Stellos 第一章：父亲们是真正的英雄(6)

Everyone started to clap, even the director of the international space commission was moved at the words I've said. But I didn’t feel proud of myself at this moment. This wasn’t a time to be happy or to feel anything. The stars became less bright today and all I can feel was a blackness swallow what little joy I had left to offer. How was a 16 year old girl to cope with the death of her father? Everyone here didn’t care about me they only came not to lose face. After everything he did, after all the blood and sweat that he poured onto the floor, they didn’t even bother checking if the craft was safe. One asshole missed a ruptured fuel line and look what happened. One of the largest malfunctions to occur since the Challenger. 16 people were on that ship. 16 mothers and fathers who will never see their kids. The mission was simple. Just orbit then return. I didn’t think he wasn’t going to come back. I thought I was going to be able to see my dad and hug him as a hero, as a dreamer who lived his dream. But sometimes life doesn’t want us to live our dreams. As I took the flag off of the podium and placed it on top of his casket, I could feel each second bring up a memory. The days he would make me pancakes, the times he would come to my aid to heal every booboo, the time he got into a fight with David Tennant at comic con( apparently Tennant told Baker to suck eggs). All those memories are the only things I have left.