Galaxy Of Hope

The last weekend of October was here and back on earth I had been a huge Halloween fan. Many traditions had siphoned through to Terra from earth, but that one, to my utter dismay, had not.

I couldn’t help but feel bummed out about that. I loved the trick or treating as a child. Me and Jax would outdo each other with our outfits every year and we always make sure we were matching.

We continued this tradition up until our big fallout. That last Halloween I will always cherish, we were chucky and the bride of chucky, both still had our braces on and looked hella scary as the teenage versions of those horror characters. It was mad funny. Jax had carried around a sickle blade and even had his hair dyed orange for the night. However it had stayed orange until Christmas.

We had scared one of our neighbors so badly that night, Misses Hannah would be giving us the stink eye for weeks to come.

So I woke up on Halloween morning, it was a rainy Saturday, with a mad morning temper. A part of me was still hoping Ethan would miraculously pop up again in my dreams. My research to getting into faerie was going nowhere so finding him would not be easy…yet I had too. I couldn’t abandon him.

I had Verr Boyas practice, like every day, with Andrew at nine. He wanted to train each Saturday at seven and I had replied that I wasn’t a robot like him who didn’t need to sleep in on Saturdays. Like training every weekday at seven wasn’t enough. Sleeping is nice because it provides a temporary death.

Afterwards I would swing by the Dunnager, where Sebastian was having his final rehearsal before his big performance tonight to have lunch with Skylark and the girls in the City. My afternoon was still free and I was planning and being a couch potato today. Watching scary movies by myself with lots of popcorn.

The night was reserved for Seb, whom I’d be cheering on in the Dunnager from nine onwards.

I glanced to my right and Sky’s cot was empty again. She had dumped the Rainer with the blue hair two nights ago, so I had no clue who had her fancy lately. Jun and her were still flirting but they hadn’t hooked up yet. I hope she was being safe though. This promiscuous Sky scared me a little bit and I was having more trouble lately keeping it on the down low from her two brothers. One of them anyway, since the other had not been heard or seen from in two weeks. I glanced at my Telvice, wondering if I should reach out first, but I refused to. After our kitchen kiss the day we met Vincent, he has been as missing as Dosch was. That was saying a whole lot.

I still had twenty minutes to roll out of bed and put my running gear on. I yawned broadly and stretched my arms out, nearly nocking my lamp over in the process. Yes, this was not going to be my day. I heard a knock on my door and I grunted. ‘Get out of here Andrew, I still have twenty minutes and I will be using each one of them.’

My door opened and Oak strutted in. I blinked.

‘What’s wrong?’

He sadly smiled at me, walked over to my bed and sat down with a big sigh. He looked tired. Like he had not slept all night. I had talked to him before going to bed, nothing had been wrong then.

‘It’s my first dad… he has had trouble with his heart all of his life. He died last night.’

Tears prickled in my eyes. I knew exactly which one he was talking about. It was their biological father. Even though they had been raised by three fathers, only one could have been their biological one. Sky had a different father.

‘I’m so sorry Oak.’ I hugged him and he let me. He grabbed me tightly and let his head rest in my shoulder. We didn’t speak, I just sat there, rubbing his back. He was holding back tears and I just wished he could let go for once.

Andrew entered. ‘Sorry, am I interrupting?’

Oak scraped his throat. ‘No it’s fine, I’m heading to my family.’

‘You want me to join?’

‘I would love nothing more baby, but it’s going to be a long day of formalities. I need to arrange the funeral. Everything really… so I won’t ask that of you.’

‘It would be no problem.’

‘I know it won’t. but I need to do this alone.’ He kissed me tenderly.

‘Talk to you later.’ He strutted out of the room, his head down. I had never seen him so sad before.

I didn’t even hesitate and shot out a quick text to Ash. This was ascending whatever bullshit we were going through. If he needed me I was going to be there.

Andrew didn’t know how to act. He just stood there staring at me. ‘You okay?’

‘Yeah, I didn’t really know him but I feel bad for them though. Losing a father is…. Very difficult.’ I could relate on all levels.

I rose from the bed and walked Andrew’s way. ‘Where we training today?’ in the last couple of weeks he liked to switched things up. We once trained on a beach and it was quite fun.

‘I’ll let you decide today.’ He tugged on my earlobe and I slapped his hand away.

‘Let’s train in… Twilight. It’s probably still open.’