Author's note: Hello everybody! This is my first Falling Skies fanfiction. It will follow the basic plot of the first season from Liz's point of view (my OC). The first chapter will be her backstory and the second chapter will start right in at the first episode of the series. I hope you like it!

Disclaimer: I don't own Falling Skies

Summary: Six months ago, the aliens invaded. Before that my worries had only been homework and getting a solo in choir. Now my worries are surviving and the fact that I'm starting to fall for a dumb jock. This is my new life. HalxOC and later BenxOC.

Prologue:

Six months ago, the aliens invaded.

That line sounds like the first sentence of one of my science fiction novels, but it's true. I used to love reading books about aliens attacking our planet, I guess it made me feel as though I would be prepared if something like that ever did happen, but I never would have guessed, in a million years, that it actually would happen. And let me tell you, having read all of those books in no way prepared me for this. My name is Elizabeth Saunders, and this is My New Life.

Chapter One:

I've lived next door to the Masons my whole life. When I was five, my father died and my mother became a single working mother. I was too little to be left home alone, so on nights she worked late (which was pretty much every night) I would go over to the Masons. Hal, Ben, Matt, and I have pretty much grown up together. I am right in between Hal and Ben age-wise and grade level-wise, but Ben is pretty smart, so we ended up having a lot of classes together over the years. As the years went on Mr. and Mrs. Mason treated me more and more like their own daughter. Mrs. Mason loved having a girl around to bake with, and Mr. Mason became like a father to me.

I remember the day the aliens invaded so clearly. It started like any other Tuesday. I woke up, ate breakfast, and got a ride to school with Ben and his mom who drove us to school every day. There were auditions that morning in chorus for solos, and not surprisingly, I got one. I'm not trying to sound vain, but I definitely had one of the best voices in my class. I ate lunch in the courtyard with my friends, and then I had Pre-Calculus with Ben. Math was one of the many advanced classes that Ben took, and thankfully we were in the same class. It was near the end of class and I was working with Ben on the homework, as usual. That was when the rumbling started.

I could tell right away that something was wrong. My whole class ran to the windows to see outside, but everything looked normal. Some students looked worried and others made jokes. Another teacher burst into the classroom and told my math teacher to turn on the news, and that was when I saw it: A huge alien structure far taller than any skyscrapers had landed in Boston.

Frozen, we all watched the news, only to be startled by a voice over the PA system informing us that we were being sent home. I went over to the Mason's house, as usual, and we watched the news. I remember Matt coming in at one point and asking if we were all going to die. That was when we realized he probably shouldn't watch the news, so I reluctantly left the news to go play one of our epic Monopoly games with Ben and Matt. It was hard to keep focused, but we knew Hal wasn't going to leave the TV and Matt needed a distraction.

I kept waiting to wake up, to find out that this was just some horrible nightmare, but no such luck. The whole situation seemed unreal, like one of my science fiction novels. Our life seemed to stop. For weeks the alien ship just sat there. But then, everything changed when the aliens attacked.

Author's note: I hope you liked it! Please let me know what you think in a review!