Space is Vast

Chapter 13 - A Conclusion

When the light finally came rushing back in Adam found himself looking at a white ceiling. 

“What… what happened?” He groaned, and shifted to an upright position. His head was pounding, and he felt like his skull was being squeezed from all directions at once. He looked up to see the waiting form of Abella sitting on his bed. She giggled as she saw him wake up. 

“Hey sleepy head.” She said, her voice sounded truly happy.

“Ouch, my head, it feels like a vise.”

“V says that’s from the sedatives she gave you, and that to tell you, that you thoroughly deserve it for kissing her.” Abella smiled proudly.

“I didn’t know that you liked her… I didn’t know that you liked any girl!”

Adam smiled. “Well, I can tell you one girl that I like.” He said with a smile, and she’s sitting right in front of me.

Abella giggled, “Adam, you really need to grow up.” She said flashing him a grin.

“Where’s everyone else? We still are in the ship right?” he suddenly felt very groggy.

The girl shrugged her shoulders, “They must be up top.” She leaned in and whispered “V is really cute, I think you did good.”

“I… I think I’m going to go to sleep again.”

Abella nodded her head, her long hair jumping up and down. “Yup, V said this would happen, you would be awake for about five minutes then hit the sack again, but I thought I would let you know I’m alright.” She smiled down at him. “Nighty night.”

Adams brain yearned to stay awake, but his eyelids dropped and he felt the cold coma envelope him, burning the last image of Abella into his mind. 

When he awoke again, his brain felt a haze of slurred colors. His eyes were half open, and his vision slurred around a strange creature standing over him. “‘Geroff ‘e!” he garbled at the creature, his head was turning in circles. He heard it speak but couldn’t make out any of the words. He saw the blurry thing move, and reach towards him. He felt a sharp pain and slowly his vision cleared to giveaway to Vida sitting on the bed with a needle in hand. She smiled softly at him. “Good morning sunshine. You should be feeling better now that I’ve given you a booster shot.” 

Adam sat up slowly feeling as though his brain were a melted puddle of goop. “Am I alright?”

“Yeah, you weren’t really hurt. But, you will have a scar on your shoulder from now on. Other than that you’re all patched up.”

“How… how long was I out?”

She shrugged her shoulders, “About three days. You must have really been worn out.”

He struggled to support himself on his elbows, and turned to Vida.

“What happened?”

She looked at him oddly. “It… it was strange. You see, when you passed out we pulled you back into the ship and flew out the docking bay into space. Well, as we were exiting we were hailed by the pirate space station, apparently you had left Madam Alysia still alive and she was really angry. You should have seen her.” She gave Adam a little grin. “Anyway, she was seriously pissed, and out of nowhere the top seemed to spread apart and a great big gun came out, it was even bigger than the gun mounted on the Mammoth. And just when we thought things couldn’t get any better something started flashing on our radar, there was this object speeding our direction. We thought it was another pirate ship, but when we did a scan on it showed it to be a cube. Meanwhile Madam Alysia was slowly moving her humongous gun to aim at us as we floored it and tried to run. Well, as it would turn out that cube we had detected was on a direct course into the station. We actually flew past it as it ran and we had the computer take a picture of it, and…… well… you had better look.” She turned around and rummaged around somewhere Adam couldn’t see. When she turned back around Vida was holding a picture in her hands. Adam took the picture and stared at it, but couldn’t believe his eyes. The picture was fuzzy, and he could only just make out the words “socks” written on the side.

“A box? So what? There’s plenty of stuff floating through space.”

“Well…” she grinned at him, as she started talking once more. “This box actually was gong quite fast which is why we could only get such a blurry picture… and everyone knows what happens when something very fast hits something else, even if it is cardboard.”

Adam looked at her with an expression of disbelief, “No…”

Vida grinned and nodded, “Mmmhmmmm…. Smacked right into the station and made a hole in the side. The whole thing just decompressed.”

“So… we got away right?”

“Of course!”

“What are we doing now?”

Vida shrugged her shoulders. “Well, we were waiting for you to wake up after we had run far enough we didn’t know what else to do so we decided to wait until you wake up. Now that you’re up… what do you want to do?”

Adam looked around searching for some sort of inspiration. His eyes landed softly on Vidas face and with a grin pulled her towards him.

“I think… I think I would like to kiss you again.