Dear Diary,
I'm Liz Parker and you wont believe what had happened to me and who I am or
more what I am.
It all started the day I met Maria, the day everything changed.
I leaned over the poor hurt baby bird, next to my new friend Maria who had shown me. He was there, the new boy he kept staring at me I don't know why though. I turned my attention over to the little hurt bird; I looked back up to see the new boy he was walking over to us. "Can I help" he squeaked he sounded like a mouse and I laughed he looked hurt I hadn't meant to laugh "This birdie's hurt" I informed him but he already knew I handed it over to him and Maria looked at me, not wanting to the give the hurt bird to him in case he hurt it more. He stood there for a few minutes then threw the bird into the air, Maria gasped but she saw the bird fly off! She stared at him in disbelief, how could have he done some thing like that? "Maria!" it was her mom calling her she turned and hugged me "Bye Lizzy" she said as she ran over to get into her mom's red Jetta. Three years passed, and Roswell junior high accepted me and my best friend Maria, we had been friends since that day of the bird. The first day of high school and my nerves were stringing me up. I saw Maria climb out of her mom's car, her mom looked terribly Maria's mom and dad had been fighting and he had spent the weekend at some motel. So starting must be harder for Maria. I jumped off the last step of the bus. My mom had made me wear that dress with the cupcakes on it, which I hated, she said tomorrow I could wear anything I liked but now she wanted me to wear this for the first day. I walked over to Maria smiled and hugged her; we walked hand in hand to homeroom. We had a really big friendship and we weren't going to let people think we were just best friends; we were more like sisters with out the arguments. I looked over the grass and saw him sitting at a wooden table with his sister and his best friend. Whenever I saw them they were always together, but there was something different about them to the other kids. He was special and I wanted to know what made him special apart from his dark brown hair, autumn eyes, long lashes and ears that turned red when he was embarrassed or nervous. They were always red when I looked at him. The first day was good; I had made friends with the new little league captain, Kyle. His dad was the sheriff and he was going to invite me round for dinner on Friday, his dad was a friend with Maria's mom, he had looked after Maria and her mom when Mr. De Luca left, so the De Luca family were going to be there, so I could hang out with Maria while Kyle show us how much he loved football. But back to the first day, I had science with him; he was made my lab partner. I found out how wonderful science was, and since he was there it made it even better. The bell rang and brought me out of my little stare, I looked at him again and found his eyes a neat shade of red. I felt my cheeks burn as I gathered up my and stuck it into the little brown leather backpack Amy De Luca had given me for my birthday. I left and found Maria and kyle in the lunch line and collected my lunch paid for it and headed outside to where the lunch tables were, students lay about the grass and Max was sat at the table with his sister and Michael, I watched his ears turn red in the sun light. All of a sudden Kyle and Maria whizzed past me and sat at the table in front of Max. I watched them wave me over and I felt nervous again, I would see Max and he would be able to see me. He knew I was going to have to sit there at the table in front of him. Michael and Isabel's back were facing Kyle and Maria's. I watched him flash me a small smile that made my heart race. I smiled back and he looked down to hide the face that was even redder than his ears, if that was ever possible. I walked over and sat down with my friends, Maria told me about something funny that had happened in her first lesson of English, the teacher had sat on a pin fell over spilled coffee on his notes and broke two windows. Poor guy, new teachers tend to be as nervous as the students on their first day. I drank my juice I had bought in the lunch line and I looked past Kyle's shoulder and saw Max chewing a slice of pizza covered in Tabasco Sauce? He snatched the bottle of Tabasco off Michael and poured it into his juice. "Eugh!" I said out loud and Maria turned round to see I found so disgusting and she saw them pouring Tabasco sauce over everything they were planning to eat "You said it girlfriend!" she said turning back to finish eating her salad. I saw the shameful look on his face and I flashed him a really-sorry-I-hurt- your-feelings kind of smile. He grinned and Isabel turned round, giving me the Ice Princess look and turned round and said something nasty to her brother at least I think it was nasty the way his smile faded into a miserable stare. Maria jumped up with her tray, and headed off back to the canteen "I'll see you guys after last class!" she kissed Kyle and hugged me and then disappeared into the canteen with a squeal. "Um Liz" Kyle said fiddling with the corner of the tray glancing up at me then back at the table then back to me, he repeated it several times before he spoke "I was wondering, would you like to go out with me?" he asked trying to look me in the eyes. "Maybe in the future, Kyle" I said trying to be as nice as possible "Were friends and someday I might see it different but for now I want my favourite guyfriend" he looked disappointed but relieved that I still wanted to be his friend. The bell rang and I jumped, I grabbed my backpack and headed for last period. Maths. Isabel 'ice princess' Evans was in that class with me and I dreaded it because it appeared I had made an enemy on my first day. I went into the class and chose my seat. The teacher walked in, it was that clumsy one Maria was telling me about Isabel walked in after him and walked past my desk dropping me a note, she sat two rows back on the left. I picked up the note unfolded it and read 'Stay away from my brother Parker!' she had scribbled 'if you don't, you'll wish you had never been born!' why did she have to give me that note I became scared of her after that. But I was foolish then I didn't know what she was so I challenged her. I turned round "Oh, I'll stay away from you're brother but I don't know if he can keep his eyes off me!" I quipped and watched her face redden in anger. I smiled evilly as I turned to the front to see the clumsy teacher pull a piece of paper out from under his cup to send the cup flying off his desk and smashing. He stood up and slipped on his coffee that was on his cup, he fell backwards grabbing at a ruler and flicking the paper weight that rested on the edge of the ruler through the door window, the glass paper weight smashed in the hall and everybody laughed even Isabel as the teacher looked over the top of the desk at us. Maybe just maybe she was as scary or closed off as she made out. The teacher kept breaking things in the end he told us to read whichever book we wanted till the end of class. I found one on the star system I went to pick it up but a hand reached out and grabbed it at the same time I did. I looked it was Isabel! Oh no, she glared at me and I pulled the book from her and found my seat. I was half way down the page when the book flew out of my hands and hit the teacher in the back, who was talking to one of the jocks in the class. He turned round and glared at me angrily. "Miss Parker!" he snapped "Detention!" I was furious even more furious when I saw Isabel get up and collect the book of the floor. I was the only one in detention that was until Michael Guerin waltzed in looking angry and sat down behind me off to the left. Then laughing rocked the hall way and the teacher watching us stood up shook her head and left the room. "So, Ms goody two shoes what are you in here for?" I heard Michael speaking to me "I threw a book at a teacher" I lied I didn't throw the book at the teacher but I was here so I wasn't going to deny it "what are you doing here?" I asked "I set fire to my homeroom teacher's dress," he said rubbing his head. Wow he was only eleven, must be learning bad habits off the trailer trash he was fostered with. "So I see you like my brother" he stated I got confused he was an only child, he didn't have any brothers or sisters "You don't have a brother," I said turning round to look him in the eye "Yes I do, Max is my brother and Isabel is my sister, I remember when we were all born together. Maxwell and Isabel are twins, they went off towards the road and I went in the opposite direction" "How did you walk you must have been babies" I exclaimed "No, when they found Max and Izzy they guessed they were seven, when they found me they guessed I was seven as well. We don't remember anything before we made it out into the sun" he informed me. "I never knew Max and Isabel were adopted, how do you know they're you brother and sister?" I asked curious "I don't know, its just we're different to regular people, but us three are the same" what he said didn't make sense. But I couldn't ask him what he meant because the teacher strolled back in. the bell rang and through the open door I say the corridor fill with students, Michael was up and out of the door within seconds. I walked slowly out and found Maria with Kyle in Sheriff Valenti's police cruiser. I walked over and he opened the door for me, I slid into the front passenger seat and he pulled off to drop Maria and me at the CrashDown, my parent's shop, where we both worked as waitresses. Max and Michael walked through the door, and strolled up to the counter, they had come here every day during the summer now they were coming after school. "Can I have a cherry coke, please Liz?" Max asked trying to make it sound like a question instead of an order. Michael just sighed and rolled his eyes at the ceiling. I nodded and handed him the can, "Anything else?" I asked politely as the pair of them hopped up onto stools at the counter "Yeah, orbit rings and a hell of a lot of Tabasco sauce!" Michael interrupted Max. Michael had to go home to his abusive foster dad Hank; he needed to be well fed so he could have the energy to take the beatings. "No thank you Liz" Max said kindly after his friends interruption "So Liz," Michael started as he looked through the menu even though he had ordered "Will I be seeing you in detention tomorrow?" Max looked at Michael then at me in disbelief "YOU were in detention!" Max jumped; I turned and walked into the back as quick as I could. I heard Michael's comments to Max "I think you broke her" they weren't very social and they didn't have much communication skills. I started crying so I snuck into the toilets and grabbed some tissues. Maria banged on the door "Chica get your butt out here so you can spit on his orbit rings!" she yelled through the door, I opened it and laughed as I came face to face with her funny faces she pulled when I got upset. "Come on Lizzy, those guys aint worth it, Guerin's an ass ok" she said wrapping her arm around my shoulder "Michael wasn't the one who made me cry, it was Max" she looked at me and was out the swing door and back into the Diner in a second. I stood on my tiptoes and peeked through the diamond in the swing door and I saw Maria wiping down the counter and knocking his drink over she picked it up in the cloth then dropped it and stepped back as it sprayed over Max and Michael. Oh my god she did not just do that. Maria wiped the counter clean with the cloth; move around from the counter into the back to get paper towels from the toilets. She walked past me and gave me a high five. I laughed as she 'accidentally' dropped a soggy paper towel onto Max's knee. Max was furious but it was worth it, I could see her try desperately not to burst out laughing as a soggy Max and Michael left the CrashDown. The next day at school I was back in detention till lunch time, so I was going to talk to Michael, since he was the only one in there apart from me. But he wouldn't talk to me after that incident in the café yesterday. He gave up his vow of silence after a while and started talking to me because he knew it would piss of the teacher who was covering detention. It happened to be the new shy clumsy teacher, so I talked as well because he had put me in here when it wasn't my fault. "Sorry about yesterday" I apologised for Maria "Maria looks out for me like a big sister even though I'm older than her and when I was crying yesterday she took revenge!" "Sorry for making you cry" he apologised "look, can I buy you a burger after school?" "Are you asking me out on a date in my dad's café?" I asked sounding pathetically childish "Well it wont be like a date coz Max and Izzy will be there, were the only ones we have, so they're my family so we spend as much time together as possibly. Its like the friendship you have with Maria times three!" he explained "I don't know, Max's ears turn red when I'm around and I'm still ashamed of what Maria did yesterday and Isabel's been giving me threatening letters and stares. I don't think she likes me" "Oh I know izzy she's just being the protective big sister. When the Evans's found them they decided Isabel was a year older than Max, and I was given the same age as Max so. she aint going to hurt you, she's a big softie at heart really she cried when we watched Bambi for the first time" he grinned goofily and I laughed. The teacher tapped on the desk with a pencil and snapped it, we burst out laughing and the poor man slumped even further down in his chair. The bell rang for lunch; I wiped my eyes to get rid of the tears from laughing so hard. Max and Isabel were waiting outside, for Michael. He stood at the door and turned to me, grabbed my arm and held my back from leaving. He knew Max and Isabel could see him talking to me "I don't really want to hang out with them this lunch time, if Izzy's doing the evil stare thing and Maxwell's brooding and paranoid so could I hang out with you?" he asked "Sure!" I laughed as he let go of my arm; he followed me to lunch and joined the queue with me, Maria and Kyle. He sat at our table the one were we sat yesterday and didn't say much. "Liz, are you going to be at the C'Down later?" Kyle asked "No, it isn't my shift tonight and sister Maria is working solo" "She aint my sister!" he protested "She will be soon," muttered Michael I giggled and punched him in the arm he snorted his juice out onto his lunch and Maria screamed, we all burst out laughing. Max looked over with an extremely miserable look as his best friend was out making new friends and he wasn't invited nor was his sister. But Isabel wasn't going to have it and she stood up, and grabbed Kyle by the back of the collar and lifted him up. We stopped laughing when she kissed Kyle and slid in next to him, we just stared at her like she was mad. Kyle was bright red and he sat back down next to Maria. The table was silent for a few minutes as she sat there playing with her blonde hair. "Max, come on over here and sit with us!" she called to Max, clever very clever. She stood up and walked round to the other side of the table and sat in between Kyle and Maria. "You can sit there Max," she pointed to the small space next to me, I watched as he tensed up and sat down next to me. Isabel and Michael burst out laughing though the rest didn't know what they were laughing at. It must have been really funny if Isabel was laughing. I looked at Max and he looked like a tomato. His face was red and his cheeks looked swore. Poor guy was embarrassed and his ears were deep red. I looked down at the thing he was trying to cover with his arms. I saw the little bulge in his jeans "Oh my!" I gasped and he knew I saw, he got up quickly and ran for the toilets "I think the King just hit puberty!" Michael laughed with Isabel but she stopped as what he said. "Michael!" she yelled turning purple "you did not just say that!" she stood up and walked off angrily "Michael, wait!" I said jumping up and grabbing his arm stopping him from going after Isabel. "Don't Liz, brother and sister business okay! Just leave it!" he barked as he pulled away from my grip and walked after Isabel, who had gone after Max. I stood up and ran after my new so-called friends "Liz!" Maria called as I went off "what the hells going on!" I ignored her and saw Michael go into the boys bathroom, should I? I burst through the door and Isabel was man handling Joel Malamute. She pushed him passed me and out the door. "Get out!" she roared at I stayed put, she put her hand on my arm "get out or you'll be really sorry!" she snapped "No!" Michael snapped he pushed her away from me "Don't hurt her, if we do then the SU, will be on our case within minutes!" he said her and she seemed to break. Her eyes filled with tears and she huddled against Michael "Don't let them get me, I'm scared Michael!" she cried I had never seen Isabel like this. Max came out from a cubicle and rubbed her back "Nobody's getting my Izzy E!" he coaxed, "no what do we do about Liz?" he asked looking at me. "What the hell are you talking about? Max what's the SU?" I asked and wished I hadn't "We cant tell you but we do know that Maxwell has the hots for yours truly" Michael informed, I didn't know, but I wanted to know what was going on and I was going to find out. "If you don't tell me I'll find out for myself, and maybe I will ask the SU" Isabel freaked and pointed her hand at me again. She ran around me blocking my exit from the boy's toilets. "Sorry Liz, you're not going to go to them. What would you even tell them!" she snapped "Izzy, don't!" Max snapped this felt dangerous and I was trying not to show panic. She put her hand down and I left the toilets I got stares from the students in the hall, I hadn't even heard the bell ring. Michael, Max and Isabel left at the same time and everyone got whispering. Max stopped over at my house after school, he wasn't sure on what to say. He was even more nervous when I told him to come up to my bedroom. I sat on my bed and crossed my legs, he sat down on the floor and leant against the closed door "Sorry Isabel was out of hand before. I came to say sorry, and to talk to you about what happened at lunch" his face reddened but it was nowhere as red as lunch. "Oh year, when you." I trailed off "has it happened before"? he shook his head and brought his knees into his chest and wrapped his arms around them.
"I. am. really sorry about that" he said not looking at me "Why are you saying sorry to me?" I wondered "I was thinking about sitting so close to you when it happened. I think it might be happening again coz of me being here in your room" "oh do you need to go to the bathroom or something?" I asked not wanting him to mess my carpet or something "wait you were thinking about sitting so close to me!" I shrieked he jumped when I shouted. I felt sorry for him, he only had two friends and one of them was his sister and even then they didn't get on all that too well. "Sorry I shouted, its just no one has ever had that happen with me involved" I expressed regret "come and sit HERE WITH ME on my bed" I patted my bed and he got up and sat next to me. "Uh Liz this isn't helping" I peeked down and he was right I stood up but he grabbed my arm and pulled me back down onto the bed "Um can I kiss you?" he asked he was so polite and kind. I glanced at his eyes and then found I couldn't look away from them. I leaned forward and kissed him. My first kiss! I had always thought it might be from some one like Kyle or one of his friends not mystery man Max Evans. There was a knock on my door and I pulled away before it opened and before anything really happened between Max and me. "Liz, how was school today did you get into trouble again?" my mom asked she glanced at Max and decided against doing anything. "No mom, I just had to spend some of the day in detention that's all. I'll be back in normal lessons tomorrow" I told her and she closed the door over. I heard her hover outside and after five minutes she went down stairs. "Err I think, we should.I should go" he stuttered, he had been caught by a parental unit and now he was nervous. "I want to show you my favorite place in the world!" I said as I led him over to the window and climbed out. There were a few candles spread around the balcony, and I sat down onto the deck chairs I had out there. "This is were I come when my world gets turns upside down. It's my place and I don't even share it with Kyle or Maria" I said trying to make him feel special "I really should go. The others wont be happy that I'm getting involved with somebody like you," he whispered "The others? You mean your brother and sister? Max why would they care who you chose to be with?" I asked "It affects all of us if we, if I do. Why did you say Michael was my brother?" he asked "That what he said to me" I told him not wanting to lie to Max "and he said Isabel was his sister" "I don't know if that's true but before the Evans's found us we were with Michael. We don't even know how we got out into the desert" poor guy he didn't even know where he came from. "Do you want me to help you?" I asked and he turned away from looking at the ladder "Help me to do what?" he replied as he looked me into the eyes "Find out where you came from" "Liz you can't, I have an idea of where we came from but I can't tell you I don't even know how you'd react," he said "You certainly to old for your boots, you know looking after the others. You want to protect them and you wont accept help. I mean your only twelve, its not like you have a big responsibility or something like me running the shop when my dad's out of town. Now that's tough!" "Liz you have no idea." he whispered he thought I hadn't heard him "Try me" I was pushing him now I wanted to know what his secret was and why he was so afraid for a kid. He walked over and sat on the edge of the deck chair I was sat on. He played with my hair then leaned forward and kissed me, I don't know what happened, but I was watching a Max Evans personal slide show against my closed eyelids. There was an image of him pushing his way out of a sticky yellow pod; there was one where he was holding hands with a girl and watching a sandy blond haired boy walking off by himself; then there was one where he was with the Evans's, they wrapped him up in blankets and took them home where they stayed; there was one where he was at the table with us the other day and I felt how embarrassed he was when the others were laughing at him. It felt like eternity but only a few seconds had passed and he sat back down on the edge of the deck chair. "I saw!" I cried his face fell; he was in a moment of happiness when he had kissed me "Saw what?" he whispered cautiously like he was hoping I was going to say what he didn't want to hear "You! Michael and Isabel and a pod. it was a pod chamber. out in the desert" I looked down at the floor past him not looking at him "What are you?" I said turning my head back quickly only to find him gone. The next day I went back to normal lessons, I looked about for Max or Michael or hell even Isabel but they weren't around. Before lunch I made my way over to detention, Michael was at there looking miserable. I peeked in through the door 'Good Max wouldn't leave with our his "brother" so he must still be around somewhere' the bell rang and I jumped Michael made a beeline towards me to talk "I missed you in detention to day, Liz" he stated "its no fun without you "
"I missed Max, where is he?" I asked and he looked like he had been hit with a fifty tonne weight "I haven't seen him or Iz for that matter, why what's going on?" he asked jealousy leaving and giving way to fear "I think, I have figured out what his secret is," I said as I turned to walk down the hall. He grabbed my arm and pulled me towards this room with thick black writing on 'the eraser room'. He tugged me inside "How much do you know?" he snapped angrily "I kissed Max yesterday, and I got vision thingies. I saw him pushing his way out of a pod and I saw you walking away in the opposite direction from the cave?" I said, "Which cave is it?" "Cave I don't know any cave and Max kissed you!" he snapped with a pang of jealousy hidden in his voice "I think I can find that cave. I saw the road and a sign so if it exist I can find it" I boasted "Ok, I'll help you we can use my bike" he said I wasn't sure if he wanted to find the cave or hang around with me. So after school, he turned up outside the CrashDown and I took my little leather backpack, with a map, some rope and a compass in case we got lost. I pulled the door open and heard the bell jingling as it shut. I climbed onto the back of his old fashioned, half rusted bike. We took highway 286 out of town, "There! There!" I cried when I saw the yellow rusty sign with an arrow on it. He pulled up to the sign "What now?" he didn't turn round to speak to me but just kept talking and asking questions "We got off the bike and" I looked round this was where Max and Isabel had their parents find them "we go that way" I said pointing towards a rises of rocks and cliffs. We walked across the road and I nearly fell into Lake Lee, there was a small cliff just above it and I nearly walked off it, if it hadn't been for Michael I would have died. I looked around and saw the cliff. we they had left the cave "There up they're come on" I called back to him as I ran towards it, I slipped up the side and came to the entrance of the cave where they had come out, but it was blocked off by a large rock with a sliver handprint on it "Michael this is it, but this wasn't there when you came out" I said very disappointed he stepped up to the large rock and placed his hand onto the sliver handprint, the boulder banged and we both jumped back. The rock shifted revealing the entrance of the cave He cautiously entered and I followed him, taking hold of his arm we both entered the green glowing cave and saw it. Five pods against the back wall, the looked at if what ever had been inside them had got out and walked or crawled away. Michael pulled away from me and went towards the pod second from the left. He touched it then put his hand on his head. "This is mine, I was born here!" he exclaimed he looked at the other pods "That's Max's and that ones Isabel's but whose is that one?" he pointed at the last pod next to Max's. I shrugged and looked around the cave. I tripped over thins sheet of metal bound together on two iron rings. I picked it up and saw how weird the writing and symbols were. I looked closer it was a metal book! I looked over the pages and came to the last one where there were five pictures, one looked like Max, there was another one that resembled Michael perfectly there were three more, one of Isabel but she looked different some how not as cold she looked older they all look older. There was another one of a girl with curls, she was next to Max and beneath them there was a picture of ME! "Err Michael look at this" I shoved the book into this chest and wrapped my arms around me. "I don't know who the second girl is, but the third one is you! Slightly older perhaps by a couple of years but its you all the same!" he exclaimed "So does this mean my parents are my parents and I come from where ever you come from?" I sniffed at the shock "Don't cry, you still have your parents now you have brothers and sisters. I could be you brother," he said as he hugged me "Oh god so could Max and I kissed him!" I shrieked "That aint your fault Parker, you didn't know then and anyway you may not be his sister" "That what am I then!" I yelled at him angrily. I wasn't apart of this bunch of people who knew where I came from. "Listen Liz, I think I should tell you the truth," he said taking a seat on a small boulder in the cave. "What are you talking about" I pouted "Max and I think we are aliens, we have these powers so if we have them then you do too" he confessed to me I shook my head in refusal "I am not an alien!" I roared at him wanting to run from him and take his bike and leave him here "Liz, Liz!" he shouted grabbing my shoulders and shaking me "NO!" I shouted and pushed him, a blue bolt shot from my hand and knocked him to the other side of the cave. He stood up and marched angrily over to me and took my shoulders. A connection passed between us, I saw all five of us playing by a big lake beneath a purplish sky with acid green clouds. I was one of them and we were so happy. I was holding hands with Max, Michael and Isabel were jumping in and out of the lake. The last girl with blond hair sat away from us and she was sad. "Ava!" I saw the girl get called over and pushed into the lake by Max she was happy then. "Little sister stay and play with us!" Michael called in the vision then suddenly it faded leaving us standing in the cave. "Did you see that as well?" I asked him and he nodded "I felt the things and I know things from what they were. Max isn't my brother, he's my best friend you and Ava are sisters and Max and Isabel are Princess and Prince!" he whispered "I know, and I loved Max!" I cried "I think we should go back it'll be getting dark soon I slipped the metal book into my back pack and left the rope in the cave. We left the cave and the boulder closed We trekked back to his bike, the sun was setting, and I could see the first few stars in the sky. I stopped and looked up, Michael stopped and I pointed towards the sky "One of them is our home." I said turning to look at him, I climbed onto the back of the bike and he pedalled back into town. We arrived at the CrashDown, as the sun disappeared completely. Maria was working her shift and Max and Isabel sat in a booth looking very nervous. Max saw Michael and Me first then Isabel turned and came over and hugged Michael "Where have you been?" she almost shouted he pulled away from her and slid into the booth next to Max. He whispered something to Max and returned to me. "Liz, can we go up and talk on your porch?" he asked "we need to talk in private," he said so Isabel heard Maria gave me a why-have-you-been-with- him-instead-of-me kind of look, she had certainly been taken over by the green eyed monster. Max, Michael, Isabel and me went into the back and walked up the stairs and slipped quietly into my room. "So what's so important" Max asked with quivering fear in his voice Michael lifted his hand and aimed it at the door so it slammed shut "Michael" Isabel cried "what are you doing using your powers in front of humans!" "Calm down Iz there aren't any humans in this room!" he informed her "What do you mean?" she glanced at me then back at Michael. I pulled off my leather back pack and pulled out the metal sheet book and opened it on the last page with the pictures of us I handed it to her so she and Max could see it "Where did you find this" Max demanded "In a cave outside of town, our pods where there. Maxwell were not from around here and neither is Liz, we shared a vision and we were by a lake under a purple sky with acid green clouds. You and Max are bother and sister. Liz and Ava are sisters and I'm your best friend. Me and Parker here are cousins" he told them "Who's Ava" Isabel asked "She's the other girl in the book," I told her "I'm an alien" I said it aloud it was weird to say it felt right but I had parents, parents who had probably lied to me "You are to keep this a secret the SU are agents who captured tortured and killed the beings from the crash, they could have been our real parents" Max informed me and a wave of nausea washed over me as I saw myself lying on a table, being prodded and poked and cut and tested. I shuddered at the thought of it, Michaels arm was around me for the second time tonight "Its ok cuz I'll look out for you no way is my baby cuz gonna by set up on a metal table" he said trying to comfort me, after the cave we seemed to grow more together we had this link after we shared the vision. "So what do we do now? Do we tell people, do we ask our parents? What?" I asked as I looked around my room. "I think we should keep it a secret, people might not believe us" Max said to the group as he slid his hands into his back pockets "Or they might give us over to the SU" Isabel added, then silence hit the room and we looked about my bedroom praying that they would never find us. Knock! Knock! We all jumped I crept cautiously over to the door and opened it. "Maria, what wrong?" I asked when I saw it was just my best friend "What are you guys doing in here?" she asked looking at the others, I looked to Isabel, knowing she would be the one to try and stop me telling Maria and gave her a pleading look. I wanted to tell Maria, she was my best friend and I didn't want to keep secrets from her. Isabel shook her head and I turned back to Maria "Nothings going on in here Ria, come I'll help you in the shop, they were just going" I sighed as I followed Maria and they followed me down the stairs. Max Isabel and Maria went into the front Michael held me back "You know, I never thought I had a family, a proper one. I didn't know if Max or Iz were so I couldn't be sure but now I know it's just. I wont let the SU get you," he said proudly patting my shoulder "Cousin" he whispered and hugged me; Maria pushed the swing door open and found me hugging him. "Bye Michael, I'll see you tomorrow at school" I waved him off as he left the back "What was all that about?" Maria asked strolling up to me with her arms crossed "are you seeing him?" "No!" I laughed as I went into the front to gather up some of the dishes for cleaning "Then what?" she asked she wasn't going to let it go "I can't tell you" I whined "I want to but cant it's you wouldn't believe me any way" I tried to sound convincing "You can tell me Liz," she pleaded "who am I going to tell any way Kyle?" she laughed jokingly "Yeah then Kyle will tell his dad, then his dad will tell the rest of the cops and before you know it I'll be stuck on one of those tables!" "What do you mean by 'those tables?'" she questioned "look Maria, I cant tell you I really wish I could but I cant, other wise I wont be around anymore, and you would loose you best sister friend" I would have said anything for her to drop it and I did. She didn't say anymore after that, she switched on the radio and helped me clear the dishes away into the back so we could clean them. I woke up early the next morning, every thing had changed but stayed the same. My room seemed odd, as if I didn't belong to me. My clothes I pulled on seemed to swim. I didn't know what was happening to me, maybe now I knew that I was changing, like I had tapped into something hidden. Maybe it was because of the thing that happened in the cave when I had blasted Michael. I didn't know but I felt like a stranger as I ate breakfast with my mom and dad. I knew they weren't my mom and dad, because I was different now how would I find out. I had known them as long as I could remember so how were they not my parents? I ate my toast and didn't say a word, I thought if I did it would be about them not being who they said they were "Lizze you awfully quiet this morning" my mom said as she put her plate of toast down on the table and sat down to eat "Liar" I snapped without realising I looked at my mom in a panic "excuse me?" she looked at me as if she hadn't heard me. Good. "I must go to school now mom" I said quickly grabbing my bag from beside my chair. I ran out the door as quick as I could "Liz wait do you want a ride?" she called as I left "No!" I cried back "I'll walk!" I quickly shut the door and instead of turning to go in the direction of school, I went to the Evans's house. They were piling onto the bus when I arrived. I panted desperately trying to catch my breath from running so hard. I climbed onto the bus and I saw them sitting at the back. Max and Iz were sat together and across from them was Michael, Maria was two rows in front off them. I walked along the bus as it drove away from the house. Maria moved her bag for me to sit down next to her but I carried on walking along the bus. Michael saw me and slid over to the window so I could sit next to him. "After school, I think we should go to the cave" I suggested "on our bikes" they nodded and Michael took my hand and squeezed it. I suddenly felt like me, I didn't feel like the stranger I felt around my parents when I was with them. I fitted in and was accepted, I was even more than when I was with Maria. The bus pulled up to school and the kids piled off, I was the last to get off, Michael hadn't let go off my hand and I didn't want him to. He made me feel safe and I belonged when I was with him. Max and Iz had got off the bus ages ago, we walked slowly he was in front and led me down the little walkway on the bus. I stepped down the steps after him and he let go of my hand. I gasped when he did, I felt like part of me had been torn away. I saw Maria standing with Kyle, an angry look was slapped across her features. I left my newfound friends and family and ventured cautiously over to Maria and Kyle knowing full well I would get an earful off my best friend. But she didn't say anything, we just walked to first class. Her silence scared me, she was always saying something but now she was angry and she didn't say a word. "Hey you guys guess what happened yesterday!" Kyle started to break the awkward silence between his best friends "What?" I was too eager to break that silence as well "Yeah Kyle what happened?" Maria spoke up "I got picked to be the quarter back on the football team!" he jumped with excitement, we all giggled and jumped along with him. Class was boring, we had that clumsy teacher who had sent me to detention. I was fed up and I was curious about what powers I had, because I remembered blasting Michael in the cave so I wondered. I focused on the blast, I tapped my hand on the table and stopped and sighed then I started to tap again. The first time I hit my hand down on the desk, his chair flew up into the air and crashed down by the door, breaking into splinters. I panted as I knew it was me who had done that! He had to get another chair from the staff room, when he left the class, I saw little bubbles float into the room. There weren't that many, and I saw one float towards Isabel, she hummed the same note the bubble made and it grew bigger. I looked about the class to see if anyone else could see the bubbles. They went about their business carrying on with their work even Maria didn't notice. I stood up in the class and still no one noticed I walked over to Izzy and the bubble "you're asleep" she explained to me "you are asleep on your desk and so am I. This is the dream plane. You and I are dream walking" I looked around at the bubbles, they were peoples dreams! "why are you showing me this?" I asked because she had practically threatened to attack me the other day and now she was being so nice to me "I'm showing you because, you make Michael happy. He's always been on this quest to find family because he wasn't sure if we were his and if you're one of us I have to get along with you. So I'm trying. This is the power that makes me special" she continued. I smiled as I followed her into the bubble, it was an odd dream. There were clowns chasing a little girl about three or four. They weren't happy looking clowns they were scary, they even scared me a little. I walked up to the clown that was reaching for the girl. I kicked him and he disappeared. "you don't have to be afraid in you dreams!" I told the girl pulling her up "you could send them away because this is your dream" she smiled and closed her eyes. The dark place filled with scary clowns faded into a big park with miles and miles of grass. There were swings and slides and the girl ran off to play. "that was a good thing you did Parker. She isn't afraid anymore. Now we should get back. I think the bell is wringing" I heard the hum of the bell in the dream but the little girl didn't hear it she just carried on playing. We stepped through the bubble and I was back in class. I sat up, my hair had gone flat against the side of my head. Isabel and me were the only kids in the class and the teacher stood before us with detention slips. I was as angry as Isabel was, on the way out. I blew up the new chair he had got from the staff room and Isabel could barley keep her sides from splitting because we were both laughing so hard as we walked down the hall to the detention room to spend the rest of the day there. Michael was sat in there again and he was still by himself. He looked up and saw up both stood there with a mischievous grin spread across our faces "What'd ya do?" he asked the both of us as we took seats around him. "Fell asleep in class" I started "We dream walked" Isabel added "You let her dream walk with you?" he gasped "Yeah, she's your cousin and you're like family to me and max and I know max is holding a burning desire for you cousin over there so I thought I better to be nice to her since she's like my cousin as well" I smiled at what she said, I fitted in with this crowd and I didn't feel like a stranger around them. I knew Maria, was going to be sorely angry at me but I didn't care. She should be happy for me now that I have my family. We played funny tricks on the teacher in the front of the class. I was testing what powers I had, I had blast, and mindwarp that was a confusing thing but it was fun to play with, I could fly as well, but I don't know why. After a full hour and fifteen minutes of terrorising the teacher the bell rang and we left giggling madly as I made the teachers clothes disappear as she walked down the corridor to the staff room. We bought our lunch and headed out to the lunch tables on the grass onside. "I'm glad you part of the family now" Isabel said doing that thing with her hands when you were using a euphemism "coz I'd hate to be your enemy if that's what you do to them" we all burst out laughing and tried to control ourselves as Maria and Kyle walked over "Hey" she said coldly "what's so funny? You're not laughing at me are you?" I couldn't help it I burst out laughing as I saw the teaching whose clothes had vanished running to her car. I pointed at her and Michael and Izzy burst out laughing too. Maria had a small grin across her face as she sat down next to Michael. Kyle sat down to Izzy and she glared at him. My strolled over carrying his lunch in a brown paper bag, he was munching on a red apple as he sat down next to Isabel, he hadn't sat next to me after the hole puberty thing. "Hey did you see Mrs Lawson run to her car just now" his chuckled as he munched away on his apple "Yeah" I giggled another round of full on laughing was about to start any second. "I wonder what happened to her clothes?" he muttered taking another bite from his apple. "I think they're over there in that tree" I pointed and everyone looked to the tree and saw the clothes hanging from the branches, "They weren't there a minute ago I walked past that tree and got the apple from it" Max commented then looked at his apple, yelled and jumped it flew out of his hands and everyone laughed at the red faced alien sat in the corner. "So are you up to going to the cave tonight?" I asked forget that Kyle and Maria didn't know about the whole alien thing. "What cave?" Kyle asked and Michael glared at me "Oh Michael and Me have an extra credit assignment for being in detention, we have to research some caves out in the desert. Were on our fifth one now" I lied to my best friend and it was so easy, I hope I don't make a habit out of it. "Oh I thought you were coming round to my house to rescue me and Kyle from my mom and his dad making kissy faces at each other?" she whined "Sorry can't research." there I go again, lying to both my best friends "Liz come on its extra credit" Kyle pleaded "I cant ok!" I snapped he was starting to get on my nerves "She Said She Cant!" Michael snapped, he rubbed my hand that lay on the seat of the bench "Michael calm down sorry, jeez!" Maria cried she wasn't one for swearing but Michael had been rude. I finished my juice and chucked the carton onto my lunch tray, the bell rang and now it was time for Isabel, Michael and me to go back to detention. The class was empty when we arrived, no teachers no students and I felt bored and I had a quick idea "You guys help me," I turned the door purple, Isabel changed the walls to pink and Michael changed the colour of the desks to navy blue. We sat at our seats with a big grin "We really shouldn't have done that it will draw attention to us" Isabel whined but didn't really regret it "Oh come on Iz if they ever find out we can just leave, its not like we should be afraid of them we have powers you know" I was going to get them into trouble one of these days. The teacher walked in and gasped at the room, we sat in the classroom as if nothing was different "Can you see the colours?" Ms Lee muttered "What colours? Are you ok Ms Lee?" Michael said, how cruel I could have burst out laughing but I kept my straight face, barely! "I think, I think I shall go and see the school nurse, you have a free period," she uttered as she left the room and I high fived Isabel "Way to go Cuz!" Michael laughed as we left the room, Isabel's arm around my shoulders and my arm around Michael's shoulders "Cuz?" we froze in our tracks, we let go of each other and turned to see Maria standing there with our work "Liz what does he mean by Cuz?" she asked her fingers flicking over the sheets of paper and text books she held in her hand "Um.I.um.um. err" I found I was good at lying but this time I ran dry, she gave Michael a blank look "Michael is my cousin." I sighed as I told my best friend the truth finally
"What!" she shouted almost dropping the books "Chica I've know for most of my life how come you never told me this!" "I only found out recently, I wanted to tell you but its complicated Maria" I said "I'm not the Parkers daughter and I don't even know who I am now. Michael is my cousin my real cousin and he's my family and he's like a brother to me now! I love him!" I cried shocked at the last three words "Liz?" Maria sighed "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have been so hard on you! Just promise me you'll tell me everything, ok?" she gave me a big hug and for the first time in a couple of days I had grinned and the grin hadn't been fake or to hide something, it was real and I finally felt happy once again.
I rode up to his small house on my bike, there were a few black bin bags full of rubbish scattered around the house, and the door was half open when I arrived. I dismounted from my bike and knocked on the door, I slowly glided open as I looked inside, the stench of beer hit me hard and I put my hand up to my nose but it still didn't block it out. I entered the house and stepped cautiously over empty beer cans that were rolling around the floor "Michael" I said the word muffled and didn't come out properly because my hand was still over my mouth, I took it away and felt the full force of the alcohol stench, it made me want to be sick "Michael" I said again and I heard some one move in what appeared to be the bathroom, "who the hell are you" a drunken man half wrapped up in a towel barely white anymore shouted at me as he left the bathroom "I'm. err I'm here for Michael" I stuttered as he stood looking down at me "Liz!" Michael shouted coming to help me, when he heard his dad shouting; he stood in front of me trying to protect me from the drunken abusive foster dad "Leave her alone Hank" he muttered sounding brash but there were slivers of fear quaking in his voice "don't back talk me boy!" he snapped moving over to slam the door shut. Even though it was to shut the cold out, I felt as if it was to keep us in "so boy," Hank began moving away from the door and tightening the towel around his waist "why did you find the time to get a girlfriend?" "she's not my girl friend" his voice had completely lost the courage he retained before "then who is she boy" he scoffed waving his arms up and the towel loosened at his waist and I drew my breath in quick "she's a friend.just a friend" he sounded cowardly now, sounded like I felt. "you! Make friends! Hah!" he laughed cruelly "yeah he's mine friend!" I shouted at Hank, I hadn't meant to shout but I couldn't let him speak to Michael like that "hmmm you gotta a mouth on you, girly" he lost the evil grin and his eyes shot daggers at me "yeah so what if she. she does!" Michael snapped a fragment of courage had returned after I had defended him "I said don't back talk me punk ass bastard boy!" he bellowed and backhanded Michael and sent him sprawling over the jaggered metal of the rubbish beer cans, "Michael!" I squealed as I went to help him "you've gone to far now!" I roared after seeing Michael had suffered cuts and bruises that could be healed later. I raised my hand and blasted him in anger "Liz No!" Michael jumped up and tried to grab my arm but it was too late I had sent Hank flying across the room, he crashed into the wall and slumped down onto the floor "Liz?" he piped and I gasped aloud, my mouth fell open as I saw the abusive man slumped against the wall. "Lets get out of here Liz!" he cried grabbing my arm, he sounded so scared and innocent. He jumped onto the back of my back, which was almost brand new compared to Michaels rust bucket that he abandoned in the garage. I pedalled as fast as my little legs would allow me to get to the CrashDown. Isabel, Max and Maria were sat at a booth laughing over banana splits and cherry coke mixed with Tabasco. I almost crashed into the bike rack, the bike wobbled then Michael and me fell off the side and landed on the sidewalk, hard. I gulped my breath I picked my self up and forced myself through the doors of the CrashDown, the bell above the door rang as I entered Max looked up at me with a grin his smile faded when he saw how scared and frightened I looked. Maria looked up and noticed me marching towards the table "Liz?" she said standing up "Max, Iz we're leaving now!" I snapped by the time I reached the booth "What's going on?" Maria snapped totally clueless of the situation "I. I. killed Michaels foster dad" I stammered, god the reality hit me as I spoke the words "Liz!" Maria and Isabel both gasped, Michael burst through the door, pushed me over and sat down "Did baby cuz tell you?" he asked his voice wasn't filled with fear anymore; I sensed worry, anxiety and anger. Was he angry with me for saving him? "Liz? What the hell is going on?" my dad looked down at me, I stared up at him and gulped "I'm sorry dad, I'm leaving. I'm going.I have to go I can't stay here its too dangerous" "what?" he snapped "where have you been and what are you talking about you've got a shift now. I don't know what's going on with you nowadays Liz first detention now shirking you're duties?!" "I'm not shirking I'm running, I can't stay here dad I killed a man" there I confessed my guilty sin to my dad "OMG Liz." he whispered not believing me "back room now!" I stood and followed him quickly to the back room "dad?" I squeaked my voice going hoarse as I knew I would get the biggest lecture of my entire life "how dare you lie to me like that and with something as stupid and nutty as what you just told me!" he snapped waving his arms around "dad, I'm not making it up" I growled rather angrily for him not believing me "yeah right, you go get changed and you do you're shift!" "NO" I growled through clenched teeth "I'm you're father and you will do as I say!" he bellowed and I knew the entire café had heard "you aren't my father!" I screamed at the top of my voice, Michael burst through the door "Liz, were ready to go." he sighed feeling the tension in the room "Liz, you're not going anywhere but you're room," he wasn't shouting anymore maybe that was a sign he was really angry "NO!" I said again stepping forward to go out the swing door, he put his arm around my chest and pulled me back "go to you're room, you're not going anywhere except school and work. Do you understand me?" he spat through gritted teeth "NO" I said it but it didn't sound like me "you are not my father, I'm not you're daughter and I don't know if you know it but I'm not from this planet" "yeah right you're from planet abusive teen!" he barked "no I'm from Antar!" I cried, a memory. a memory of who I was; I raised my hand and the ball of light appeared, he swallowed I saw his Adam's apple bob up and down. I closed my first tight "Liz.I" he began "Liz we gotta go." Isabel appeared at the door and I quickly walked past my dad. I took hold of Michael and Isabel's hand, Isabel had tight held of Max's hand as we walked out of my parents CrashDown, Maybe forever. It's been two months since we walked, our parents have tried to find us. The word on the street is they've been searching day and night for the last few weeks after Valenti stopped demanding questions from Max's parents and mine. Its rough out here and difficult. We live on the street, Isabel got her first tattoo the other day and I got my fourth; we didn't go to a tattoo parlour to get them though we just did them ourselves no pain and we don't have to pay. New York is very different to Roswell, it's much bigger and dirtier. I never realised how much I could miss a bed, Max and I are growing close. Michaels only started to talk to me again, I don't understand how he could be so angry I had protected him from that monster that beat him black and blue day and night. I guess we're affected by emotions in a different way to humans being half and half and all. I remember the days when Maria found the bird, we I didn't know when we didn't know. The others look to me for the memories of home, our real home but its difficult I cant just bring them up like that. I don't know if we'll ever go back but if we do it won't be a warm welcome, I killed a man and something like that stays with you forever, nothing can justify murder even if he was attacking you're cousin. Maybe we could go back, I prey for the day I can return home and feel like I belong.
To Be Continued.
I leaned over the poor hurt baby bird, next to my new friend Maria who had shown me. He was there, the new boy he kept staring at me I don't know why though. I turned my attention over to the little hurt bird; I looked back up to see the new boy he was walking over to us. "Can I help" he squeaked he sounded like a mouse and I laughed he looked hurt I hadn't meant to laugh "This birdie's hurt" I informed him but he already knew I handed it over to him and Maria looked at me, not wanting to the give the hurt bird to him in case he hurt it more. He stood there for a few minutes then threw the bird into the air, Maria gasped but she saw the bird fly off! She stared at him in disbelief, how could have he done some thing like that? "Maria!" it was her mom calling her she turned and hugged me "Bye Lizzy" she said as she ran over to get into her mom's red Jetta. Three years passed, and Roswell junior high accepted me and my best friend Maria, we had been friends since that day of the bird. The first day of high school and my nerves were stringing me up. I saw Maria climb out of her mom's car, her mom looked terribly Maria's mom and dad had been fighting and he had spent the weekend at some motel. So starting must be harder for Maria. I jumped off the last step of the bus. My mom had made me wear that dress with the cupcakes on it, which I hated, she said tomorrow I could wear anything I liked but now she wanted me to wear this for the first day. I walked over to Maria smiled and hugged her; we walked hand in hand to homeroom. We had a really big friendship and we weren't going to let people think we were just best friends; we were more like sisters with out the arguments. I looked over the grass and saw him sitting at a wooden table with his sister and his best friend. Whenever I saw them they were always together, but there was something different about them to the other kids. He was special and I wanted to know what made him special apart from his dark brown hair, autumn eyes, long lashes and ears that turned red when he was embarrassed or nervous. They were always red when I looked at him. The first day was good; I had made friends with the new little league captain, Kyle. His dad was the sheriff and he was going to invite me round for dinner on Friday, his dad was a friend with Maria's mom, he had looked after Maria and her mom when Mr. De Luca left, so the De Luca family were going to be there, so I could hang out with Maria while Kyle show us how much he loved football. But back to the first day, I had science with him; he was made my lab partner. I found out how wonderful science was, and since he was there it made it even better. The bell rang and brought me out of my little stare, I looked at him again and found his eyes a neat shade of red. I felt my cheeks burn as I gathered up my and stuck it into the little brown leather backpack Amy De Luca had given me for my birthday. I left and found Maria and kyle in the lunch line and collected my lunch paid for it and headed outside to where the lunch tables were, students lay about the grass and Max was sat at the table with his sister and Michael, I watched his ears turn red in the sun light. All of a sudden Kyle and Maria whizzed past me and sat at the table in front of Max. I watched them wave me over and I felt nervous again, I would see Max and he would be able to see me. He knew I was going to have to sit there at the table in front of him. Michael and Isabel's back were facing Kyle and Maria's. I watched him flash me a small smile that made my heart race. I smiled back and he looked down to hide the face that was even redder than his ears, if that was ever possible. I walked over and sat down with my friends, Maria told me about something funny that had happened in her first lesson of English, the teacher had sat on a pin fell over spilled coffee on his notes and broke two windows. Poor guy, new teachers tend to be as nervous as the students on their first day. I drank my juice I had bought in the lunch line and I looked past Kyle's shoulder and saw Max chewing a slice of pizza covered in Tabasco Sauce? He snatched the bottle of Tabasco off Michael and poured it into his juice. "Eugh!" I said out loud and Maria turned round to see I found so disgusting and she saw them pouring Tabasco sauce over everything they were planning to eat "You said it girlfriend!" she said turning back to finish eating her salad. I saw the shameful look on his face and I flashed him a really-sorry-I-hurt- your-feelings kind of smile. He grinned and Isabel turned round, giving me the Ice Princess look and turned round and said something nasty to her brother at least I think it was nasty the way his smile faded into a miserable stare. Maria jumped up with her tray, and headed off back to the canteen "I'll see you guys after last class!" she kissed Kyle and hugged me and then disappeared into the canteen with a squeal. "Um Liz" Kyle said fiddling with the corner of the tray glancing up at me then back at the table then back to me, he repeated it several times before he spoke "I was wondering, would you like to go out with me?" he asked trying to look me in the eyes. "Maybe in the future, Kyle" I said trying to be as nice as possible "Were friends and someday I might see it different but for now I want my favourite guyfriend" he looked disappointed but relieved that I still wanted to be his friend. The bell rang and I jumped, I grabbed my backpack and headed for last period. Maths. Isabel 'ice princess' Evans was in that class with me and I dreaded it because it appeared I had made an enemy on my first day. I went into the class and chose my seat. The teacher walked in, it was that clumsy one Maria was telling me about Isabel walked in after him and walked past my desk dropping me a note, she sat two rows back on the left. I picked up the note unfolded it and read 'Stay away from my brother Parker!' she had scribbled 'if you don't, you'll wish you had never been born!' why did she have to give me that note I became scared of her after that. But I was foolish then I didn't know what she was so I challenged her. I turned round "Oh, I'll stay away from you're brother but I don't know if he can keep his eyes off me!" I quipped and watched her face redden in anger. I smiled evilly as I turned to the front to see the clumsy teacher pull a piece of paper out from under his cup to send the cup flying off his desk and smashing. He stood up and slipped on his coffee that was on his cup, he fell backwards grabbing at a ruler and flicking the paper weight that rested on the edge of the ruler through the door window, the glass paper weight smashed in the hall and everybody laughed even Isabel as the teacher looked over the top of the desk at us. Maybe just maybe she was as scary or closed off as she made out. The teacher kept breaking things in the end he told us to read whichever book we wanted till the end of class. I found one on the star system I went to pick it up but a hand reached out and grabbed it at the same time I did. I looked it was Isabel! Oh no, she glared at me and I pulled the book from her and found my seat. I was half way down the page when the book flew out of my hands and hit the teacher in the back, who was talking to one of the jocks in the class. He turned round and glared at me angrily. "Miss Parker!" he snapped "Detention!" I was furious even more furious when I saw Isabel get up and collect the book of the floor. I was the only one in detention that was until Michael Guerin waltzed in looking angry and sat down behind me off to the left. Then laughing rocked the hall way and the teacher watching us stood up shook her head and left the room. "So, Ms goody two shoes what are you in here for?" I heard Michael speaking to me "I threw a book at a teacher" I lied I didn't throw the book at the teacher but I was here so I wasn't going to deny it "what are you doing here?" I asked "I set fire to my homeroom teacher's dress," he said rubbing his head. Wow he was only eleven, must be learning bad habits off the trailer trash he was fostered with. "So I see you like my brother" he stated I got confused he was an only child, he didn't have any brothers or sisters "You don't have a brother," I said turning round to look him in the eye "Yes I do, Max is my brother and Isabel is my sister, I remember when we were all born together. Maxwell and Isabel are twins, they went off towards the road and I went in the opposite direction" "How did you walk you must have been babies" I exclaimed "No, when they found Max and Izzy they guessed they were seven, when they found me they guessed I was seven as well. We don't remember anything before we made it out into the sun" he informed me. "I never knew Max and Isabel were adopted, how do you know they're you brother and sister?" I asked curious "I don't know, its just we're different to regular people, but us three are the same" what he said didn't make sense. But I couldn't ask him what he meant because the teacher strolled back in. the bell rang and through the open door I say the corridor fill with students, Michael was up and out of the door within seconds. I walked slowly out and found Maria with Kyle in Sheriff Valenti's police cruiser. I walked over and he opened the door for me, I slid into the front passenger seat and he pulled off to drop Maria and me at the CrashDown, my parent's shop, where we both worked as waitresses. Max and Michael walked through the door, and strolled up to the counter, they had come here every day during the summer now they were coming after school. "Can I have a cherry coke, please Liz?" Max asked trying to make it sound like a question instead of an order. Michael just sighed and rolled his eyes at the ceiling. I nodded and handed him the can, "Anything else?" I asked politely as the pair of them hopped up onto stools at the counter "Yeah, orbit rings and a hell of a lot of Tabasco sauce!" Michael interrupted Max. Michael had to go home to his abusive foster dad Hank; he needed to be well fed so he could have the energy to take the beatings. "No thank you Liz" Max said kindly after his friends interruption "So Liz," Michael started as he looked through the menu even though he had ordered "Will I be seeing you in detention tomorrow?" Max looked at Michael then at me in disbelief "YOU were in detention!" Max jumped; I turned and walked into the back as quick as I could. I heard Michael's comments to Max "I think you broke her" they weren't very social and they didn't have much communication skills. I started crying so I snuck into the toilets and grabbed some tissues. Maria banged on the door "Chica get your butt out here so you can spit on his orbit rings!" she yelled through the door, I opened it and laughed as I came face to face with her funny faces she pulled when I got upset. "Come on Lizzy, those guys aint worth it, Guerin's an ass ok" she said wrapping her arm around my shoulder "Michael wasn't the one who made me cry, it was Max" she looked at me and was out the swing door and back into the Diner in a second. I stood on my tiptoes and peeked through the diamond in the swing door and I saw Maria wiping down the counter and knocking his drink over she picked it up in the cloth then dropped it and stepped back as it sprayed over Max and Michael. Oh my god she did not just do that. Maria wiped the counter clean with the cloth; move around from the counter into the back to get paper towels from the toilets. She walked past me and gave me a high five. I laughed as she 'accidentally' dropped a soggy paper towel onto Max's knee. Max was furious but it was worth it, I could see her try desperately not to burst out laughing as a soggy Max and Michael left the CrashDown. The next day at school I was back in detention till lunch time, so I was going to talk to Michael, since he was the only one in there apart from me. But he wouldn't talk to me after that incident in the café yesterday. He gave up his vow of silence after a while and started talking to me because he knew it would piss of the teacher who was covering detention. It happened to be the new shy clumsy teacher, so I talked as well because he had put me in here when it wasn't my fault. "Sorry about yesterday" I apologised for Maria "Maria looks out for me like a big sister even though I'm older than her and when I was crying yesterday she took revenge!" "Sorry for making you cry" he apologised "look, can I buy you a burger after school?" "Are you asking me out on a date in my dad's café?" I asked sounding pathetically childish "Well it wont be like a date coz Max and Izzy will be there, were the only ones we have, so they're my family so we spend as much time together as possibly. Its like the friendship you have with Maria times three!" he explained "I don't know, Max's ears turn red when I'm around and I'm still ashamed of what Maria did yesterday and Isabel's been giving me threatening letters and stares. I don't think she likes me" "Oh I know izzy she's just being the protective big sister. When the Evans's found them they decided Isabel was a year older than Max, and I was given the same age as Max so. she aint going to hurt you, she's a big softie at heart really she cried when we watched Bambi for the first time" he grinned goofily and I laughed. The teacher tapped on the desk with a pencil and snapped it, we burst out laughing and the poor man slumped even further down in his chair. The bell rang for lunch; I wiped my eyes to get rid of the tears from laughing so hard. Max and Isabel were waiting outside, for Michael. He stood at the door and turned to me, grabbed my arm and held my back from leaving. He knew Max and Isabel could see him talking to me "I don't really want to hang out with them this lunch time, if Izzy's doing the evil stare thing and Maxwell's brooding and paranoid so could I hang out with you?" he asked "Sure!" I laughed as he let go of my arm; he followed me to lunch and joined the queue with me, Maria and Kyle. He sat at our table the one were we sat yesterday and didn't say much. "Liz, are you going to be at the C'Down later?" Kyle asked "No, it isn't my shift tonight and sister Maria is working solo" "She aint my sister!" he protested "She will be soon," muttered Michael I giggled and punched him in the arm he snorted his juice out onto his lunch and Maria screamed, we all burst out laughing. Max looked over with an extremely miserable look as his best friend was out making new friends and he wasn't invited nor was his sister. But Isabel wasn't going to have it and she stood up, and grabbed Kyle by the back of the collar and lifted him up. We stopped laughing when she kissed Kyle and slid in next to him, we just stared at her like she was mad. Kyle was bright red and he sat back down next to Maria. The table was silent for a few minutes as she sat there playing with her blonde hair. "Max, come on over here and sit with us!" she called to Max, clever very clever. She stood up and walked round to the other side of the table and sat in between Kyle and Maria. "You can sit there Max," she pointed to the small space next to me, I watched as he tensed up and sat down next to me. Isabel and Michael burst out laughing though the rest didn't know what they were laughing at. It must have been really funny if Isabel was laughing. I looked at Max and he looked like a tomato. His face was red and his cheeks looked swore. Poor guy was embarrassed and his ears were deep red. I looked down at the thing he was trying to cover with his arms. I saw the little bulge in his jeans "Oh my!" I gasped and he knew I saw, he got up quickly and ran for the toilets "I think the King just hit puberty!" Michael laughed with Isabel but she stopped as what he said. "Michael!" she yelled turning purple "you did not just say that!" she stood up and walked off angrily "Michael, wait!" I said jumping up and grabbing his arm stopping him from going after Isabel. "Don't Liz, brother and sister business okay! Just leave it!" he barked as he pulled away from my grip and walked after Isabel, who had gone after Max. I stood up and ran after my new so-called friends "Liz!" Maria called as I went off "what the hells going on!" I ignored her and saw Michael go into the boys bathroom, should I? I burst through the door and Isabel was man handling Joel Malamute. She pushed him passed me and out the door. "Get out!" she roared at I stayed put, she put her hand on my arm "get out or you'll be really sorry!" she snapped "No!" Michael snapped he pushed her away from me "Don't hurt her, if we do then the SU, will be on our case within minutes!" he said her and she seemed to break. Her eyes filled with tears and she huddled against Michael "Don't let them get me, I'm scared Michael!" she cried I had never seen Isabel like this. Max came out from a cubicle and rubbed her back "Nobody's getting my Izzy E!" he coaxed, "no what do we do about Liz?" he asked looking at me. "What the hell are you talking about? Max what's the SU?" I asked and wished I hadn't "We cant tell you but we do know that Maxwell has the hots for yours truly" Michael informed, I didn't know, but I wanted to know what was going on and I was going to find out. "If you don't tell me I'll find out for myself, and maybe I will ask the SU" Isabel freaked and pointed her hand at me again. She ran around me blocking my exit from the boy's toilets. "Sorry Liz, you're not going to go to them. What would you even tell them!" she snapped "Izzy, don't!" Max snapped this felt dangerous and I was trying not to show panic. She put her hand down and I left the toilets I got stares from the students in the hall, I hadn't even heard the bell ring. Michael, Max and Isabel left at the same time and everyone got whispering. Max stopped over at my house after school, he wasn't sure on what to say. He was even more nervous when I told him to come up to my bedroom. I sat on my bed and crossed my legs, he sat down on the floor and leant against the closed door "Sorry Isabel was out of hand before. I came to say sorry, and to talk to you about what happened at lunch" his face reddened but it was nowhere as red as lunch. "Oh year, when you." I trailed off "has it happened before"? he shook his head and brought his knees into his chest and wrapped his arms around them.
"I. am. really sorry about that" he said not looking at me "Why are you saying sorry to me?" I wondered "I was thinking about sitting so close to you when it happened. I think it might be happening again coz of me being here in your room" "oh do you need to go to the bathroom or something?" I asked not wanting him to mess my carpet or something "wait you were thinking about sitting so close to me!" I shrieked he jumped when I shouted. I felt sorry for him, he only had two friends and one of them was his sister and even then they didn't get on all that too well. "Sorry I shouted, its just no one has ever had that happen with me involved" I expressed regret "come and sit HERE WITH ME on my bed" I patted my bed and he got up and sat next to me. "Uh Liz this isn't helping" I peeked down and he was right I stood up but he grabbed my arm and pulled me back down onto the bed "Um can I kiss you?" he asked he was so polite and kind. I glanced at his eyes and then found I couldn't look away from them. I leaned forward and kissed him. My first kiss! I had always thought it might be from some one like Kyle or one of his friends not mystery man Max Evans. There was a knock on my door and I pulled away before it opened and before anything really happened between Max and me. "Liz, how was school today did you get into trouble again?" my mom asked she glanced at Max and decided against doing anything. "No mom, I just had to spend some of the day in detention that's all. I'll be back in normal lessons tomorrow" I told her and she closed the door over. I heard her hover outside and after five minutes she went down stairs. "Err I think, we should.I should go" he stuttered, he had been caught by a parental unit and now he was nervous. "I want to show you my favorite place in the world!" I said as I led him over to the window and climbed out. There were a few candles spread around the balcony, and I sat down onto the deck chairs I had out there. "This is were I come when my world gets turns upside down. It's my place and I don't even share it with Kyle or Maria" I said trying to make him feel special "I really should go. The others wont be happy that I'm getting involved with somebody like you," he whispered "The others? You mean your brother and sister? Max why would they care who you chose to be with?" I asked "It affects all of us if we, if I do. Why did you say Michael was my brother?" he asked "That what he said to me" I told him not wanting to lie to Max "and he said Isabel was his sister" "I don't know if that's true but before the Evans's found us we were with Michael. We don't even know how we got out into the desert" poor guy he didn't even know where he came from. "Do you want me to help you?" I asked and he turned away from looking at the ladder "Help me to do what?" he replied as he looked me into the eyes "Find out where you came from" "Liz you can't, I have an idea of where we came from but I can't tell you I don't even know how you'd react," he said "You certainly to old for your boots, you know looking after the others. You want to protect them and you wont accept help. I mean your only twelve, its not like you have a big responsibility or something like me running the shop when my dad's out of town. Now that's tough!" "Liz you have no idea." he whispered he thought I hadn't heard him "Try me" I was pushing him now I wanted to know what his secret was and why he was so afraid for a kid. He walked over and sat on the edge of the deck chair I was sat on. He played with my hair then leaned forward and kissed me, I don't know what happened, but I was watching a Max Evans personal slide show against my closed eyelids. There was an image of him pushing his way out of a sticky yellow pod; there was one where he was holding hands with a girl and watching a sandy blond haired boy walking off by himself; then there was one where he was with the Evans's, they wrapped him up in blankets and took them home where they stayed; there was one where he was at the table with us the other day and I felt how embarrassed he was when the others were laughing at him. It felt like eternity but only a few seconds had passed and he sat back down on the edge of the deck chair. "I saw!" I cried his face fell; he was in a moment of happiness when he had kissed me "Saw what?" he whispered cautiously like he was hoping I was going to say what he didn't want to hear "You! Michael and Isabel and a pod. it was a pod chamber. out in the desert" I looked down at the floor past him not looking at him "What are you?" I said turning my head back quickly only to find him gone. The next day I went back to normal lessons, I looked about for Max or Michael or hell even Isabel but they weren't around. Before lunch I made my way over to detention, Michael was at there looking miserable. I peeked in through the door 'Good Max wouldn't leave with our his "brother" so he must still be around somewhere' the bell rang and I jumped Michael made a beeline towards me to talk "I missed you in detention to day, Liz" he stated "its no fun without you "
"I missed Max, where is he?" I asked and he looked like he had been hit with a fifty tonne weight "I haven't seen him or Iz for that matter, why what's going on?" he asked jealousy leaving and giving way to fear "I think, I have figured out what his secret is," I said as I turned to walk down the hall. He grabbed my arm and pulled me towards this room with thick black writing on 'the eraser room'. He tugged me inside "How much do you know?" he snapped angrily "I kissed Max yesterday, and I got vision thingies. I saw him pushing his way out of a pod and I saw you walking away in the opposite direction from the cave?" I said, "Which cave is it?" "Cave I don't know any cave and Max kissed you!" he snapped with a pang of jealousy hidden in his voice "I think I can find that cave. I saw the road and a sign so if it exist I can find it" I boasted "Ok, I'll help you we can use my bike" he said I wasn't sure if he wanted to find the cave or hang around with me. So after school, he turned up outside the CrashDown and I took my little leather backpack, with a map, some rope and a compass in case we got lost. I pulled the door open and heard the bell jingling as it shut. I climbed onto the back of his old fashioned, half rusted bike. We took highway 286 out of town, "There! There!" I cried when I saw the yellow rusty sign with an arrow on it. He pulled up to the sign "What now?" he didn't turn round to speak to me but just kept talking and asking questions "We got off the bike and" I looked round this was where Max and Isabel had their parents find them "we go that way" I said pointing towards a rises of rocks and cliffs. We walked across the road and I nearly fell into Lake Lee, there was a small cliff just above it and I nearly walked off it, if it hadn't been for Michael I would have died. I looked around and saw the cliff. we they had left the cave "There up they're come on" I called back to him as I ran towards it, I slipped up the side and came to the entrance of the cave where they had come out, but it was blocked off by a large rock with a sliver handprint on it "Michael this is it, but this wasn't there when you came out" I said very disappointed he stepped up to the large rock and placed his hand onto the sliver handprint, the boulder banged and we both jumped back. The rock shifted revealing the entrance of the cave He cautiously entered and I followed him, taking hold of his arm we both entered the green glowing cave and saw it. Five pods against the back wall, the looked at if what ever had been inside them had got out and walked or crawled away. Michael pulled away from me and went towards the pod second from the left. He touched it then put his hand on his head. "This is mine, I was born here!" he exclaimed he looked at the other pods "That's Max's and that ones Isabel's but whose is that one?" he pointed at the last pod next to Max's. I shrugged and looked around the cave. I tripped over thins sheet of metal bound together on two iron rings. I picked it up and saw how weird the writing and symbols were. I looked closer it was a metal book! I looked over the pages and came to the last one where there were five pictures, one looked like Max, there was another one that resembled Michael perfectly there were three more, one of Isabel but she looked different some how not as cold she looked older they all look older. There was another one of a girl with curls, she was next to Max and beneath them there was a picture of ME! "Err Michael look at this" I shoved the book into this chest and wrapped my arms around me. "I don't know who the second girl is, but the third one is you! Slightly older perhaps by a couple of years but its you all the same!" he exclaimed "So does this mean my parents are my parents and I come from where ever you come from?" I sniffed at the shock "Don't cry, you still have your parents now you have brothers and sisters. I could be you brother," he said as he hugged me "Oh god so could Max and I kissed him!" I shrieked "That aint your fault Parker, you didn't know then and anyway you may not be his sister" "That what am I then!" I yelled at him angrily. I wasn't apart of this bunch of people who knew where I came from. "Listen Liz, I think I should tell you the truth," he said taking a seat on a small boulder in the cave. "What are you talking about" I pouted "Max and I think we are aliens, we have these powers so if we have them then you do too" he confessed to me I shook my head in refusal "I am not an alien!" I roared at him wanting to run from him and take his bike and leave him here "Liz, Liz!" he shouted grabbing my shoulders and shaking me "NO!" I shouted and pushed him, a blue bolt shot from my hand and knocked him to the other side of the cave. He stood up and marched angrily over to me and took my shoulders. A connection passed between us, I saw all five of us playing by a big lake beneath a purplish sky with acid green clouds. I was one of them and we were so happy. I was holding hands with Max, Michael and Isabel were jumping in and out of the lake. The last girl with blond hair sat away from us and she was sad. "Ava!" I saw the girl get called over and pushed into the lake by Max she was happy then. "Little sister stay and play with us!" Michael called in the vision then suddenly it faded leaving us standing in the cave. "Did you see that as well?" I asked him and he nodded "I felt the things and I know things from what they were. Max isn't my brother, he's my best friend you and Ava are sisters and Max and Isabel are Princess and Prince!" he whispered "I know, and I loved Max!" I cried "I think we should go back it'll be getting dark soon I slipped the metal book into my back pack and left the rope in the cave. We left the cave and the boulder closed We trekked back to his bike, the sun was setting, and I could see the first few stars in the sky. I stopped and looked up, Michael stopped and I pointed towards the sky "One of them is our home." I said turning to look at him, I climbed onto the back of the bike and he pedalled back into town. We arrived at the CrashDown, as the sun disappeared completely. Maria was working her shift and Max and Isabel sat in a booth looking very nervous. Max saw Michael and Me first then Isabel turned and came over and hugged Michael "Where have you been?" she almost shouted he pulled away from her and slid into the booth next to Max. He whispered something to Max and returned to me. "Liz, can we go up and talk on your porch?" he asked "we need to talk in private," he said so Isabel heard Maria gave me a why-have-you-been-with- him-instead-of-me kind of look, she had certainly been taken over by the green eyed monster. Max, Michael, Isabel and me went into the back and walked up the stairs and slipped quietly into my room. "So what's so important" Max asked with quivering fear in his voice Michael lifted his hand and aimed it at the door so it slammed shut "Michael" Isabel cried "what are you doing using your powers in front of humans!" "Calm down Iz there aren't any humans in this room!" he informed her "What do you mean?" she glanced at me then back at Michael. I pulled off my leather back pack and pulled out the metal sheet book and opened it on the last page with the pictures of us I handed it to her so she and Max could see it "Where did you find this" Max demanded "In a cave outside of town, our pods where there. Maxwell were not from around here and neither is Liz, we shared a vision and we were by a lake under a purple sky with acid green clouds. You and Max are bother and sister. Liz and Ava are sisters and I'm your best friend. Me and Parker here are cousins" he told them "Who's Ava" Isabel asked "She's the other girl in the book," I told her "I'm an alien" I said it aloud it was weird to say it felt right but I had parents, parents who had probably lied to me "You are to keep this a secret the SU are agents who captured tortured and killed the beings from the crash, they could have been our real parents" Max informed me and a wave of nausea washed over me as I saw myself lying on a table, being prodded and poked and cut and tested. I shuddered at the thought of it, Michaels arm was around me for the second time tonight "Its ok cuz I'll look out for you no way is my baby cuz gonna by set up on a metal table" he said trying to comfort me, after the cave we seemed to grow more together we had this link after we shared the vision. "So what do we do now? Do we tell people, do we ask our parents? What?" I asked as I looked around my room. "I think we should keep it a secret, people might not believe us" Max said to the group as he slid his hands into his back pockets "Or they might give us over to the SU" Isabel added, then silence hit the room and we looked about my bedroom praying that they would never find us. Knock! Knock! We all jumped I crept cautiously over to the door and opened it. "Maria, what wrong?" I asked when I saw it was just my best friend "What are you guys doing in here?" she asked looking at the others, I looked to Isabel, knowing she would be the one to try and stop me telling Maria and gave her a pleading look. I wanted to tell Maria, she was my best friend and I didn't want to keep secrets from her. Isabel shook her head and I turned back to Maria "Nothings going on in here Ria, come I'll help you in the shop, they were just going" I sighed as I followed Maria and they followed me down the stairs. Max Isabel and Maria went into the front Michael held me back "You know, I never thought I had a family, a proper one. I didn't know if Max or Iz were so I couldn't be sure but now I know it's just. I wont let the SU get you," he said proudly patting my shoulder "Cousin" he whispered and hugged me; Maria pushed the swing door open and found me hugging him. "Bye Michael, I'll see you tomorrow at school" I waved him off as he left the back "What was all that about?" Maria asked strolling up to me with her arms crossed "are you seeing him?" "No!" I laughed as I went into the front to gather up some of the dishes for cleaning "Then what?" she asked she wasn't going to let it go "I can't tell you" I whined "I want to but cant it's you wouldn't believe me any way" I tried to sound convincing "You can tell me Liz," she pleaded "who am I going to tell any way Kyle?" she laughed jokingly "Yeah then Kyle will tell his dad, then his dad will tell the rest of the cops and before you know it I'll be stuck on one of those tables!" "What do you mean by 'those tables?'" she questioned "look Maria, I cant tell you I really wish I could but I cant, other wise I wont be around anymore, and you would loose you best sister friend" I would have said anything for her to drop it and I did. She didn't say anymore after that, she switched on the radio and helped me clear the dishes away into the back so we could clean them. I woke up early the next morning, every thing had changed but stayed the same. My room seemed odd, as if I didn't belong to me. My clothes I pulled on seemed to swim. I didn't know what was happening to me, maybe now I knew that I was changing, like I had tapped into something hidden. Maybe it was because of the thing that happened in the cave when I had blasted Michael. I didn't know but I felt like a stranger as I ate breakfast with my mom and dad. I knew they weren't my mom and dad, because I was different now how would I find out. I had known them as long as I could remember so how were they not my parents? I ate my toast and didn't say a word, I thought if I did it would be about them not being who they said they were "Lizze you awfully quiet this morning" my mom said as she put her plate of toast down on the table and sat down to eat "Liar" I snapped without realising I looked at my mom in a panic "excuse me?" she looked at me as if she hadn't heard me. Good. "I must go to school now mom" I said quickly grabbing my bag from beside my chair. I ran out the door as quick as I could "Liz wait do you want a ride?" she called as I left "No!" I cried back "I'll walk!" I quickly shut the door and instead of turning to go in the direction of school, I went to the Evans's house. They were piling onto the bus when I arrived. I panted desperately trying to catch my breath from running so hard. I climbed onto the bus and I saw them sitting at the back. Max and Iz were sat together and across from them was Michael, Maria was two rows in front off them. I walked along the bus as it drove away from the house. Maria moved her bag for me to sit down next to her but I carried on walking along the bus. Michael saw me and slid over to the window so I could sit next to him. "After school, I think we should go to the cave" I suggested "on our bikes" they nodded and Michael took my hand and squeezed it. I suddenly felt like me, I didn't feel like the stranger I felt around my parents when I was with them. I fitted in and was accepted, I was even more than when I was with Maria. The bus pulled up to school and the kids piled off, I was the last to get off, Michael hadn't let go off my hand and I didn't want him to. He made me feel safe and I belonged when I was with him. Max and Iz had got off the bus ages ago, we walked slowly he was in front and led me down the little walkway on the bus. I stepped down the steps after him and he let go of my hand. I gasped when he did, I felt like part of me had been torn away. I saw Maria standing with Kyle, an angry look was slapped across her features. I left my newfound friends and family and ventured cautiously over to Maria and Kyle knowing full well I would get an earful off my best friend. But she didn't say anything, we just walked to first class. Her silence scared me, she was always saying something but now she was angry and she didn't say a word. "Hey you guys guess what happened yesterday!" Kyle started to break the awkward silence between his best friends "What?" I was too eager to break that silence as well "Yeah Kyle what happened?" Maria spoke up "I got picked to be the quarter back on the football team!" he jumped with excitement, we all giggled and jumped along with him. Class was boring, we had that clumsy teacher who had sent me to detention. I was fed up and I was curious about what powers I had, because I remembered blasting Michael in the cave so I wondered. I focused on the blast, I tapped my hand on the table and stopped and sighed then I started to tap again. The first time I hit my hand down on the desk, his chair flew up into the air and crashed down by the door, breaking into splinters. I panted as I knew it was me who had done that! He had to get another chair from the staff room, when he left the class, I saw little bubbles float into the room. There weren't that many, and I saw one float towards Isabel, she hummed the same note the bubble made and it grew bigger. I looked about the class to see if anyone else could see the bubbles. They went about their business carrying on with their work even Maria didn't notice. I stood up in the class and still no one noticed I walked over to Izzy and the bubble "you're asleep" she explained to me "you are asleep on your desk and so am I. This is the dream plane. You and I are dream walking" I looked around at the bubbles, they were peoples dreams! "why are you showing me this?" I asked because she had practically threatened to attack me the other day and now she was being so nice to me "I'm showing you because, you make Michael happy. He's always been on this quest to find family because he wasn't sure if we were his and if you're one of us I have to get along with you. So I'm trying. This is the power that makes me special" she continued. I smiled as I followed her into the bubble, it was an odd dream. There were clowns chasing a little girl about three or four. They weren't happy looking clowns they were scary, they even scared me a little. I walked up to the clown that was reaching for the girl. I kicked him and he disappeared. "you don't have to be afraid in you dreams!" I told the girl pulling her up "you could send them away because this is your dream" she smiled and closed her eyes. The dark place filled with scary clowns faded into a big park with miles and miles of grass. There were swings and slides and the girl ran off to play. "that was a good thing you did Parker. She isn't afraid anymore. Now we should get back. I think the bell is wringing" I heard the hum of the bell in the dream but the little girl didn't hear it she just carried on playing. We stepped through the bubble and I was back in class. I sat up, my hair had gone flat against the side of my head. Isabel and me were the only kids in the class and the teacher stood before us with detention slips. I was as angry as Isabel was, on the way out. I blew up the new chair he had got from the staff room and Isabel could barley keep her sides from splitting because we were both laughing so hard as we walked down the hall to the detention room to spend the rest of the day there. Michael was sat in there again and he was still by himself. He looked up and saw up both stood there with a mischievous grin spread across our faces "What'd ya do?" he asked the both of us as we took seats around him. "Fell asleep in class" I started "We dream walked" Isabel added "You let her dream walk with you?" he gasped "Yeah, she's your cousin and you're like family to me and max and I know max is holding a burning desire for you cousin over there so I thought I better to be nice to her since she's like my cousin as well" I smiled at what she said, I fitted in with this crowd and I didn't feel like a stranger around them. I knew Maria, was going to be sorely angry at me but I didn't care. She should be happy for me now that I have my family. We played funny tricks on the teacher in the front of the class. I was testing what powers I had, I had blast, and mindwarp that was a confusing thing but it was fun to play with, I could fly as well, but I don't know why. After a full hour and fifteen minutes of terrorising the teacher the bell rang and we left giggling madly as I made the teachers clothes disappear as she walked down the corridor to the staff room. We bought our lunch and headed out to the lunch tables on the grass onside. "I'm glad you part of the family now" Isabel said doing that thing with her hands when you were using a euphemism "coz I'd hate to be your enemy if that's what you do to them" we all burst out laughing and tried to control ourselves as Maria and Kyle walked over "Hey" she said coldly "what's so funny? You're not laughing at me are you?" I couldn't help it I burst out laughing as I saw the teaching whose clothes had vanished running to her car. I pointed at her and Michael and Izzy burst out laughing too. Maria had a small grin across her face as she sat down next to Michael. Kyle sat down to Izzy and she glared at him. My strolled over carrying his lunch in a brown paper bag, he was munching on a red apple as he sat down next to Isabel, he hadn't sat next to me after the hole puberty thing. "Hey did you see Mrs Lawson run to her car just now" his chuckled as he munched away on his apple "Yeah" I giggled another round of full on laughing was about to start any second. "I wonder what happened to her clothes?" he muttered taking another bite from his apple. "I think they're over there in that tree" I pointed and everyone looked to the tree and saw the clothes hanging from the branches, "They weren't there a minute ago I walked past that tree and got the apple from it" Max commented then looked at his apple, yelled and jumped it flew out of his hands and everyone laughed at the red faced alien sat in the corner. "So are you up to going to the cave tonight?" I asked forget that Kyle and Maria didn't know about the whole alien thing. "What cave?" Kyle asked and Michael glared at me "Oh Michael and Me have an extra credit assignment for being in detention, we have to research some caves out in the desert. Were on our fifth one now" I lied to my best friend and it was so easy, I hope I don't make a habit out of it. "Oh I thought you were coming round to my house to rescue me and Kyle from my mom and his dad making kissy faces at each other?" she whined "Sorry can't research." there I go again, lying to both my best friends "Liz come on its extra credit" Kyle pleaded "I cant ok!" I snapped he was starting to get on my nerves "She Said She Cant!" Michael snapped, he rubbed my hand that lay on the seat of the bench "Michael calm down sorry, jeez!" Maria cried she wasn't one for swearing but Michael had been rude. I finished my juice and chucked the carton onto my lunch tray, the bell rang and now it was time for Isabel, Michael and me to go back to detention. The class was empty when we arrived, no teachers no students and I felt bored and I had a quick idea "You guys help me," I turned the door purple, Isabel changed the walls to pink and Michael changed the colour of the desks to navy blue. We sat at our seats with a big grin "We really shouldn't have done that it will draw attention to us" Isabel whined but didn't really regret it "Oh come on Iz if they ever find out we can just leave, its not like we should be afraid of them we have powers you know" I was going to get them into trouble one of these days. The teacher walked in and gasped at the room, we sat in the classroom as if nothing was different "Can you see the colours?" Ms Lee muttered "What colours? Are you ok Ms Lee?" Michael said, how cruel I could have burst out laughing but I kept my straight face, barely! "I think, I think I shall go and see the school nurse, you have a free period," she uttered as she left the room and I high fived Isabel "Way to go Cuz!" Michael laughed as we left the room, Isabel's arm around my shoulders and my arm around Michael's shoulders "Cuz?" we froze in our tracks, we let go of each other and turned to see Maria standing there with our work "Liz what does he mean by Cuz?" she asked her fingers flicking over the sheets of paper and text books she held in her hand "Um.I.um.um. err" I found I was good at lying but this time I ran dry, she gave Michael a blank look "Michael is my cousin." I sighed as I told my best friend the truth finally
"What!" she shouted almost dropping the books "Chica I've know for most of my life how come you never told me this!" "I only found out recently, I wanted to tell you but its complicated Maria" I said "I'm not the Parkers daughter and I don't even know who I am now. Michael is my cousin my real cousin and he's my family and he's like a brother to me now! I love him!" I cried shocked at the last three words "Liz?" Maria sighed "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have been so hard on you! Just promise me you'll tell me everything, ok?" she gave me a big hug and for the first time in a couple of days I had grinned and the grin hadn't been fake or to hide something, it was real and I finally felt happy once again.
I rode up to his small house on my bike, there were a few black bin bags full of rubbish scattered around the house, and the door was half open when I arrived. I dismounted from my bike and knocked on the door, I slowly glided open as I looked inside, the stench of beer hit me hard and I put my hand up to my nose but it still didn't block it out. I entered the house and stepped cautiously over empty beer cans that were rolling around the floor "Michael" I said the word muffled and didn't come out properly because my hand was still over my mouth, I took it away and felt the full force of the alcohol stench, it made me want to be sick "Michael" I said again and I heard some one move in what appeared to be the bathroom, "who the hell are you" a drunken man half wrapped up in a towel barely white anymore shouted at me as he left the bathroom "I'm. err I'm here for Michael" I stuttered as he stood looking down at me "Liz!" Michael shouted coming to help me, when he heard his dad shouting; he stood in front of me trying to protect me from the drunken abusive foster dad "Leave her alone Hank" he muttered sounding brash but there were slivers of fear quaking in his voice "don't back talk me boy!" he snapped moving over to slam the door shut. Even though it was to shut the cold out, I felt as if it was to keep us in "so boy," Hank began moving away from the door and tightening the towel around his waist "why did you find the time to get a girlfriend?" "she's not my girl friend" his voice had completely lost the courage he retained before "then who is she boy" he scoffed waving his arms up and the towel loosened at his waist and I drew my breath in quick "she's a friend.just a friend" he sounded cowardly now, sounded like I felt. "you! Make friends! Hah!" he laughed cruelly "yeah he's mine friend!" I shouted at Hank, I hadn't meant to shout but I couldn't let him speak to Michael like that "hmmm you gotta a mouth on you, girly" he lost the evil grin and his eyes shot daggers at me "yeah so what if she. she does!" Michael snapped a fragment of courage had returned after I had defended him "I said don't back talk me punk ass bastard boy!" he bellowed and backhanded Michael and sent him sprawling over the jaggered metal of the rubbish beer cans, "Michael!" I squealed as I went to help him "you've gone to far now!" I roared after seeing Michael had suffered cuts and bruises that could be healed later. I raised my hand and blasted him in anger "Liz No!" Michael jumped up and tried to grab my arm but it was too late I had sent Hank flying across the room, he crashed into the wall and slumped down onto the floor "Liz?" he piped and I gasped aloud, my mouth fell open as I saw the abusive man slumped against the wall. "Lets get out of here Liz!" he cried grabbing my arm, he sounded so scared and innocent. He jumped onto the back of my back, which was almost brand new compared to Michaels rust bucket that he abandoned in the garage. I pedalled as fast as my little legs would allow me to get to the CrashDown. Isabel, Max and Maria were sat at a booth laughing over banana splits and cherry coke mixed with Tabasco. I almost crashed into the bike rack, the bike wobbled then Michael and me fell off the side and landed on the sidewalk, hard. I gulped my breath I picked my self up and forced myself through the doors of the CrashDown, the bell above the door rang as I entered Max looked up at me with a grin his smile faded when he saw how scared and frightened I looked. Maria looked up and noticed me marching towards the table "Liz?" she said standing up "Max, Iz we're leaving now!" I snapped by the time I reached the booth "What's going on?" Maria snapped totally clueless of the situation "I. I. killed Michaels foster dad" I stammered, god the reality hit me as I spoke the words "Liz!" Maria and Isabel both gasped, Michael burst through the door, pushed me over and sat down "Did baby cuz tell you?" he asked his voice wasn't filled with fear anymore; I sensed worry, anxiety and anger. Was he angry with me for saving him? "Liz? What the hell is going on?" my dad looked down at me, I stared up at him and gulped "I'm sorry dad, I'm leaving. I'm going.I have to go I can't stay here its too dangerous" "what?" he snapped "where have you been and what are you talking about you've got a shift now. I don't know what's going on with you nowadays Liz first detention now shirking you're duties?!" "I'm not shirking I'm running, I can't stay here dad I killed a man" there I confessed my guilty sin to my dad "OMG Liz." he whispered not believing me "back room now!" I stood and followed him quickly to the back room "dad?" I squeaked my voice going hoarse as I knew I would get the biggest lecture of my entire life "how dare you lie to me like that and with something as stupid and nutty as what you just told me!" he snapped waving his arms around "dad, I'm not making it up" I growled rather angrily for him not believing me "yeah right, you go get changed and you do you're shift!" "NO" I growled through clenched teeth "I'm you're father and you will do as I say!" he bellowed and I knew the entire café had heard "you aren't my father!" I screamed at the top of my voice, Michael burst through the door "Liz, were ready to go." he sighed feeling the tension in the room "Liz, you're not going anywhere but you're room," he wasn't shouting anymore maybe that was a sign he was really angry "NO!" I said again stepping forward to go out the swing door, he put his arm around my chest and pulled me back "go to you're room, you're not going anywhere except school and work. Do you understand me?" he spat through gritted teeth "NO" I said it but it didn't sound like me "you are not my father, I'm not you're daughter and I don't know if you know it but I'm not from this planet" "yeah right you're from planet abusive teen!" he barked "no I'm from Antar!" I cried, a memory. a memory of who I was; I raised my hand and the ball of light appeared, he swallowed I saw his Adam's apple bob up and down. I closed my first tight "Liz.I" he began "Liz we gotta go." Isabel appeared at the door and I quickly walked past my dad. I took hold of Michael and Isabel's hand, Isabel had tight held of Max's hand as we walked out of my parents CrashDown, Maybe forever. It's been two months since we walked, our parents have tried to find us. The word on the street is they've been searching day and night for the last few weeks after Valenti stopped demanding questions from Max's parents and mine. Its rough out here and difficult. We live on the street, Isabel got her first tattoo the other day and I got my fourth; we didn't go to a tattoo parlour to get them though we just did them ourselves no pain and we don't have to pay. New York is very different to Roswell, it's much bigger and dirtier. I never realised how much I could miss a bed, Max and I are growing close. Michaels only started to talk to me again, I don't understand how he could be so angry I had protected him from that monster that beat him black and blue day and night. I guess we're affected by emotions in a different way to humans being half and half and all. I remember the days when Maria found the bird, we I didn't know when we didn't know. The others look to me for the memories of home, our real home but its difficult I cant just bring them up like that. I don't know if we'll ever go back but if we do it won't be a warm welcome, I killed a man and something like that stays with you forever, nothing can justify murder even if he was attacking you're cousin. Maybe we could go back, I prey for the day I can return home and feel like I belong.
To Be Continued.