5: AU Thear: Brooke: First Day on Thear

[k_a_webb]

The first story of Thear was written when I was 15 and I decided to use some of my 100 stories to show some of the ideas I had before I decided on the current story.

Curling an arm around herself Brooke looked at what was obviously a two-way mirror. They were watching her and there was nothing she could do about it. As one of the hundred girls chosen she was meant to feel special, but instead she felt like she wanted to run as far away as possible. She couldn’t, of course, because she had travelled through space to a new world, a world where they needed girls because there weren’t enough. Earth had too many girls, so the governments were happy enough to send some to Thear. It didn’t matter that none of the girls they chose actually wanted to go.

On the day Brooke had got the letter to tell her that she’d been chosen, a day she remembered like it was yesterday even though it had been three months before, all she’d wanted to do was find a way out of it. Her life had been planned out, but she would have to start again on a new planet. The letter came with an info pack that she’d only read the night before she got onto the space ship, so she knew that Thear was a very different place to the one she’d left behind, and she wasn’t sure it was a place she was going to be happy.

Some of the girls had cried during the journey. Brooke hadn’t, because she felt numb. Every since she’d seen the envelope on the doormat she had done what she had to do. Her parents had cried, her younger sisters had cried, and her friends had cried, but nothing had set her off. Not even getting on the ship that would take her to her new home had made her cry. She knew it would happen eventually, probably once she found herself in a new bed in a new house on an entirely different planet to the one she had grown up on.

Trying to take her mind off things, which was almost impossible, Brooke looked around the room at the girls she had travelled with. She’d spoken to a couple of them, but she hadn’t taken the time to get to know any of them. It didn’t seem like there was much point. Although Thear wasn’t a huge island she knew that meeting any one of the girls she might have made friends with was unlikely and having to say goodbye to yet more people wasn’t something she wanted to do.

A couple of them were staring at the mirror, in a way that made Brooke think they knew it was a two-way mirror too. The one thing the info pack hadn’t talked about was what the Thearan people were like and there were no pictures. It had been one of the ongoing conversations they’d had during the journey. A few of the girls thought they would be insect people, others put forward the possibility of merpeople, and she had kept quiet. Her theory wouldn’t be popular, because she thought they would be bipeds, not too different from humans, otherwise they probably wouldn’t be physically compatible and it was obvious that they were needed for breeding purposes.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.