ALIEN

The cool wind gently stroke Felicity's cheeks as she kept running down the street.

"I have to leave", she thought. "I need a break from all the crap." Even though it was a tough moment for Felicity, she couldn't deny it was a beautiful night. She had always loved looking at the stars, thinking and reflecting about deep thoughts. It was relaxing, beautiful, and it gave her a break from reality.

"That's what I need", Felicity continued to think as she headed towards the forest. "I need a break. This world and its awful reality."

She ran through a trail she'd never been in before. It was a very thin trail, which seemed to lead to nowhere. As if it would lead you to the end of the world.

Felicity decided to slow down for a second and catch her breath. This trail was probably the one she needed. It will take her far away from everyone else, and when she wants to get back home again, she simply follows the trail backwards and then take the streets until she's home. Simple as that.

She was lost, betrayed, hurt, broken, all of these things one can think of at once. It felt like the only one who could comfort her was herself. And nobody else. Not even her mum, or dad.

As if they ever would.

Felicity kept swearing for herself as she breathed heavily and hoped she wouldn't get a cold or something.

She lifted her head, and looked at the stars. They were shining brightly, as if they were staring at her. She looked back at them.

"Why did it have to be me...?" she asked with a whiny tone, as she sat down a rock next to her, and closed her eyes.

Then the world disappeared.

(O)

"Nora? Felicity?" Elizabeth said quietly, as she slowly opened the front door.

"Hey mum!" Nora said as she ran up to her. She quickly noticed Elizabeth had tears running down her cheeks.

"Mommy, why are you crying?"

These words immediately caught Felicity's attention, so she headed into the hall quickly.

"Mum...? Where's dad?"

Elizabeth wiped away some tears and took off her shoes.

"Nora, Felicity..."

Silence fell upon the family, as Nora and Felicity looked at their mother.

"Your father and I are going to have a divorce."

(O)

Felicity was awakened by a large crash-like sound from some distance. It wasn't very loud, but she had still heard it.

She quickly checked her surroundings from where she sat. There seemed to be nobody, but Felicity was suspicious. Something had caused that crash and it was apparently not too far away.

Felicity quickly got on her legs and looked around.

"What on Earth could have caused that?" she thought. If it was something from Earth.

She started to follow the trail once again, in hope she would find out about the explosion. What had happened? Was somebody hurt?

These and many more questions popped up in Felicity's head as she eventually found herself running again. Whatever it was, she wanted to find out.

She was curious too get tired, and too cold to get sweaty.

"I should have taken my jacket", she thought. She was only wearing her gray jeans, white t-shirt and blue sneakers.

She ran and ran, passing endless amounts of trees and grass, until she found herself near a small lake.

In the middle of the lake there was a blue, dim light, and there were track after a crash landing at the side of the lake. Something had crashed into the lake.

"What the hell..." Felicity whispered to herself. Is this happening? It felt unreal, as if it was impossible. But it still wasn't. She saw it. The tracks after the crash landing. The blue light. It was there.

Without thinking it through she quickly ran closer to the lake, until she was at the very edge between land and water.

The water was extremely still. Felicity had no issues seeing her own reflection and the stars in the sky. And she also saw the blue light, even brighter and clearer than before.

But after taking a closer look, Felicity noticed that the lights didn't just come from nothing. There was something down there.

It was hard to see, but looked like... a ball. A giant metal ball, which had some kind of opening. Next to the ball there was something else, also metal, but Felicity couldn't really see what it was.

"Huh...?" she said quietly, as she bent over a little to see clearer. The other thing seemed to be moving, or something, but it was too dark to see what is was. All Felicity could make out was that the moving thing is where the blue light came from.

"Wha... what is that?" she said as she leaned forward a little more, not being careful enough, as she slipped and fell into the water.

It was ice cold, and as she opened her eyes, she could see what that other thing was.

A robot. Like, a giant metal human, with shining, blue eyes and a metal body.

Felicity would've shrieked if it she wouldn't have been inside water, and quickly swum up to the surface again.

The blue lights were pointing at her, which made her realize she had been seen. She quickly pushed herself up the ground again, and got on her feet so she could run again.

She ran and ran, just like she had done before, not being able to face the fact that she had just seen a robot, a real life alien! But she was at the same time scared, since she didn't know if the robot would harm her or not.

She never looked back, not even once, as she ran. And since she didn't, Felicity had no idea what happened to the robot afterwords. All she knew was that she was cold, soaking wet, and completely insane.

She didn't even know if she dared to tell Nora about it.