Henry led me outside and into a miniature version of a house, which he called his 'hang out'. It had a normal looking living room with a bedroom attached to it and a bathroom connected to the bedroom, but in the far corner of the living room, there was a computer on a desk and lots of files and papers were around it. "What exactly is your work, Henry?" I asked politely as possible.

He smirked and walked me over to the desk, then opened a door next to the computer and turned on a light, revealing to me three glass cages. One, to our left, had a beautiful black snake in it, the one directly in front of us had a big, brown lizard-looking thing in it, and the cage to my right was empty. "What is this for?"

"I'm a scientist."

My eyes widened and I looked back at him, swallowing, "A what?" I hoped he hadn't said what he just said.

"A scientist. You see," he walked back to his computer, but being sure to turn off the light and close the door first; "I want to make a new type of animal." I sighed; thank goodness he wasn't tied to the place Spencer and I had came from. "So, what do you do exactly?" he suddenly asked me.

"Oh, me? I, well, I'm not exactly sure what I do yet-"

"Would you like to make some money?"

"I'm not sure…" I wasn't sure if money would help us out or not. I had to talk to Spencer about this. As if my thoughts were verbalized, I heard the door open behind us; I sensed it was Spencer.

"Hello Henry, I was just curious what your work was as well." Was it just me, or did his voice sound different?

"Ah, I just showed Kameron, no problem showing you as well." He smiled brightly and walked back towards the door and opened it again, turning the light on again. Pretty much the same conversation that had taken place between Henry and I took place between Henry and Spencer, except I realized something while listening to Spencer talk; he sounded as if he were challenging Henry; was he jealous of Henry? I couldn't imagine why; how in the world would I have an interest in Henry when he was just a normal, boring human?

"Well that is quite interesting, Henry." Spencer said then looked over at his computer. "Have you done any experiments yet?"

"Some, but none physically. I use programs on the computer to run tests and such before doing anything to my animals." He smiled then turned on the monitor to the computer. My eyes widened when the screen came on and there was a picture of a Xenomorph on it. He moved the mouse and a little box came on the screen asking for his password. He mumbled, "Passwords are so annoying when it's just a screen saver, but," he sighed, clicking enter and the picture disappeared, revealing a program of which I had never seen before; "you can never be too careful, right?" he asked in a normal voice. I guessed he was speaking to Spencer and I; I looked over to Spencer and his eyes were still wide from seeing the picture. I was surprised to realize I would be the first to ask.

"That creature on your, uh, screen saver?"

"Yeah, do you like it?" he turned his chair and looked at me with a great smile.

"Um, yes, he looks very interesting-"

"Yeah, she is." He smiled and looked back, and then began telling us about it, as if we didn't already know. I was going to wait for him to finish speaking to ask where he got the picture and how he knew about them, but I had squared my eyes at him. "It's a he not a she! The she is the Queen! Dumbas-"

"It doesn't matter, Kameron."Spencer's voice suddenly appeared in my head.

I looked over at him, "Are you nuts? This guy thinks he knows it all, but he can't even tell the gender correct, when that's easier than-"

"Well, at least I know I don't have to worry about anything-"

"What do you mean?"

Suddenly our nonverbal conversation was cut short when Henry turned around and asked us if we knew the scientific name for them. It was obvious we 'shouldn't' know, but I couldn't help it; this guy just thought he was so smart! "Yes, they're Xenomorphs, correct?"

"Yes, that is. Did you have a relative in that place?"

I swallowed; crap. "Maybe." I looked down slightly.

"Aw, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to intrude; it's just that my best friend's mom works there and she was the one who told me about them. She knew how much I loved science and all creatures, and she couldn't help but to give me the information about these amazing creatures." He turned back around and began clicking away at the computer.

"Wanna meet one?" I mumbled, but he didn't hear it.

"Kameron!" Spencer shouted in my mind. I glared at him, then announced, "Excuse me." And quickly left the minihouse.