The Moonlarks

Doing random things

I ran.

I ran up to my room because chances Sophie would tell Grady. I stayed up in my room all day and thankfully Ryan didn't come up to annoy me. I sat on my bunk watching Gacha videos because what is life without Gacha.

I can't avoid that question forever, but everyone with forget about it eventually. That night I went down to dinner and thankfully Sophie wasn't there. She was in her room catching up on her weekend homework.

Oh yeah. I thought Sophie still has school, and we don't. Aww, great, now I have nothing to do with my life except do weird things on my phone like watch YouTube, play Minecraft, and make tik toks. (This is my fricking life)

When I woke up the next morning, it was Sunday, so Sophie was still here. I slid off my bed, because it's always way more fun not to use the ladder, and went to go get dressed.

I put on a sparkly, white, knee-length skirt, and white pants, with a pink tunic. The tunic had diamonds sewed into the edges. I braided one small strand of hair lining my face, and tied it with a small, clear elastic, then went downstairs.

"Well, Ryan, what should we do without school-free time this half of a year?" I asked him after breakfast "We could study everything we were supposed to know but don't because we lived like humans."

"NO, NO SCHOOL RIGHT NOW. LATER. IN THE YEAR." I whined. "Fine, well, we could-" "oh wait, I know, we could do every random thing we can possibly come up with!" I exclaimed. "I guess so." Ryan responded.

"For the rest of the day, we did completely random stuff, like annoying Sophie, playing Minecraft, and me testing out inventions Ryan made as he made more.

"Ooh, I like this one." I commented. It was a modified imparter, that you could make bigger to play basic games on it, (basic games being stuff like that game where you have to destroy the bricks with the ball, and solitaire.), and then shrunk back into an imparter again.

"It's like an iPhone kinda, well, if it was more advanced." "I know, right?" Ryan responded "I'm gonna try to make it better sometime." "When do you think me and Callan will manifest?" I asked him

"Who knows, but we do know that you definitely will." "You know what we need to do, ask Mr. Forkle some stuff about us." I told him. "Let's go ask Sophie if we can get him over here." "Fine, but after I finish this." He said, continuing to work on the tiny gadget.

"What is it?" I questioned, squinting at it. It sorta looked like an obscurer, but smaller. "It's a movement detector." He said, putting it down. "I guess let's go ask Sophie now." I bolted out the door as soon as he finished talking, and ran down the stairs to Sophie's room.

As I opened the door, I said, "Hey Sophie, do you think you could get Mr. Forkle to come over here sometime?" She jumped in her seat, obviously startled by my sudden arrival.

"I guess so," she responded, turning around. "I could probably get him to come next weekend, because it's getting late today." "Ok, next weekend sounds good." Ryan said, walking in behind me. "Thanks." I told Sophie, running out again and up to my room.

Ryan followed behind me and said, "What about now we-" but he was cut off by Edaline, yelling from downstairs, "DINNER!", So we went back downstairs to go sit at the table. "This looks good." I said, looking at the plate in front of me.

It was a tan, toasted piece of bread with pink,fluffy cream on top. "So, Sophie," Edaline started "how's homework going?" "Well, the only thing that's kinda hard is linguistics, because I still refuse to learn mimicking."

"Well, that's alright, I guess." Edaline said. "What about you two, what have you been doing?" She said, turning to Ryan and I. "We've mostly just been playing video games and watching Ryan work on gadgets while I sit and contemplate life." I said. Sophie and Edaline smiled a bit.

After dinner I went upstairs to watch more YouTube, then go to bed. Finally, I thought I can have music while I fall asleep. As I started to fall asleep, listing to all the songs on my phone, I couldn't help but miss everyone and everything in my human life. I once dreamed of being old enough to drive, I once dreamed of graduating high school with all of my friends, all of them.

But mostly, I once dreamed of becoming an astronaut. I was going to graduate from the airforce college, and go on to become an astronaut. Before I came to the lost cities, my parents had said that they would let me take airplane flying lessons the next year.

I was going to be a pilot by the time I was old enough to get a license. That's what I dreamed of doing with my life, that's what I wanted to do, but now I can't. Sure, I'm an elf now, I'll live forever. I can do whatever I want with my life, but not that. Elves don't have astronauts. So there's one dream that has been ripped away.

I kept listening to the music. "I do whatever it takes, oh, oh, 'cause I love the adrenaline in my vains. Whatever it takes, oh, oh, 'cause I love how it feels when I break the chains," I sang to myself, hearing the words come out of my own mouth. Who knows, I might be the first elf in space.