𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚, 𝐛.𝐚

twenty seven

JAYLA

I was tending to the children of my village when it happened.

It was a bright sunny day and it was so hot. One of the kids, a younger boy was awfully distracted and wouldn't stop fidgeting around.

I continued reading as she heard distant screams. I quickly turned around to the millions of people running around screaming their heads off.

My heart raced quickly as I grabbed as many kids as I could, shouting for them to come with me and leading them to their parents who sobbed with worry as they tightly clutched their children to their chests.

I looked to my left to see a woman hysterically wailing with her knees planted on the ground. I thought this hysteria was just because of the fatal events happening but when I turned the little boy that had been fidgeting found himself right in the middle of the mess.

The woman was still wailing behind her in horror as the boy stared at the eruptions and the people running that got fewer as they took cover. And he waited, he waited for it to go away, he waited to wake up.

But nobody told him it wasn't a dream and that by now he'd been wide awake.

I took a deep breathe as I looked at her parents running towards her, yelling in our language for her to come to them. I braced myself before I ran at the boy with force. The dust flew into my eyes as I ran faster and faster and pushed my feet harder into the ground.

Finally I grabbed the boy awake from his day dream before he too began to cry. I held him tightly in her arms before running back as fast as I could. I lay him down next to his mother as they cried together at the reunion.

I rushed them to go as the woman thanked me a million times. I turned around to look at the chaotic mess happening wondering how happened. My parents were no longer calling her in their language.

They were no where to be found...

Nobody was. I was all alone.

I watched as explosions neared me and circled around me as my eyes filled with tears knowing that this, this would be the end of my world, my family, my friends, the only home I'd ever known and I'd be losing it all..

Alone.

"MOM!!!DAD!!!!!ANYONE!!!!" The isolated alien called out as the tears fled quickly from her trying to escape her sadness just like her.

I let the hot air pass my face and I no longer felt bothered by the dust or the explosions. If this is how it had to be then that's how it'd be.

✯

I looked back at my planet one last time before I had been uncontrollably boosted forward through space. I didn't know where this thing would take me but I supposed I'd let it be.

I'd passed millions of other planets. Some I were familiar with because of family visits but others I didn't know at all.

The planet the thing had taken me to was one of the many that I didn't recognize. It was almost entirely blue but some part were green, placed in these odd shapes and positions.