text: There is something about those extracurricular lectures we get on campus that I can't explain. They are surprisingly interesting, but even after hearing the most engaging and passionate speaker in the world I often think to myself... Well, nothing. I lack curiosity by default. I stare at the road and avoid scenic routes. I cut to the chase. It's such a pet peeve to my friends that most of them call me "Missi-skippy Queen". Well guess what, this royal family is tiny. Whoever said first that opposites attract was in my humble opinion the greatest genius in history, because no other person can explain why out of the hundreds of people on campus I befriended *Cathy.* Cathy approached the guest lecturer and asked him a couple of questions about the topic. I didn't pay much attention in the latter half of the lecture and I wasn't going to start now, but judging by Cathy's questions it was a series of seemingly unrelated topics. The lecture was about Ancient Egypt and her first questions seemed about some materials they used so make gates or something, so it made sense, but then it sounded like they slowly shifted to astrology and other things she likes to talk about. Nothing new to me, she would even gossip about movies with the president if she could. She turned to me excited when they finished the chat, so I gave her the usual "How was it?". "You'll see". Her usual. You probably see by now that if I lack curiosity, Cathy is everything but. Needless to say she is the one who started the first conversation we had back in middle school, she always asks many questions in class, she likes going out to that open field not too far away with whoever she knows well enough to invite, and I don't even want to start talking about men. What bugs me the most about her though is that her curiosity got her nowhere in life and she just won't listen to me as I tell her to change. She's the prettiest girl to ever have her heart broken this many times, and she always finds interest in the most absurd things in exchange to barely passing at school. She improved but she keeps repeating the same mistakes and nothing about that trait will benefit her in life because she just can't put it to good use. A couple of days later, she called me at night and asked some weird things I had no idea about. "Everything but next week's exam, the usual, Cat?" I asked her, knowing that she cleaned her dorm twice today. A week passed. The exam went... How can I say it, do you know those times when you feel after an exam like you either aced it or failed it entirely? Yeah, that. Exams were the only exception to Cathy's overflowing curiosity; she never talks about exams until the grades are published. Instead of talking about it, she just invited me to come to that open field with her. I didn't mind, my mind was blown from the exam, so why not? Either way, we got to the usual spot with one of our guy friends when she suddenly pulled out a book and a telescope. That's a first. "There's always a first time", she humored me. Did I think that out loud? "Even for stargazing, apparently?", our friend said half-sarcastically. "You'll see". "How does that even make sense?" I complained, She just grinned in response, barely said anything. Our friend went for a minute to have a short call, and I heard Cathy murmur; "a bit above Virgo...". So this is what we're here for? To see the zodiac constellations? "And.... Here!" She said with a hopeful glance on her face. What happened next was the most bizarre thing I have never seen before. A diverging light slowly left the telescope to view an image of gates, with the title "Coma Berenices" above them, and a staircase was going down from them to the ground. Cathy started walking up the stairs, turned to me, and smiled.