Chapter 2
Lilo Pelekai gasped and sat bolt upright in bed, covered in a cold sweat. Something was wrong, she could feel it. The 12-year-old rubbed her brown eyes to clear away the sand, then looked around at the dome-top room she shared with her best friend, the alien experiment we all know as Stitch. He had been asleep moments before, curled up beneath his green blanket. Now he was sitting up, looking over at Lilo with concern. He wore rocket-patterned PJs.
"Are you ok, you look like you've seen a ghost?" Stitch questioned. His linguistics had improved considerably in the past year or so. "I'm alright, no ghosts, just...one of those weird feelings" replied Lilo simply, swinging her legs over the side of the bed. She cringed as the soles of her bare feet made contact with the cold metal floor. Stitch wasn't convinced.
"We need to get some carpeting in here one of these days" Lilo said, pulling an old wooden crate out from under the bed and flipping through her impressive collection of Elvis records. Stitch hopped off of his cot and came over to sit, cross-legged, in front of his friend.
"What kind of feeling did you get Lilo?" asked the blue-furred alien gently, taking the girl's tanned chin in his paw, raising her head so the two were eye-to-eye, brown against deep blue. "I felt...scared, like..." however, her train of thought was derailed by the distant sound of police sirens, which were steadily getting louder.
"Wonder what's going on?" said Stitch. "We'll go up to the top of the dome; we can see most of the town from up there" replied Lilo, opening up her closet and pulling a green muumuu from off it's hook. Stitch turned away as she slipped off her nightgown and pulled her dress over her head. "C'mon, let's go!" exclaimed Lilo, grabbing a pair of binoculars and climbing onto Stitch's back.
Within less than a minute, the inseparable duo stood atop the bright-red tower, looking out over the misty rooftops of Kokaua Town. What they saw shocked them. The police cars, 4 of them, were headed in their direction.
A worried look crossed Lilo's face as the white cruisers pulled into the driveway. The Hawaiian girl's expression grew even more worried when Nani Pelekai, now a police officer with the KTPD, stepped out and looked straight up at her little sister. Needless to say, she did not look happy.
A/N: Looks like our heroine, totally innocent, is in some deep trouble with The Law. R&R!