Prologue
I was watching from my window with awe at the pretty night sky and the crescent moon to go with the star-studded sky. It’s such a tranquillity that always brings peace to my heart. I love it! I looked at the peaceful sky for ages when I caught one. Did you read that? I caught one! I caught a meteor for the first time in fifteen years. I went straight to bed after that because I was too tired after staring at the sky for what seemed like forever.
The next day, I am at school getting the Monday blues. I long to be sitting next to the windowsill again. I hear my name being called out and that’s when I realise I was daydreaming in my English class again. My English teacher sure does know when to ask me a hard question without context. Something like-
“Mira, do you agree with Andy’s statement about the poet?”
Can’t she tell me what was his statement?
“Yes,” I reply biting my lip.
“Would you like to add to it?”
I tremble. I find scary faces staring at me. My partner Skye raises her hand.
“Would you like to help her, Skye?”
“Yes. No, because the speaker of the poem isn’t always the poet.”
I sure messed up big-time on this one.
I have my head down the whole lesson after that. Skye gives me a sympathetic smile as we walk to our next lesson.
“You weren’t listening, were you?” She giggles.
But this wasn’t a mean scornful laugh. It was a friendly warm one.
“I kinda wasn’t,” I say still feeling ashamed of myself.
“It’s alright, happens.” And then she walks away.
I smile feeling a warm feeling in my chest. Maybe today wasn’t so bad. Then I realise, “What if my wish became true?”
The reason I was searching desperately for a meteor was that I was crying earlier. I had a really bad day. Luc had told me to shut up too when I told him how sick Stella was. He was like “Get over it, mate. Everyone dies at some point.”
My mum said that perhaps Stella’s time is over. She’s almost 15 years old. She’s been with me for almost my whole life till now and I don’t wanna see her pass away just like this.
“I’m so done with you, Luc!” I had screamed at him, without thinking.
What? I didn’t do any wrong. He said what he said without thinking as well.
He doesn’t know it feels.
Anyway, I was at the windowsill wishing she would live forever. She would live forever in my heart. When I saw the meteor for a split second, I couldn’t think of anything but that I want a better life. I don’t know if wishes do come true but they might as well.
And that explains why.
At recess, I get some courage and walk up to Luc.
"Hey, can we talk?" I say.
"Sure, why not?" He says. "Give me a minute, mate." He called over to Taylor.
Luc was panting, his head was sweaty. They had been playing basketball for long before I arrived.
"You alright, Mira?" He says, shoving off his perfect blond fringe.
"I'm sorry for what I said earlier," I apologise.
"Don't mention it," He says, "I know how it felt when my grandma died. It sucks!"
It felt good to hear that it sucks.
Suddenly, I find myself hugging him. Had I not done this, he would've seen me cry. But he seemed to be cool about it, he understood.
Good to know that someone understood.
"Umm...is it okay for me to let go?" He said smiling with empathy.
"Oh yes, sorry," I say, startled.
"No need to apologise."
He's so sweet. I'm sorry his grandma died. My grandma is still alive and she's the funniest person alive. She's getting old but she's gonna live forever. She's so healthy and is always going for morning walks. But then again, it makes me feel so sad to think about when she will die. I hate to think about death. I want to be ignorant about it. Life is a beautiful sly lie if you think about it.
I'm surprised that Luc isn't mad at me after I behaved so badly. He's such a keeper. I'll confess my feelings towards him on his birthday. There's no time left. It's just a week away!
But how?
We need to plan a date. Of course, Stella is invited. Maybe we should go stargazing! Luc and Stella both create a semantic field of the stars, so thanks to them I got such a brilliant idea! Woohoo!
I sink into an ocean of daydreams again for the rest of the day...
