Stratus
Everyone in the room was running and shouting. The young man left the room and headed down the hallway to escape from this chaos. He took a candy bar from the snack machine in the hallway.
Stratus sat down on the bench near the snack machine to eat his candy bar and began eating it while looking at something on his phone.When some of his long black hair fell onto his face, he combed it gently behind his ear.
"Hmm," he sighed with a troubled expression as he looked at the news on his phone.
Great scientists and astronomers were claiming that there was still life somewhere in space and nine month ago it was confirmed. And this planet comes to the solar system, which includes our world, once every One thousand nine hundred years and leaves without being affected by the magnetic pull of the sun.
But this information has thrown the whole world into chaos. Countries have strengthened their military positions, people were terrified, politicians were blinded by fear, everyone became a slave to fear, a space exploration company became the beacon of hope for humanity.
SIDST
According to this big company, they are planning to send a manned rocket into space and they will send their best-trained and most successful astronauts to this planet where life is claimed to exist. They also informed these astronauts that they would be provided with the necessary equipment to protect themselves, and they made everything ready within nine months.
His thoughts are interrupted by a very tall, muscular man to the left of the bench he's sitting on.Despite his large stature, he had a sweet, friendly face.
Stratus looks at him as if to say, "What?", but the stranger just stands there, staring at Stratus.
Stratus ignores the stranger and continues eating his candy bar without looking at him.
The stranger looks at Stratus for a moment as if he wants to say something, but he can only let out a shaky breath. Finally, the strange man sits down next to Stratus.
"Hello," the stranger says shyly, but Stratus doesn't even answer him and continues to look at his phone, which seems to upset the stranger a little.
The stranger man was playing with his fingers, he continued talking after a while.
"I-I am Cumulus."
"Stratus," he replies shortly.
Stratus waits for the stranger to leave, but when he sees that he does not leave, Stratus begins to speak.
"Is there something you want to talk to me about-" Stratus couldn't finish his sentence when he saw the strange man smiling at his in a very sweet and sincere way.
He didn't know why, but this man was a little interesting. The stranger answered his question while maintaining his sweet smile.
"We're on the same flight team, right? I wanted to get to know my teammates before the rocket took off. Oh! And I'm Cumulus."
"I heard it when you first said your name."
"Oh! "I'm sorry, I thought you didn't hear me."
"Cumulus..."
"Yes?"
"You have a beautiful name."
"Thank you."
That's how we first met. Haha I still can't forget how sweet he was that day. The way his cheeks turn red when he's embarrassed to speak, the way he plays with his hands, and the curly orange grains that fall into his eyes when he bends his head to hide his face...
But neither of us knew when we got on that rocket that everything would be destroyed. That rocket took us to a place that would be both our heaven and our hell.