I write to you all from the middle of my first school week!
Status: I live!
Weird quirk: It's easy?
Mindset: Growth
Next Week: It'll probably be harder…
New Chapter:
Stars.
I woke up to another ordinary day, as far as having a six foot something alien living with you goes. But you know, that seemed pretty ordinary to me too.
Getting up from bed, I walked toward my closet where I rummaged through the clothes I might where, absently wondering if Krone would like what I choose. I've never been very color-coordinated and my sense of fashion ranges to whatever's cheap.
I thought longer than I would have any other day about what I was going to where. I have a lot of fleeces…and apparently I like the color grey…but I just don't feel grey today…
I began to finger various articles of clothing. No, no, no, no…and…
Yes.
I pulled out a plain red shirt, probably the only lively color in here. I found myself admiring my choice for a handful of seconds. I nodded to myself in satisfaction. Yep, Krone's definitely gonna like it. Okay, now for the rest…
In the end, I found myself a nice light grey fleece jacket that had dark blue sleeves and a red hood I didn't even know I had, and a really dark denim jean.
I stared at my reflection on the mirror, turning every which way. Maybe I should brush my hair…
Oh, fuck, look at the time!
I ran out of my room and into the kitchen, where Josh was already taking his last bites out of a jelly sandwich.
"You took longer than usual," he said upon hearing my footsteps, not even bothering to swallow the rest of food still in his mouth.
"Um…yeah, sure, I just got held up," I replied as I near-frantically began serving myself whatever I could get my hands on.
I stuffed a handful of Cheerio's into my mouth, turning around to get the milk I stopped sort when I saw Josh staring at me with an irritated look on his face.
"Whuf?" some of the little round hoops fell out of my mouth.
"Nothing…" he said dryly.
Shrugging, I opened up the frig and swiftly started to chug out of the milk carton(something Mom would hate, but since she's not here…).
"So…have any tests today?" Josh asked almost pleasantly.
I wiped a milk-mustache from my face, "Uh…no."
"Something interesting happen to you-at school?"
Okay, now I was beginning to feel just a bit weirded out… "No…"
"Anything you want to talk about?"
I let out a laugh, "No, and what's gotten into you? You're not acting like yourself," I said as I rested my elbows on the island table, parallel to what he was doing also.
He glared at me, "And how am I supposed to act?"
"That," I gestured at his angry face, "Like that."
"Well fuck, sorry for trying to bring up a conversation," he turned around offended.
"Don't get like that either, I was just saying…" I said defensively, "Why the sudden interest anyway?"
He shrugged, "Just wondering what my darling little sis does outside in the real world when she's not playing shut-in with Fang-face…"
"I'm not playing shut-in," I responded annoyed, "And, for the last time, his name is Krone."
"Whatever…"
I rolled my eyes, "Right, we're gonna be late. Let's go already."
"Does extra-curricular activity come across your mind at any moment of the day?"
"Are you ill?"
With a final glare Josh stormed pass me.
Whatever, his weirdness is his own problem.
000
"Hey Sophie!"
Liz practically rammed her side next to mine, I had to grab hold of my locker's door with all my might to keep from falling.
"Ooff! Jeez, Liz! Run me over why dontcha!" I rubbed my abused hip.
For some reason, Liz just looked happy at my scolding, as if I just said something nice to her instead.
"What is it?" I asked her, going back to looking over my notes for History class.
"Nothing…" she replied sweetly, "Anyway…you were looking awfully cheery today for someone who can't stand Mr. Jameson's lectures about the French Revolution…"
I actually zoned out around that time, remembering a certain conversation with Krone about him offering to get drunk teenagers out of my house…ah, good times. He's so funny.
I shrugged, "He wasn't so boring today."
"Uh-huh…." her tongue clucked, "So!" she continued cheerily, "How fairs the man of your dreams?"
"One: I have no idea what you're talking about, two: what?" I said, somewhere between amused and freaked.
"Huh…so that means it's a subconscious awareness…" she muttered just a tad to loud that I heard her.
"Excuse me?"
"Nothing!" she chimed, turning on her tip-toe like a deranged ballerina, "Chao!"
I watched the her back until she skipped out of sight, leaving me in serious confusion.
000
I was jogging happily on my way back from school.
"Hey!"
Josh caught up to me, panting and glaring at the same time, "I thought you didn't like to exercise…"
I shrugged, still jogging, "Spur of the moment."
"Look, I have to go to a friend's house, I'll only take about twenty minutes, you better be studying or something when I get back!"
"Sure, Mother, your wish is my command…"
Josh left in a huff, leaving me with my happy walk jumping, maximized by the thought of spending time with my favorite, loveable alien of mine.
Call me a raving weirdo, but the thought of coming home to a living-breathing Yautja was as inviting as knowing that your Mom laid a freshly baked Hot-Pockets out for you when you get home.
It just gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling inside.
"Krone, I'm home!" I said as I bumped the garage door open.
"Sophie!"
I smiled at Krone's enthusiastic response, in fact, he looked down right excited by something.
"What's up?" I asked, walking towards him.
He grabbed me by both hands and dragged me to his ship.
"Whoa, Krone, what's the matter?"
Krone proceeded to tell me a very detailed explanation containing various tech jargon that I couldn't even begin to understand. Something about extra-whatever and deciphering a code involving tacks. But in the end it all boiled down to one thing…
"So you can fly this thing now?" my mouth hung open.
He nodded, a very satisfied smile on his face.
The surprise in me toned down to something else. Sadness. And fear, and a very lonely emotion growing in your stomach and in your throat because all the excitement in having a working spaceship in your house doesn't soften up the fact that your best friend is going to leave on that very spaceship.
If Krone can fly this thing then…he's gonna leave.
I swallowed and attempted a smile.
Krone needs to leave, he needs to go back to his home.
"Wow…that's…" I struggled to keep my breathing regular, "that's…great, that's really great, Krone…"
I looked down, not being able to face him for fear that I might tear up and ruin his happiness.
"Come with me."
My head snapped up, "WHAT?"
Did he just…? W-what?
"I still need to do a test run." he clicked.
"Oh…"
It was strange, for a minute I thought that I felt…disappointment?
Taking my hand again, he continued, "Come with me, you'll enjoy it."
Wait, he's still asking me to go with him on a test run? "W-wha-"
"Say yes."
"But Krone," I said, barely being able to understand his logic in asking me to come along, "I mean…you don't even know if it's safe, how can you-"
"Trust me," he clicked, gently pulling me along with him, "I wouldn't ask if I didn't know."
"B-but-"
Krone took my chin using two of his talons and lifted my face, "Sophie, I would never put you in any danger, and it would make me very happy if you came along with me so, please?"
Watching Krone talk to me like that, so softly and protecting, I couldn't even think about saying to him. So, against all my reason and justified fears, I nodded slightly, just enough for him to see my approval.
Krone smiled. He turned to his ship and started doing all the necessary prep, before I knew it the cockpit window was opening with a loud hiss. I was still very uneasy about going in.
Krone turned around to me, it looked like he was about to tell me something but he stopped. He stood staring at me for a handful of seconds, I began to wonder if I did something wrong.
"You look amazing today."
I smiled.
I was beaming, and blushing and not all together sure which emotion had the upper hand at the moment, not that I cared anyway because I was just really, really, really happy that Krone said I looked nice.
I began to walk towards the ship, stopping only to snatch the garage opener on the shed on my way, almost jumping witch every step.
Krone got into the only seat, at the very center of the cockpit. He left enough room for to be able to situate myself in between his spread out legs. The clouding happiness that I felt before started to subside as I actually got into the ship. The space ship.
How was Krone gonna test drive this anyway?
And then the realization hit me like a speeding train about to crash into a baby.
Oh my God.
Almost immediately, seatbelt like leather crisscrossed over Krone and me and locked itself with a click into a hole somewhere underneath the huge white seat. The glass above started to close itself. Again the hissing noise I heard when Krone opened the cockpit sounded as the entire space was locked airtight. Darkness invoked everything about me for a millisecond until holographic screens appeared on almost all sides, red luminance of the Yautja language the only light. Krone stretched both his hands and started to enter various codes on what appeared to be a very large keyboard at almost supersonic speed. He also pulled and switched at levers knobs, the anticipation in me growing as he went about what seemed to be cakewalk for him until he finally took hold of the two handles in front of me.
Krone suddenly gave me a gentle nudge on the head. At first I was confused but then I understood. An amazing fete considering that I was really out of it. I turned over the garage opener I was clutching on this entire time and, as if I were in my parent's van, quite calmly: pressed the button and opened the garage door.
The ship shook, the sudden shock causing me to close my eyes. I heard the thrusters, I felt a sort of energy increasing more and more with each passing moment, waiting for that one point where the energy would be at it's peek. I didn't dare open my eyes, I started praying to the one God I knew of and hoped that I could live to walk on the ground again. And then suddenly…
My breath hitched. We were off. I knew it. I felt it. Oh god I'm gonna die!
What if the neighbors saw us? Oh crap I didn't think of that! Oh sweet Jesus now the FBI is gonna be on my case and I'm never gonna see my house again and I might never be able to live a normal life and I'll never be an artist and-
I cried out, there was suddenly a lot of pressure and it was almost like the entire ship was shaking. I clasped both my hands in a praying fashion and resumed begging for my soul, not knowing whether or not I was talking out loud or not. Not that it mattered because nothing but rumbling and pressure could be heard. I bite my lower lip. I still didn't dare to open my eyes. I felt like we were at the very climax of chaos and I found myself holding my breath.
It felt like forever, I felt like I lost all sense of everything, I waited for something to happen. Like a defining moment or something.
"Sophie?"
I gasped. I felt like all the air just came back into my lungs. Oh my God, I never want to go through that again! I turned my head to Krone, barely seeing him through the corner of my eye. I saw him gesture his head slightly to in front.
"Look."
I slowly turned my head again, directly in front of the monitors.
My mouth hung open.
It was…
Beautiful.
I could barely believe it. Could barely believe I was actually witnessing it.
The Earth, the planet I lived my entire life in, it looked…gorgeous. The colors, the blue radiated, it looked like it was glowing. It was so beautiful that…I almost cried. A world that nurtured and homed over a thousand lives. A sphere that was so alive that sometimes you forget. You take something like your planet for granted, but looking at it, seeing it right now, it's almost as if you feel guilty for treating something so beautiful, so magnificently amazing, like it was worthless. It reminded me of my mom of all things. Earth is like our mother if you think about it.
But that wasn't even the half of it.
The star took my breath away. Just like diamonds, even better. They shone like they were saying 'Hi', it was so surreal. To be out there, close and yet so far from all the planets and stars, it was…something else. You could feel a sort of wave of emotion. Peace. Understanding. It was…
I can't find a good enough a word.
I continued to gaze off into the mass and endless space. Like night but brighter. It was the most speechless experience I've ever been apart of. To add to the surprises, a shooting star, a true to life shooting star, flew right by us. I saw it leave a trail of sparks, sparks that reminded me of fairies, as it traveled at an amazing speed away. Even smaller sparkles fell closer to the glass in front of me, the brightness fading until there was nothing left. Like they went to sleep.
It was the most magical thing in the whole entire universe.
Krone had been steadily moving the ship, I almost didn't notice, in fact, I have Krone to thank for all this. Krone. He was the one who wanted me to come. Not only that, he's the one who's given me the best days of my life. It's all thanks to him.
I laid back into his chest, relaxing in the feel of his warmth. Krone nuzzled the back of my head. We both watched the stars.
I decided that this was easily the best day of my life.
And it was all because of Krone.
000
I was more than a bit disappointed that we had to go back, Krone left a lot of things in the garage, but at the same time I was surprised I even could come back from such a beautiful place.
Krone landed his ship back into the garage. By this time I've noticed that the ship has the same type of invisibility that Krone's armor had, so all the neighbors could really complain about was a very odd and loud wind.
I jumped out of the ship.
"Oh my god, Krone that was amazing!"
Krone got out more calmly the I did and let out a laugh.
"Seriously! I mean, that was the most amazing experience I've ever been apart of, no, the only most amazing thing ever! And that's not even the half of it, I swear!"
"I'm glad you enjoyed it, Sophie."
"Enjoyed? It was freaking awesome! I mean, I was in space, Krone! In space! I was looking down on the planet for Christ's sake! It was incredible! And the shooting star? I didn't know it looked that way! With the sparks and the shining and-everything! Everything was perfect! Freaking perfect! I'm probably like, the only living human who's ever seen something like that! It's the greatest thing ever! Holy shit, I forgot my art pad! But it's not like I can forget anything as amazing and cool like that, right? I mean, I'll remember it until the day I'm an old and sorry woman at the bridge of death! I can't believe I actually saw all that! Krone!" I looked at him while also catching my breath, "Thank you! Thankyouthankyouthankyou!"
I ran to him and wrapped my arms around his neck, jumping a good foot to do so.
"I love you!"