[ WP ] Since birth , you have always had a bad sense of direction that would defy the laws of logic and space . Instead of arriving at your destination , you would end up in places or areas impossible for normal people to get to .

My best friend Nick has been acting very strange since he started working for NASA. 
 
 When we were both children, he always used to talk about being an astronaut, and all I had ever wanted was to be a video game tester. Just sit in my room and chill, you know? Play some games, take some notes, play more games, get money! It was perfect, and I could do it anywhere. So when we both graduated from college at the University of Colorado and he asked me to move down to Florida with him, of course I went along! After all, he needed someone around to keep him sane ( and to do his dishes ). 
 
 But when he started putting cameras around the apartment, I got a little weirded out. He told me that it was part of a NASA project, to properly evaluate his psychology they had to record him at all times, even in his home environment. He seemed really nervous when he said it, but still, he's a good guy, you know? 
 
 It's not like I used to walk around the apartment naked whenever he was gone, not that I'm like defending myself of anything here, that would be really weird, and of course I did n't! Uh... 
 
 Anyways, all through college, he asked me about this annoying thing I do sometimes. I just look down at my phone while walking around, and I wander into places I should n't get into. Sometimes I would leave our dorm room while checking out my texts, and find myself in our neighbor's dorm room across the hall. Shannon hated that so damn much, but she learned after a while to just say hi and push me out her door. Why she kept her door open so I could wander in there is anybody's guess, but she never kept it closed so I kept stepping inside. 
 
 `` Jackson, do you know what you're doing?'' Nick once questioned me after watching me get shoved out of her door, back in freshman year. 
 
 `` I dunno, man, I'm just trying to snapchat some girls,'' I said, wandering further down the hall. 
 
 That's when he bought those giant whiteboards of his and started filling them with mathematical stuff. He would go out on drives with me in the middle of the night, and he'd keep trying to get me to take roads that I did n't know, like he was deliberately trying to get us lost. Hell, one time when we were seniors, we took a right turn while we were talking, I swear not even half an hour from our dorms, and my ears popped. Even weirder, suddenly the trees looked different too, and the car's heater kicked up a notch like it suddenly had to fight for heat. 
 
 Then we hit a border patrol checkpoint. A Mountie, man, seriously! He shined a flashlight in the car and asked if we had our passports ( I guess he saw the plates ), and I immediately started freaking out. But Nick? He just sat there laughing, like he had just heard the best joke ever written, like that Monty Python sketch or something. 
 
 `` Hi,'' he said. `` I think you might have been expecting us, sir?'' Then he asked the Mountie if he could have a word, and after about ten minutes of me sweating in the car, he and the Mountie both walked back over with big shit-eating grins. 
 
 `` Welcome to Manitoba! I hope you enjoyed your stay!'' The Mountie said, and then he saluted and waved us down the road and past some bewildered guys at the US checkpoint. 
 
 It took us ***forever*** to get back, and we kept driving on highways for `` Stability,'' Nick said, but we made it back before classes started on Monday. He paid for my food and gas anyway, so I just kind of enjoyed the drive. 
 
 When we got back, he filled an entire whiteboard with math, and he kept on calling different doctors all through the night. I asked him if he had cancer or something the next morning, and he just laughed again. Told me that he was n't talking to medical doctors, but physics doctors, and then, told me that NASA wanted him to become an astronaut and he'd like me to come along. Like I said, I was fine with moving to Florida to keep hanging out. 
 
 That was a really good moment for him, and we hugged it out. He kept thanking me, though, which I never got. We're friends, of course I wanted to stick around to help him out! 
 
 But that brings us to today, more or less. Five years, seven published scientific papers from Robert, and 40 tested AAA titles ( I guess I'm good at exploiting glitches in the system ) had passed since we had graduated. Today, he asked me to come to work with him. To go into NASA with him. 
 
 `` Jackson, today we're going to change the world.'' Nick said that like he'd never wanted to say anything else in his life, like those were the most important words he'd ever said. 
 
 `` You are? That's great!'' I exclaimed. `` What are you guys doing?'' 
 
 He smiled again and gave that characteristic laugh of his with a sparkle in his eyes. `` Just get in the car, dude. But please let me drive.''
