My father explained to me that the way that I swim, and the way that I interact with water was unique to my Ozonian heritage. I always knew we were different but a different planet! I wasn’t prepared for that at all. As time went on, I discovered that I could control the element of water in certain ways, but I didn’t know what to do with it. Pappah had the same powers and he taught me how to start controlling them, but there were still some slip ups!

On my first date, my powers came out in full force. His name was Eric and he was a sci fi buff. We were talking about school when he suddenly held my hand and told me that he really liked me. I felt myself blushing for the first time in my life but unfortunately, I also felt my powers getting a bit out of control. Let’s just say that the date ended with a very wet boy thrown into a dumpster about half a mile outside the park!

One day, Pappah showed me pictures of my ancestral home Ozon, and I can’t even tell you how beautiful it was.  I was fascinated by how different everything looked on Ozon. Ozon was an ice planet but Pappah insists that it wasn’t cold. But he also had other pictures…pictures of what life was like on Ozon after it had been destroyed by neglect.  I could see how much it pained my father to see his home destroyed and I vowed that day to protect the Earth from the same fate by mastering my powers.

A few years passed and I was in college now. Life was better but I felt my father becoming more and more distant. He’d come back home from work, have some dinner and just stare out into the night sky for hours on end. I always knew he wanted to go back to Ozon but decided to stay on Earth for my safety. But now that I was an adult, I could feel him slipping away.

I got home from my waitressing job one day to find that Pappah had cooked my favorite food, Pasta Bolognaise. I went upstairs to his room to ask him to join me when I saw a sealed envelope on his bed. I read the first line and burst into tears…

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