The Perseids meteor shower is visible from mid-July each year, with the peak in activity between 9 and 14 August, from the direction of the constellation Perseus. At this time, the Earth passes through a plume of field particles from the comet. These small particles, about the size of a grain of sand, burn up in the Earth's atmosphere, forming "star rain". They draw either straight solid or broken lines, or flash in the form of a string, and sometimes even in the form of one or more fireballs. Most of the particles have been part of the cloud for around a thousand years.
This is a very beautiful phenomenon, I always waited for. Some say that when you see a shooting star in the sky, you need to make a wish and it must come true.
Since my school years, I had a habit of watching the rain of stars and making wishes. It was something like a game that I called "star shopping". When I saw a spark in the sky, I redeemed it with my desire. Oddly enough, but wishes came true. Maybe just a coincidence, or maybe they were so simple and childish that they would have happened without shooting stars.Exactly two years ago there was the brightest and most beautiful meteor shower. From 200 to 500 meteors per hour were recorded in the sky. That day I knew that I would not live long, so at night when I saw the first shooting star, I made a wish to spend my last year alone with you. I always wanted to be closer to you. We lived in the same area, crossed paths at the same stations, had common acquaintances, but there was always an invisible wall between us that I wanted to break through.
We were like two parallel lines - always close, but never together.
— Hideo.
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Teen FictionIf the days won't allow us to see each other, memories will. And if my eyes can't see you, my heart will never forget you.
