Consider (The Holo Series) by Kristy Acevedo

Author:Kristy Acevedo [Acevedo, Kristy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: k'12
Publisher: Jolly Fish Press
Published: 2016-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

The typical twenty-minute ride home takes forever. Traffic clogs the highway. We take turns driving, pulling over to the side of the highway every half hour or so, running around the car like there’s an emergency, and then sitting in slow-to-unmoving traffic once more. The TARDIS air freshener spins in midair, teasing us.

We turn on the radio. The same breaking news spouts on every station. NPR claims that media sources are investigating a possible cover-up to see if governments had prior knowledge of the comet and were keeping it from the public. They report that several online bloggers claim they had warned about the comet for years and no one listened. NPR discredits their evidence, explaining that the bloggers produced doctored photographs, and some of their older blog entries originally professed the images were alien spaceships, not comets. Instead, the reporter provides a scientific explanation. Something about the sun’s alignment with Earth blocking our direct line of sight of the comet until now.

I want to scream. Does it matter who’s right and wrong here? This is bigger than conspiracies and rhetoric. It just is.

“Did either of you see the movie Armageddon?” Rita asks.

“I think I did,” Dominick says. “Was that the one with Bruce Willis?”

“Yeah, and they have to blow up a comet, or maybe it was an asteroid? Anyway, they blow it up but the pieces still do major damage.” Rita’s eyes begin to grow wider and wider with concern.

“That’s Hollywood, though, not real life,” Dominick says. “In real life, scientists would rather move it off course.”

“Hollywood, right. They can do anything. Governments, not so much.” Rita snaps a piece of gum like she’s trying to beat it into submission.

“It’s not the scientists’ fault. NASA hasn’t been funded properly for years,” Dominick argues.

“I wasn’t blaming the scientists.” Rita looks back at me in the backseat for help.

I can’t debate. Not this time. My mind seems to be overprocessing all information. I can’t cry. I can’t truly understand it. Even my anxiety is too confused to kick in. I’m like a computer stuck on the little spinning hourglass instead of an arrow cursor, trapped in time instead of moving with direction and action. Maybe I’m not capable of understanding the level of devastation. Maybe we’re not supposed to fathom it ahead of time. Maybe it’s just too damn big.

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