"So, when are you coming back, Mark?" Zoey asked as she and her boyfriend said good-bye at the airport. She could tell that, that was a question he may not be able to answer. He sighed, "I'll try to make it back for Christmas,k?" Zoey nodded, though she didn't really want to wait nearly a year to see him again. "Okay." "good, I know it'll be quite sometime before then and I'm sorry for this." "It's alright. You've wanted to study abroad for a while now. I'm really happy for you." Mark smiled at the red head. "I'm glad to hear it., though we both know you'd rather me stay." Zoey couldn't deny that, but she just smiled back.

The call came for Mark's plane to take off. "Well, thats me," Zoey sighed "Yeah, I know...mmm." they kissed good-bye as the second call came in.

"Come on, Mark!" Called Mark's friend Mitch. "The plane will leave without you!" Mark sighed "Alright,! I'm coming!" He looked at Zoey, who nodded "I know. Go." "Thanks Zoey." "Yeah, have a great time, and be careful!" "I will. See you soon." "Bye."

Zoey watched him board the plane and watched the plane take off. She put her hand up to the glass window, and smiled as tears spilled from her eyes. "See you soon... I hope." She sighed again and walked away.

In the back of her mind a voice said something that made Zoey collapse as soon as she walked through her front door. 'Well thats the 2nd one whos left for a far off place.' Zoey gasped "Ohmigod! What did I just say to mayself!" She collapsed onto her bed.

"It's been 3 years...why am I thinking about that now!" She sighed "Simple, youmiss both Mark and...him..." Zoey wiped her eyes and laughed lightly. "Who would've thought I'd ever miss him? I sure didn't," She walked onto her apratment balcony and looked up into the stary night sky. "Hm...wonder how they're doing doing up there...ha...who am I kidding, I can't help, but wonder what my life would be like...loving you..." She shook her head. "Stop thinking that way! It'll never happen! You can't go out to space and...welll he could come here...but...ARGH! Stop it!" She left her balcony and went to have a soothing bath.

"Awww, so wonderful..." Zoey had just gotten comfy in her bath, when the phone rang. "ARGH!" She groaned, but wrapped herself in a towl and hurried to answer the phone.

"Hello?" No answer, "Hello? Who is this! Answwer me!" You look so yummy kitty cat!" The phone dropped from Zoey's hands. She looked around "Where are you!" She picked up the phone. "Oh, honey, I"m nowhere near Earth, but thanks to my all seeing mirror I can see how wet you are under that pink fuzzy towl." "You PERV!" She scolded "Let me have sometime to myself!" "Aww, but honey you can bathe, though I'll be watching every second of it." Zoey sighed. "Dren...please, just...just for an hour, okay?" "An hour?" "Let me have a single hour to myself," "Whats in it for me?" "Ha...i'll show you how I purr." Zoey thought she had literally heard Dren's jaw crash to the floor "Dren?" "An hour it is, sweets." "Thank..." "Till then." She hung up, "Ha, now back to my..." A knock came to the door. "You have got to be kidding." She peeked through the peephole and saw her boss, Elliot on the otherside. "Argh..." She silently tiptoed away. She was determined to finish her bath before an hour was up. She went back into her bathroom and into the nice hot bath water. "Hm...aw, this is heavenly."

"Zoey!" Huh? Ahhh!" Zoey screamed when Elliot appeared in her bathroom. "Zoey! I need...ow...ow...YAHHH!" Zoey threw lots of things at him. He quickly vacated the bathroom. Zoey, still angry, got dressed quickly.

"ELIIOT GRANT!!" "Sorry, I really am, but this shouldn't wait!" What? Why?" You leave for Japan's space staiton tomorrow night at 9pm." "Oh, okay...wait! WHAT!" "You're mother called the cafe looking for you, where were you by the way?" "Hm? Oh, I was at the airport." "Why?" "Mark left for England today." "Ah, I see now. Anyway, she asked me to tell you that the contest people, have annouced you the winner of their contest they had about 4, no 7 years ago." Zoey suddenly remembered.

"Oh, right! I had forgotten all about that contest!" "Hm?" "Me and my friends Mimi and Megan, we all participated in a contest 7 years ago, that was a year before you did the mew mew thing." "Hey! I told you I was..." "Nevermind, we did it as a joke. We didn't think that one of us would actually win, but...I guess now, it wasn't such a good idea..." "Hm? Why not?" "Why not? I'm a mew mew and this trip to the space station, I'd be gone for 2-3 years." "Wow...didn't know it was that long of a trip." "Hm, thats why we did the contest as a joke, neither me nor the others believed one of us would win the trip." "Yeah, well, you did, so what are you going to do?" "Well...I don't know..." "Well, whatever you do, just don't get lost out there." "Elli," "Well, you of all people have to be careful when dealing with thigs related to space..." Zoey knew what he was getting at.

"Oh, Elli, its not like I'll be running into any aliens while I'm at the station, I mean it's a space station, run by humans, military personal, at that." "True, you're right...so then are you going?" "Hm...that I don't know, I have to decide whether i'm going or not before 9pm tomorrow night, so I'll think about it tonight and all day and afternoon tomorrow." "Hm, give yourself enough time to pack in between k," "I will." "Well, see you, sorry about the bath thing," "Yeah, well, if you swear never to mention it ever again, I'l forgive you. Got it?" "Ah...course." "Good, good-night." "Yeah...you know you're turning out to be a very strange, and kind of freaky young girl." "Thanks, bye now." "Yeah, see you." Zoey shut and locked the door, and sighed. Just then the phone rang.

"Hello?" "An hour was up two hours ago, sweetie," "Ah...right, well, you see something came up..." "Yeah, so?" "Ha...there's alot I have to do between now and tomorrow night at 9 okay..." There was no sound on the other line. "Ha...well anyway...good-night." She sighed and just before she hung up the phone, she heard the words 'good-night' She smiled lightly and got ready for bed. She made sure to change under her covers, since she didn't know if she was being watched or not.

She sighed as she set a glass of water on her bed side table, "Well, should I go or not...maybe it'd be a good thing to go...ha..." She laid back in her bed, and looked up at the ceiling, "Ha...I don't know...maybe I'll know my own answer tomorrow...for now, its time to go to sleep." She yawned and closed her eyes and for the rest of the night, she slept peacefully, while on a far away planet she was watched over by a set of golden eyes.