Micah followed his finger and looked towards the sky.
"Wow…," she said. There was a shooting star streaking across it. "Oh, look!" There was a second one that moved across the sky in the same direction. She looked over at him, and he smiled.
"What…?"
"You look at the sky like a kid seeing it for the first time,"
"I just think it's beautiful up there. Better than fireworks. And the coolest things happen out there. Like, that right there…" Micah pointed to a bright star in the sky.
"Polaris?"
"Aka… the North Star," They both said 'the north star at the same time, and laughed. "It's 323 light years away. We're looking at light right now from 323 years ago. It's just too cool to me."
"It's like we're looking at the past in the present. It is pretty cool when you look at it that way."
