Space Explorers

Prologue

June 26th, 2010

A smaller gray two-story house with neat white trim stood beside another quaint house after another, the luscious grass a deep green, nearly the exact shade as the house's front door. Everything in the yard was fresh as homegrown mint, the weather a perfect mix of a cool spring breeze and the coming summer month's warmth. The light gray paint lathered the sturdy wooden boards without a trace of age upon it, nor a speck of dirt. A trace of white glowing specks were dotted across the sky and the large orangish orb lowered to meet the horizon, warm yellowed light flooding from the windows of the tinier house.

A high-pitched wail was heard from the house, and the lights flickered out from the top floor the shadowed figure of a woman holding a young baby the last thing you could see. The wails continued and the grass outside swayed to the now howling summer wind as if it was complimenting the child's screams. The green door swung open and a tall, thin blonde woman exited the house with a large cloth suitcase a toddler-aged boy with the same blonde hair waddling after her. The woman pivoted to face the boy, bending down to kneel at his height. She whispered to the child, inaudible to anyone who wasn't the child or woman themselves.

The woman stood and turned once more clutching the suitcase, the young boy retreating into the house and shutting the door. Wail's and shrieks grew louder and the yellowish lights from upstairs flickered on once more. The woman hurriedly moved to the driveway in front of the small house, clicking a button and packing the suitcase in the trunk, the car unlocking with a beep. The blonde woman slid into the front seat and drove off, leaving behind the white-trimmed house and green door.

Another figure was now seen from the upstairs window, that of a man holding the younger child and a toddler poking his head above the windowsill. The wails and screams had subsided and the house grew cold, dead silent the car and woman out of view from the window nowhere to be seen or heard from again.

Authors Note:

First: I don't know how mature the story might get as I'm in the middle of writing as I go along. Second: Updates may or may not be regular, considering I'm in school I have a lot to get done regularly. Thank you for reading the prologue, and I hope you enjoy my story! <3

- lemon

Wordcount: 364

Characters: 1679