– But how could it be? – She shrugged, – it is impossible! I am the one and the only. – A wife? – Indifferently asked the girl – and what is she going to be like? They waltzed around the campfire, lighted by the stars and the trembling tongues of flame. – 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. He stood up and ceremoniously bowed unto her, asking to dance, like a knight in old movies he was fond of watching. Her last words came out in almost an embarrassed whisper, but the boy perceived her. 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. A dеj? vu! – She curtsied in an old-fashioned way. – Just imagine – I’m an actress. Actually, a particular image of the future comes to my mind more often than not. Sometimes things I think about come true. I just lie with my eyes closed and fantasize. – Certainly, – she answered without hesitation. – You know, I also often dream about something before going to bed. Just wait: after I graduate school and university, I will work for a research and development center, and surely will success with my invention. Seeing her wary look, he declared: I have already started my work. – 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. Human life is not enough to reach them and return. But more importantly, you will be able to handle and wear it.Īlas, the girl wasn’t as cheerful as he expected, and objected: I will fish out some pearls, and, when I come back, I will craft a necklace for you, more beautiful that the stellar one.
I mean, one of the planets of the Solar System.
– You know what? One day I am going to visit this star. He noticed her became sullen, but he had no clue why, so he took her hand and said anxiously as if he was about to unfold a secret kept hidden just for that moment: She was afraid of the distances the boy talked about in a laid-back manner, as if the stars were situated in a suburbs of their home city, being easy to reach. – It is just under nine light years far away from our planet. The name of this star is translated as “scorching”.Īnswering the girl’s tacit question, he said without hesitation: – Sirius, – the boy replied, followed her gaze, – It is from Canis Major constellation. – Is there any star that is closer than those you mentioned, Dima? – Asked the girl, as if it was only up to her vis-a-vis to decide, – this, the brightest of them all, what is its name? – But Deneb from Cygnus constellation is one thousand five hundred light years far away, – the boy returned with a bit tolerant smile. – Now that’s really far away! – The girl shivered, as if she got cold, – and long enough! If you fly a spaceship at full-bore speed of light, you will reach it in thirty-four standard years. For you to imagine – this is two hundred seventy thousand times more than the distance between the Earth and the Sun. – He draw an invisible line with his finger. – And this is Arcturus from Bo?tes constellation. – Each one of those in the necklace has its name, – the boy pointed at one of the stars. – Here’s Proxima Centaura! The closest star to the Earth, it is situated four hundred light years beyond. – And I think they are like pearls in a necklace, – said the girl, being silent for a while,– in the most beautiful of all necklaces that one can imagine. – Just look at the stars, Nastya! It seems that they are dancing flamenco, – said the boy pointing at the sky, – they are just like you! They were talking, almost whispering, as if they were afraid of being heard, or shatter the loveliness of surrounding night. There were two of them, a boy and a girl between two big rocks, by the campfire lit on the seaside. The darkened sky was abundantly dotted with glimmering stars. Summer was at its end, and after the big crimson sun sunk in the sea, the weather became autumn-like chilly. One should just trust himself and love as do the characters of the story “Life is Boundless” by Vadim Kucherenko. However, they can not imagine their lives without each other, which means that someone has to give way and sacrifice his dream – and to become unhappy… But, maybe things are not so hopeless, as they might seem? Life is much wiser than we think of it in our youth. He dreams of being an astronaut, a conqueror of distant star worlds, whilst she wants to be an actress and dreams to conquer the spectators by her acting on the stage.