The family reunion was, in a word, disastrous. Me and Callie had decided to stay outside to avoid any suspicion, but from where we were sitting under the window I could tell it wasn't going well.

I squeaked as Callie poked me in the side. I had zoned out so she knew she had to get my attention somehow, but unfortunately she had picked the noisiest way. Realizing her mistake, she clapped a hand over my mouth and motioned for me to zip it.

"Did you notice who was there?" She whispered to me. I nodded.
"Dominikov and Lich. I never would have guessed they were related to Jack."
"No kidding. I was--"

Callie stopped as she heard the door open. Jack's family was leaving.
"Already?" I asked in disbelief.
"Well, it has been an hour."
"Yeah, but usually family reunions last longer."
"Maybe Jack sucks at throwing parties."
I stifled a laugh. It was true that Jack didn't exactly seem like the most organized person in the world. Heck, he had even forgotten the fact that he had a family reunion, so it was obvious that he wouldn't have been prepared.

We both jumped as the window above us flew open.
"Alright, it's safe for you guys to come in now," Jack said to us. "But do NOT make a big deal out of the fact that you're here. And don't touch anything."

And that's when the Rally X theme began to play.

And it was loud, too.

"Where the hell is that stupid music coming from?!" Jack yelled, frantically searching for a source where the annoying little melody was coming from.

The three of us together couldn't find anything.

ONE HOUR LATER...

A knock at the door startled us into hiding in the closet involuntarily. Jack got up and answered the door.

Vira Vilakroma stood in the doorway.
"What's up? I thought I heard you talking to someone."
"It's that goddamned music," Jack replied in an irritated voice. When she looked back at him with an uncomprehending stare, he added, "That music. Don't you hear it?"
Her antennae twitched, indicating that she was listening. "No. I don't hear anything."
Jack shook his head as if that would make the enragingly repetitive song go away, but it didn't.
"Oh, fine. Well, it was nice talking to you. Bye." Jack slammed the door, but Vira caught it with a clawed hand and forced it open.
"You're acting really weird. Are you hiding something?"
"I told you, it's the music. You'd be acting weird too if you had listened to the Rally X theme five hundred times in a row." Almost as if on cue, the song started again. "GAAAHHHH!" Jack yelled, slamming a fist against the wall. It was like the song had a mind of its own, and it was mocking all of us.
"There's something wrong with you," Vira said, concerned. "You really should go see Doctor Picklestine. I think you might have snapped."
"Damn right I snapped," Jack growled, now in a furiously homicidal mood. "That song...is....EVIL."

Strangely, in spite of all this, Callie and I had found a way to start another one of our completely random conversations. While we were hiding, no less. It's happened bunches of times before. A spontaneously sparked conversation about the weather had turned into something about fried chicken. Something about homework had been sidetracked to hysterical laughter about finding the word "tits" in a word find. Sometimes, we are so random it scares even me.

Anyhow, this time it was about how I had broken the record for most times falling on my face in a single day. Callie abruptly changed the subject to a rotting hole in the wall of the closet we were sitting in and how it reminded her of swiss cheese.

We were so caught up in talking about falling on our faces and holes in the wall and cheese that we didn't realize that the infernal song had stopped, but more importantly we had completely forgotten that Vira was standing right outside the closet and could hear every word we were saying. We both yelped in surprise when the closet doors flew open and Vira stared at us, dumbfounded.

"What...the..." Vira continued to stare at us, and, not knowing what to do, Callie grinned and waved at her. I smacked her hand back down. At this point, I knew there was something wrong with her. Usually I was the one doing stupid things like that, and she was the one kicking my ass back into line.

"Are they...humans?" Vira asked, turning to Jack.
"Uhhhhhh...not exactly.....errrr...yeah."
"How'd they get here?" Vira asked again, looking at us this time.
"We fell from the moon. HOW DO YOU THINK WE GOT HERE?!" I snapped.
"...I don't know. And something tells me you don't either."
I could feel myself going beet red. I light of the situation, what I had just said did indeed sound pretty stupid. Callie snickered.
"Well, I always pictured humans to look a little more...wimpy."
"Feh, you overgeneralize," Callie said with a sideways glare. "Not ALL humans are wimpy. Just little kids and preppy girls."
Vira sighed and turned back to Jack. "You've got some explaining to do..."