Chapter 2

Basics

"Okay now get up tough guy! Time to start with the basic human lessons." Jack knocked loudly at the door of Seth's room. Next to him is Alex who tried to knock loudly but not as disturbing as Jack's knock to Sara's room.

"I'm awake. Wait I'm having a hard time here..Alex will you please help me?" They heard Sara said. Jack and Alex smiled helplessly at each other before Alex gently opened the door to Sara's room and see what help could she give.

There still no response from Seth so Jack decided to opened the door too. Surprisingly it's not locked. What more surprising is, Seth's not there anymore and this brought panic to Jack who instinctively ran out of the room to look for Seth.

"Honey what's the problem?" Alex asked Sara who is standing at the closet staring confusingly at the clothes. She's still in her clothes last night when they arrived.

She looked shyly to Alex before saying, "What should I wear? I mean I'm not updated with the fashion here.?" She giggled and smiled sheepishly.

Alex wanted to laugh at her but she knew better. "Of course..A young lady should be conscious on her appearance." She went to he closet and checked. Good thing they kept this room for emergency visitors.

"Tell me Sara..What kind of clothes you love to wear?" She asked while trying to remember if she has clothes that will fit Sara.

Sara looked up and thought for a while. "Anything comfortable." She simply replied.

"Here's the plan. You wear these first then we go to the mall and buy some clothes for you and your brother." Alex said and handed some clothes to Sara. It's a pair of white shirt and blue jeans.

"Yes, according to your mind." Sara smiled politely. "Thanks Alex. You and Jack are like family to us. We couldn't make it without you.."

Alex gladly hugged Sara. "It's our pleasure to help. Besides, we'll be living like a real family now, right?"

Sara took the clothes and gazed at the window. "I'm worried about Seth. He's blaming himself for what happened. He's taking all of this seriously.." She sighed.

Alex gazed at the window too. It's still not clear to them what's the real purpose of these two aliens for coming back. Maybe it's the right time to ask.

"Sara, what really happened when you get home? And how are you supposed to look for your friend? Earth is way too big for a search base." She asked.

"We don't really have any plan yet. We can show you how our friend looks like. That's the only thing we have so far. But we have reasons to believe she's not caught by your government or any other humans..She's roaming around your planet probably looking for a chance to go back. It says in our radar." She explained.

Alex could only raise her brows and nod. It's still not very clear but that is much better now. At least they have radar to locate whoever they are looking for. And that's a proof that they are looking for someone who still exists.

"Ladies, have you seen Seth?" Both of them looked at the door and found Jack Bruno with a worried face.

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All of them remained silent as they all frowning at Seth who is sitting on the couch with his head down as if thinking of something seriously.

"Nothing happened. I just want to have a peaceful time with myself." He finally said, breaking the awkward silence.

"The behavior you just showed is implying stupidity, Seth." Sara answered in a little high tone. She looks furious, maybe worried. If something happened to her brother she doesn't know what to do or where to go or how to tell their parents back in their planet.

"I need to execute the plan as soon as possible. C'mon Sara you knew very well anything could happen if we waste even just a second!" Seth almost yelled at his sister. Sara felt a bit scared at Seth's reaction.

Even Jack and Alex did not expect to see that attitude in Seth. These two siblings looked very close with each other to the point that they could not even imagine them having a little fight like normal human siblings do.

"ww-wait. Stop this. This is going nowhere. J-Just please, calm down you two. Look, you said you need our help. We are more than willing to help you but please, try to cooperate." Jack tried to stop what is coming.

Alex helped her husband with it. "Yes, Jack is right. We would be able to help you if you explained what you really want to do. Try us." She said.

Seth and Sara looked at each other as if communicating passively through their eyes. After a moment of eye contact, they finally sighed and started explaining everything..almost.

"It's 4:00 AM when the radar alarms. It says that the person we are looking for is just a few kilometres away from here. I did not bother to wake you up so I went out instead. Besides, it's nighttime and there are few people awake so I thought I won't get caught anyway." Seth explained. He waited for any reply from Jack and Alex or even Sara but nobody reacted. He rolled his eyes in disbelief.

"I'm sorry if I made you worry..I won't do that again." He looked down with sincerity in his voice. "You're right. I need to explain.

"Too good you finally realized." Jack muttered.

"Okay so here is what we wanted to do. We will pretend to be members of your family. Like adopted kids, perhaps. Then you have to tell us how to be normal humans plus, you have to send us to school so we could use that as a cover when we are doing some searching. I learned that young people here should go to school and they might see us weird if we do not go." He tried to start.

"Okay..that's good but I think that would be a little hard. Because you will be exposed to Earthlings your age and they are the most curious creatures, trust me." Jack warned them.

"But how exactly could you tell if you've found who you're looking for?" Alex tried to bring the topic back.

"Of course that person should have to look like us. Hair color, eye color.. And Sara could read minds so she will be of great help." Seth seems to be very eager to convince them that he knew who is it that they are looking for.

"Besides, the person will know that we came from the same planet. It's like...what you called instincts." Sara added.

"It's good to hear you have plan now.. But that's a bit vague. You need to have something more precise." Alex commented, still trying not to discourage the two hopeful aliens.

"I know this is difficult..or almost impossible..but that is the consequence I have to face. I'm responsible for all of these." Seth firmly said as if trying not to beat himself.

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there goes..i really want to write a longer chapter but i'm really tired..i'll update tomorrow..I'll introduce you the new character I added.. looking forward to read your comments.. thanks!