The universe... So full of wonders...I could spend hours and hours looking up at the sky. So many stars, so many mysteries... But there's one very special star that makes me think of one very special person.
Now let me tell you my story.
At the dawn of time, from the chaos, came an exception. One of the most mysterious secrets of the universe. You see, I come from that very mysterious and unique place.
We are the only known solar system with double gravity. Two twin planets whirling together around one sun but each with its own and opposite gravity. Now, in our world it's possible to fall up and to rise down.
But that's besides the point... my story, it's about love.
Some people say that true lovers are one soul that is separated when it's born. And those two halves will always yearn to find their way back together.
Well, to understand my story,
you're going to need to know the three basic laws of double gravity.
1.All matter, every single object is pulled by the gravity of the world that it comes from, and not the other. An object's weight can be offset using matter from the opposite world: inverse-matter.
2.The problem is: After a few hours of contact, matter in contact with inverse-matter ...burns. All these laws are as old as the universe itself.
3.There are unchangeable, and there are no exceptions. Gravity... They say you can't fight it. Well, I disagree.
What if love was stronger than gravity?
Let's go back to the dark times when any contact between worlds was extremely dangerous and totally forbidden. Up top had grown rich and prosperous while here, down below, we stole inverse-metal from up top to heat our homes and to survive risking everything, even our own lives. The only authorized contact between worlds is through The Station Building, a giant corporation up top, created to take cheap oil from down below and to sell back to us overpriced electricity that we couldn't afford. Because of The Station Building, I grew up in the Big Blast, a Station Building oil refinery explosion that destroyed much of the city. Fortunately, there were the weekends. They let me visit my great aunt Becky, my only surviving relative.
As well as Becky, there were two things that I truly loved: model airplanes and Becky's flying pancakes. Becky initiated me into an ancient knowledge passed down over the generations to the women of our family; the secret of the pink bees.
It's all in this book. It was passed down to my mother from hers. And, of course, it would have been given to my mother.
She told me it'll be mine... Becky would often send me to gather pink pollen from the Sage Mountains. This was the only place, and a forbidden place, where pink bees could be found. Bees that fed off flowers from both worlds and without whom this story could never have happened.
But I have a little secret of my own... I used to go chase inverse-rain from up top. One day I went much further than usual, climbing higher and higher above the cloud line. And that day... that day... changed my life...
"Hey!"
"Hi!"
"Hey!" I called back again.
"Hey!" she waved back.
The prettiest girl I had laid my eyes on, soft brown curls, big brown eyes and a smile that could cure world hunger, but she was from up there and I was from down here.
"I really have to go, but you're the first real below person I've spoken to, it was really nice meeting you" She was ready to turn back, already half way.
"WHAT'S YOUR NAME?"
She stopped, turned around and laughed. "Ali and what's yours?"
"Belle" I yell back. "Don't forget me!"
"How could I ever!"
