aurora rising one shots, volume one.

Octavia P.2

Word count:
483 words

Fluff!

Starring:
Flynn Jones
Aurora Jie Lin O'Malley
Ethan Gilwraeth
Ellie Malikova

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The girl with mismatched eyes POV

We've all been on here for two days, and it's already hell.

Ellie and Flynn have arguments over food, and we're just drifting without hope of ever leaving.

But I've had a little spark of joy, in Ethan.
No one really likes him, but I'm willing to give him a chance.

Flynn passes me in the hallway, and I offer him a small wave.
"Going to see Ethan?"

"Yeah."

He smirks. "Don't fall in love."

I punch his arm.
"Shut up."

"Never."

I walk off, towards Ethans room. I've been visiting him over the last few days; giving him a friend, someone to talk to.

Once you get to know him, he's actually really sweet.

I enter the code and the dark metal door hisses open.
"Hey."

He looks up at me, and continues doing whatever he was doing.
I walk over to him, and sit down.

He's sorting through records, I realise.
Hundreds and hundreds of records and CDs, all in a box.

"But how did you..?"

"I used to come here. To escape."

"Getting offworld isn't enough of an escape for you?"

"No. Music helps me escape."

"Can I....can I look? Please?" I ask him, looking into his shimmering eyes.

He nods his head, and his hair falls in his eye.

He slides the metal box in front of me, and I file through the albums.

He has everything from Weezer to Halsey, Fall out boy to Kodaline.

"Woah, you've got my favourite album in here!" I cry, and pull out What Did You Think When You Made Me This Way? By Nothing but thieves.

"I'll admit, I haven't listened to it." Ethan sighs.

I put my hand to my chest in mock horror.
"Got anything to play it on?" I ask him, and he pulls out an old record player.

He takes the album from me, ever gentle, and sets it on the player, and music starts playing.
It's Gods.

I lay down and rest my head against his lap, while guitar warbles through the room. I barely know Ethan, but I trust him. I like him.

"What were you going to do? Like, when you were on Octavia?" I ask him.

"Defence. You?

"Exploration and Cartography." I tell him, and look up into his eyes.
They shift and shimmer from violet to aqua to violet again.

"We probably would have met." He says.

"How?"

"Defence, remember? I would have guarded your Cartography squad."

"Ooooooh. Yeah."

The door hisses open.
"Flynn's calling a meeting. Come on, Lovebirds." Rosa calls.

I get up and help Ethan to his feet. His chest presses against me, and we're close. So close that I can count his eyelashes.

I pull away with a blush, and we head towards the door, together.