Colliding Worlds: Agairo and Earth

GABRIELLE WOODSON

One week ago I found out that the royal princess of Agairo is my freaking sister! SISTER?! I stayed up all night when she casually dropped this huge bomb on me. I couldn't understand how I could be her brother, it seemed impossible.

 "Maybe she didn't mean it like I am her brother, maybe she was just trying to say, good night bro, with no intention to mean that we are related" I kept thinking to myself. 

My whole life I have been an outsider, someone who can be on stage under a spotlight and still be invisible, my voice has never been heard and the only nice thing in my life has been coming to earth. Something deep down inside of me has been woken since I stepped on earth and I can feel grow stronger and stronger inside of me. I am surrounded by people around me all the time here yet I feel so lost and lonely; when I saw princess Aurora I felt relieved even though I knew she could take me back to Agairo and have me killed for treason I felt relieved because there was somebody here on earth who might understand what I am going through and just completely insane the last few months have been. 

The next few days were awkward, I had chosen to completely ignore the fact that she called me brother and just chose to bury my confusion deep down and go on pretending like nothing ever happened; a trick I learned from humans. 

Alex, June, and I took the princess shopping and showed her around Rockwell which reminded me of my first few days on earth. We went to the same mall June and Alex first took me to and it still never ceases to surprise me. For a small town, this mall is huge at least it is for me. Then remembered how shook I was when I first entered the mall through the automatic sliding glass doors; compared to me the princess looked completely unbothered by anything on earth. She had a great poker face and no one good ever read her. June took Princess Aurora shopping and Alex and I went to the arcade which is basically the best part about the earth. By the time June was done Aurora looked like a new person much more fashionable one might say. She drew a lot of attention, it was weird, her whole life everybody has watched her every move and even on earth people are smitten by her beauty making it hard for us to walk without people staring. We got home pretty late that night; Alex and June hit the bed as soon as we got home because they both had early lectures in the morning leaving just me and the princess to talk. 

"Would like some water, your highness?" I asked trying not to look her in the eye. She makes me nervous. 

"Yes, and you can call me Aurora," she said with a calm voice as she sat on the sofa. 

 I handed her the glass and thought about how weird it was that I could call her by her first name and that I could call her anything at all!

"I am sure you have some questions for me," She asked as I sat across from her. 

"Yes, a lot of them, let's start with what did you mean when you called me brother?" I asked hoping that I hadn't overstepped any lines. 

"I meant what I said, I called you my brother because you are" She replied with no emotion on her face or voice. 

I know that she isn't supposed to feel any emotions but this is huge and I was about to completely lose it but I somehow managed to hold myself together. 

"That's impossible, we are from two different worlds," I replied.

"Yes, but you are brother and I have carried this secret with me for some time now." She replied as she took a sip of her water. 

"How can you be so calm about all this!" I asked raising my tone a little. 

"I don't feel anything remember" she replied while looking down, she was lying. 

"I know you feel things, a sensation you have never had before, that is a feeling taking over your body," I said. 

"How do you know all this," she asked with worry in her tone, she was letting her guard down.