The moon is beautiful, isn't it?

Prologue

Emma

The moon glowed brightly as I observed it from my telescope, the stars shining in the background. "Wow gran! The stars are so beautiful tonight and the moon is huge!" Gran smiled and pointed to the stars. "Bet you can't name all the constellations out right now". I grinned right back at her and pointed to them as I named them, " leo, orion, perseus! Leo is my favorite! I love fire signs, I learned so much about them in my new astrology bo-" I just kept going til I realized gran had fallen asleep.

I rolled my eyes playfully and looked back through my telescope staring at the stars. I was so fascinated with everything space related. I wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up, I want to go to other planets and maybe even see an alien! Before I knew it I myself was feeling sleepy so I packed up everything and woke up gran. She stretched as we walked back inside her house from the backyard.

I got ready for bed as I usually did. Gran tucked me in but sat at the side of my bed. I knew what that meant! "Story time?" I excitedly squeezed. Hey im 10 years old! I like stories okay?! She giggled and nodded her head. Gran turned off my lights and turned on my starry night light projector.

I sunk into my sheets as she started to talk. "There was once a little girl named emma-" I gasped in excitement at the mention of my name but kept quiet not wanting to interrupt. "She was a brilliant and beautiful person whom everyone loved, especially her gran who was a smoking hot babe-" I let out a small giggle when she booped my nose with her finger.

"Emma wasn't always like this though.  She used to be clumsy and messy. She wasn't perfect-" I pouted earning a chuckle and a cheek pinch from her. "BUT! Her imperfections made her perfect and she accepted that. That is what made her so amazing!" I was so confused... "But gran? How can somebody be perfect and imperfect at the same time?" Gran smiled sweetly kissing my forehead and ruffling my hair. "You're smart you'll figure it out".

"Goodnight gran I love you!" I yelled after her as she was leaving my room.

I wanna be perfect..

Striving for perfection is unrealistic...build a rocketship in 3 days that's more realistic-buntslothgal

Crescent

I sat at my desk with my pen against my lips as I studied about earth's culture. Fascinating. I heard footsteps approaching my office following a knock. "Come in". Mother walked in with my older sister astrid. I got up excitedly and ushered them to my desk. "Mother! Sister! Look at this! Humans have this food called spaghetti! It originally came from somewhere in asia(the noodles) but they think the italians made them! Isn't that amazing!"

Mother seemed confused and astrid was making faces at me. "Crescent, why are you so interested in earth? Its disgusting. Constant war, their planet is scattered with trash and not to mention they think us other worldlings look like strange green creatures with black eyes. Uck I have never been so insulted by just talking about a planet." The whole time mother talked astrid was behind mocking her almost making me burst with laughter.

Mother shuddered visibly disgusted. "I just wanted to check on you and make sure you continue with your studies. Don't forget to study more with your martian, your father's clan is planning to visit in three days time." I nodded. "Yes mother" Mother left but astrid stayed. She snickered and explored my office touching everything. Astrid sat in my desk looking at all my studies with a slight smile on her face.

"Im so glad its not me little bro, you are such a better fit to rule over the moons". She snickered as I looked down a bit sadly. She noticed, got up and smacked me on the back. "Ow! Astrid!" I cried out in slight pain. She made her way to the door swiftly but before leaving I could hear say, "Its Are ni iję?(Are you hungry) Not Are uą iję!(Am I hungry?) And with that she was gone.

I smiled to myself but frowned immediately after. Im gonna be king. The floor beneath me illuminated while I looked out of my terrace. The world was always so quiet, even when everyone is out. So boring. It was the same thing every transition. I eat, study, shower, study, lessons, eat again, etc and its tiring I leaned against the railing with my hand against my cheek. All of this will be mine one day.

But is that what I really want?

Running from your problems will only cause more problems-Kushandwisdom