School that day was uneventful, except for lunch where we met up with Clyde to talk about our latest addition.

"What- she just lies there?" Clyde asked. "Sound kinda boring." Peaking at Rani he lent his head in and asked in a whisper, "So is she hot?" with a grin. Rani still heard.

"Oi, Clyde Langer! I should've known that would be the first thing you asked!" she was so obvious it was almost comical. Clyde still had no idea she liked him.

He just grinned and ducked his head. "What can I say? It not my fault the ladies love me." Rani scowled at him, but he just grinned back. Clyde has a very infectious grin. "Can I come over this afternoon then?" he asked with a sly look at Rani, daring her to make anther comment. She just pursed her lips in a way that made her look a lot like her mother.

"Sure." I replied. "Though it won't be interesting. Like going to visit someone in hospital with a coma." Rani laughed and nodded.

"Yeah, it's exactly like that, except we don't play music or anything to her."

"Cool." said Clyde and then the bell went that signified the end of lunch. Clyde and Rani groaned.

Back at my house, we made some tea and helped ourselves to biscuits form the cupboard. Sarah-Jane was no-where to be seen,- probably out doing some journalist work. I thought it was a bit silly leaving the girl there without anyone to look after her. She could have woken up, not knowing where on earth she was (if she was on earth!)

My worries were needless. As Rani, Clyde and I tiptoed into the spare bedroom, you could see that this was someone who was going no-where in a hurry. She lay in exactly the same position as we had left her in. no one lock of hair or finger had moved.

"Woa.." said Clyde. "You didn't say how tiny she was, man." Rani frowned at the ceiling. I would have to give Clyde a metaphorical nudge in her direction if he didn't take notice of her soon. After a while, we all got bored of staring at the small figure and went downstairs to call Sarah-Jane and see what she was doing.

"Hello, Sarah-Jane Smith here."

"Hi mum!" I called down the phone.

"Hello Luke, dear!"Sarah-Jane called back. "Is she alright?" I didn't have to ask who 'she' was. "I didn't want to leave her all alone, but I got an urgent call about a supposed alien sighting in the area. Don't worry, false alarm, it was just a baby alligator someone chucked away in a pond. Despicable." she muttered that last bit to herself. "Anyway, I took it to the RSPCA and I'll be home in twenty minutes tops."

"OK mum." I answered, "See you soon."

After I put down the phone we went and 'hung' (as Clyde puts it) in the attic until we heard the sound of Sarah-Jane's car pulling up in our drive. (I don't like to say 'hung', it sounds a bit morbid!)

After a minute or two she came up to the attic to see us.

"Rani, I just saw your mum outside her house watering the plant. She wants you home by six-thirty for tea." Sarah-Jane said absebtly. She slung her coat over a chair. "No movement from Herself down there?"

We all shook our heads.

"Well, you kids are going to have to entertain youselves for the time being." she ordered. "I have to type up an article." We nodded again and went back downstairs to watch the television.

"Are you going to keep her then?" Clyde asked once we'd got downstairs. "I didn't think Sarah-Jane really wanted any other kid in on this whole alien thing."

"You're right." I said, "But in this case she doesn't really have a choice, does she? She can hand the girl over to an adoption centre without questions being asked and she can't give her to a hospital." I let this sink in.

"You mean she doesn't have a-" he genstured at his stomach, meaning tummy-button, "Like you?"

"Yeah." Rani answered him.

I often wondered what it would be like to have a tummy-button. I would be really weird, I guessed, like having a huge, noticable scar. Tummy-buttons were scars. Even though it was normal for everyone on earth, I didn't think I would like to have a tummy-button.

Clyde whistled.

"It just get stranger and stranger." he commented. "Any idea where she came from?"

"No." said me and Rani together.

After a little while, Rani had to go home for tea and Clyde said he'd walk out with her.

"Call us if anything happens!" Rani called up the drive, before casting a gleeful smile at Clyde and crossing over the street. I shook my head at them and closed the door.

Mum was just finishing her typing when I entered the attic.

"Rani and Clyde gone?" she asked without looking up.

"Yes."

"How about supper then?" she turned off the computer.

Over dinner (some nice noodles in curry sauce), we were mostly quiet. Me and mum aren't great chatters and when you put two of them together, they don't talk much. We exchanged comments about our days and the noodles and not much more.

"She should wake up some time soon- shouldn't she?" I asked mum. This waiting game was beginning to get a bit tedious for everyone involved. (Except, of course, the girl).

"She should." agreed Sarah-Jane. "I bet when she wakes up she'll be hungry." We both chuckled a bit, then finished our noodles. "Your room is next door to her's." Sarah-Jane said. "If you hear anything from her in the night, make sure she's OK, then come and wake me."

I nodded, mouth full of the last of my noodles.

A/N- Sorry it's getting so boring! I will wake her up soon- promise! :D