Remea was Peter’s friend too, according to him. The young boy was really sweet — and hyper. Extremely hyper. He wasn’t allowed any sugar, and Remea feared what would happen if he ever got into a bag of candy and ate some. He would probably be able to fly. Everyone on the ISS was very kind to her, and quickly taught her how life and people worked. Remea had read up as much as she could about it on her ship, but doing things and experiencing the world was very different than simply reading about it. People were complex, with a billion feelings, and not everyone thought the way she did, so they could get hurt or angry over something she never would have meant to be insulting. Luckily, most people accepted that Remea was new to everything, and still learning. Most people. And most people meant not Captain Mendoza. She seemed to have an open hostility to Remea, and to everyone else but Peter and sometimes Jones, was simply cold and strict. So the question that kept popping up into Remea’s head was why? Why was Mendoza so angry at life? Remea had tried asking Jones, because the two officers were friends, despite Mendoza’s formal tone, but he had just smiled, shook his head, and told her that she needed to find that out for herself. The question that came after that, adding onto the why, was now how? How was Remea supposed to get Mendoza to open up to her if the older woman seemed to hate her? It was frustrating. All she had wanted was a family, a mother, but Mendoza seemed absolutely against it. Those were the thoughts running through her head as she looked nervously out the window of the spacecraft she was in,
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