I sat quietly at my desk as I did my homework while listening to my twin sister rant about aliens, again. I swear she was crazy and however much I have tried dissuading her and saying aliens do not exist, all she did was look at me blankly and continue her rants. Years later, here I was ignoring her, a skill I had mastered since the beginning of time.
“Stop ignoring me Finn, it has never worked before so what makes you think it will this time.” She asked as she continued punching keys on our desktop computer. I glanced at her briefly before noticing the queer shaped device. Why was I just noticing this because seriously no one can miss the weird wires sticking out of it in every direction?
“Well I at least I tried. And if I may ask what the hell is that?” I asked facing her fully.
“oh this is my state of the art computerized hacking device that I created for the obvious reason but this time I am going to use it to access the NASA satellite especially images generated from outer space. Then I will prove to you that all this time I was right and you were wrong.” Groaning slightly, I turned my attention back to my laptop where I was doing my homework. We were currently in our former play room turned Val’s playroom for her invention stuff although I still hang out here since I was also a tech genius to some extent, the only thing we had in common. Despite being twins, we were as different as they come with her having brown hair and me black hair with green eyes having green eyes with her getting sky blue.
“Haven’t you watched E.T? Those things will probe you in the ass if they ever get their hands on you.” I said while messing around on my P.C. we always have something to talk about when we are together and it is hard to find us basking in total silence.
“Yeah like a hundred times, plus the movies donot do them any justice, they must be pretty different than what they portray them as on television. What I would do to see a real live alien.”
“Ok I will stop you right there before you imagine your babies.” I said with a shudder. A hybrid alien was just too much. Gash! I saved my homework and restarted my computer to get on some social sites and muck about.
“What’s wrong wi…?” I glanced at her to check up what got her quiet and I noticed her eyes go wide and an excited look etched her features before the computer blew up. Thank god she wore glasses otherwise it would not be pretty. I ran and grabbed the fire extinguisher but Val didn’t bother to even freaking move. All she did was pull out the wires from the fried P.C before connecting them to her laptop. When the fire was out, I turned and looked at my sister who was now typing frantically and asked her what was up. All she did was to silence me with a shut up. Geez rude much?
“Um sorry Finn but I saw something and don’t you dare rant about my obsession.”
“So I take it you hacked into the satellite and spotted an alien life form in one of the images yeah?” I asked sarcastically while sitting on the beanbag and grabbing my laptop, logging onto twitter. Um interesting news feed.
“No! I mean yes I hacked but that’s not it. Here come take a look.” She said adjusting her laptop to face me directly. I stood up after some struggle, stupid bag, and went and glanced at her screen. I almost laughed, well I probably did anyways.
“That’s an airplane you dumbass.” I said still giggling at the Emirates aircraft. She gave me a mean glare and shook her head.
“You are the dumb ass here not me Finn.” She said then pointed at the far right corner of the picture then zoomed in, pressed some buttons and the image was clear as day. “Do you see that?”
“Yes. It’s some sort of air craft with a pointy thingy at the front.”
“That must be used to ease the penetration of the earth’s gravitational field.Very clever.” I chuckled as she pulled up a map to show its movement. “Eh what’s funny?” she asked looking unamused
“You said penetratation.” I replied giving her a cheeky smile.
“You are so immature Finn.” She said rollingher eyes at my silliness
“Anyways how are you going to react when your heavenly or rather Marxian boyfriend appears?”
“I will let out a squeal of joy.” She replied sarcastically before sticking out her tongue.
“Sucks that we don’t have a field like in all those superhero movies otherwise they would land there`
“The backyard counts don’t it?” she replied grinning
“Ok ok we get it you…”I was interrupted by a loud crash outside that made the house shake almost off its foundation.
“What was that?” Val asked trying to gain her breath back and I praying she did not get one of those anxiety attacks. They might have been rare but still happened and the sight was not pretty.
“I don’t know dumbass. We were here together remember.” I said trying to lighten the mood. This was not cool. “Do you think your Marxian boyfriend crashed his craft in our backyard?” She gave me a stink eye and flipped me off before standing up and moving towards the door.
“Am going to check it out and you are coming with me.” She mumbled but not before coming back and grabbing my arm to pull me with her.
“Let’s go towards the danger like all dumb girls in the movies.” I said whilst falling in step with her as we moved through our empty mansion that seemed quite useless since it was just the two of us. Our dad died and our mom is always busy. We had staff that cooked and cleaned but they only appeared in the mornings.
We climbed up the stairs towards the roof where we assumed we could see from better and not be harmed incase of anything. Reaching the roof, we realized nothing was out of order but that was until we glanced down from the second floor. Our rather large pool was illuminated by the lights around itand so we were able to make out the same craft that had been in Val’s photograph. Didn’t these guys know anything about airports?I looked at our destroyed backyard and groaned internally. Staring at the air craft closely, I noticed that the pointy thing was rather burnt and broken off and the other part was standing alone. The front part connecting to the tip was dis integrated and it appeared as if it hadn’t contained anything at all except the metal that formed it.
As we were still gazing in wonder at the craft, the undestroyed part of the craft opened and out stepped some of the most beautiful people I had ever seen. I swear I could believe they were Gods if I was told so, with their pale features and striking eyes especially those of this one girl. They were electric blue and tended to glow even brighter each step she took towards the pool where the debris from the craft was floating. I felt my breath hitch when she almost made eye contact with me. My heart was riding wildly. Ohmygod! This was beauty in its true form. She looked so sophisticated and elegant. It showed in the way she even moved. My gaze then drifted towards the guy walking besides her. They had some resemblance and I believe they must have been related to some extent and the dark hair they had contrasted heavily with their pale skin tone. He had dark eyes that also were shining. His eyes looked over the damage they had cause and turned to look behind them where another beautiful girl stood. She looked slightly shorter than the other three and was petite but just as beautiful especially the blond locks that made her appear as if she had a halo on her head.
Walking closely next to her was another guy with a body build of a jock. He clearly looked like a teenager since his face still retained a touch of child fat but he could still give any guy a run for his money. Speaking some sort of unique language, they all nodded their heads as if in agreement and raised some sort of weapons, directing them towards the destroyed parts of our back yard and their craft. Why was no one coming to inquire about the ruckus being caused? Because am positive we had neighbours on either side of the house despite living in a suburban part of town. Damn cowards I thought, though I would not be surprised if the police showed up.
I grabbed Val’s hand and pulled her down to hide behind the plants that had been partially covering us from their sight. I looked at her and noticed that her eyes were still mirroring shock for either the hot ‘Aliens’ or the crush or the crash I did not know either way so I decided to tease her just to ease the tension.
“Your hot Marxian boyfriend has arrived.” I said giving her a slight smile.
“I know! I must be dreaming.” She said her blue eyes still wide and hair sticking slightly on her fore head. I hope her anxiety was not setting in unless she was sweating because of excitement. Then we heard a muffled blast imitating perfectly the sound of a gunshot with a silencer on but slightly louder and it made us take in a sharp breath. What the hell? I had closed my eyes to regain my breath when I felt Val grab my hand tightly forcing me to look at her questioningly. She jutted her chin towards something to my left and what I saw made me gasp. How the hell did that happen?
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