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By Janeil Harricharan
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He wanted to deny it; he had no home. He hated the forsaken hunk of rock that he was born on. Nobody accepted him. Nobody loved him. He had never met another human being that truly embraced him for who he was…
There were soft footsteps as a figure stepped onto the storage tank he had been sitting on, taking up a position besides him.
“Feeling all right, human?” The figure asked. Her slender and muscular body was clad in tight-fitting shiny white fabric, her midriff exposed. Crimson hair in bangs and a ponytail flowed in a gentle breeze, her pink eyes apparent in the starlight above.
Neil looked up at the sky above him. “I’ve been trying to figure that out.” The dark blue sky was littered with thousands of stars, a sliver of a purple planet rising above the horizon.
“What goes through your mind?”
“Thoughts of home…and “ifs”. Ifs of being loved, or things I could have changed, people I could have settled and put up with, if it would have been worth it.” Neil stretched out his feet in front of him. “So much time has passed; it’s been three years since I’ve been gone.”
Silence followed. The girl gazed at him, then at the sky with him.
“It is indistinguishable at this distance, but your sun would be somewhere in that direction…” she pointed her hand to a milky mass of stars.
“And Earth too.” Neil looked at the girl. “You know, a long time ago, someone promised that they would lie down on the grass with me at nighttime and stare at the stars above.” He hung his head.
“I assumed it never happened?” The girl brought her knees to her chest.
Neil shook his head. “I don’t understand…why are extraterrestrials better friends than my own kind?”
“I believe that would be a lengthy conversation that is for another time.” Sidling closer, the girl placed a hand onto his shoulder and squeezed it. “For now…feel. Just listen…”
“I never expected to hear that from you,” Neil was honestly surprised. “You seem so emotionless almost all the time. You can kill anything on sight. You put yourself into the cockpit of a space-superiority fighter and pull the trigger without a second guess.”
“My kind does feel. We have feelings and emotions. But we do not let it get in the way of what we need to do. But…some of us ignore it more than others. And we lose ourselves.” Her pink eyes fell towards the ground. “It is tiring of being a war machine, either for someone or to defend ourselves. I don’t feel as an individual anymore.”
She looked at him, then placed an arm around Neil and turned his head to her. “You may think you’ve failed in life from where you came, or not make a difference. But you have to me. I’ve seen you laugh, cry, feel hurt; you’ve made me awaken some emotions that I’ve tried to nullify inside of me for years.” She sighed. “Thank you.”
“But...”
“I know its hard coming from me. It might mean something if your own kind said it. They say humans are special people and need each other; I fully understand if you want your own kind to love you.”
They stared at the sky once more, Neil’s insides wanting to cry. The girl broke the silence again.
“Is one of the thoughts that going through your head that an alien being is staring at the stars with you of her own will, something that a childhood friend promised you and never kept?”
That was just one thing. He let it out, starting to cry. The girl embraced him, allowing Neil to sob into her shoulder as she hugged him tightly, stroking his back and head.
“Neil…” the girl spoke gently. “You’ll always be a friend to me. I hope that you consider me at least a friend; someone to love, someone to share, and someone to trust. I’ll always be there for you…and my homeworld a safe haven.”
A tear slid down from the girl’s cheek as she whispered into his ear.
“Human…you’ll always be my best friend. I hope I am yours.” With that, she kissed him on the cheek, silently crying into his shoulder.
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