We arrived here already a year ago, to New world. I have lived my whole live on a spaceship, my parents and I born there. My grandparents told me stories about earth, but they had to leave because things got difficult there. They were searching for a place to live since then, and they found it a year ago.
Of course the whole world wasn't in just one ship, there were others but each one search for a place alone, we don't know if we were the last one on finding it but what we are sure is that we were not the first one.
My best friend, Viola, found it, she was sent with a group of explores to explore it here, unfortunately she was the only one who arrive alive, the rest of team died on a crash. Here, in new world, there are different colonies. Prentisstown is a forbidden place, we can't go there, Viola says it's the worst place she has ever been too, tough she may be exaggerating since she hasn't really been in lot of places. But Todd, a friend of Viola and mine, used to live there and he says the same thing. Hell.
We build our own place, we sometimes go to Haven. Todd is now leaving here with us, since he have nowhere else to stay. He was alone for 16 years, thinking he was the only young one in this planet, I don't know a lot about him. We are friends, really good friends but I have never listen about his past, but I'm okay with that. Viola, in the other hand, knows him perfectly, they went through a lot of things and when she met him, he couldn't control his noise, now he can, most of the time.
The noise is something men in this planet have, it makes their thoughts go out. It's complicated to explain.
When Viola arrived, we expected them to send a signal just the second they arrived but they didn't, we gave them for dead people, I was destroyed, she's my best friend, she's more like a sister to me, but then, some months later, she send a message and hearing that she was alive made me so happy. The second we arrive, I went to search her, she was taken to the hospital, it's more like a room with doctors and hospital things. She wasn't so hurt, they just check her, but Todd, he was really hurt, they became closer so she wanted to be with him, not all the time but at least once a day. He finally woke up and she introduced us.
She told me crazy stories, like when his noise made her see that he wanted to kiss her, more than once, how he daydream with her, he tough he liked Viola, but he doesn't, he just thought that because he had never seen a woman before, his people kill them when he was a baby.
I have to confess that after all this time I may have start having feelings for Todd, he's amazing and, I'm not gonna lie, he's good looking, he has an amazing heart and he's just so cool and kind and... stop it y/n. However he don't feel the same, there's no way he feel the same, we're just friends.
Viola knows I like him, she wants to help me but I don't want, I don't want to ruin our friendship because of some stupid feelings. You may think that it's wrong to like someone who "kissed" your best friend but it's not, they never liked each other, they didn't even had a real kiss, they are just friends, we are all just friends.
I know she won't go and tell Todd about what I feel, she's a little shy, I'm the open one in the relationship, and she respects everyone opinion, she's just the best. That's why I first needed to be completely sure she has no feelings for Todd, I prefer to have a friendship than a boyfriend, which I'm never gonna have because I'm stupid and I'm never gonna tell Todd I'm in love with him, wait what?! No no y/n you're not in love, you just like him, and that's it, and those feelings need to disappear like dust.
"Hi y/n" Viola said as she entered the room, I greeted her back. "Are you busy this afternoon?"
"No, why?" If she wants to go out she just say it, never like these.
"Oh because I was thinking that maybe we could go to have a walk by the river" of course I agreed, even if she's a little strange I would never get tired of having this little walks with her.
