years out here in space!" "I know," "We get to see what Earth really looks like, without all that pollution!" "Hm?" Zoey was interested in seeing what made the Earth seem so wonderful, when in fact it wasn't. It was polluted, there were wars everywhere, and many more terrible things. Zoey looked down at the Earth and just gasped.

The Earth looked so beautiful. She had never known that such a tainted Earth, could be so gorgeous. Then she realized what Earth was to Dren's people, "False hope."

"False hope?" "People out here, they see the Earth like this, they don't see all the horrible qualities about it." Lila nodded "Nope, they don't, but even still, it's still so wonderful to look at from out here." Zoey nodded, she couldn't disagree with that, it was true, the Earth from where she was did look amazing.

"So, how old are you Zoey?" "16. You?" "15, pretty close though huh?" "Mhm, very close..." "So, what do you think about the young, handsome guy over there?" "Huh? Well, he's cute I guess..." "Oh! You lready have a boyfriend, right?" "How..." "Its only natural for a girl who had a boyfriend to think that a totally gorgeous guy is kind of cute." Zoey blushed, "Yeah, well, I do have one." "Ooh! Tell me, whats his name?" "His name is Mar...AAHHHH!!" Zoey and Lila grabbed hold of each other as the shuttle rocked from whatever it was that had hit them.

"What was that!" Lila shrieked, and ran into her parent's arms the same thing happened again. This time Zoey was able to stand through it, though, her new friend Lila, hadn't had such luck in standing through the hit. Just then a voice was heard over the radio.

"Please remain calm, there is no cause for alarm, it seems tht we have run into a slight meteor storm. I suggest you all to fasten your seat belts and hold onto something while we drive through. Do not worry though we have this fully under con...AAAHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAGGGHHHH!" Zoey didn't like the sreams of pain she'd heard from the radio. She carefully went up and opened the pilot's door.

"Hello, are you two al...AAAHHH!" Zoey quickly shut the door again. A meteor had smashed through the shuttle windw in the pilot's seat, and both, pilot and co-pilot were dead and floating out in space. Zoey had no idea what to do, and she had no idea where the space station was, nor how far the storm had knocked them off course. "I have to think of something...I have to get this thing to a safe place...but where? Or better yet. how?" Zoey looked around, then all of a sudden something hit her in the head and everything went black.