Jupiter
I awoke that Summer night, late August, and began pacing the lengthy hallways of my villa. So many thoughts in my mind that I got lost. I shook it off, and traipsed my way down the staircase, into the kitchen, towards the french door that led me towards the seaside cliffs on the outside of our property, overlooking the midnight Pacific. I turned the doorknob quietly and stepped outside, letting in a soft, cold breeze as I made my way out. The full moon shining a soft light on both me and the ocean. All I could hear was the sound of the wind and the waves crashing into the rocky shore below.
I stepped as close to the edge of the cliff as I could possibly get, and I extend my arms out by my side and let my white nightgown blow behind me in the breeze. The air cooled me off. As I gazed out at the ocean, it seemed endless, it always seemed that way. I saw nothing but the water that looked like waves of wet pavement moving for miles and miles. That night the sky was almost completely free of clouds. We’re far away from LA so the city lights don’t destroy our view of the stars either, so I could see almost every single one up there. I remember feeling so small. I had so much on my mind.
At this moment I felt like he’d noticed that I’d left our bed. He didn’t know. By “he” I mean my husband. He didn’t know that I was leaving him, our home, the life we built together. I just couldn’t stay there anymore, not after I found out what else is out there for me. There is an entire universe to explore, after all. I wasn’t happy back then. Life back there was just not enough. Plus… I met someone. They were the most beautiful creature I had ever seen, so smart, so kind, so full of adventure, and so much to offer a woman like me.
This was the night they were coming to take me away, and I cannot tell you how excited and terrified that I was. Since the first night we met, they had been visiting me once a week for an entire year. I would sneak out at midnight and go to those same cliffs and wait for them to come to me. The things they’d shown and taught me were things I never thought possible. We fell madly in love. The last time they visited me they asked me to run away with them. They told me they couldn’t keep doing this, that I needed to either stay with my husband or leave with them. There was no doubt in my mind, I knew I wanted to leave with them. Especially once they told me about where we would be going.
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I kept looking at the sky, I think I waited two hours. Thankfully with no sign of my husband. I kept checking each star over and over again, hoping I would see them coming. Just as I began to fear the worst, that they had forgotten about me, or changed their mind about taking me with them, I saw it.
One of the stars in the far right hand of the sky started to twinkle more than the others, and soon it moved. It grew bigger and then suddenly it appeared to skip from that point to about a hundred feet in front of me. It was a giant flying saucer floating there over the dark ocean waves. A humming coming from it made the air and ground around me vibrate, I could feel my bones shaking. It slowly moved until it was directly above me, as I looked directly up at the underside of it I saw the brightest white light I had ever seen. I had to look away because it felt like it would destroy my eyes.
Suddenly I felt a big gust of wind come down from where the light shined out of, it almost pushed me over. The humming sound grew thunderous, there’s no way my husband was asleep at this point. Before I knew it I could feel my feet lifting off the ground, one inch at a time until I was ten feet off the ground, then twenty, then thirty, until I finally reached the white light. I closed my eyes until I felt the floor of the saucer close beneath my feet. I opened my eyes and saw the inside of the saucer. Everything was a shiny metal and computer screens lit up the room. I turned around and I saw them. Their reflective green skin glistened under the lights of all the different pieces of technology. They were about seven feet tall. Their big dark black eyes looked back at me full of love, and I ran into their arms. We embraced each other.
“Take me to your planet.” I said, and we both let out the longest breath of relief. They nodded their head bak at me, took my hand, and we blasted off into outer space.
