Galileo (Battle of the Species) by Meaghan Sinclair

Author:Meaghan Sinclair
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

The Closet Explorer

Renn and Adam returned to the port junction, relieved to be able to take their time with their good-bye, instead of having laser blasts fired at them until they left.

When Renn was back on the Galileo, he messaged Leo and Dylan, wondering if either of them had made it back yet. Leo replied back, “Eating,” and Renn headed to the mess hall when he heard behind him, “Hey, white boy.”

Renn turned around, seeing Dylan smiling. They walked to the mess hall talking about the last two days. When they got there, they found Leo stuffing his face with a large chilled shellfish.

Renn told them about everything his dad had explained, though something kept bothering him and he couldn’t shake it. He kept glancing at Leo, taking longer and longer gazes.

“What?” Leo asked.

“Why are your clothes dirty, and why are you so hungry?” Renn asked.

Leo shrugged and kept eating.

Renn stared at him. Despite how hard someone tries to not think of something, there inevitably comes a point when they think, “I better not think of…” (and then they think about it.)

“Oh my gawd, you went to another planet instead of going home!” Renn said.

“What?” Dylan said wide-eyed, looking at Leo.

Leo stopped eating. “You know, sometimes I hate that you can read minds.”

“Why not just tell us?” Renn asked. “We’re your friends. I don’t get all the secrecy.”

“Because I don’t want you guys to know that I don’t want to go home, all right? That I would rather spend two days wandering around some random planet, starving, than to go home and spend even a minute with my dad, who would just stand there and point out everything that I’m doing wrong with my life.”

“It’s not as if we wouldn’t understand, Leo,” Renn said.

“Really? You both talk about your dads all the time. I had no idea that there were even dads like that. Who don’t yell at you every time they see you and say ‘you’re worth nothing.’ I’m sorry, but there are some things I don’t want to talk to you two about.”

The three fell silent, trying to eat, until Renn tried to change the conversation. “Will you at least tell us where you went?” he asked.

“Lucia,” Leo replied.

Renn and Dylan looked at each other.

“That’s actually kind of cool,” Dylan said. “I’ve never been to Lucia.”

“Me neither,” Renn said. “How was it?”

“Well…it was kind of great,” Leo said, as a smile crept across his face.

“Come on, man. Tell us about it!” Dylan said.

“Well, I went to Curta.”

“Never heard of it.”

“Yeah, neither had I, but I asked Cybernex where the coldest city on Lucia was this time of year and it spat up, Curta. Turns out the winters there get so cold, they evacuate the entire town till the Spring. It was beautiful though. It was by this sea, with white cliffs and black sand.”

“Snow?”

“No, but the ground was frozen solid and it was really difficult to find food, because the shops were closed and all the animals had migrated.

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