Love you to the Stars and Back

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Author's POV
She sighed while turning off her car. It's been a tiring day from school. College life is really stressing her out and she just want to slump on her comfy bed.

The girl in pink jacket closes the gate with her free hand while carrying her books and notes on the other and smiles as she hears her mom's favorite song. She fastened her pace and enters their house with the biggest smile on her face. Imagining her mom and dad hugging while swaying through the music.

But then again, she faces the reality when she saw her dad dancing with her new wife, her aunt Dara.

"Oh she's here!" Her aunt Dara smiled kindly at her and she can just smile timidly just to give a respect. "Tiffany, my dear" Her dad gave her a fatherly hug.

"Hi sweetie!" Her aunt kisses her cheeks. "Your aunt Dara cooked your favorite dishes Tiffany"

"Including your favorite pasta with big meatballs, come sit sweetie" She sat silently and they started to eat.

Mr. Hwang glance repeatedly to her daughter, finding the courage to say the news. He looked on his left side and saw the smile of Dara. "Tiffany, you'll have a dongsaeng soon." He smiled not able to pertain his happiness and excitement.

Tiffany just can't believe on what she heard, surely she wants to have a dongsaeng, she even asked them to make it a little sissy but not with her. She dive in to her food, stuffing all the remaining from the plate to her mouth. "Tiff slow down" Her aunt Dara nervously said.

Tiffany wipes her mouth and stands up, getting all her things,"Excuse me,I'm already full"

She heard her father calling her "Mom's cook is still better" she said as she runs up to her room.

She slumped her body onto her bed and cries her heart out. "Eomma! Eomma"

Her flashback starts to linger in her mind

"You know what? I think the aliens will gonna abduct me soon" My mom said while we're lying under the stars on that evening of my birthday.

I can just looked at her questioningly, "I've been getting sick lately, the aliens will abduct all of us anyway. And its a privilege to be taken by the aliens, because that means you're special and you deserve a better and a happier place outside the earth"

"So when it happens, remember to look up I"ll be there with the aliens"

"Eomma!!" She cries louder while hugging her pillow tightly.

"Eomma?" She said as she sit slowly beside her dying mom in the hospital bed. "Eomma, I'm here. Eomma?" Her tears fall as she carress the cheeks of the woman that loves her the most. "Appa's also here" She smiled while looking at her dad as if her mother will be okay in any moment. "Eomma?"

The next thing she hears was the nurses were calling the doctor. She watched her mom slowly stops breathing. "Patient's not breathing. Patient's has no pulse"

"No!" She cries as she hugs her.

"Begin CPR!" And she can just stand watching the doctor and his nurses do their job.

"Eomma!" She says while crying and her world stopped hearing the doctor asked his nurse "Time of death?"

"10:06 A.M.

End of flashback

"Eomma!!" She stares at the ceiling of her room,looking at the glow in the dark stars that she and her mom designed.

Her mom's voice echoed through her head, "They're real. Nothing is impossible in this world, Tiffany. You just have to believe."

She hurriedly stood up and go to her desk with lots of pictures of news about aliens and a sketched map going to Mt. Moaksan

She gets the map and kneels to look under her bed to get her bag, jug and breaks her coin bank "alien fund". She goes to the door and looks back for the last time to her room ans close it.

She escape their house successfully and hopped in to her car. She inputs Mt. Moaksan to the google map and shows 204 kms. "Let's get started. Drive safe"

She drives and stopped by on a convenience store and get chips, beers sodas, and a bag of ice.

She paid it off into the counter, wiping off her sweat and taking out her bills "Are you alcoholic miss?" Intrigues the cashier.

She lifts up her eyebrows and said "Am not. Just going through something"

Her night ends falling asleep into her car parked outside the convenience store.