Night time in the neighborhood. The ranch wasn't around from prior dreams. There were lots of people milling around in the streets or cruising around in their cars. So I got drunk at random houses. Each house along Weber had some manner of party going on whether it was just standing around talking or something wild. Part of the reason why I wasn't home stemmed from an anxiety something horrible was happening in my apartment.

My father showed up in a convertible. He was looking a little younger. The sky brightened briefly then faded back to night. He waved for me to join him. We drove through the neighborhood. I kept seeing Jupiter shining brightly to the south.

His destination was a four story home with an outside stairway to the attic apartment. Dad met with a bunch of people I didn't know but he was intimately familiar with them. Before I knew it, they were charging up the stairs like kids being let out of school at the end of June. I got out of the car and flopped down on the grass to watch the stars and the sky.

This scrawny, black-haired girl lays down on the grass to my left. She was beyond the drowned adolescent cat look for being scrawny but she wasn't near being an Ethiopian. Must be something about being thin because her eyes looked very large. Not anime/mange large. I broke the silence and started telling her about how one could test eyesight with Jupiter. Ganymede is the only other natural satellite that is visible from the Earth. On a good, dark night away from city lights if one has good eyesight then Ganymede is easy to spot. Next I rambled on about Regulus. Regulus is a star in Leo that's spinning so fast that it's egg shaped. Plus Regulus is a binary system. Leo can be found in the early spring sky, just look for the backwards question mark.

Scrawny grabs the turf like it's a blanket and leans in so her nose is right up against mine, "Astronomy gets me so fucking wet."