When you wish upon a star

Chapter 1

   I push myself away from my desk and give myself a good spin. Jumping up I run over to my boss. “Hey hey boss man!” I grin. He looks at me and frowns causing me to pout.

    “Agent Coltell, what if while you are away from your station and a wish comes in?” He says rubbing his eyes then looking at me with a look of slight annoyance.

    “Yeah but it's not like we do anything right away either. We usually wait a day and see if they change their mind anyway.” I say wrapping my arms around his shoulders and smiling. “Come onnnnn. Let me take a walk! Remember when we were younger when we would go for walks and wish on stars?”

    “Ravana we aren’t kids anymore. We have a job, we have a life outside of make believe. I’ll always love you, you’re my sister after all but you need to do your job. Maybe you’ll get lucky and someone will ask for a friend.” He says brightening up for a little bit, smiling but quickly getting sad.

    I sigh knowing he won't loosen up. “Alright… I’ll see you later I guess…” I say as I let go of him and make my way back to my chair. Before I sit down I adjust my suit and straighten my tie.

    I sit down and pull myself up to my desk. I smile slightly looking at the photos of me and Quint when we were younger. I miss us being happy, playing in the tree house we had in our back yard. Climbing onto the roof even though mother told us not to and watching the stars.

Oh what I would do to even have five minutes of that again. Carefree and so full of curiosity. I look back at my computer just as a wish comes in. I gasp and jump up. “Quint!! Quint! A wish came in!” I yell and giggle, jumping out of my chair. I start dancing around the  satellite.

“Really?!” He asks standing up coming over to look at my computer. “That's the first one this week!! Congratulations Ravana!!!!!” He says hugging me. I hug him back, pressing my ear against his chest. I can hear his heart beating rapidly, making me smile. “So what's the wish?”

“I haven’t checked yet. It came in and I got over excited.” I sigh pulling away from the warm hug. We walk over to the computer and open the wish.

It reads “I wish I had a friend. Someone who would help me no matter what i did.” I feel tears threatening to spill out of my eyes.

“Ra whats wrong? Why are you crying?” The tears spill out of my eyes and I hug Quint.

“Quint I don't want to leave you. You’re all I’ve ever had…” Quint wraps his arms around me and kiss my forehead.

“It’ll be ok! You’ll be back soon! You just have to be there until he gets a new friend and then you can leave and come back here!” I nod understanding. I take a deep breath and readjust myself.

“Ok I’m ready to go.” I say putting my wallet into my small bag. Slinging it over my shoulder and shaking hands with Quint he presses a button and I close my eyes.

I feel a slight buzzing all over my body. You know how it feels when your foot falls asleep? Yeah that buzz. Once all of the buzzing stops I open my eyes and I’m in a small alley way.

Digging in my bag I pull out a picture of the man im supposed to be looking for.

I pull out  a picture of a man with bright neon orange hair. Flipping the picture over in my hand. The back reads “Alex Andre, 24, asexual, male, neon orange, best friend recently died of an od” Aw poor Alex. Stepping out of the alley and taking a look around I shove the picture back into my bag.

I quickly spot a bright orange haired man walking down the street. He is walking away from me so I can’t see his face. For just a quick moment he looks behind him and I catch a glimpse​ of his face. Just enough to see that it is indeed Alex. I smile and sigh.
This should be easy..