Stargazing With Beilah

Bonding

David and Trinity

David and Trinity had been friends since they were very young and it was no wonder that they were so close. They had much in common and grown up side-by-side. Beilah, David's mother, and Spencer, Trinity's father, had been friends since Middle School and still were to date, so they the two of them had almost always been in one another's lives. They had been there for nearly all of one another's major milestones.

The two of them remember their fifth birthdays, getting bikes and learning how to ride them together with the help of David's mom, Trinity's dad, and their aunt and uncle Christine and Jake. They learned to ride their bikes together, pedalling down the street side-by-side, suddenly feeling as though they were completely indestructible and unstoppable with their shiny new bikes. They believed they could travel all across the wide world with the small bikes, and, by the time they were seven, promised one another that one day, they would. They decided that they would ride their bikes all the way across the world together- hopefully in eighty days, just like the book auntie Christine had dramatically read to them one night as a bedtime story.

Seven years old was the first time they went to see Christine on stage. Beilah and Jake sat in the audience on either side of David and Trinity, watching as Christine gracefully and near flawlessly delivered her lines. Her actions held their attention fully until the very end of the show. Afterwards, when Spencer was explaining to them how all of the props and such worked, Trinity and David were just as excited and attentive. That year, the decision that not only would they go to every show that Christine and Spencer were in, but they would do the same when they were in high school, just as they had. Christine assured the kids that, if they really wanted to, they could make it all the way to Broadway and be just as successful as her, if not more so. Spencer assured them the same thing.

By eight years old, Beilah and Spencer had worked together to write them a small comic book for their birthday. Spencer wrote it while Beilah illustrated it. It depicted the two of them as fearless, powerful superheroes, and gave Trinity the power to manipulate light and David the power to control plants. The secret weapon they used was a camera that, despite its bland exterior, was incredibly powerful. In the end, they captured the villain within the camera. The very next day, they began working on a comic book of their own. In it, Beilah and Spencer played the roles of brave knights and, Instead of rescuing a princess from a tower guarded by an evil dragon, they befriended a powerful dragon to help them save Squip and Atlas- David and Trinity's fathers respectively.

The comic and the story was adorable and both of them loved it, but the mention of them searching for Atlas and Squip worried Beilah and Spencer slightly. They knew that they could only get so far in their lives before David and Trinity would become increasingly upset about never being able to meet them.

Once they turned nine, Trinity and David realized that they would never be able to travel all the way across the world in eighty days- especially on a bike. Still, they did manage to travel fairly far on their bikes and, even though they knew they would never make their way across the planet, they could at least make their way across the town and even into others nearby. That was good enough for them.

Now, they were ten years old.

Trinity dropped the flower crown she had previously been weaving to the ground and sighed, causing David to look up from his own flower crown, "What's wrong?"

"I'm... I'm never going to meet my Papa, am I?"

David opened and closed his mouth.

"Think about it, I haven't ever met my Papa and you've never met your Daddy. We're ten, now. They should be here..."

"They will be-"

"No, they won't," Trinity looked up at the sky, blinking away the tears forming in her eyes, "It's been so long. We're never going to see them."

David scooted closer to her, wrapping an arm around her. He placed the flower crown that he had been working on atop her head, "The world isn't so big. We'll see them again, someday."

Trinity sniffled and wiped her eyes, placing her own flower crown on David's head in return, "Yeah, hopefully..."

David:

Headcannon: His nickname is "Bambi" because of his family situation and because of how sweet and soft he is.

"Bambi" because of his family situation and because of how sweet and soft he is.

Trinity: (Don't really like how this one turned out)

Headcannon: Atlas taught her Japanese and they occasionally use that in their household instead of English.