Defying Gravity

“It’s not scientifically possible!” I screamed, as I plummeted into the sky. “I can’t be falling up!”

My friend, falling right alongside me, crossed her arms as her hair whipped in her face. “Clearly it is. We’ve just misunderstood gravity!”

“How did this happen?” And how as my friend being so utterly calm about it. “We’re going to suffocate! Freeze to death!” Space was flying toward us at an impossible speed.

But, as we shot past the atmosphere and into its vast expanse of planets and stars, I found I still had air in my lungs to shout. “This is a dream. It defies logic, science and every possible truth in the world!”

We were floating in space, now, which seemed a perfectly comfortable temperature.

My friend rubbed her chin in thought. “If a scientific theory as basic as gravity is proven wrong, is it still science?”

I spun mid-space to stare at her. “What?”

“I mean,” she mused. “We use science to explain the world. But what if that’s an incomplete explanation? What if there’s another way to explain the world that we haven’t even thought of. Something that can explain what’s happening to us, right now?”

“Uhhh…”

“Something beyond logic, truth, or even the supernatural.”

“I don’t know,” I said. “But can you hurry up and figure it out. I want to get back down to earth.”

“Oh, I don’t think I can figure it out. I was just…wondering.” She gave me a silly grin, hair now floating freely around her. “Looks like we have a long time to figure it out, though. Provided we don’t age or starve in space.”

Great,I thought, as we continued to float through nothingness. Just great.