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a dream. It was a flash back. I heard
Penny screaming, and saw Briana get hit by a car.
I thought; why couldn’t I have done something
earlier to save them?”
I
was
concerned about Tess. She didn’t
seem like she was doing too well.
“A little bit of a weird dream, don’t you
think?” she said, chuckling. Even though she was
laughing, she couldn’t hold back the tears.
Even though I was afraid to get the answer,
I asked, “How are you?”
Usually she would say ‘Fine.’ She said, “I
would say I’m fine, but what’s the point of lying?
I feel broken, confused, ready to give up, pathetic,
bitter, crushed and most of all, I feel like I’m just
going to fall apart at any moment.”
I looked at her. “You aren’t broken. I’m
confused too; anyone would be in this situation.
Don’t give up on me, we can get through this.
You aren’t pathetic, you’re amazing! You are not
bitter, not now, not ever. If you fall apart I’ll be
right at your side
ready to put you back
together.”
Tess
hugged me and wiped her
tears.
“Thanks for that, I know we can get through
this.”
Tess smiled. “Wanna hear a story? May not
be the happiest story, but it’s something.”
I nodded. “Sure why not?”
Tess cleared her throat.
    “One night, a girl and a boy were sitting in
a car; there was a long silence as both of them
stayed quiet for a long time. Then the girl gave
him a note of paper. Before the boy read it, he
said in an embarrassing tone that he wanted to
dump her. Suddenly, a speeding car hit their car.
The girl died, but the boy survived. When he read
the piece of paper that she gave him, he started
crying because she wrote ‘If you leave me, I’ll
die.’”
    I stared down. It was a sad story. I shook it
out of my head.
“Where do you think we’re going?” Tess
asked with a yawn.
It was late, the moon was out and the stars
were twinkling above.
Tess looked up at the night sky. She loved
astronomy. We had an astronomy dome in our
class a week ago. Sadly, I was sick the day we did
it and I
missed out. Tess
pointed out
two
constellations in the sky that appeared to be the
most noticeable.
“You know there’s a story to go with those
constellations. Wanna hear it? I promise it’s not that sad,” she said, key word being that .
It meant it was kind of sad, but I nodded
yes anyway.
    “A long time ago, Zeus, the Greek god of
the sky and ruler of Olympian gods, came to
Earth and fell
in love with a mortal
woman
named Callisto
and together
they had a son
named Arcas. Zeus’ Goddess wife Hera got upset
and demanded punishment. So
he
turned
the
mortal woman into a bear. Her child grew up,
and one day went into the woods to hunt. He saw
a bear and, not knowing it was his mother, aimed
to kill it. Zeus, seeing this grabbed both the bear
and the young man and threw them up into the
starry night. Zeus wanted to honor them so he
put them in the sky as the constellations Ursa
Major and Ursa Minor, or most commonly known
as the Big Dipper and Little Dipper.
    I smiled. It was a good story. I looked up
and saw that Tess had fallen asleep. I thought,
‘ How quick was that?’
I closed my eyes and fell asleep just as fast.
Chapter Seventeen Pitch Black
    I woke up in the morning to find Tess
already awake.
That
shocked
me. Tess
was
looking at the sky even though the stars were no
longer visible. “Do you ever feel like you can’t get
anything right?” she asked me, not even checking
to see if I was awake.
    “Yes, all the time. But I eventually feel
better as soon as I get something right.”
Tess looked at me. “Thanks, again.”
We looked down. We were getting closer to
the ground; landing. Tess
and I hugged each
other. We had no idea what was going to happen
next. All we knew is that we were in for some
deep trouble.
Once we landed, it seemed like a ton of
random people came to
check
out
what was
going on. I didn’t blame them, we were a freak
show. Two twelve-year-olds in a net, tied to