The Night Sky



Chapter One
One day when I was in science class, my teacher announced that we would now be learning about space. I was excited because I loved learning about space. It was the main topic of one of my favorite books, which I got two years ago from Sophia. Sophia has wavy light brown hair and amazing purple tips. Her favorite colors are brown and purple, and her favorite food which she always looks for when she is at my house is ice cream. The book she got me was called Space Wanders written by Hailey Eppers. It has a purple and black book cover, and it is 104 pages.

As the teacher started talking, my mind wandered to Jackson who was sitting in front of me. He was listening carefully to the teacher, as I was just staring at him, daydreaming about us being together. But I had no idea that he was not listening to but drawing pictures of Ava in his notebook. I let out a small cough and he looked back at me, my face turned to the color of a red tomato, and I looked at my teacher.

Suddenly, I heard the teacher calling on me. “What is the fourth planet of the solar system? Eleanor? Are you paying attention?”

I snapped back to reality, and answered quickly, “Uh...could you repeat the question?

She looked at me with her furious eyes and spoke. “Eleanor, you are usually an exceptionally good student. Please try to pay attention. I asked what the fourth planet in the solar system was, so please answer that.”

I quickly replied, “The answer is Saturn,”

Ms. Shapin was happy to hear that I knew the answer and asked another question “Good, now how many planets are there in the whole solar system?” “Nine!” I answered without any hesitation.

She looked with her burning eyes through her half-moon glasses me, and said, “Remember, Pluto isn’t a planet,”

“Oh, right, so then only eight?” I really hoped that it was correct because I knew that Jackson was listening.

“That is correct. Next time remember to listen to me when I am speaking, this is only a warning,”

I was scared because I was never in trouble before and I was thinking ''Was the school going to tell my parents? Would I not be able to attend Harvard anymore?'' I finally stopped thinking and I got bored because it was all the easiest things.

Then I suddenly heard something that caught my attention she was saying something I did not know-- or understand, she said “You know that the Galaxy does not end but do we know that is it not round square random? No! Now if we ever find out I hope it is one of you. I am proud that you have and are learning so well and remember to take notes,”

I thought for a while how many of us would find out what shaped the galaxy, that is impossible, outrageous! After class, Emma, Sophia, and all of us went to lunch, we sat at our usual table which was across from all our crushes Jackson and Elliot, Emma did not have a crush I had a crush on Jackson and Sophia had a crush on Elliot.

A few weeks later Jackson invited us to a party. At the party Elliot, Sophia, Ava, Jackson, Emma, Emmit, Alice, Jason, and I all stayed in a group together, for some reason though Elliot kept looking at me. Jackson kept looking at Ava, Ava kept looking at Jason, Jason kept looking at Alice.

Later we all decided to go on a walk and 15 minutes into the walk, we heard Jason call “Hey come here look at this!” We all rushed over to see what it was, and what we saw will shock you. At first, we all thought it was an airplane that just happened to land here, but what we saw next shocked us more...

Chapter Two
We were silent for a few minutes listening to the raindrops ahead but all still thinking and wondering what that thing was we were sure it was not an airplane we would have known because it looks recent.

Then finally Alice suggested “Let's go inside this... Thing and explore, ok?” We all hesitated not wanting to go into that machine--but still, we were curious, so we went in any way. Later we found out it was an aircraft, but it was not a plane.

It was also not in a language so we used Jason's phone to look up what language this was, and we could not find the language and we finally decided to leave, that’s when Emmit fell, and accidentally pressed a bright, blinding red button, and we lift into the sky he pressed it again, but nothing happened so we were stuck hovering off the ground, we soared over land and up, up into SPACE!

We found out that the spaceship was not broken it just did not look like the right shape for us we found ten space suits “Perfect!” Emma exclaimed sarcastically. “This is simply perfect, ten spacesuits and one for extra.”

One minute later, we were all yelling at Emmit because he sent us all into space by falling on that button. We were all raging at the time of earth's morning but now we are simply scared. How were we going to get back? Were we going to die? I could not stand thinking of things like that.

After we were done, we decided we should collect food from the ship and select rooms, once we named and listed all the rooms, we could tell the ship was not only big it was HUGE, but we did not mind we loved it, we found the kitchen easily, but I was wondering a human brought this down because of the type of food, but we still do not know what aliens eat. We still were not sure if this used to have aliens used to own this ship.

I could not sleep for days wondering 'How we were going to survive? And get back to our family's? How long has it been on earth, were they looking for us?' All of us were wondering when we were going to get back and none of us talked to each other for around a week but then we just all settled back down to have a good life. We still had internet but for some reason, we could never contact our parents. It was strange all being together, and Sophia put us all in groups I was with Elliot, Ava was with Jackson, Jason was with Emma and so on we all had to sleep with our partner in the same bed and all of us complained that it was weird, so we all had to get a punishment and make us cook for a month, I mean, I do not know how to cook.

Me, Sophia, and Emma, all still stuck together away from the popular kids but Elliot and Emmit kept following us, I Knew why Emmit was following us, he was following us because of Sophia, but why Elliot is it the same reason, but which girl does he have a crush on when me, Sophie, and Emma were finally alone we thought about it and Emma told me and Sophie that she asked him before and found out that Elliot has a crush on ME, I mean I was like NO WAY he cannot have a crush on me I am too basic for him, and he is the Captain of the Football team.

How could he like me? That night I could not sleep with Elliot next to me he was facing me with his amazingly blonde hair, and he was perfect in every way how could he like me?

Just I was thinking Elliot sat upright looking at me we were in a room alone suddenly he leaned in to kiss me I was so shocked that I pushed him away he was shocked he looked at me with his eyes full of confusion and muttered, "I am so sorry." I knew that I liked Jackson, but do I like him? Is it now Elliot? I shook that thought away.

Chapter Three
We decided to have a captain of the ship, and everyone thought it should be Alice, so she did it just so we could be happy and safe. Every single one of us had a job. Emma was in charge of making the food we ate. There were plenty of ingredients in the kitchen, so the only thing she had to do was cook them. Ava had all As at school and worked as a tutor for younger people in the school, so she was the teacher. Emmit made sure the ship's parts were all working. Jackson was the ship's doctor, Sophia's job was sewing clothes for us all, and I was responsible for cleaning the ship.

While I was cleaning up, I hit my pinky toe on the side of a sharp corner of a table I yelled in pain as Jackson ran in to check if someone was hurt, in the doctor's room also known as Jackson's room he had me lay on the soft bed and take off my sock's he checked my pinky toe out and cursed softly.

He told me that my pinky toe was broken, and he put a metal cast on my toe. I flinched in pain as he put me on the gas to make sure I could not feel it. A few weeks later my toe was better so I could start cleaning up again bet every time I walked it hurt a bit, so I groaned.

A few hours later I was sweeping the kitchen, but then suddenly a rock popped out of nowhere I thought I was going to get really hurt but luckily Elliot was nearby, also known as the boy who has a crush on saved the day by swooping through the air to catch me, he did but not quick enough.

I broke my leg... I screamed in pain as Elliot rushed me to Jackson our doctor to mend and help my leg, when we got into Jackson's room, I cried and screamed quietly as the boys laid me in the soft and comfy bed. They called Emma in to change me into shorts as Jackson prepared the things.

When Emma put on my shorts I winced in pain, and I rolled off the bed right when she slipped on them. Jackson saw it and rushed over to pick me up and put me back on the bed. He put a mask on me so I would fall asleep and then this happened.

I fell asleep and had the worst nightmare I had a dream that all my friends didn't like me and kicked me into space. I could not breathe, so I died then my friends all suffocated because it was so dirty. It was hard to think of my life without my friends, who would comfort me when I was sad or mad?

When I woke up, we all had a meeting and decided to give me a... safer job I was happy when I heard it was an assistant doctor that means I will have all the supplies for my injuries.

I was happy I started jumping up and down, up and they were all staring at me and laughing softly, Jackson told me and everyone else this was a side effect of the gas and they told me to sit down because of my leg.

For the next few days, they asked Elliot to kind of be my helper because of my leg and help Emma was supposed to help me put on my clothes though.

I was sad that I got hurt so I went to go help Ava get ready for a class for us so we could still survive. We did not like school so we decided to make it only one lesson week other than those days she would clean up I would also help everywhere I was like a side helper for everybody I was a student/teacher and there were no rules other than no skipping class.

Since they are 9 of us, she had an 8-person class. We found some computers and some desks, she sighed at the mention of school but then shot back up because she was the teacher. She told me she loved researching and she said later during class tomorrow, tomorrow would be a Monday and we would do informational writing! I was super excited, so I told Emma and Sophia. I found Emma in the kitchen making dinner and found Sophia in the sewing room.

Chapter Four
We could not wait but then we heard something, we heard a scream. A worried scream came from the front of the ship that sounded like Alice. We all rushed over to see what happened and we saw thousands of thousands of UFO's and we saw a planet.

All of their ships said Planet Gybsense and had a number on them. The biggest number we saw was 12,563 and I was guessing that was the queen. I yelled in anger because it was all peaceful until we got here, at Planet Gybsense.

We were all so worried and I was shouting orders I had Jackson find all of the bullets and all of the weapons. I had Alice steer the ship and Ava load all of the weapons. The rest of us were wearing our spacesuits ready to go out and then I noticed that Emmit was not there. I screamed and yelled "WHERE IS EMMIT!" they looked all over the place until Alice noticed him. He was in space dead

I cried and cried so hard and then I stopped I thought about my friends and how they needed my help so I went out full gear on. Alice was shooting rockets while making sure it didn't hit us.

She was crying all of us were, at least all of the girls were. We were scared worried and depressed. we just wanted a peaceful life.

The next few hours were scary and hard we had to kill A LOT of aliens and then we noticed something we were shooting mistletoes at the queen but it didn't damage her ship at all not a single dent.

So then we snuck in the ship, we snuck into the queen's ship and nearly got caught but it, but the good thing was they don't have eyes. I took out the shortest and stubbiest dwarf looking like an alien and happened to not get hurt. I also took out many other aliens and STILL managed to not get hurt. I was very shocked. Then I saw something glittering on the mucky floor. I gasped when I realized what it was- a key. I took the shining golden key and tucked it into the pocket of my spacesuit. I would keep this in case it was important.

About an hour passed when we finished fighting the aliens. A majority of them retreated, and a lot of the rest were killed. The queen had left also. My friends and I were all tired by the end of the fight. I barely remembered about the key, and the only reason I remembered it was because my friends had discovered something. It was a new door just outside the kitchen. We've been living in the spaceship for about two weeks and we have never seen this is.

I noticed a small lock and I realized that I should try the key I found on the UFO. So I took it out of my pocket and showed my friends. They nodded their heads saying we should try and we also noticed a small little number graved on it 7. I tried the key and it worked! We carefully opened the door surprised to see it was a music room.

It had violins, cellos, bass, violas, and every instrument you could think of. I gazed at the violin and went over to play it. It was so pretty, the weird engravings made the instrument sound MUCH better. I played a song that I had memorized and made no mistakes. All my friends started clapping and saying "WOW! You are SO good!" I blushed when Elliot also said that it was good.

I left the strange room and glanced behind me to see Elliot heading to our room and decided I should follow. I went inside and lay in our bed and almost fell asleep. I sat up startled to see Elliot taking my hand in his. He leaned in and kissed me. I felt like fireworks just burst in my heart when he did. Then he whispered something into my ear "I am so sorry about Emmit, I know this is a weird time but I have a crush on you and I have been wondering... Will you be my girlfriend?" I gazed into his diamond blue eyes and hugged him tightly saying "Yes."

The next morning I and him announced that we were together and all of them started chanting "OUR FIRST COUPLE!" We all laughed and played games that we found in one of the cupboards. It was the most fun we have had since we got on the ship. But it felt weird without Emmit. I could tell they felt the same way like they were all whispering I miss Emmit we all miss him.

Chapter Five
I slumped in my and Elliot's bed when he leaned in to cuddle with me. We hugged each other for a couple of minutes until he said "I am so sorry about Emmit. We should've taken more care of EVERYONE, not just him. Everyone. We need to work together and not fight to get over this. We need to work hard. HARDER. No matter what."

I blinked away a stray tear and hugged him tighter saying "Don't you dare be sorry for me. I do not need more sad people on this ship. We only need to find out what that number 7 means and I bet we have to find a couple more keys."

I ran to the kitchen because the smell of fresh-baked cookies overtook my body. I ran into the kitchen to find out some sad news... IT WAS SOPHIA'S NEW PERFUME. I sat down next to her and tried to bite her arm then I heard a blood-screeching scream. We all ran into the front room again, and it turned out to be Alice screaming again because aliens have come to take over our ship again. We did the same things as last time and when we were fighting, Elliot was fighting a red alien that slashed at his next he tried to dodge the attack but he was too slow for this one. It cut through his suit and killed him.

I woke up the next day in a cold sweat. When I saw Elliot laying in bed next to me I calmed down. He noticed I had moved and turned his head to see me sitting up in our bed, he sat up and asked "Hey what are you doing sitting up at 8:00 am we only do that on school days and on this ships school days it starts at 10:00 so we can get our sleep!" I sighed and told him about my dream, he shook his head and replied "Don't worry, we will make sure all of us are safe and DON'T get hurt." he repeated, "Don't worry," I nodded my head and went to clean up the "foyer" the only time we ever use the foyer is when we are leaving the ship and that is very rare. VERY.

I got out seeing Ava wearing her suit ready to leave and I asked "Why are you leaving?" She quietly replied "Alice can't see anything outside the window I have to clean it. I think it might have to do with something bad. One second she can see perfectly fine, the next second she can't see a thing. What is with that?" I shook my head not wanting to say anything. I picked up the broom and started sweeping.

I noticed the broom handle was a little bumpy and also sticky then I realized that a key with the number 4 was engraved on it. I asked Jackson if he had seen any new door and he asked me why and I told him what I found on the broom. He shook his head and sighed saying "Go have Alice say it on the speaker then we can all start searching." I knew he was right so I ran over to Alice saying "Can you say this on the speaker 'Hello this is a message from Eleanor she found a key glued onto the broom with 4 engraved on it. Please look for the new room that has opened up.'" She nodded and said the exact words.

Once I got out of the pilot room Ava was back and I saw her pointing through the crowd of our ship huddled over a green door. I pushed through the small crowd a carefully opened the door. She opened it and she immediately heard birds chirping, cat meowing, dogs barking, and horses neighing. I gasped and ran to pet the cat that looked exactly like my cat on the Earth. She was a light gray and white tabby with striking green eyes. Her name was Nibbles, she had that name because she LOVED nibbling on plastic. And the moment I saw her I knew it was based on Nibbles. She was nibbling on a plastic CD that was hung up for the bird she had never seen before.

I ran to her the second I saw her and cradled her in my arms. She smelled like her litter and still had that fluffy fur. I rubbed her cheek and I saw Emma run to her dog. Her dog's name was Biscuit. He was a cute little dog and had dark brown fur, like a biscuit. I carried Nibbles over to Biscuit and they did not fight. They just simply ignored each other.

I left the room quietly as each member of the crew with pets reunited with their pet. I carried Nibbles to my room (that I shared with Elliot) and placed him on my bed. Surprised to see him holding a fat orange tabby cat. I asked "What is his or her name? Mine is Nibbles." He smiled, saying, "Oh this fatso? His name is Mino. I don't know why we named him that though," I returned the smiled as we set down both cats and they started to groom each other's heads.

Chapter Six
I lay in bed with Nibbles laying his head on my chest. I took a quick glance at Elliot to see Mino doing the same as Nibbles but the only difference was that Elliot was asleep and I was not. I leaned into Nibble's soft belly and somehow managed to fall asleep.

The next morning I woke up to the warm fuzzy belly of Nibbles nuzzled right on my face and Mino screaming for food. I looked over to the only desk in our room to see a BIG bag of cat food. I sighed and said to the cats, "If you want food do two laps around the ship."

But instead of making them do that, I had to do one lap around the ship getting two bowls from the kitchen to let them eat out of. I got back to our room and poured the cats some food, then went to the "dock" to clean up. I half expected there to be another key but what I saw shocked me more.

I saw a human floating over our window and pounding HARD. I put on my space suit and she followed me to the foyer. I opened the door cautiously opened the door. I told Sophia to get there with me because she was nearby and we started to talk to the girl.

I asked the blonde hair girl with her hair in a ponytail, "Why are you coming to our ship, how old are you, what is your name, and are you here to kill us?" she replied quickly saying "I am here to try to be safe, my name is Adrienne and I am 13 years old and no, I am not here to kill you."

I was not sure if I should believe her so I made her stay in one of the extra rooms and called ALL of the members on the ship into the lounge so we could talk about this decision I waited until all of the members came and then I said "Hello when I was cleaning the deck I saw a girl floating around the space the was pounding on the window. Her name was Adrienne and she is in one of the extra rooms right now. What should we do about this?"

We all thought for a moment until Isaac said, "How about we give her a three-day trial, if she does not behave for 3 days then we will send her in one of our mini ships." All of us nodded our heads and then we went over to tell Adrienne.

Once she heard the news she was so excited she promised she would stay good.

We all got tired of her rambling on and on about her thanks for letting her stay on this ship and we just decided enough was enough and told her it was our bedtime so she better go to sleep and she didn't hesitate. We didn't really have a bedtime we just wanted her to shut up. But I guess she was ok. Maybe just getting saved she was being a little... Crazy.

The next morning I heard footsteps overhead. I guess I never really realized we had a loud second floor and I never really hear anyone overhead than I thought of it, a new door must have opened on the ship and someone found the key! I shot up out of my bed and changed then ran upstairs.

My suspicions were right. A small crowd was again crowded at the opening of the door. When I looked through the crowd I saw the door I saw a big black screen with three buttons under the screen. The letters were E D P I had no idea what they stood for but there were also slots for keys under it with the number on top. I decided to get both numbers 7 and 4 and stuck them in the slots that had the number over them for them.

I was not sure what that room was for but they only had thirteen slots and that was the thirteen key...

Chapter Seven
Three months had passed and in total, we found 10 more keys they were; 2,3,5,6,8,9,10,11,12 but there was one thing wrong. We still have not found number 1. I was sitting in the living room watching the news from the earth when I saw something that caught my eye. The date was showing and it said it was 2023 but we left in 2022 so time is the same. We were missing for one year. Then I saw something that almost gave me a heart attack. They were showing a film of a football game in our home city Denver when I noticed Emmit sitting in the middle row staring at the quarterback. I paused the news and quickly called everyone on the ship over, including Adrienne. I pointed to the screen where Emmit was sitting and they all gasped except for Adrienne. Then she asked us "Where did he die?" I replied shortly after trying to recall what happened. "He died in the middle of space in the atmosphere close to Planet Gibsense. Why?" she shook her head and said, "I have been to that planet myself and on that planet where you die you respawn back to where you live or where you were born," I jumped up so happy my brother was alive still. I ran up to Elliot and he kissed me and congratulated me. I started crying, not sad tears but happy.