Chapter One: Lizzy
We were running from them at top speed without looking back, hoping we'd make it back to base. All but one got back to base that rainy night; Daniel was captured by the aliens. I turned around when we made it back, yet he wasn't behind me. I ran back outside screaming his name with no response. Galen came and put his hand on my shoulder and gently guided me back inside.
"How could we have lost him! He was right behind me when we were running back," I cried, "he was there then the next minute gone! I should have stayed with him! Now I've lost him for good!"
Galen came over with a cup of hot coco and set it in front of me wrapping my hand around it. "Those aliens are sneaky ones, you can never be sure that they took him, he's most likely just hiding out somewhere," he said.
"But now's he's gone either way, we can't just let him die!" I yelled.
"Lizzy, calm down! He's gonna be alright! Don't worry about it!" Blair, Lizzy's twin, told her.
I put my head in my hands and just sat there crying for who knows how long. When I finally raised my head, only Galen was sitting there watching me. "Lizzy?"
"What," I replied.
"Are you okay?"
"No, he's gone, what do you think? It's my fault, I'm the leader of Army force, I should have been watching him"
"It's not your fault, he's still out there somewhere, and you know he is. We're all sad this happened, and we know you're affected the most since he was your boyfriend, but really we got to move on. He'll come back eventually; you and I both know that."
"Galen, we all know that once the aliens capture us, we're done for. Gone. Never existed. But if he really is hiding out somewhere, he'll come back. Even if he doesn't, your right, we must move on," I got up from the table, went to my room, and slammed the door. I looked around at my hopelessly messy desk; books sprawled everywhere, and then saw him. My most prized picture of Daniel. I went over to it and stared at it for the longest time. I never even heard Blair walk in until she spoke.
"Lizzy?"
I turned and screamed until I knew who it was, "what do you want! You scared me!"
Then Galen and Chris came running in wondering what in the world is going on.
"It's nothing, really. Blair just scared the heck out of me!" I went over to my bed and lay down. It'd been a long day, running through the mission, Daniel going missing, what else could possibly go wrong?
Well yeah, I just jinxed myself there, it could get worse … and it did.
I woke up to the alarms going off in my room; I had them installed just for me in case something was up and I didn't know. I smelled smoke and ran to my door and felt it burning hot. I backed away quickly and screamed. The smoke was thickening, I couldn't breathe, nobody could help me. I blacked out while hearing the horrid screams from the others.
I woke up hours later in the hospital wing of the base with three worried faces looking at me. My arm tingled from pain but I didn't acknowledge it, "hey guys what's going on?" I joked.
Chris said in a worried voice, "Wow even after the fire you still have a sense of humor. Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I feel fine, really I do. Can I get out of here?"
Galen came over and put his hand gently but firmly on my shoulder to hold me to the bed. "No, you need rest. Even though you didn't get burned badly, you still need to rest a bit."
"Dude, no. Just let me out of here!" I pushed his hand off me and ran. I didn't know where I was going; I just knew it was better than where I'd been. I stayed within the base, yet far enough so nobody else would know where I am. Except for Galen. He always seems to know where I was, whether I wanted him to know or not. It's actually his hidden power that only he has nobody else in our group and I'm the only person within us that knows that that's his power. I'm surprised he doesn't know where Daniel is then. But still, I don't wanna bug him over it either. That's how he's always the one that finds me up in my tower sitting out looking across the sea next to base. He always seems to know how to cheer me up well whether I want to be or not.
I left the tower feeling quite sad; it was around midnight when I left so nobody would notice me gone. I was angry too. Nothing seemed to be going right! I wandered the streets as it started to drizzle; then came the girl. Things took a turn for the worst. And by worst, I mean really, really, really, really, really, really… (you get the picture) bad.
