“I’ll think of you when I’m being whisked away from Earth on that alien spaceship for cool people.” “Will you also send thoughts and prayers while you’re busy being useless?” he asks. “Or, here’s an idea, you could stop the ship and tell them they left somebody behind.” I scrunch up my nose and nod slowly. “Yeah, about that… No offense, but I don’t want to be known as the guy who brought the loser with him to an interstellar trip.”
