Infinite

Infinite

          December 12, 2012. 5:04 PM. My phone went ringing. It blasted of All Time Low’s Somewhere in Neverland.

“Hello? Yeah, speaking. Who’s this? Oh really? How did you know that? Where and when? Okay, see you!”

 

Wonder who called? I don’t know if you’ll believe me but it’s Galileo Galilei. Haha, I’m funny right? Too bad, I’m not joking. This is what he said.

“Hello. May I speak to Airah? Oh this id Galileo Galilei. You can call me Gale. I’m not kidding. I really am Galileo and I know that you’re thinking that I copied Hans Lippershey’s work. Oh it’s getting tired. I’ve told. It’s because I’m Galileo. By the way, can you meet me tomorrow afternoon? I just want to hang out with the new generation. I want to feel young again. I know you have questions for me. Meet me at Mines View Park at Baguio. Could you make it? Okay then, see you too.”

Would you believe it? I have a date with “Gale” tomorrow.

So here I am in Mines View Park, looking for a guy that might be a figment of my imagination or a prankster. Just then, a teen guy approached me. “Are you Airah?” he said and I nodded. “I’m Gale, Galileo Galilei”. I analyzed his face and realized that he is a younger version of the Galileo’s I’ve seen in pictures or portraits. “Oh, hi, nice meeting you.”

 We sat there at the park and ate some junk foods. He really liked them because they’re new to him. I started interrogating him. I asked him if he really copied Lippershey’s work, the telescope. He said that he didn’t. It was really his idea and he didn’t know that Lippershey had already done it. And besides, Gale is still the first one who used it to view the celestial bodies.

We talked about random things then until it got dark. He brought out a telescope and we gazed at the stars. They are really beautiful. I asked him how he felt when he first saw the stars in his telescope but he didn’t answer. I was able to locate only one constellation, the Orion, and one star, Alnilam which is the middle star in Orion’s belt. He laughed and taught me about the constellations and stars. He also told me about the myths about those. I felt like it was the most magical and wonderful night of my life.

Gale drove me home in his black and electric blue Lamborghini Gallardo. He opened the car door for me and walked me to our doorstep. Before he left he said the when he first saw the stars up close “I felt infinite”.