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Raven Lindsey Reyes, 13 years old
I was thirteen when I realized I liked him, one day thirteen.
He was the only one who remembered my birthday, the biggest one yet, the one when I became a teenager.
He was the only one who got me a cake. It was just a slice of bread with some applesauce on top as icing, but the sentiment was there none-the-less, sentiment that I hadn't had in years.
We sat together in my compartment, side by side on my bed, as I told him my wish.
"One day, I want to go to Earth," I confided, leaning back so that my head touched the cold metal wall. "I want to see the trees, I want to build things that'll take people underwater. I want to have a house, and a family with more than one kid."
"You'll get there, Raven Reyes," he assured me, and that's when I knew. That moment when he said my name, when he had a faith in me that no one else had, that's when I knew that I liked him, that I wanted to go to Earth with him.
He laid down next to me, meeting my gaze, my hope.
"You'll get there, Raven, and you'll be the best engineer they've got." He took in a breath. "What do you think it looks like?"
"Earth?"
He nodded. He'd gotten more verbal around me, overcome his shyness, but we were still both quiet sometimes.
"Green. Green everywhere. And the blue we see must be water. I'd go swimming every day with all that water, if we didn't have to ration it."
"Me too. When we get to Earth," he promised, and I grinned, "I'm going to find a purple flower and pick it for you."
I laughed, the nearly-unknown sound bubbling out of me.
"Do you think they have ravens on Earth?"
"Yes." He paused, as though unsure if he should say what's on his mind. "But I'm sure none are as beautiful as you."
I laughed again.
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