Out of this World
It was only two years after Luna was born that Callista was filling out the paperwork for her second child. She planned on this one being an even better version of the first, who was sitting next to her in the chair patiently, almost robotically. Next to the line requesting the name of the unassembled child, Callista wrote Nova without hesitation, she had been thinking about it for a while now. Reading down the list of checkboxes for desired characteristics, Callista made sure that the check mark she made for space travel was extra bold. She could tell, Nova was going to be a star. Sixteen years went by and the now young adult Luna was getting ready to board the space shuttle that would bring her to the moon.
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“So, I, as well as all the other people here are aware that your first kid is going up to the moon today, but when’s this one making her debut out of this world?” the woman inquired, with much attitude and a snarly glare towards both of them, Nova observed. Nova was taken aback by this, not understanding what the woman meant by her debut into space. Was there something her mother hadn’t told her yet? “Amethyste, that was very inappropriate to say to me, especially in the presence of Nova,” a stern voice came out of Callista which Nova had never heard before. “Well, you do know that if your other girl comes back in three days safely, my phoenix gets to go to the Black Eye right?” Amethyste asks. Nova assumes this “Black Eye” she is referring to is the famous galaxy 24.01 million light years away that they learned about in school. Callista stands there mouth open for a couple seconds, realizes it and snaps her jaw shut, not wanting to give Amethyste the satisfaction of believing for one second that her child was better than Callistas’. “That’s not possible,” were Callista’s last words as she tugged Nova’s shirt and walked away. Back at home, Nova was deep in thought about how Luna must be doing up there in space when she felt that it was the right time to ask about what Amethyste had said earlier. “Hey, mom, what did that snooty woman mean when she said my ‘debut out of this world’?”
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