Kelly had just finished her lunch, she hustled into the office. She had her soda in her hand, lowering her head a little as she rushed past her coworkers, hoping not to draw attention. Unfortunately her boss did notice her tardy return.
Jim approached slowly, as Kelly rummaged through her desk, to look like she was getting back to work. He sat beside her at the desk, and smiled, "Get lost on your way back Kelly?"
Kelly hadn't noticed Jim's approach so his sudden comment surprised her, she turned quickly stumbling on her words, "N-no, I was just he-ld up in traffic." She blushed and held her head down, embarrassed from the sudden nervous hic
Ice.
I sigh and enjoy the cold against my skin.
Violet sat beside me, a worried look on her face, “These burns are pretty bad Alice, it’s a good thing you moved away from the explosion… because if you were close?”
I laugh softly, “Earth would have died from having a star twice the size it should have.”
She nods, “True, fortunately, Earth’s path is undisturbed, but it’s orbital inclination is off by a few fractions of a degree, we’ll need to place about a stellar mass near the sun for about… four minutes, then at a highly eccentric orbit to correct some of the outer planets.
We laid on the bed, holding one another for a long time. The wind blew in from the shattered window, chilling the entire space, I finally speak up, “Violet… there’s something I never told you about when I came back…”
She looks back into my eyes for a long while… saying nothing, but appearing contemplative.
“When I returned after the attack, three years ago, I tried to let you think I was just in a hospital somewhere, that’s not really what happened…”
She continues her silence, anger evident in her furrowed brow, she simply turned herself, sitting up… then in a surprisingly d
