Chapter 1 When I was 14, I graduated high school. I should've been in 8th grade. That's what grade the people my age were in. Which annoyed me. I hated how smart I was. Hated, hated, hated. I didn't have any friends. Not one. Everyone in my grade was always YEARS older than me. I couldn't have been friends with them. And, besides, No one ever wanted to be friends with the nerd. So, anyway, after I graduated high school, I went right to working on getting my bachelor's degree. I'd already gotten my AA degree- in high school. Vivian, my little sister, was nine years younger than me. I practically trained her to love astronomy. She followed me everywhere, which meant that when I used my telescope, she did too, and she started loving space. I used to be fine with it. But now? Man, now it was just annoying. I thought about all this and more in the middle of a lecture my professor was giving. Calissa sat next to me, focusing on the professor intensely, writing notes without even looking, occasionally looking down at her textbook and reading it. I looked at my own textbook, blinking. It was simple stuff. Just physics. But the words- man, those words- overwhelmed me terribly. Calissa tapped my shoulder. "Jonathan, are you ok?" she asked, staring at me with her beautiful brown eyes. "Mhm." I jotted down some notes on what the professor was saying and tried as hard as possible to focus. "You sure?" "Calissa, I'm 100% positive, alright?" I said, not looking at her. "Yeah, but-" "Sorry." I interrupted her. "What?" she asked, confused. I looked up at her. "I'm sorry for being rude. I just... was lost in my thoughts again. I didn't try to be mean. I'm just thinking too much. Its messing with my mood, I guess." Calissa nodded and we both started focusing on the lecture. I loved how understanding she was.
100% written by me, Victoria (@FaithHopeLove7)!! (Although I did get some help from one of my friends.) Some of you may find the story familiar. That's because a while ago, I wrote a story about a young girl named Vivian. I stopped writing it mid-way through, and decided her older brother's point of view might be more interesting. NO SPOILERS, you who have read the one in Vivian's point of view (because it DOES take place after the one in Jonathan's) Do you like it, the story? It's the very beginning of it; not even all of Chapter 1! This is an excerpt of my book, After the Supernova. This is probably all I'll put on Scratch.
