Well, this one is a bit more exciting.
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A bad day always begets a better one, right? Well, at least that's what I learned when I was a little girl. So, I managed to get out of bed and begin a much better day than the one previous. I hopped down the stairs and joined my mother for breakfast.
"Where's daddy?", I eventually asked.
"He's still asleep. I believe it would be best to leave him be for now.", she answered.
I picked up my schoolbooks and prepared to leave.
"Bye mom! Tell dad I said bye too.", I said as I left the house.
"I will, Kaori.", my mother assured me.
I plodded my way down the street, trying to cheer myself up with the thought of a new day. This was difficult to be honest. I wanted to believe that a bad day begets a good one, but it certainly is hard to have faith sometimes.
Suddenly, a most beautiful voice broke into my thoughts and posessed my mind. It was the voice of an angel, no, a goddess. It was the voice of Sakaki-san.
"Good morning, Kaorin.", she said as she approached me from behind.
I stood still, revelling in the fact that SHE actually said hello to ME for once! I felt happier than I had ever felt before. I was in shock, the sort of shock that happens when you are too happy for words. Too happy for movements even.
"Are you ok, Kaorin?", Sakaki asked as she trotted up beside me.
I did all I could to regain my composure and pull my gaze from those beautiful ebony eyes of hers. It was as if they were a doorway. A doorway into my dreams.
"I..I'm fine Sakaki-san.", I blurted out with a cracked voice.
Her face became hard and concerned. "Are you sure you're ok? You don't look well.", she said.
"J...just had a bad day yesterday..is all.", I managed to say. I felt like an idiot.
"Do you...want to talk about it? I can try and help in any way I can.", she smiled a smile that I can only describe as radiant.
"It..it's ok Sakaki-san, I'll be alright. T..thank you though?", I said. Looking back, why the hell didn't I tell her everything. I'm sure it would have made me feel a lot better. "Ok, Kaorin.", she smiled. "As long as you're ok"
I walked beside her towards school, trying not to stare too much so as if to make me look suspicious. You have no idea how difficult it is to NOT look at her. Her long, ebony hair. Her supple skin, her deep eyes. It's like a dream!
Engrossed as I was, Sakaki pointed to a place among the clouds overhead.
"Kaorin, you're an astronomer. What's that?", she asked me.
I looked to where her finger was aimed. From between two sets of cumulus mediocris clouds streaked a dark form. It was small due to it's altitude, but it was definately not an aircraft due to the angle of it's downward course. A meteor! Around here! How exciting!
"It..looks a bit like a meteor!", I exclaimed, shading my eyes from the sun.
"It looks like it's going to land close by.", Sakaki said,
She was right. The course that the object was falling on would take it only about a mile from our position. As the object got closer to the ground, I could see that it was blazing with a fiery aura as it quickly passed behind some houses and was lost to sight among a series of tall trees. "Want to go find it!?", I exclaimed, I couldn't help myself.
Sakaki giggled. Oh, how that will stick in my mind forever!
"Ok, Kaorin. We're a bit early for school anyway"
Extremely excited now, I trotted towards the copse of trees that I assumed it may have come to rest in. I looked back a few times to make sure Sakaki was following me. Every time I looked back, she was there, smiling. I nearly melted!
As we reached the edge of the forest, I peered in. It was extremely dark and I could see no meteor or impact point.
"See anything?", Sakaki asked.
"No..not yet.", I responded and took a few steps into the woods.
From between the trees ahead I could see a roiling smoke that reeked of burnt metal. Most meteors are composed of metallic substances, so I wasn't too surprised. But, as I stood between two trees what I saw was certainly not a meteor.
It looked more like a pod, it's outer shell a thick, scratched maroon metal. It sat smoking in a shallow crater. Two men milled about outside the craft. Dressed in padded cloth armour the same shade of maroon as the craft they seemed to be observing the surrounding forest. I had to hold my hand over my mouth to stifle back a scream. "Did you find it, Kaorin?", Sakaki said as she approached me. It was too late to tell her to be silent. The men had already turned and it was then that I noticed they carried long, black, boxy objects that resembled rifles.
One man lifted a hand and pointed at us, yelling in a language that I believe was English, but I was far too terrified to pey complete attention.
Before I could even react Sakaki had already wrapped her strong hands around my wrist and was dragging me bodily from the scene.
"This way.", she said, her face cool and stern, as she directed me down an alleyway between a pair of houses. She ducked into a set of very deep and uncomfortable bushes and I quickly followed. Sakaki-san saved me! She's so cool!
I knew enough to be silent as running footsteps went past our position, stopped, then passed us again in the opposite direction. Sakaki poked her head out of the brush after the steps had faded.
"All clear.", she whispered and grabbed me by the hand once more. She was touching me! I couldn't believe she could possibly be this cool!
"We'll go to my house.", she said, but something above caught my eye.
"Sakaki-san...", I said, pointing into the sky.
In our horror we looked up as the sky became filled with dozens of plummeting craft just like the one we had encountered. They poured from the sky and apparently crashed to the earth.
"Run, now!", Sakaki commanded as we made haste towards her house. Luckily, it was not far off. She struggled with the doorknob as I gave one look back to see a seemingly endless stream of pods falling to the ground.
Sakaki bolted the door behind us after we entered. She immediately picked up the phone in her kitchen and began to dial.
"Who are you calling?", I asked, shaking with fear.
"The police.", she responded.
A moment passed...then another.
"The phones don't work.", she said, hanging up.
Tears welled in my eyes.
"Is this the end of the world, Sakaki-san?", I asked.
She placed a comforting hand on my shoulder.
"I don't know."
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Oh, how terribly epic! Only gets more exiting from here!
peace,
-Jay