Sure, when something fun is going on, she's in charge. But as soon as it's over, I come out and do the grunt work. Anyone can shoot a rabbit, but I have to pick carrots and beans all day, it's so unfair. The only good thing is that Aaron is here, and Aadolf. They're the one thing she and I can agree on.
"I'm really getting tired of beans." Aaron groaned
"Same, I'd rather skin squirrels." I agreed.
"Now that's fun."
"No it's not, it's horrible. But this is terrible. Horrible is better than terrible."
"What? Now I'm confused." he said, which made me laugh.
Finally, after three hours of vegetables, we had lunch, mystery meat soup.
"I wonder what the meat is." I thought aloud.
"Let's stick with 'mystery meat', we need all the nourishment we can get." Marcy advised.
I put my spoon down.
"Don't stop, you still have three hours left of work."
"Why don't you eat it?" I said as angrily as I could, and of course she said nothing.
I heard laughing and turned to see Aaron snickering at his soup.
"I'll deal with him." Marcy promised.
Aaron looked up.
"Huh?"
We, I mean, I gave him a withering look.
"Shut up, or this spoon will become a permanent part of your face!" I warned.
"Impressive, you've been working on your mad face." Marcy said with grudging approval.
"Stop being nice to me right now! I know you're up to something!" I yelled at her.
Everyone got quiet.
"Fine, I'll stop being nice!" Aaron yelled angrily, then winked at me.
"Thank you." I mouthed to him, and he nodded as he got up and stomped over to another table.
"You should really see a doctor about that voice in your head." Aadolf grunted.
Hey! I resent that!
"Ha ha, very funny Aadolf. I just wish we wouldn't have an incident in public, you know?" I asked, looking him in the eye.
"Ya, I know." He answered, and we finished our soup in silence.
Marcy did the gardening after, and she said some very rude things about me while she worked.
"What's that in the sky?" I said finally.
"Hmm, I don't know. A star maybe?" Marcy snapped sarcastically.
"It's day time idiot." I retorted.
She was about to respond, but Aaron interrupted her.
"It's too bright to be a star."
"Then what is it?" I asked.
"I don't know but...Hey!" Aaron started, but the star thingy began to fall rapidly.
"Oh no, is it going. hit us?" I cried, rocks from space had fallen before, in fact vibrations from a fallen rock caused the earthquake that destroyed our home.
"No look, it's not falling any more!" Aaron sighed in relief.
"Part of it is." Aadolf pointed out, a small chunk of it continued to fall.
"It's headed for Lake Winnipeg!"
By now other people started to notice the falling whatever it is.
There was a murmur of panic, then the star thing must have hit the ground because the ground shook and all the beans fell out of the basket.
Marcy cursed loudly.
"Let's go see what it is." one of the other workers suggested.
We all headed down to see what happened, and we saw a large round metal pod thing sitting in a pile of steam in the middle of the lake. The roof of the pod lifted up, and there was a body in there.
"We have to help them!"
Duh, but I agreed. The Survivors had made a bridge from one side of the lake to the other, and we raced across the bridge to try and pull the body out. Aadolf jumped in the lake and hauled the body onto the bridge. It was a boy, around our age I think?
"Is he alive?" I asked nervously.
Aadolf felt for a pulse.
"Yes." he grunted.
The boy opened his eyes.
"Where am I?" he asked groggily.
"New Winnipeg Manitoba." I answered.
"New Winni- is this earth?"
"No. This is Mars. Of course it's earth!" Marcy rolled our eyes.
His eyes rolled into his head and he passed out.
YOU ARE READING
To the Moon and Back
Science FictionThe year is 6078. Our hero suffers from a split personality, although it's not exactly a textbook case. It's almost like she literally has another person inside her, and they're both fighting for control. With such strong personalitys, it makes thin...
