The Meteor Shower (3)
It wouldn't be a star festival without a meteor shower! Right on time, a beautiful array of shooting stars graces the night sky. This time of year is unnaturally clear and it's incredibly easy to see the stars. Most meteor fragments appear to be little white or yellow lights streaming across the sky, but if you watch closely enough you may find that some of them seem to be a whole rainbow of colors. The scientists have reported that it's just different components burning up as they enter the atmosphere, but there's something undeniably magical about it.
Life had a way of eating a person’s time and energy. It had a way of dragging a person away from things they loved while they focused on other things they loved. Bailey knew this intimately. She’d loved being a senshi. She’d loved being Subra. But life…life had demanded so much of her.
First it had been high school. Balancing study with helping her father and future father-in-law with their restaurant to earn a little extra pocket change. Dealing with the changes that came with their hormones. Then it had been the gap year, and recovering from surgery and all that chaos. And then it was college, and the grueling process that was figuring out the best route to what they wanted to do for a career…
Life had been a lot the last seven years…
She yawned as she rummaged through the fridge for another Monster, desperate to get away from her screen and budgeting for a few minutes. She slipped out onto the balcony of the small apartment she shared with Daniel, taking a deep breath of the night air, laden with the scents of summer. She leaned against the railing, looking up to the sky as she took a sip from her drink. And paused mid-sip. She couldn’t help but marvel at the meteor shower streaking across the sky, setting her can down on the railing.
“Oh wow…” It looked like a normal meteor shower for the most part, but mixed in with the normal colors was a veritable rainbow, and a feeling that left her speechless. This time of the year in DC was always something, but she couldn’t recall a meteor shower quite like this. She picked up drink back up, sipping at it as she watched, a smile on her lips. It made her think that maybe, while she was out of classes for the summer…maybe it was time to return to being a senshi. To her homeworld. To all the things she hadn’t been able to juggle…
She looked to the outdoor storage closet accessible via the balcony, thinking. Inside was her camping equipment. Not the old stuff that she’d gotten as a preteen, with no knowledge of how to camp beyond what a Google search provided. No…now, she was ready. She was equipped, and knew how to camp comfortably. She’d dragged Daniel on enough camping trips during her college years. She chugged her Monster, ducking back into the apartment long enough to throw the can away, then opened the storage closet to take inventory of the current state of her equipment.
She needed to replace or repair a few things that had gotten a little too roughed up the last time she’d gone camping, but overall…yeah. Yeah, she was pretty sure she’d be able to set up a better base camp on her homeworld. Bailey couldn’t help the big grin on her face as she put things away, mentally already making plans for not only how to set things up on her homeworld, but also how to ease back into the world of being a senshi. She settled into watching the meteor shower again, feeling much better than she had when she’d gotten up from her laptop earlier.
Word Count: 536, according to Google Docs
