Marsiana 2-5
CHAPTER 5
The next day Marsiana went to school. She did not wait for when Billy comes to her and went to school as early as six in the morning. Marsiana liked school and she quickly found her classroom and became look forward to the first lesson. Many children already knew the Marsiana and were happy that she will study in the same class with them.
‘Why did you not wait for me?’ Billy asked with offence in his voice, sitting down beside Marsiana. ‘Simply. I wanted to come earlier. No offense, Billy.’ ‘I take no offence. Just wonder… I just dragged to you for nothing.’ Marsiana smiled and began to wait when the teacher will come. Strict Mrs. Thompson examined the children, and her gray eyes stopped on Marsiana. ‘So,’ Mrs. Thompson said with a satisfied tone. ‘I see we have a newcomer in our class. Children become acquainted with – it’s Marsiana Leroy. She will study with you in the same class.’ ‘We know her!’ Marsiana’s classmates shouted inconsistency. Mrs. Thompson more then before pursed her thin lips and went on to say: ‘Your new classmate came to us from another city, and I hope that she will like it in our school. She's an orphan...’ Marsiana rose from her sits. Billy tried to stop her, but she pushed him away. ‘I'm not an orphan!’ Marsiana said loudly. Mrs. Thompson paused for a moment, and then smiled unpleasantly. ‘To tell lie to your teacher and your classmates are not good. Do not you know? In the city we all know that you do not have parents.’ ‘I'm not an orphan,’ Marsiana stubbornly repeated. ‘My Dad Max is very far away now but my mother is goddess!’ Marsiana exclaimed. Some of the children giggled. Mrs. Thompson turned pale. ‘Marsiana – It's not funny. Sit down at your place,’ she said. ‘Do not believe me? Look!’ Suddenly, classroom, school, all somehow disappeared, and Marsiana’s classmates with the teacher in someway got on the Moon near the sarcophagus, in which was Jennifer. ‘That's my mom!’ Marsiana said solemnly said, pointing to the coffin. ‘My mother is goodness and she is on the Moon. She sees everything, and will punish anyone who offends me.’ Mrs. Thompson gasped and fainted. The frightened children huddled together in fright and looked around. Only Billy kept his head cold. ‘This is a dream!’ he shouted. ‘This is a dream. It did Marsiana. She often does. Do not be afraid now you wake up and find yourself in school. This is a dream. Dream!’ Billy repeated, running around the cordoned off his friends. Marsiana ignoring the frightened children, and laying unconscious on the moon’s sand teacher approached the sarcophagus of Jennifer. ‘Mommy. My mom,’ she said softly, stroking the face of Jennifer. ‘Evil and bad teacher says I'm an orphan. But I'm not an orphan. My dad is Max, and you –my mother Jenny. I told her so, but she called me a liar. Imagine mom Jenny your favorite and the best in the whole world daughter called the liar. I had to bring them all to the Moon, so they can see with their own eyes that I say true,’ Marsiana a little more whispering with her mother and returned to the children. ‘It’s Moon. And this is my mom. Everything is clear for all of you?’ she carefully looked at the frightened children. To her came Christi, took her hand. ‘Do not take offense at them, Marsiana. They are in no way to blame.’ ‘I know. But let everyone see that I am telling the truth.’ ‘You’ll bring back all of them ... all of us back home. Billy says it's a dream, but I know it is not a dream. We really are now on the Moon. I do not know how you do it, but I believe you.’ Marsiana was silent. She wanted that Mrs. Thompson came to life again and lost it when she saw that she was not in class, where everything familiar to her, and she was accustomed to command, and still in a strange world of her. But Mrs. Thompson was lying and did not move. ‘I’ll think about it,’ Marsiana said. At this point over the area where the sarcophagus was placed and was the new classmates of Marsiana was flying a spaceship, which was carrying the five astronauts. The astronauts were fulfilling their mission for the mapping of the moon’s surface. ‘I see mountains,’ one of astronauts reported to NASA. ‘Mountains, plains… Again mountains. Plateau. Sea ... Children ... Children!!!’ astronaut shouted, glaring out the window of space craft. ‘Sir!’ like mad, he shouted, referring to the spacecraft’s commander. ‘On the Moon kids!’ ‘Kids? What kids, Johnson? What's wrong with you?’ ‘Down children, sir,’ not appeased astronaut Johnson. ‘See for yourself.’ All crew members stuck to the monitors. ‘Hacker attack!’ one of the crew members exclaimed. ‘There can not be any children. We see them only on computer monitors. In fact, there is no one down there.’ His friend argued: ‘You are wrong, Alex. Additional surveillance system confirms the readings; on the surface of the Moon really are children.’ ‘But that's impossible,’ said an expert on engines. ‘This is a Moon’s mirage, or generation of space,’ he paused for a moment and said in a trembling whisper. ‘Or the aliens turned into people.’ The commander immediately got sweated by the stress. Image with children immediately was sent to NASA specialists. A few minutes later came the answer. NASA researchers recommended keep studying the unknown phenomena. If there is any threat to the earth’s ship or ship's crew they have to immediately leave the orbit of the Moon and take a course back to the Earth. While the astronauts were arguing among themselves witnesses of which phenomenon they have become, Marsiana suddenly waved to them with her hand. Then she asked Billy and Christie to do the same. ‘Sir,’ Johnson's voice was heard astonishment mixed with fear in. ‘Mirages or glitches waving his hand to us. They see us. What do we do, sir?’ The commander of the ship for the first time in his life faced with the Space hallucination or mirage did not know what to do in this situation. ‘If it's really a mirage, then it does not threaten us. We are into the orbit, and it’s down there.’ Astronauts in shock were looking at the monitors. Children continue to be kept on the Moon’s surface, and, though not all, but only two or three of them friendly and happily waved their hands. Johnson could not resist and involuntary waved back. Commander noted it. ‘What are you doing, astronaut Johnson?’ he asked sternly. Johnson was embarrassed. ‘Nothing, sir. I’m conducting an experiment. How do they react to my movements?’ ‘In my opinion they first began to wave their hands. In this light, you repeat after them, but not they you,’ said the commander of the ship. ‘And it is unlikely they will be able to see you. For them, we are only the yellow dot quickly rushing across the sky of the Moon. Unless they also have some instruments to watch us or some supernatural powers.’ ‘Better if they did have neither the one nor the other,’ Johnson said quietly, continuing to look at small children’s figures. He felt not good at that moment himself. He was gripped by the chills. The spacecraft continued meanwhile circled the Moon and soon the children had disappeared over the horizon. Not knowing what to think, the captain has questioned the need for the landing module on the Moon, as it was planned. And hardly any of the crew agrees to land on the Moon to ascertain all the circumstances. Suddenly, for the time until the people were not there on the Moon something changed. There was appeared some new cosmic phenomenon, or even hostile to people of substance. Marsiana, meanwhile, returned the children and the teacher back in class. Children remembered all unlike Mrs. Thompson clearly what happened to them, and looked at the Marsiana with wonder and amazement. Nobody even think to taunt her, or not to believe her any more. Mrs. Thompson didn’t remember at all that she traveled together with her class on the Earth's satellite. She only got a slight headache, and she was cold for some reason. She looked helplessly at the Marsiana. Why are you standing, Marsiana? Sit down.’ Marsiana sat obediently. Mrs. Thompson was intensely thinking about something. At that moment the bell rang and the first lesson of Marsiana ended. Children with the noise ran out of the class, and Mrs. Thompson sighed with relief and went for a cup of hot coffee to warm up a bit herself. Marsiana was the last who came out of the classroom.
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