Into the Night A MidNight Series

Okay, to start, let me get some shit straight. I guess for starters my name. My name is Jae and Im just your typical, average 19 year old college student trying to survive. Black hair, brown eyes, around 511… shit couldn get anymore generic to be honest. But I swear Im far from the average person. For example, I try my best to keep my distance from people. Wait… that just makes me sound like Im a loner or that I hate people. Its not that I hate people I swear, its just that I don tend to trust others so easily. Especially ever since that time.

I guess it started back when I was nine. The town I grew up in was strange to say the least. Nothing much happened in this town, but something always felt slightly off about it. Maybe it was the silence, the starless nights or maybe it was the fact that there was only one bus stop in the whole town. Whatever it was, it was always quiet, nothing ever happened in this small town.

But something very strange happened that night. I was sitting on my living room floor watching whatever cartoon show was on at that time. It was late, so everybody else was asleep. As I was watching, my attention turned to the living room window. I don know what made my head turn that way, towards that certain direction, at that moment and time, but what I saw changed my life forever.

A shooting star. You might say thats normal to see at night, but this was different. Like I said the sky was always empty, just an endless void of space. Hell, if you were to grow up your whole life in this town, you would think that stars were a part of fiction, make believe, the type of shit you would read about in fairy tales. But despite the fact that this was the first star I saw in my life, what made it even stranger was its direction. It was headed right towards me!

I quickly ducked behind the couch for cover, as I heard the thud from the impact in my backyard. I peeked over the couch staring at what just crash landed in my backyard. Some sort of mysterious object was sitting there in the middle of my backyard. I mustered up the courage to leave the safety of my couch, and ran to the backdoor. Something about it was calling me towards it. I carefully approached the strange object. It was big enough to fit a human inside, and as I got closer I noticed it was some sort of capsule made out of a strange metal. I reached out my hand and as my hand was a fingertip away from touching it, it started opening.

Smoke burst from the outer edges of the shell, and a mysterious figure rose from the depths of the capsule. As the smoke dispersed into the air, she stood there in front of me, staring at the blank sky. A beautiful, slender girl with purple hair stood with her hands behind her back. She was wearing what seemed to be a high school girls uniform. I couldn say anything so I just stood there and stared. She was the most beautiful girl Ive ever seen in my life.

”Hm… no stars… ” she said as she continued to stare at the sky. She then turned her attention towards me. Her eyes felt like they stared through my soul as her lips moved slowly, ”Hey kid, what year is it? ”

Her eyes kept me entranced. Fascinated. Those glowing purple eyes that lit up in the night sky. It was the first time I saw eyes like that.Trying to speak, I was barely able to blurt out some words.

”I-it-s 20-08 ”

”2008? ” she looked back towards the sky with a puzzled expression on her face. ”That can be right. Where are the stars? ”

”Stars? ” I was surprised by her statement. In all nine of my years I lived in this small town there were never any stars.

”Yes! Stars! ” She exclaimed. ”Its 2008! This is a small rural town! The sky should be filled with stars! Hundreds! No, thousands! ”

I was surprised about how enthusiastic she was about stars. But the fact still remained… ”Miss, stars aren real. ”

The expression on her face turned into one of pure shock. ”No! Thats not right! ”

She jumped off the capsule and started pacing back and forth on the ground. By the expression on her face you can tell she was deep in thought. Thinking. This continued for a couple of minutes as I stood there silently, until eventually she spoke.

”Thats it! ” she blurted out, disrupting the silence around her. ”Hey kid, whats your name? ”

”It-s Jae! ” I replied, startled by her sudden question.

”Jae? I see… ” Her face grew dark for a slight moment. But as q