I'm back from vacation at the beach! I'm bitten and bruised and tanned and tattooed and I'm totally ready to post/write some more stories! :)

I think I was starting to go through Star Trek withdrawals while I was gone. My sister took the portable DVD player in her car so I couldn't bring my Star Trek movie to watch. :( And I might have tried to make a USS Enterprise in the sand, but I kinda failed because, even though I own like three figurines or something, I cannot for the life of me remember what that ship looks like unless I'm actually looking at it.

Uh, I don't know what to say about this story right here except that it stemmed from my listening to 'The Pina Colada Song'. Yeah, that's right. My brain somehow warped a one-hit wonder about two people who were gonna cheat on each other into a Star Trek story starring a little Spock in Iowa. I really don't know how the hell that happened.

So, um, I'm gonna post this story in 9 or 10 chapters- I can't remember- and I think it's like 4,000ish words. *shrug* Wow, it's sad that I know next to nothing about a story I wrote only two weeks ago. Erm, I'll have more of this up tomorrow- or today- or whatever... (dang, it's late! I should probably go to bed... or write something)

Earth was much different from Vulcan, Spock reflected looking up at the sky.

Since his father's stationing on this planet 3.32 weeks ago, Spock had been noting the similarities and differences between Earth and his home planet.

The first difference Spock noticed upon arriving on Earth was its color. It was so blue. Which was logical, Spock thought, since oceans covered most of the planet. He noticed it when they had first approached Earth in their shuttle. That Earth was mostly cerulean with smears of green and white painted over it.

But the sky was so blue too.

His father, the Vulcan ambassador to Earth, was requested to help out with Starfleet's new starship computer programming. His father had agreed, stating it was logical to lend assistance given that he had attended the Vulcan Science Academy and could therefore provide useful knowledge to Starfleet's endeavors.

So Spock and his parents were currently residing in the town that harbored Starfleet's shipyard. Riverside, Iowa.

And the sky in Iowa- it was blue, too. It stretched from one end of the horizon to the other in an expanse of sapphire.

During the day, the sun beat down from the sky. This was one of the things on Earth that reminded Spock of Vulcan.

On Vulcan, the red hot sun would bear down on the planet, covering the surface in heated light.

Which in turn, reminded Spock of Earth and Vulcan's differences.

Vulcan was hot. Logical, thought Spock, as Vulcan was primarily a desert planet. Earth was not. Earth was cool and breezy, even under the yellow sun during the day.

Earth was blue.

Vulcan was the opposite. It was red- red sands, red skies. The red glint of the sun reflecting off the steel buildings. The redish clouds that floated through the night sky.

But Vulcan had no moon. That was another difference between his home planet and Earth, Spock thought, still looking at the sky.

Earth's moon was big and bright, hanging in the sky at night, though sometimes Spock could see it during the day. In Earth's blue sky.

But Spock's favorite thing about Earth- the thing that reminded him most of his home, the thing that made it easier to be on this alien planet- was the stars.

The stars. The same stars that Spock would see in the sky on Vulcan and the same stars that Spock was staring at now. The stars littered Iowa's black night sky and twinkled down on this blue planet and Spock knew that a little over sixteen light years away they were shining down on a different planet- a red planet.

Maybe, Spock would think every time he stared at the stars, Earth and Vulcan weren't that different after all.