The Martian From Mars. Chapter 1

The Martian From Mars

A story about Popcorn, Love And Interplanetary relations
By Guillermo Hinojosa-Canales.
Chapter 1

You are taking a break by the sand shores of Mars, tired but in a kind of peaceful exhaustion, a feeling of righteousness all over. Today the sand waves were extreme, those crazy Martian desert storms many miles away, produced some pretty decent surf.
As you sit at rest in your beach chair after a good practice, colorful umbrella covering you, sand surfboard next to you, just contemplating the day, a particular wind carries a wonderful fragrance straight to your nose. That aroma that has trashed some the most powerful empires on Mars history…...The smell of Popcorn.
You see, for some particularly unusual quantum circumstances, a cosmic wind bound for Jupiter ended up in Texas picking up the scent of a special kind of popcorn made by a girl named Suzy and carrying it all the way to your nose.
But this smell is not just the known fragrance….This is the anbrosia of popcorn aroma!
As you are a Martian, you know how unexplainably weak Martians become to the smell of popcorn, all your defences are gone…You must eat popcorn this instant or go mad!
This has to do with Martian biology and taste buds that make popcorn the most sought after delicacy and corn being a rare crop on Mars makes popcorn a very important good, so that the High King himself has declared that all popcorn production must be distributed equally among the entire population and at a fair price, averting in this way the devastating popcorn wars of the last century.
So intense is the desire to find this wonderful treasure that you immediately jump into your economy size interplanetary Martian car or UFO as is known on Earth, turn on the smell tracker and follow the beam.
And sure enough, you crash on landing. No relation to Sci-Fi movies where this happens all the time.
The smell tracker brought you to the source and you crashed behind the dumpster of a movie theatre at the edge of a small Texas town. The only one with a movie theatre in many miles round and the only time the movie theatre is open is on Saturday nights and the only movies they play are scary movies and is now Saturday night.
The smell takes you inside the theatre and as you enter, you see Suzy.
Now Suzy takes life easy, her only job is working at the movie theatre selling tickets, choosing the movies and making popcorn. Her boss has wanted her fired for many years because she never minds anything else, the thing is as several big city newspapers have pointed out in their editorials….“Suzy makes without a doubt the best popcorn in the world”...
And don’t worry about her income, people come from all over for her popcorn and the scary movies and she receives lots of tip money and I mean lots!
But Suzy is not rich because she never sells all the popcorn…“If I sell it all today, I won’t have any left to sell latter” she says and this drives her boss mad as he has a store full of popcorn kernels but she only makes two batches…..No more.
Everyone thinks she is just lazy…..
So here you are, on Earth, just crashed your car, mad about the popcorn and in front of a wildly confusing girl who treats the popcorn she obviously sells with more care than you would treat yourself, and gives a big bright smile when she hands out the box full of fragrant popcorn…..but you have only Martian money.
One good thing is that communication in English is possible, something to do with a starship from Earth of Mayan registry, piloted by English speaking Vikings in their way to the Andromeda Galaxy that crash landed on Mars, but that is another story.
Another good thing is that it was Halloween so you don’t look strange, a matter of fact, Suzy liked what she saw. So the first conversation between them was two words from Suzy….“Get in!”. And then…“You are blocking the entrance”...
You are captivated by Suzy and mesmerized by her popcorn….I want to make her happy….I sort of need to…..And in Mars, her popcorn recipe will make us rich beyond our wildest dreams!
A sort of short plan starts to brew in your brain…..“The girl and the popcorn”
Hey!
You there!
Get moving!
You are blooooking the ennnntrance!
Want some popcorn Cowboy?
What?
Well….You sure are dressed like one, not a good color combination, although you can definitely scare some snakes with those greens!.....Haha!
You need time to think….so your first words to her are…“Is there a bathroom I can use?”
Yeah!....Sure Cowboy….But you got to buy something darling.
I just kinda got here…..Can’t remember how…...I must have been at a costume party!
Yeah…...I have those times too…Always end up in Atlantic City or LA…....Hahahaha!
So what it’ll be Cowboy…..What’s your desire Kidooo?...
You reach into your pocket and pull out your money…
Hey!....Those may work in New York City but not here hony…
Now….Suzy, she want’s the bizarre Cowboy for herself….”
I wonder if he wears jocks or boxers…”
Tell you what….I’ll give you a break….Go ahead and do your business…..When you come back I’ll have a job for you.
So you are back…..Still shocked and confused.
Hey!.......Ready?.....Well….Get in!
So now you are inside the little shop that sells tickets, Suzy’s popcorn and chocolate shakes.
Those dishes won’t wash by themselves honey!....
And washing dishes…..In Texas…..5 hours from your pad.
“I thought I knew what life is about and was semi OK with it….But now…..With her, I realize what it takes to fulfill my spirit…...My love for her is life itself….Eternal…. Heaven on Earth…...Or Mars.

So… You keep on washing dishes, just like sitting and waiting for waves…..Now you just wash and wait.
But Suzy has plans of her own…
And her boss…
And the High King of Mars…