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There wasn´t an exam, there wasn´t a brother, there wasn´t a cruel friend, nor family, nothing....just a cold fierce inmense empty sapce right in front of her eyes. She was about to make her dreams come true. Anxiety had taken its toll. All the memories, all she went through to get there passed over her mind in a second long glimpse of her entire past. But the time for her had come. Now she had to face the fear, the unknown feeling. Become the first woman doing that....So she took a deep breath, let it all go and....jump

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But there it was, the moon again, looking intently at her.... She wished it would stopped staring at her. And she started to wonder....

I'd really like to travell that far and check by myself what is so intriguing that catches all my attention....I should do it.... I have to do it.... I want to become an astronaut! Wouldn't it be great to go up there and be close to the stars and grandma?

So she resolved to study science hard and pass her exams. After that the road wouldn't be easy. She still had to go to university, pass her exams with flying colours and apply to NASA. No, it wasn't a piece of cake, but now that she knew what she really wanted, she resolved to get her goal

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Pics of the space shuttle and whatnot. I can not take credit for the pic @ 1:35 or any of them. They were actually found through a google search.

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Pauline wondered how she could have never liked Science before. It was much nicer to see the stars in real life than in her books. Some of the boring lessons she had attended at high school came to her memory: suns, moons, stars and planets. Not only that. She though of atoms. Everything had atoms, was she right? So she had so much in common with those distant and long ago disappeared stars she was now staring at. And wasn't that just magical? Even more magical than all the weird dreams she had had along that long night. Her brother Terry mumbled something on his dreams. She looked at him with a new feeling: he was not only his brother. They shared so many things with the rest of the universe... "Ok, focus", she said to herself. And she straight up on her chair to go on studying for her upcoming exams...

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Why are you wearing your pyjamas? asked her father.

-It´s Wednesday and you have to pass your Science exam.

-Pauline, what´s the matter ?Are you ok?.

She was quiet a while. She didn´t know the answer. She couldn´t remember anything.

-Wait a minute, Daddy!

She decided go up to her room and dress up.

When she returned her father had disappeared.

She began to cry......

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-"Come on in, sweety! " Her father called from the car.

Pauline rushed at the sound of her father's voice, heart pounding so fast inside her chest. At last something that seemed familiar and safe.

Why did her feet feel so cold? She stopped for a second, her little hand holding the car door. She looked down and could only gape when she saw she was barefoot.

-"Pauline, let's go, your mother can't wait to see you"

Trying to ignore all the questions in her head, she jumped in the front seat of the car.

Only then she realized she was wearing her bees and teddy bears pyjamas....

Image: Barefoot in Paris , by four12. This image is licensed under C.C https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/

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Lorena Cano

And suddenly, she woke up again!

“Oh, no! Another swoon…”

She was sweating and she didn’t feel very well. She just wanted this terrible day to finish.

“What do all those dreams mean?” She thought...

But all her thoughts were interrupted by the principal’s words.

“Pauline, it seems it’s been a long day for you; you’d better go to the hospital and have a check-up. Your teacher will phone you tomorrow to talk about the exam.”

She was there, in the hall, waiting for her father to pick her up and go to hospital. Finally he appeared in his white car.

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Natalia Grova Morodo

Allmade sense now. This was my destiny. I had known since grandma feel ill and nobody seemed able to help her. She has a rae desease, we're sorry there is nothing we can do for her. But I couldn't believe it! They were not eaven going to try to svae my grandma.

Doctor, i think you cure for cancer is ready to be tested on humans. Pauline are you listening everything is ready to begin.

But I'm not sure this is ready. Don't worry i'm sure nothing will go wrong.

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Suddenly, I saw myself wearing a lab coat, latex gloves, and carrying some tubes with some unfamiliar liquids in them. “What am I doing with these clothes and these instruments? What is going on?”, I wondered. A man in his thirties came towards me and asked me, “Dr. Pauline, what is the next step in our experiment?”. I was confused. “Is he talking to me? why? who is he?”, I thought.

Surprisingly, I was able to explain to all the information he requested. I felt strange; I thought I didn’t know anything related to Science. However, the man seemed to be satisfied with my answer. “Am I a scientist?”, I wondered.

Seconds later, I realized what was going on…
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And then a far soft and familiar voice brought her back from that nightmare (or had it been a travel?). Pauline felt thousands of insects boozing in her ears. Her mouth was craving for a drop of water and she felt like a hammer had smashed her forehead. The darkness gave way to a blurring face and a some blinkings later a well known (and nervous) smile appeared.

- Darling, are you OK?, Miss Williams said. She explained to Pauline Mr Atkinson and some peers had taken her to the principal's after she fainted during the Science exam. She had been unconscious for a short while and murmuring nervously intelligible words, miss Williams explained while getting off the wet cloth from Pauline's forehead.

- Don't worry honey. Everything is going to be...

And darkness returned again....

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Then a girl came into the room, she was sad, disheveled, with old clothes and holding a tray. - Come on girl! Hurry up! We're thirsty! - A man shouted. But, wait, who's that girl? I know her... yes... is... is it me?? What?? The girl whispers something : I should had studied hard, I don't like this work... I always wanted to be a teacher...  But, where am I? what's that? Is this my future? Where's the girl or me? Where is she going? I'm going to follow her, I want to know more about my future...

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The first thing she saw when she opened her eyes was nothing, then darkness, cold and heartless obscurity. She only remembered there was some kind of accident. To everyone's astonishment, her eyes clouded over. As best they could. As for what happened to her, she just can't remember.

-“ How strange! Where am I? Judging by the clothes, this must be the 1900. Where are they rushing off to? What if we are denied entry? I've never been so frightened. Remember, the girl in white is mine. Where are you going? It's cold! Close the doors. Quickly! Quickly! Keep moving. Those officers don't know the way. Can it be that I'm invisible? Or do they just not notice me? Interesting. Has all this been staged for me? Am I expected to play a role? What kind of play is this? Let's hope it's not a tragedy. Which way do we go? Which way do we go? Maybe this way. No. We'll go this way. That man in black, he's wandering about too. He nods to me, but goes away...”
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When Caroline turned back with the glass of water, Pauline told her: “You servant, I know what you can do for me”. Pauline’s face showed a total feeling of malicious happiness and Caroline understood right
away Pauline was going to make her pay for all the horrible things she had done to her. Caroline panicked. “To start with”, Pauline said, “I want you to sit my Science exam. You and I look alike so the teacher won’t realize”. Caroline started to sweat and tremble with fear. Pauline continued: “You have twenty minutes to learn everything by heart as the exam will start in thirty minutes. You’d better pass my Science exam because if you fail…

Picture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Raja_Ravi_Varma,_Pleasing.jpg

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she could not find her cheat sheet. It was not in her pencil case, not in her pockets, not in her sleeves... The teacher was starting to look at her suspiciously. She realised she was moving too much. She started sweating and her whole body was itching. She needed a miracle. Maybe the fire alarm...Maybe she could pretend she was ill, she was not feeling ok, she was feeling a little bit dizzy...

-Boom!-her head hit the floor. She did not remember that the high school floor was so hard...and cold like stone. Stone? Why was the floor made of stone? Where was she?

She lifted her head and she felt her grandmother caress. She was wearing strange clothes and a crown. Someone said:"is she ok, Queen Mother?". She opened her eyes and she saw her enemy, Caroline, dressed like a servant in the middle ages would. She had just said "Queen Mother", hadn't she? "I think she's coming back"-her grandmothers tender voice said. "Grandma?" said Pauline. "Yes, Princess Pauline, here I am. But remember that now you are 18 , and you are old enough to call me "Queen Mother". "Yes, grandm...errr Queen Mother" said Pauline. Princess? Princess...Princess at last!!!

"May I be of any assistance, Your highness?"-asked the "Caroline" servant girl.

A malevolent grim appeared in Pauline's face while she answer: "Yes, bring me a glass of water and in the meantime I will think how you may help me".

Image : Frank Cadogan Cowper - Vanity By:freeparking :-|

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Suddenly, Pauline stopped dreaming and said to herself:

-Pauline! You are too old to spend your time dreaming. It is too late to prepare your Science exam... It is clear that what you need is to prepare a cheat sheet!

She prepared it carefully. ‘I am sure that everything is going to be all right’ she thought.

Then, she took a shower, she had her breakfast and she walked to the high school.
The exam started. Paulina were ready to answer all the questions but...

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University, the uni, ... again she started to dream. She knew next year could mean a time full of wonderful chances and new experiences. She really wanted to get older and leave behind that small and boring town where she  had been living all her life. She had been said those years at the uni were the best ones in anybody's life. Pauline had always been an excellent student, getting high marks at school, except in Science. However, she needed to change something in her life and university would mean the key to meet new friends, to live on her own and get rid of her annoying brother, Terry. What's more, she could stop standing Caroline - her worst nightmare at school in the last two years-.

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Paula Puerto

... but she didn't listen because she was staring at the stars and she was remembering the story her mother always told her when she a child. When a very dear relative died, part of him stayed in the sky looking at us and guiding us in our lifes.  She remembered her granny, she had died one year ago and she missed her a lot because she was the only person who knew when she was depressed.

Suddenly, she could hear her granny’s voice from the bottom of his heart saying ‘Pauline, you need to pass the exams! I’ll always be near you, loving you. You can talk to me whenever you want, but right now, you need to study to go to university’.

And Pauline…

Picture from: http://latidosdepiedra.blogspot.com.es/2009_02_01_archive.html

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She stared at him, waiting for him to go. But nothing seemed to change. He was still looking at her with that annoyingly conceited look on his face.

'Ehem', he said, 'Perhaps we could have some more light and discuss it for a minute? You are in a cave up here. Are you still studying?'

'No', was the curt reply.

Paulina felt distinctly umcomfortable. She knew that Terry was clearly satisfied to render her speechless . She was eager to know what happened but she was not going to budge an inch. Terry was too proud for that.

'Well, well. Don't you wanna know?', Terry continued...

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And suddenly the door opened and there he was, her great nightmare, her brother Terry staring at her with his deep blue eyes and with a grin of pleasure that he couldn't take off his face... -"What the hell are you doing here Terry?" Paulina was really mad, her brother was the last person she wanted to see at that moment. Terry was a handsome youth of 17 who always was fighting and competing with her. - "And you? You should be studing... or do you Know your exams yet? -"That's not of your business Terry" Could you please get out of my room and leave me alone?

- "Oh my sweet little sister, believe me if I say that nothing would be better, but I'm afraid that we have a problem..."

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Suddenly Paulina woke up feeling dizzy and exhausted, she realized she had fallen asleep and she hadn’t even opened her Science book, the exams were close and she wasn’t ready for them.

She was going to take her book when the telescope attracted her attention, something about it was different, and she couldn’t work out what. She walked to it and grabbed it with both hands and just, out of the blue, a sparkling light appeared… it was a shooting star!!! Paulina couldn’t lose the opportunity to ask for a wish, she had a very clear idea about what she wanted: ‘I wish I were a
princess so I wouldn’t have to study and I could party everyday’.

Image by halfrain in Flickr. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

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Jose Mª Collazo

She sat down again in front of the telescope. She laid forward putting all her weight on to her right hand and she was asleep. She did not dream of  her exams but instead of the moon. She saw herself as Bella playing her part in The Twilight Saga, falling in love with vampire Edward, a teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love, and forced to choose between her attraction for the vampire and her friendship with the werewolf.  It was her 18th birthday and accidentally she cuts herself. Soon, She was surrounded by some bloodshot eyes  who saw her as something edible. .. For God's sake! She wanted to wake up...

Image: Vampyra, by Kasper Jorgensen. The image is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License 3.0

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Pauline had never worked out whether it was better to wear glasses to look through the telescope or not. First she tried with glasses. She couldn’t see much. Then she took her glasses off and tried again. I took her a while to realise she hadn’t taken the telescope lid off. Once she sorted that out, she put her glasses back on, her head before the telescope, closed her right eye, and through her left one, she felt a light so intense that made her jump back to her unmade bed. She blinked her eyes several times before standing up and walking towards the window, where the telescope waited in silence.

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Diego Arévalo

Her brother, Terry, was sleeping. He had had a week full of exams and he was very tired.

It was Saturday night and Pauline's friends were at the bar. But she had to study because she had failed her Science and Geography exams. She was 18 years old and her next step was going to the university.

Pauline was bored because she didn't like Science. But she was looking through her bedroom window and started to imagine a similar world there, in the moon. So she opened an old box to get a telescope. It had been a present for her 14th birthday. She hadn't used it before, but now she wanted to see the stars nearly. Suddenly, she liked a part of Science subject.

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The story starts here!

It was getting dark, and hundreds of beautiful stars were sparkling high above, just like flickering candles. A shy moon was trying to elbow her brightening way among all of them. Pauline, wearing her bees and teddy bears pyjamas, was looking through her bedroom window.

Image: Dark side of the moon, by Chris Isherwood. The image is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License.