Every night Nelson snuck out of his bedroom window and climbed on the small roof above his room to watch the stars above his house.
Sitting there in his space mission pajamas with his head tipped back he dreams of being way out there.
Far away from fighting parents, mean sisters and bullies into the black abyss surrounded by nothing but silence.
He was very careful not to get busted, so he knew when he heard the porch door slam shut his mother had walked outside so secretly smoke a cigarette, doing her best to hid it from his father.
He peeked down to see if it was really her and made his way back to his room
During the day on his way and coming from school he tried finding the stars from the night before again, but the sun made sure he couldn’t see the stars above, like a giant bully in the sky the sun stared and laughed at him.
Nelson got bullied at school today like all other days, but today was different, today while he flew for a brief moment when he got pushed off a set of stairs he had an idea.
Time seemed to move so slow it was as if gravity took a break and gave him time to think of a plan to get out of this place.
He would build a rocket that would take him to the moon and beyond!
As he lands on the tile floor, with his backpack breaking his fall, he keeps a big smile on his face.
When he got home, he ran upstairs to his room, swiped his desk clean in one motion and threw down some paper and started drawing some blueprints for his spacecraft.
After completing his design he marked the last day of school on his calendar and promised himself he would take off on the first day of summer.
After dinner he went into the backyard and opened up the small shed next to the back porch and began to collect materials and tools he’d need to build his rocket.
Nelson was a quite boy and his parents knew nothing about him, and they were too busy arguing with each other to even go see what he was up too.
He worked until his small limbs ached to the bone and blisters popped up in the palm of his hands like daisies in a field.
It took him a couple of weeks to finish all the parts, and had collected fuel from numerous places, which he stored in empty soda bottles in the shed.
Things were heating up at home and at night while he was lying in bed he could hear his parents fight and threatened to divorce, on those nights he snuck up onto the roof to gaze at the stars, who would never leave him.
The next day was his last day of school and after getting picked on for the last time that semester he went back to his backyard and attached all the pieces of his rocket.
When he was done with that he hoisted it up so it faced the sky and stepped back and admired his hard work.
His parents called him inside and took him into the living room, when his mother said they had to talk to him about something very serious and he saw his older sister in tears, he already knew what was going to be said, so he blocked out the world as they talked for a very long time.
He was drifting through space,waving at the satellites and seeing the most beautiful sights one could ever see, from the many planets this galaxy has to flying stars and nebulas.
The words ‘we are getting a divorce’ entered his universe he got pulled into a black hole and found himself in tears on the couch.
He was used to living in a nice family until his parents started fighting and his sister rebelled against him saying it was all his fault.
He ran upstairs and locked himself in his room and his parents tried to get him out but he refused to talk.
After the sun had set and the stars were looking back down at him, he climbed out of his window wearing the spaceman halloween costume he wore every year. And instead of going up onto the roof he climbed down into the front yard and walked around the house to where his rocket was, opened the shed as quietly as he could and picked up some of the bottles of fuel. And as he came out of the shed he heard the porch door slam shut and dropped some of the bottles, his mother heard and called out his name, Nelson is that you?
He held onto two bottles and ran to his rocket and locked himself inside.
His mother came after him and threw her just lit cigarette away, it landed right in front of the shed.
It laid there glowing until the liquid fuel he sucked out of the lawnmower with a long rubber tube, got in contact with the cigarette set the shed on fire.
His mother noticed and screamed liked crazy when the flames went over to the house.
He crawled out of his rocket and saw the enormous flames eating up their home.
His mother called the fire department on her cell and dragged him to the front of the house, she fell on her knees screaming his father’s name and calling out to his sister.
Her face was covered in tears and he hugged her tightly, his father barged out of the front door carrying his sister, fire trucks pulled up behind them.
His father had some slight burns and the paramedics took care of him, after the flames were extinguished they went to their grandmothers house for a while.
It was a small home but everyone was more at ease and during the summer his parents fell back in love as the fire
The fire did more than burn down your home, his grandmother said, it also reignited their passion.
He had no idea what she was on about, and walked outside.
His sister pushed him over and said it was all his fault.
All his fault they were a happy family again, and reached out and helped him back up again.
Sitting there in his space mission pajamas with his head tipped back he dreams of being way out there.
Far away from fighting parents, mean sisters and bullies into the black abyss surrounded by nothing but silence.
He was very careful not to get busted, so he knew when he heard the porch door slam shut his mother had walked outside so secretly smoke a cigarette, doing her best to hid it from his father.
He peeked down to see if it was really her and made his way back to his room
During the day on his way and coming from school he tried finding the stars from the night before again, but the sun made sure he couldn’t see the stars above, like a giant bully in the sky the sun stared and laughed at him.
Nelson got bullied at school today like all other days, but today was different, today while he flew for a brief moment when he got pushed off a set of stairs he had an idea.
Time seemed to move so slow it was as if gravity took a break and gave him time to think of a plan to get out of this place.
He would build a rocket that would take him to the moon and beyond!
As he lands on the tile floor, with his backpack breaking his fall, he keeps a big smile on his face.
When he got home, he ran upstairs to his room, swiped his desk clean in one motion and threw down some paper and started drawing some blueprints for his spacecraft.
After completing his design he marked the last day of school on his calendar and promised himself he would take off on the first day of summer.
After dinner he went into the backyard and opened up the small shed next to the back porch and began to collect materials and tools he’d need to build his rocket.
Nelson was a quite boy and his parents knew nothing about him, and they were too busy arguing with each other to even go see what he was up too.
He worked until his small limbs ached to the bone and blisters popped up in the palm of his hands like daisies in a field.
It took him a couple of weeks to finish all the parts, and had collected fuel from numerous places, which he stored in empty soda bottles in the shed.
Things were heating up at home and at night while he was lying in bed he could hear his parents fight and threatened to divorce, on those nights he snuck up onto the roof to gaze at the stars, who would never leave him.
The next day was his last day of school and after getting picked on for the last time that semester he went back to his backyard and attached all the pieces of his rocket.
When he was done with that he hoisted it up so it faced the sky and stepped back and admired his hard work.
His parents called him inside and took him into the living room, when his mother said they had to talk to him about something very serious and he saw his older sister in tears, he already knew what was going to be said, so he blocked out the world as they talked for a very long time.
He was drifting through space,waving at the satellites and seeing the most beautiful sights one could ever see, from the many planets this galaxy has to flying stars and nebulas.
The words ‘we are getting a divorce’ entered his universe he got pulled into a black hole and found himself in tears on the couch.
He was used to living in a nice family until his parents started fighting and his sister rebelled against him saying it was all his fault.
He ran upstairs and locked himself in his room and his parents tried to get him out but he refused to talk.
After the sun had set and the stars were looking back down at him, he climbed out of his window wearing the spaceman halloween costume he wore every year. And instead of going up onto the roof he climbed down into the front yard and walked around the house to where his rocket was, opened the shed as quietly as he could and picked up some of the bottles of fuel. And as he came out of the shed he heard the porch door slam shut and dropped some of the bottles, his mother heard and called out his name, Nelson is that you?
He held onto two bottles and ran to his rocket and locked himself inside.
His mother came after him and threw her just lit cigarette away, it landed right in front of the shed.
It laid there glowing until the liquid fuel he sucked out of the lawnmower with a long rubber tube, got in contact with the cigarette set the shed on fire.
His mother noticed and screamed liked crazy when the flames went over to the house.
He crawled out of his rocket and saw the enormous flames eating up their home.
His mother called the fire department on her cell and dragged him to the front of the house, she fell on her knees screaming his father’s name and calling out to his sister.
Her face was covered in tears and he hugged her tightly, his father barged out of the front door carrying his sister, fire trucks pulled up behind them.
His father had some slight burns and the paramedics took care of him, after the flames were extinguished they went to their grandmothers house for a while.
It was a small home but everyone was more at ease and during the summer his parents fell back in love as the fire
The fire did more than burn down your home, his grandmother said, it also reignited their passion.
He had no idea what she was on about, and walked outside.
His sister pushed him over and said it was all his fault.
All his fault they were a happy family again, and reached out and helped him back up again.
