Origins 2
30 Aug 2019Marlfan1
Dad did eventually sell, including the type 6. We stayed in Caleta with Dad joining the Federal Navy and Mom taking a teaching job in the station's school system. With his experience flying cargo runs of produce in the family Type 6 Dad became a transport pilot for the Navy. Mom started teaching the 6 yr olds and loved it.After years of flying for the Navy, Dad applied for and was accepted to the Federal Law Enforcement Academy and eventually became an Investigator with the Federal Criminal Investigations Bureau. Mom turned down several offers for promotion into the administration side of the school system, she refused to leave her "babies" as she called them even after giving birth to my two brothers and little sister. Mom is gone now, passing quietly and quite unexpectedly in her sleep at the age of a young 60.
You've probably noticed an oddity with my name, Marlfan1. My dad is Marlfan, and I am Marlfan1. If I had decided to saddle my first-born son with my name, he would have been Marlfan2. The tradition started with my ancient family back on Earth, with it being Marlfan, Marlfan, Jr, Marlfan III, etc. Somehow it morphed over the centuries into it's present iteration.
Because of the attack on our colony, and being too young to really process everything, loud, sudden noises tend to scare the daylights out of me. As a boy I would jump and cringe and wet myself to the amusement of the kids around me. It lasted even into High School until, finally, after the upteen millionth time, when I was a sophomore, a senior did it to amuse some of his jock buddies in the hall between classes. As expected, I jumped, whimpered, and wet myself, but unexpectedly, instead of cringing on the floor, I spun around and punched him in the face. Repeatedly. Until I was pulled off of him by school security. He wasn't laughing as he picked his teeth up from the floor. After the third time of this occuring, folks learned it wasn't as much fun as it used to be. Yes, I still jumped, I still whimpered, I still wet myself, but you weren't going to find the next part very funny.