– People cannot fly among the stars. The stars are too distant. Human life is not enough to reach them and return.
– I will invent an engine for a spaceship, able to overcome the Time and Space, – positively answered the boy, – and will break through this enormous distance in a couple of months or years.
Seeing her wary look, he declared: I have already started my work. Just wait: after I graduate school and university, I will work for a research and development center, and surely will success with my invention.
Being silent for a while, he asked:
– Do you believe me?
– Certainly, – she answered without hesitation. – You know, I also often dream about something before going to bed. I just lie with my eyes closed and fantasize. Sometimes things I think about come true. That’s very odd!
– And do you dream about future?
– I do indeed. Actually, a particular image of the future comes to my mind more often than not. A déjà vu! – She curtsied in an old-fashioned way. – Just imagine – I’m an actress. I am standing on a stage, a performance is over, audience is giving me a big hand, and I am bowing my thanks, I’m delighted, not about the happening, but because I know that my affectionate husband and children are waiting for me back home.
Her last words came out in almost an embarrassed whisper, but the boy perceived her. He stood up and ceremoniously bowed unto her, asking to dance, like a knight in old movies he was fond of watching.
– I dream as well, about my coming back home from space, where my wife and children await for me. – He said it when the girl put her arm onto his shoulder, and her ear was near his lips.
They waltzed around the campfire, lighted by the stars and the trembling tongues of flame.
– A wife? – Indifferently asked the girl – and what is she going to be like?
– She will be just like you.
– Similar to me?
– Absolutely.
– But how could it be? – She shrugged, – it is impossible! I am the one and the only.
– A-ha! It’s simple, – he took her game seriously and answered without any smile, – don’t you get it? You will be my wife!
The girl tried to pretend that she was surprised, but nothing came out of it – she didn’t have much acting experience in the end.
– Are you absolutely sure? – She asked archly.
– We’re going to marry one day, – he stated with decision, – and you will give birth to our son.
They were dancing in silence, accompanied by a soft wash of waves, happy and switched off from the whole world, as it can only be in one’s young love.
– And our son will play with that necklace you bring me from Proxima Centaura, – the girl whispered like if she was daydreaming.