Coming Home

"The answer is 3,764, rounded up." The smartest kid in Sarah's honors math class delclared. Her math teacher, Ms. Madders, nodded her gray-haired head approvingly.

"Exellent as always, Nathan!" She sat down at her desk and shuffled papers around and finally found what she was looking for. A homework assignment, of couse. Now, normally Sarah wouldn't be so antagonistic or annoyed with homework, but when her alien boyfriend was somewhere else in the world, probably running for his life, she was 'distracted' at best. She signed and it came out a little bit louder and more wistful than she planned.

"Sorry Ms. Hartford, is my homework getting in the way of your staring into space and daydreaming?" Ms. Madders almost growled.

"Not at all, just a little too tired. This homework will wake me a bit." Sarah answered politely, although she was tempted to saw the homework was getting in the way of her worrying for John.

"I should hope so." Ms. Madders eyed hersuspiciously, as if Sarah was going to turn into one of the monsters John, Sam, and Six were desperately running from. Then the bell rang, signaling the end of last period.

Sarah quickly evacuated the math class and practically ran to her mother's car.

"Did you have a good day at school?" My mother asked, beaming at me.

"Another normal day in Paradice, Ohio, Mom. " Sarah answered, although her school only reminded her of John. Just like anything else in this small town she called home.


Later that night, Sarah checked the mail. She always checked the mail, just in case John (against Six's will) sent her a letter. There was no mail, she checked the clock on her phone. It said 3:46, so she shouldn't expect the mailman to arrive for at least another hour.

"Any mail, honey?" Sarah's dad asked as she enters the Hartford family living room.

"Not yet, Dad. Wait about an hour, though. Do you know what we are going to have for dinner?" She asked her father hurriedly, she really had something urgent to do.

"Pizza, you could eat in your room or with us..." Her father hinted lightly.

"I'll eat in my room, thanks Dad." Sarah pretended not to pick up on his suggestive tone. Since John left to... wherever he is or went to, she ate by herself in her room.

When Sarah walked into her room, she immediately went to a desk in the corner of her room. She reached for her necklace, at the end of the chain there was a key. Unknown to everyone else, the key went to a secret compartment in her desk. She unlocked her hidden comparment. The drawer held one paper with words riddling its white lines.

The precious paper that Sarah held delicately was a letter to John. It was covered with words that told him how much he meant to her, which was awkwardly worded because she can't put into words how he makes her feel. Their love was forbidden, but they loved each other so much they couldn't bring themselves to care. She wrote about how much she missed him and wanted him to come back to her, but she also knew that was selfish of her (and a death wish for him), and Sarah didn't want that.

She wrote on that paper and thought about her blonde-haired, goofy, blue-eyed, handsome, and so much more and everything in between boyfriend.


Little did Sarah know, that on another side of the world, her John was writing a letter to her that was along the same lines as hers. The only difference was that his started with "My Dearest Sarah," and ended with "I'm coming back to Paradice, Ohio. I'm coming back home, because you, Sarah Hartford, are my home now. Love, John."