Chapter 16 The Orange Highlighter
Geoffrey Rush, Glorfindel, Celebrían, the UPS guy, Firthuliel, and Nilturiel were bored. They had all painted several pictures of fish and dog butts so far. None of them were very good, except the pictures by the UPS guy. He seemed to have a talent for painting fish.
"Are you sure your name's not Tim?" asked Nilturiel for the hundredth time. "You know, Tim is the only one I know who can draw fish like that, so you must be Tim."
The UPS guy replied, "Ummm…..no."
"This is stupid," said Glorfindel. "I hate painting fish. No one warned me that there were aliens by Firthuliel's house."
"We warned everyone!" Firthuliel suddenly yelled. "We told everyone that the aliens would abduct everyone and make them paint pictures of fish and dog butts. But no one believed us! Well you bloody well better believe us now!"
Everyone was slightly shocked by this outburst. Just then, an alien entered the room. It silently looked over the pictures. When it came to the UPS guy's pictures it stopped.
"Who painted these?" it asked calmly.
The UPS guy said proudly, "I did."
"I see. They are very good. Is your name Tim?"
The UPS guy replied, "Ummm…..no. What is everyone's obsession with this Tim person?"
"He was the original painter of the fish," the alien pointed to a glass case that no one had noticed before. "There is the original picture. We have been searching many, many years for the painter of that fish. Well, actually only a couple of months, but it sounds better if you say many years."
Everyone looked at the fish picture. It was very odd. It appeared to be a plastic shark on a plate, on a log, on a folded cloth, with a chain sitting by it. The plate was not slanted though, even though it was sitting on the log.
Firthuliel and Nilturiel both cried, "The FISH PICTURE!!!!!" They hadn't seen this picture in a long time. It used to be displayed at their school, but it disappeared. They hadn't realized that the aliens had taken it.
Firthuliel was very angry with the aliens for taking her favorite picture. "HA! Stupid aliens! Take this!" with that she grabbed a bright orange highlighter off the table and threw it at the alien. "Return that fish picture immediately!" she shrieked.
"Umm… Firthuliel? Maybe you shouldn't throw things at the aliens." Nilturiel said.
"Uh, right. Sorry."
"Quite alright," the alien sighed. "We get that all the time. Most people don't like being forced to paint fish."
"And dog butts" Celebrían reminded them.
"Yes, and dog butts."