"So,
we're calling you George now, huh... Interesting. But I
get it."
I blinked
at the sound of Bo's voice. But all I saw was darkness.
"Bo,
where are you?" I gasped in panic, because it felt like
I was falling.
"Abre
los ojos, dude," Bo said somewhere to my left.
I turned
but still couldn't see a thing.
"Oh
sorry. How's this?" Bo asked as he struck a match.
Yep,
there was Bo. Would have been happy to see him, too. Except
now that I could see him in the matchstick's glow, I also
saw that we were, as I had suspected, falling through the
darkness.
"Bo.
We're falling!"
"Indeed."
"But,
Bo. We have to DO SOMETHING!" I screamed.
"Yeah.
Definitely gonna splat pretty soon if you don't do something,
pronto!" Bo agreed.
"I...me?"
"Your
universe - your rules, pal," Bo shrugged.
"Hey,
that's what she said," I said.
"She's
not wrong."
"But,
what..."
"Just
do it," Bo gasped as the match burned his fingers and he
shook his hand, plunging us back into darkness.
Not
sure what I did, but I apparently must have done something,
because suddenly Bo and I were back on my old ship.
"See.
Told you. Easy as pie. Your universe. Your rules."
I did
done do it. Huh.
Bo
condescendingly patted me on the shoulder. "Now get back
to your wannabe-girlfriend and get this story moving. Or
else you're not going to get the girl. And then I'll be
stuck with you for all eternity. Neither of us wants that."
Right.
Exactly. But, well. Would that be so bad? Bo and I did have
some good adventures together.
"No
way, Dude," Bo sighed, reading my mind like he always had.
Being a figment of my imagination and all. "Go get the girl!"
I sighed
as I remembered Maya, er, not Maya, but my-uh ... soulmate's
face. Or tried to remember her face anyway, because everything
felt kind of hazy now.
"Snap
your fingers and Open your eyes," Bo said, snapping his
fingers.
I snapped
mine.
And
opened my eyes.
"Finally!
Welcome back, Georgie," OM smiled her best goddess-smile.
"Now. Let's get this party started!"
