Life Goes On | Wyatt Lykensen

Chapter 5

After receiving such news, A-Lora now finds herself at home packing all her things. "I guess I should turn my emotion inhibitors off. Since I'm no longer a resident of Sidara, it no longer matters what I do."

As A-Lora's emotions turn on, an overwhelming sense of sadness over takes her. Still despite that she continues to pack, refusing to let any tears fall.

Just as she finished packing, her mother walks in preparing to say her last goodbyes. "A-Lora, sweetie I'm so sorry that this is happening to you. I'm going to miss you so much."

A-Lora's eyes begin to water as everything sets in. "Mom, I don't wanna go." She cries out as she rushed to hug her mother.

"A-Lora I know that this is going to be hard for you, but you have to be strong. Everything will work itself out eventually." A-Lora looks up at her mom as more tears begin to fall.

"I don't like this feeling. What if we never see each other again?" A-Lana frowns at her daughter. "No A-Lora, we will meet again. I don't know how and I don't know when but I promise you that we will."

A-Lora nods wiping her tears. "I think its- we need to-" A-Lora sighs in frustration, "sorry, I think we should get going now. It's getting late and I don't want you to get into trouble mom." A-Lana takes a deep breath as she nods at her daughters words.

"Alright hun, let's go." A-Lora grabs her things as she makes her way downstairs and outside. Her mother starts the hover and they begin their drive to the launch station.

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As the hover arrives to the launch station, A-Lora gets a surge of anxiety in chest. She looks over to her mother. "Mom, I am so sorry. I love you so much." The woman looks over to her daughter. She smiles as if she we're going to cry. "A-Lora, I know that it's hard for us to show love with our emotions off but I love you too."

Reaching over the controls, A-Lana reaches out to hug her daughter. "I guess it's time. Let's go love." A-Lora nods as she gets out of the hover grabbing her things.

As the pair make their way to A-Lora's designated shuttle, the silence between the two increases. A-Lora walked hand in hand with her mother, trying her best not to cry. Her mother A-Lana was still trying to wrap her mind around the fact that her only daughter was leaving the planet

As the reach the shuttle, one of the directors interrupts the two girls lost in thought. "All right A-Lora. Are you ready to go?"

A-Lora looks to her mother tears welling up in her eyes. "I love you mom. We'll meet again soon okay?"

The woman takes a deep sigh as she hugs her daughter for what could be the last time. "Of course well meet again silly girl. I love you so so so much. Don't forget that okay?"

A-Lora nods as she begins to get into the shuttle setting her things away. She looks up at her mom as the top of the shuttle closes down. She waves one last time. "Bye Mom."

Hesitantly, her mother waves as she takes a step back. Giving the shuttle space to launch. A-Lora turns back as the count down begins over the small speaker in the shuttle.

"Take off begins in Ten..."

This was it. The price of trying to save her planet. Now thinking back over it, A-Lora realized that it was not worth it. All the pain she feels right now, was not worth the trouble she had to go through.

"Five..."

As the timer made its way closer to launch, A-Lora's heart began to beat at a thousand miles per hour. All she could think about was the fact that she was going to be launched into space to an unknown place. Who knew what was out there. Would she even survive?

"One..."

At that moment, A-Lora turns to look over at her mother. Tears begin to fall as the girl presses her hand against the glass mouthing an I love you. A-Lora takes in her mother's features for the last time.

"Initiating launch."

A-Lora's mother raises her hand as she smiles at her daughter. The shuttle begins to take off. As it does, A-Lora continues to look out of the window until she can no longer see her mother.

Now in the open space A-Lora begins to sob. She was now all alone. She had no one and was left to travel to an unknown planet alone.

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As far as the girl could tell, it had been two weeks since A-Lora was shipped off of Planet Sidara. Since then, she has cried 23 times, and slept eight of the 14 days she's been in space. Life in the small shuttle floating through space was very challenging for the young girl.

Even though the new temporary lifestyle was challenging, it had aloud for A-Lora to learn a few new things about herself. One of the many things being that she hated being alone. If she was alone, then it was slient and silence scared her.

The young girl also learned that she had a light stutter when her emotions were on. She didn't understand why but liked to tell herself that it was because she was new to emotions.

After her fourth day in space, A-Lora found herself drawing. She wasn't an amazing artist but was good enough to sketch certain things. She often found herself drawing her mother or her friends.

The young girl found much joy in drawing those close to her. She felt that drawing them would help her to remember them. Deep down A-Lora feared that if she didn't draw them, she would forget what they looked like and that thought scared her.

A/N - I wasn't sure how or where to end the chapter so yeah. It's a shorter chapter today but we are going to be approaching the first movie in about two to four more chapters!!! Thank you so much for all the support!