Leo's being so annoying. He's not saying it right. He keeps saying "because." wrong.
" It's not "because" it's "because". "
Then everyone started talking, and they were just being annoying. Thank god I was next to my best friend! Nikki! Nicole's amazing! She's kind, sweet, smart, and basically... all the good stuff! Love her! "THREE...TWO...ONE...GRRRR..." Anyway, she seemed stressed, and that's when she blurted out "Why was am I so scared!", but luckily no one but I heard, so I decided to play along and let her know how we are mice, and we have fallen into the mousetrap. "You see," I carefully explained to her every possibility of danger. "Maybe it's because we're in a death trap!". I could see her bite her lip, to stop from laughing. Then, a huge grin escaped. You know now that I think of it, her grin looks a lot like Leo's. Hmm. I shrug it off and look outside.
I could see the Mesosphere. Hmm. I quietly hummed my favorite song while looking out. HMMMMM...Now. Feeling the heat, I could tell that we were exciting the thermosphere and entering the exosphere. Wow. We were just in the atmosphere! It took the shuttle less than two minutes to reach 10,000 kilometers above the ground.
"Everest has lifted. We are on course."
"Everest, this is Zeus at the Mission Control Base. Good job lifting. Shifting course...Now."
BRUMM. The shuttle moved to the lef-West. Sorry, not left. We-
KUTTTTTTT. What?
BEEP. BEEP.
All of us looked at each other in alarm and terror. Leo looked sleepy for a second. Wait...This is his job!
"LEO!" We all shouted at him.
"What?" He said in a very, very, very annoying way.
"I'm sorry, can you not hear this noise?"I replied in a sarcastic tone.
"I can." He made sure to match that annoying tone.
"So can you fix it?" Nikki said.
"Why me?"
"I don't know maybe because it's your field and your job!" Christopher barked.
"OK, OK. Dude, chill. I'm fixing it."
OK, first of all, Leo didn't even get up, and he already said "I'm fixing it." Second of all, look how annoying he is. Finally, he managed to take off his seatbelt, and get up to look at the problem in the control system.
"We have a system override."
"What?" Martinez exclaimed.
"Something has gotten caught in the system."
"OK. Can you fix it?" I said trying to speed up this conversation.
"Um. No. This needs to be fixed from the outside. Someone needs to EVA (Spacewalk!) and fix the antenna and point it towards the Johnson Space Center Mission Control Base in Houston. You know where that is, right?"
"Yes, Leo. We know where the state of Texas is." I said in my sarcastic tone.
"OK. You know j-just c-hecking. P-Protocol."
"Sure Leo. Let's call it that." Christopher said in his British accent.
And no. We did not die in a bomb blast, and then aliens did not come in weird rockets. Man...How did Leo get hired to be an astronaut? God.