Chapter 1: Encounter
“Ready?”
“Whenever you are Captain.”
“Module Pilot Gray? Is everything set?”
“Just doing last minute adjustments...” He taps the last computer button with such emphasis. “Okay! We’re ready Captain!”
The man in his jet black hair smiles as he finishes buckling himself in the front seat. “Let’s go home boys.”
Soon enough their spacecraft started blasting from their headquarters in space and started their long journey towards their home—Earth.
For Captain Christian Finn Valencia, space was no foreign place for him and he even calls it his second home. After being in the stage of going back and forth from Earth to space, seeing billions of stars up close was nothing out of the ordinary. But between choosing billions of stars to billions of people, Christian would choose the brunette in a heartbeat.
“Ohh, someone’s excited to go home...” Julian Gray—his co-pilot in the spacecraft coos. “Eager to see someone do you?”
“Jul, stop disturbing Chris. You know he’s not excited—he’s ecstatic.”
Christian rolls his eyes at his teammates. “Hardy har har you guys.”
“Cap, tell me once again why did you want to become a space person?”
“No.”
“No fair! Ash and I entertained you with our stories as we flew out from Earth! We deserve to know at least something!”
“Yeah Chris, you’re being too secretive.” Asher shakes his head.
“Shut up Asher Jones, we’ve been buddies since college and I’m already getting tired of your annoying ass.”
“But this kid wants to know a little bit about you...” He teases. “Come on, entertain him for a while. It’ll be a good time for a story ain’t that right kid?
“Please Cap, tell me a little bit about your life.” Julian whines.
Christian sighs, knowing that Julian can get a little persuasive when he wants to. “Alright, what do you want to know?”
The youngest beams at him. “When was the first time you guys met?”
“Stupid, stupid! Argh, why did you have to choose him as my lifter you dumbass!”
“Because he was the only one able to lift your fat ass!” Christian glared.
“Damn, take a joke will you?”
“What am I going to do now?!”
“Attend the therapy session duh?”
“But I don’t need these stupid sessions! I am perfectly fine!”
“You obviously have a fractured leg Chris, you’re far from perfectly fine.”
“But I need to compete, Ash! You know my scholarship fully depends on—”
“I’ll talk to dad and he’ll figure something out. For now, I want you to be treated, get yourself back in shape and hopefully, you can still make it before our competition because as much as I hate to admit it, you really need to compete bro. We’ll be at loss without you.”
After a few more talks and updates, Asher ends the call with his best friend Christian Finn Valencia, a senior, studying Physical Science in hope that it would help him to become a full-pledge astronaut someday... but with him having a fractured leg and being under the cheerleading scholarship program which would require him to be physically okay to compete made him worry.
Worry that without him competing would take him off the program which he couldn’t afford right now, especially when the program is his only hope in helping him to reach his dream especially when his family doesn’t approve of his choice to become an astronaut, let alone fly miles away from home to come to a foreign land and make something out of it.
He sighs to himself, trying to figure something out but when his phone flashes and his father’s name is shown on the screen, his heart starts to panic and his eyes went wide seeing the notification from his phone. Out of panic, he throws it on the ground, causing for the phone to be completely broken.
“God! Why isn’t everything going my way today?!”
“Wow, you sure can throw huh.” Christian looks up and sees a brunette around his age as well in her hospital gown looking at him. “Things happen and not every day goes your way.”
“Who are you?” He asks out of interest. “Why are you here? Are you eavesdropping on me?”
“Whoa, whoa, whoa... slow down with questions.” She chuckles and Christian thought that it was adorable. “I’d like to say I’ve come here to kill you but as you can see, I’m a prisoner like you.”
“Answer my question.” He says a little more stern this time. “Why are you here?”
Instead of answering the latter smiles at him. “Do you have somewhere else to be?”
“What?”
“I said, do you have somewhere else to be?”
“Do I look like I have somewhere else to be?”
“You have a good sense of sarcasm, I like that.” The brunette says as she nods her head. “Come watch the stars with me?”
“Huh?”
The girl smiles at him. “Come and watch the stars with me.”
