Hello again. Here is my next chapter, The Falling Star. It is mixture of the book's two chapters The Falling Star and On Horsell Common. Hope you like.

We kept looking until they disappered. It was like the forth of July, except it wasn't. We exchanged a glance back and forth but it ended when dad said," it's time to go to bed." We went inside to brush our teeth and go to bed. I have I bedside table (surprising when I have a bunk bed), and I put my computer moniter on it and put a movie on since my computer plays D.V.D.'s. There are two War of the Worlds movies that not many people know of. One is made buy a company named Isylum and another from a company called Pendragon Pictures. The one I watched was the Pendragon one, which is exactly three hours long. A lot of people wouldn't like it because it has bad special effects, but I do mostly because its the first movie made exactly like the book. Back to my story.

During the movie I fell asleep, and before I knew it, it was Saturday. I awoke and took a shower. When I finished, I got dressed and Chet came in and asked if I could play catch with him."Sure. Get me my shoes and socks." He got them and we went outside.

He threw a baseball at me but I had to run to the other side of the yard to get it. "Throw it at me," I told him throwing the ball back. He threw it straight at me but it didn't reach me. "Throw it harder." I tossed it to him and he threw it again. This time we were lucky it didn't go over the fence."Don't throw it that hard." I gave it back and he threw it. It went to the other side of the yard."Forget it." I went to get the ball when a sound like a low flying jet (which is really loud) flew over us. By the time I looked up it was gone.

We ran inside."Did you hear that?" I exclaimed.

"Who couldn't," Chelsea asked.

"I wonder what it was or where it landed." I hoped on the couch and turned on the T.V. On the news the newslady said,"A strange object has landed on I-20. No one is known to be hit by it though. Let's go to traffic-copter to see what it is."

"Hello," the man on the helicopter said."The debrie around is starting to clear and we can see a meteor looking object. Actually, to me from this point of view, it seems to look more like a cylinder. Come take a look." The camera must have approached the door so we could see what it looked like. Then it returned to where it was. "The surprising visitor has shocked drivers into many wrecks. In fact, one car drove head on into the pit. No one has been seriously hurt."

"Mom, can we see the meteor?" I asked.

"I don't know." Once again a no.

"Please mom! I never got to see a meteor."

"Fine. Let's go." We ran to the car and got in. We drove to I-20, took an exit, and pulled into a parking lot. We got out of the car and walked to the pit. Inside we found the meteor. I would agree with the guy in the helicopter. It looked like a cylinder. But something caught my eye. The car that drove into the pit.

"Mom. Where was dad this morning?"

"Getting me cake supplies." My mom makes and sells cakes as a living. "Why?"

"Because that car in the pit looks like dad's."

She stared at it with wide eyes. She told us to stay there and she went to a police officer."Did you see the man in that car?" she asked pointing at it.

"No. Why?"

"It could be my husband." The police officer asked for the license plate number. When he got it he moved to where he could see the license plate.He returned to mom and said it was.He told another police who got a bungey cord and he put it on his belt loop. He slowly moved down the pit with the other police men making sure there was no lose rope. The police man looked in the car and tried to open it then said,"Get the crowbar!" They tossed one down to him and he opened the door. The police man was down there for only ten minutes now and we could see him drenched in sweat. He finally got the door open and pulled my dad from inside. It seemed that he was trying to come out put the door was fused shut. He told him to put the bungey cord on and climb up the pit. He got up the pit and took the bungey cord off and threw it to the police officer who found his way up.

Dad was handed a towel and a bottle of water. He had a cut across his arm that was attended. Besides for the cut he was okay. Even though, we took him to a movie which cool because we wanted to see the movie too. The movie we saw was The Pink Panther. We finished the movie, and went to Outback Steakhouse for dinner. We got a discount because everyone saw what happened. The food still cost a lot.

We got home and my dad fell asleep. Mean while we were upstairs playing our PS2. I looked out the window and saw that their was still smoke rising from the direction of the meteor.

Sorry if you were wanting to see (sorry, read) about the martains or tripods in this chapter. I promise to put them in the next chapter.