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Chapter 40 The reunion of the royal five
After the rather disturbing nightmare, which made her afraid to go back to sleep again, Maria decided to use the empty campus to do something she hadn´t done in a long while. Quietly she went to her closet and searched for her trainings clothes there. Here and there she turned around to look if her roommate was still sleeping. She didn´t want to wake her, because Tess appeared like she was dreaming of Kyle, according to her happy expression on her face. After a few minutes of digging through her whole wardrobe, she finally found her black tracksuit pants and one of her favourite t-shirts from a popular sports label with four letters. Quickly she changed the clothes and on her way out the door she bent down to lift her running shoes from the floor. Five minutes later she jogged over the campus and in the direction of the city. The air was still a little cold, the sun was partly hidden behind the buildings and the sky was in the process to change from black to a bright blue. At this time of the day there wasn´t so much people on the way. Once in a while Maria came across some students, who were on their way back to the dorm after a party. Some of them were even held from their friends, because they drank too much. She didn´t care about them at this moment. She had enough own problems she had to think about. One of her most important one was the nightmare she had. She wanted to know what it meant and who these people were. She was pretty sure that it wasn´t just a bad dream, because she had enough of them in the past and not one of them had scared her so much like that. But when it was really a memory, why could she remember it? She had watched a tv show about past lifes and a few people told about their experience with hypnotist, who lead them back in the time they had supposedly lived. They could remember places and things, although they were never at this point before. Was that what happened with them right now? Had they lived before and now they finally remembered it? But what about their powers then? Were did they come from and what purpose did they have? Was this thing with the aliens maybe not so unreal like people claimed to be? Were their parents maybe aliens? Immediately when the thought entered Marias head she banned it. If she wouldn´t be so worried, she would have laught about it. Her parents were weird, so much she could admit. But aliens? That was too unbelievable. Besides if that would be the case, then Kyle would have powers, too. However he hadn´t and made her crazy consideration useless. While she racked her brain for another explanation for the strange things that happened the last 24 hours, she didn´t noticed the man standing in her path. At least until she collided with him pretty hard and almost fell to the floor. Just the quick reaction of the man prevented her from hurting herself. He had grasped her arm the instant he realized she would crash to the ground and held her up.
" I´m sorry. I didn´t see you", Maria felt her cheeks heating up and her gaze wandered to the face of the man who saved her from embarrassing herself. Surprised she identified the person as one of her professors, to be exact Professor Potter from General Business.
" So I noticed", he looked at her amused. " You seemed pretty deep in thoughts. I hope everything is alright?".
Maria nodded her head immediately. What could she say to him. Strange that you´re asking, but I was just wondering if I´m an alien or just a freak with powers or on my way to the looney bin. She didn´t think that was a topic for conversation. " Yeah. I just couldn´t sleep last night and I thought some air would clear my head".
Professor Potter smiled at her and something entered his eyes. It was a look she often received from her father. She called it the concerned daddy look. " Be careful from now on. There are dangerous people around at this time and not everybody is so friendly like me".
" I will remember that", Maria finally registered that he still gripped her arm and it slowly scared her. " Can I have my arm back again?".
" Of course. I´m sorry, I hadn´t realized that I was still holding it", he released her arm instantly. It seemed like he was miles away with his thoughts.
Maria tried to quell her queasy feeling and made an attempt to appear normal. " Well. We´ll see each other on Monday. I have to get back on my way now".
" Ok. And remember be careful".
Maria threw him a smile that said she understood and with a wink she turned on her heels. Without waiting she started running back to the campus again. Now that was a weird conversation. She never had felt so uncomfortable with a professor or with any of her teachers in high school before. Something was pretty strange with him. She had received a little flash about some kind of soldier training when he touched her and she was afraid at first that he was also different. But she watched his reaction and he wasn´t surprised or shocked, which meant he hadn´t noticed anything. So she was under the impression that just a memory sparked in her and it had nothing to do with him. However she planned to keep an eye on him from now on and observed if something strange happened around him. It wasn´t wrong to be cautious of other people and it was certainly not wrong to trust ones instincts. Maria had to grin at the thought. She had been too long near her father, he had definitely rubbed off on her with his be careful and don´t trust others to easily talk. He was always more concerned about her than he had been with Kyle. When she was younger she hadn´t understood it, because she thought she had more strength with her powers than her brother. But now she got the meaning. Her father just didn´t want anything to happen to her. He saw too much girls her age getting attacked, murdered or raped. One day he came home with red rimmed eyes and shaking hands. He was pretty pale and looked sick. When her mother asked him what happened, he told them that he found a young girl lying in the alley behind the crashdown. She had been raped and then killed. He just saw the blonde hair and his first thought was it was Maria lying there. Thankfully his fear hadn´t been proved true, obviously because she was still alive, and he found out later she was a runaway from New York. Not that the girl had deserved to die so cruelly or that it was her fault for this, but it showed her that even something like that could happen in Roswell. Everybody often assumed they lived in a small town and crime just happened in big cities, however the reality was not always what it appeared to be. Crime lived everywhere, even in some hicktown in nowhere New Mexico. Suddenly she was taken from her thoughts, when she saw a person standing in her way. Surprised she noticed that she was already at the campus and the someone blocking her path was no other than Michael.
" Where were you? Tess is worried sick".
Maria was taken aback from the greeting and stopped dead in her tracks. Most people would start with a hello. But Michael didn´t put a value to niceties. He came straight to the point. " Hello to you, too".
Michael´s face changed to a grimace and his eyes glistened dangerously. " Cut the bshit. Where have you been? I just got a wake up call from my sister, who said you weren´t in your bed".
" What does it look like I´m been doing? I was keeping my body in shape. I´m sorry that I forgot to leave a note, Daddy", Maria didn´t understand why he made such a fuss about her not being in her room. She didn´t know that she had to sign off everytime she left.
Michael brushed his tousled hair from his face frustrated. He didn´t know why the thought of her alone this early was worrying him so much. Even Kyle hadn´t been so concerned when he heard the news of his sister disappearance. He just said that she often went for a walk when she couldn´t sleep. After that he turned around and slept again. " I didn´t mean it like that. I´m sorry if that came out stronger than I wanted".
Maria was stunned. She never thought Michael was the kind of person who knew how to utter an apology. " Alright. I´ll let it pass this time. But the next time I will kick you´re ass".
Michael scratched his right eyebrow and a smirk was appearing on his unshaved face. " Promise?".
" You´re impossible! I should really give you a good beating. But luckily I´m too hungry right now to do that", Maria should be mad at him. Not just for the way he behaved towards her moments ago, but for hitting on her. AGAIN. However the more he pushed the more she found it sweet. She didn´t know if it was the fact that they were both freaks or the fact that he finally grew onto her.
Michael laid his right arm around her shoulders and lead her into the direction of the cafeteria. " Then I should feed you. And maybe you can give me this beating later".
Maria noticed the way how nicely she fit under his arm and how safe she felt there. It was like nothing bad would happen as long as he was near her. Strange, she never felt that with anybody else, except of course her family. If she wanted or not, she was slowly starting to like this big oaf. " Promise?".
Michael for the first time since she met him smiled at her. Not this smirking or grinning he always did with the other, but a real smile. It finally reached his eyes and made them shine brighter. She never would have thought that such a simple gesture could give her such a nice warm feeling inside. " You´re a bad girl, you know that".
" Yeah. And I´m pretty proud of it".
" Then maybe you should get a beating, too", Michael raised seductively his eyebrow and gave her his come hither look. It worked almost everytime with girls.
Maria stopped in her tracks and she put herself in front of him. Her eyes got darker from lust and her body tingled from desire. Oh boy, damn hormones. Why was the thought of him beating her turning her so much on? Slowly she let her forefinger travel over his barely clothed chest, he was still wearing his sleepwear, which was a black satin boxershort and a white tank top, and bent closer to him. They were almost nose to nose. " Throw a little bondage in the mix and I´m game".
Michael felt something on him stir at the possibility. His tongue came out and wet his suddenly gone dry lips. Was she for real? Oh god, hopefully it wasn´t some dream and he would wake up in his own cum. Please, Please, Please, don´t let this be a dream. " Is that an invitation?".
" If you´re up to get a little nasty", Maria closed the small distance between them and pressed her body tight at his. Carefully she took his face in her hands and bent it down to her. Tenderly she started to kiss him.
Michael was surprised that she took the initiative this time. But it only took him a few seconds to get over it and get with the programm. He enveloped his arms around her hips and gripped her ass firmly with his strongs hands. The action elicited a deep moan from Maria and it spured him on. His body felt on fire and every cell was screaming for release. He never met a woman that could get him so hot in a matter of seconds like her. He didn´t know why he hadn´t dragged her already back to his room and had his wicked way with her. Maybe some part of his still functioning brain didn´t want this to be just something physical or his feet weren´t simply not working anymore. He didn´t care, all he cared was the woman in his arms, who felt so familiar and so wonderful. It was like he finally found the half he was searching for his whole life.
" There you are! I looked for you both all over campus", came a voice near them.
Startled Michael and Maria parted immediately from each other. Guiltily they tried to appear like nothing happened. Not easy when you blushed like a school girl who got just busted making out with someone from the parents. And the fact that both their lips were red and swollen blew their cover pretty much.
" Hey Tess. Didn´t see you coming", Maria straightened her clothes. She had to do everything to keep her hands occupied or she would start touching Michael again.
Tess looked at her and her brother suspiciously. Why were they both so red faced? And why were they behaving so oddly? What did they do? " Did I interrupt something?".
" No", alright, that wasn´t convincing at all, because it was too quick and they both had said it at the same time.
Tess´ eyebrows raised nearly to her hairline. Well, either she got trapped into some bizarro world or she was still dreaming, but something was fishy here. She was maybe blonde but not dumb. " Fine".
Maria finally got her body under control and her brain was working normal again. She had to distract her roommate or she would ask more question. She didn´t have the feeling Tess believed them and she couldn´t blame her. They were behaving pretty conspiciuous right now. " We were just on our way to the cafeteria. Do you want to tag along?".
" If I´m not intruding you two", Tess had to do everything in her power to keep her smile in. She finally put two and two together and realized what occuried a few moments ago. Now she had an explanation for the blushing faces and the fidgeting.
" You´re not. Why would you? It´s not like we want to be alone or that something happened between us", Michael saw the looks he received from the two girls. The eyes of Maria told him to shut up and those of his sisters said that he just give himself away. " I´ll see if Kyle´s up and we´ll meet you in the cafeteria then". And as fast as his legs could carry him he walked away.
Maria watched after his retreating back and enjoyed the view of his moving ass. It was a nice sight and she could get used to it. After a while she turned her attention back to Tess and noticed the amused expression. " What?".
Tess grinned like an idiot and linked her arms with her friend. Then she started to drag her in the cafeteria. " Tell me, when did you begin to like my brother?".
Maria giggled nervously and tried to find a plausible excuse. She didn´t even know when she stopped thinking about Michael as a jerk and started thinking of him as a friend, well more than a friend to be exact. Maybe she always liked him and she just was too busy to fight with him that she didn´t realize it or the hit at her head damaged more than she thought. " I don´t know what you´re talking about".
" Give it up. You can´t fool my any longer", Tess wouldn´t buy the lame explanation anymore. She saw the sparks between them and the passion in their eyes. She wasn´t blind and she could regnorize an attraction between two people.
Maria noticed that she wouldn´t get far with her tactic this time. To be honest she knew that her friend wouldn´t believe her excuse. It was far to obvious that there was something going on between Michael and her. So to get it finally over with, she told Tess what she interrupted. They talked while they stuffed their trays with food and after they sat at a table. Maria didn´t leave anything out and even mentioned shortly the little incident with her ex boyfriend Billy and how Michael beat him almost senseless. In between bites of pancakes she was explaining how it came to the scene earlier, which Tess had destroyed with her appearance. Actually it was good that she interfered with them, because neither Michael nor Maria had been in the right mind to stop what they were doing and it could have lead to things they weren´t ready for.
" Are you talking about me", suddenly someone stood behind them.
Maria turned around and glared at her brother. Holy shit, he almost gave her a heartattack. He couldn´t just sneak up on them when they were talking about things he had no business to hear. " The world doesn´t revolve around you, Kyle".
Kyle quickly kissed Tess on the mouth before he planted his butt on the seat besides her. " So I heard, but I think it´s just a rumour", smiling brightly he snatched a piece of Marias pancake and chewed loudly.
" Hey, get your own food", Maria pulled her plate closer to her and guarded it. She knew how greedy he could be and she was hungry herself. If he wanted something he had to stand up and get it himself.
Kyle rolled his eyes at her. It was just a tiny bit and didn´t even fill his growling stomach. " I am. Well to be exact Michael will get it for me", he scanned the cafeteria, which was slowly getting full from students, for the head of his roommate. Why did it take so long, he was starving.
" Are you looking for me?", Michael put the tray with their food on the table and took the seat near Maria.
" Actually just for my breakfast", without waiting he swooped the plate with the huge omelett, a bagel with something that looked like slices of turkey and a glas orange juice. He dug into his food like a starving man and started eating. It was pretty much a scary sight to see him breathing everything in without chewing properly.
Maria tried to hide her embarrassement. She was used to this, but not everyone grew up with the human vacuum cleaner. She looked at Tess and Michael, who were staring at Kyle in awe. She had to do something or they would think her brother hadn´t learned anything at home. " So Tess, what are you doing today?".
Tess drew her attention away from Kyle and glanced at her roommate instead. " Nothing planned yet. I´m open for any suggestion".
Kyle lifted his head at that. He paused in stuffing his face and threw her a questioning glance. He thought they wanted to spend the evening together. " What about our plans for tonight?".
" Still stands. But until then I´m available for anything", at that Tess turned her head to Maria. Maybe they could go in the city and canvass the shops there. She needed a new dress or even a new pair of shoes anyway.
Michael, who was busy with filling his stomach the whole time, finally joined the conversation. " We could explore the town together".
Before anyone at the table could say something, Liz and Isabel stepped at the table with their trays. Noisily they dropped in the chairs. " Hey guys".
" Did we interrupt something? Or why you´re all so quiet right now?", Liz glanced at every face. She had the feeling to intrude and that never happened with her friends before. Her glance stopped at Maria and she searched for some kind of indication what happened the night before. " Is it because of Billy?".
" What about him? Was he here? What did he do this time?", Kyle pushed his plate away from him and paid attention to his sister, who went white as a ghost at the mention of the name. Was Billy the reason that Maria wanted to go back to her room? Had Michael the injuries at his hands from him? He had grilled his roommate last night about the incident, but he hadn´t said anything. He just told him that it was over and Maria wasn´t hurt.
Maria saw the angry twinkle in the eyes of her brother. She was close to choke her best friend. She didn´t want Kyle to know what happened with Billy, because she was knew how his reaction to that would be. " Forget it. It was nothing, just a little argument. He won´t come back again".
" Who won´t be back again?", asked another voice.
Everybody turned around and saw Alex standing there with Max in tow. They both looked like they just woke up. Strange, because they stayed in last night and wanted to go to sleep early.
" No one", said Maria, just as Liz said " Billy".
Alex took a chair and placed it at the table before he sat in it. His expression was a mix of anger and shock. " What did he want here? Making trouble again?".
Maria had enough. It was one thing to hear that from her brother, but then to hear it from her best friend, too. She was aware that they both just wanted to protect her from harm and they felt responsible for her. It was even sweet, but she wasn´t a five year old, which got pushed around from a bully. She was old and strong enough to take care of her own business. " You know what? I´m so sick to be treated like a child. What happened with Billy stays between me and him. He won´t bother me again and that´s all you have to know".
Alex and Kyle dropped their heads shamefully and murmured an apology. Even Liz had a guilty expression on her face. After all she was the one who started this thing. Tess, Isabel, Michael and Max tried to look everywhere, just not in the direction of Maria. They were afraid she would fight with them, too. And although they didn´t know her that well, they didn´t want to get on her bad side.
" I have to get out of here", Maria stood up from her seat and walked quickly out of the cafeteria.
Liz, Tess and Isabel watched after her sympathetical. They could understand her. At least two of the girls, which had the pleasure of having a brother, too. Without saying anything, but glaring at the boys they followed after their friend. They found her sitting under a tree a little aside the campus. Her feets were pulled at her body and her face was resting on her knees. Carefully the other girls sat around her.
" Hey, don´t let this bother you. Their boys and talk before thinking", Liz tried to comfort her friend. She was a bit surprised about Marias reaction. She should be used to their behaviour by now, after all it wasn´t the first time something like that occured.
Tess nodded her head in agreement. She should know it, she was related to Michael. He made talking nonesence an art form. And she often had fights with him, because he was acting like a jerk towards her. " They only mean it well or they wouldn´t say anything".
Isabel patted Marias arm lightly. She could relate to her, even if Max wasn´t so much the angry kind of person. He was more into boring her to death with his talking about taking cautious with boys. The conversations were more traumatic than every sex talk she had with her parents. " We could kick their asses if you like".
Maria chuckled slightly at the suggestion. That didn´t sound so bad at this moment. Slowly she raised her head to look at Isabel. The instant their eyes meet everything faded away. Maria was suddenly thrown in her nightmare from last night again. She was sitting at the big table with the eight people around her. The blonde goddess opposite her was smiling at her. And finally she knew why she was so familiar to her. It was Isabel and the boy next to her was her brother Max. Why didn´t she realize it sooner? " Vilandra?".
Isabel pulled her hand back immediately and her eyes grew wide at this. " How do you know that name?".
" The name just came to me", Maria rubbed her forehead. All this new information were confusing her. She had accepted her uniqueness and she was happy with the way her life had been. But now everytime she got used to the changes in her life, something new popped up and confused her even more. What was the meaning of all this? What was the purpose that she met and befriended this people, she didn´t even know a few weeks ago?
" I know that name. I heard it before somewhere", Tess searched through her memories. Vilandra, the name told her something. But the more she tried to remember the more the memory was pushed into the back of her mind.
Liz glanced at her best friend, then at her roommate before she stopped at Tess. " What is going on here? Did I miss something?".
Maria turned to her. She almost forgot that she was present and that she didn´t know that she found out that she wasn´t the only one with powers. But she didn´t know if the other two were content with her knowing about them. She hated to lie to her best friend and she didn´t want it, however she didn´t have another choice at the moment. " It´s something from our business class actually. You wouldn´t understand it".
Isabel had the feeling to suffocate. She had never told anyone about her dreams, not even Max. But how did Maria and Tess know about Vilandra then? Who were they? Were they here to tell her that she was a traitor and was responsible for the death of her family, too? Were they like her and Max? So much question were racing through her head and she didn´t know where to start.
" Liz, can you do me a favour and tell my brother that he forgot something in our room last night and he should come by later to get it", Tess wasn´t sure if Liz was aware of the otherness of her best friend. She didn´t want to scare the other girl or make her afraid. Besides it would be better if they talked among themselfes at first before they told everything the others.
Liz had the feeling she wasn´t included anymore and that they wanted her gone. What were they hiding from her? She turned to Maria to see if she had the same opinion. Her best friend gave her a pleading look and told her with her eyes that she would explain everything later. " Alright. Something else?", when the others just shook their heads no, she arose from the ground and went into the cafeteria.
Tess and Maria waited until she was out of their sight before they turned their attention back on Isabel, which was still in some kinda shock. She just sat there unmoving and her glance didn´t waver from some point far away. Suddenly she faced them. " Who are you?".
" We´re the same as you", to prove her statement Maria dropped her hand besides her and waved her hand over a flower. Instantly she changed her colour from bright yellow to voilett.
" Ugh, that´s an ugly colour", Tess pushed the hand of her friend away and waved her own hand over the flower, who blossomed now in a nice red.
Isabel gasped at the sight. She thought she and her brother were the only ones who could do that. One part of her was relieved that there were more of her kind. But another was scared. Scared that they were here to punish her for her betrayal, which she didn´t even remember doing. " Do you know why we have this powers? Or what we are?".
" No. We only discovered that we both were different last night. We´re completely in the dark like you about that", Tess was happy. She wasn´t such a freak like she thought. Or maybe they were a freak show. But that didn´t bother her, because she wasn´t alone.
Maria didn´t share the same feelings like her roommate, because something did bother her at the moment. " Why did you react so shocked about the name Vilandra? ".
Isabel was contemplating to tell them a lie. She wasn´t comfortable to explain them her dreams and how scary they were. It wasn´t exactly the things that happened there, but more the things she heard. It was like someone was there with her and whispered disgusting things in her ear. But then she looked in the eyes of Tess and Maria. She knew those eyes and they weren´t hatefull. Right on the contrary. " Sometimes I dream about strange things, people and places I have never seen before, but are so familiar to me. Often there is this voice that tells me I´m a traitor and that I killed my family. He calls me Vilandra all the time and the name sparks something inside me. Strangly I have the feeling that this Vilandra wasn´t a good person".
" Does the name Rath or Marianna say something to you?", Tess had to ask, because it could maybe finally help them figure things out. Or at least would lead them into the right direction.
Isabel mulled over the names. It wasn´t the first time she heard them. But she couldn´t file the faces to the names right now. " There´s something there, but I can´t grasp it".
Maria scratched her forehead with her right hand. There had to be something to find out what they went through at the moment. Something that would tell them what was happening with them and why them at all. Dammit, they were stuck at a dead end. And they couldn´t even ask someone for help, because they would think they had lost their minds or escaped from a mental institution. " We´re getting nowhere with worrying about things we have no knowledge of. Maybe it would be best if we met somewhere and talk about what we want to do now".
" What are you suggesting?", Tess was curious what her roommate wanted to accomplish with her meeting. She knew Michael was as clueless as her in this matter. Or at least it appeared so or maybe he was just keeping everything to himself.
Maria jumped to her feet and looked down at her friends. She wanted answers and they wouldn´t get anything if they didn´t do something. " You", she pointed at Tess " will tell Michael to come to our room", then she turned to Isabel and did the same " and you will get Max. We´ll meet each other in half an hour there".
Tess rose slowly from the ground and glanced at her roommate. She had a plan, she could see it in her eyes. " What about the others?".
Maria smiled reassuringly at her. " Let me worry about that", with that she walked away.
Isabel, which was now standing besides Tess, looked concerned after her. She didn´t know what it was, but she had the feeling that something would change. Only she didn´t have a clue if it was for the better or for the worse.
Half an hour later
Maria was pacing from one side of her room to the other constantly. She was pretty worried about the meeting. She didn´t know why she even suggested it in the first place. What did she expect would happen? That they suddenly get their memories back? That was very unlikely. And the lying to her friends was weighting heavily on her, too. She hated to keep them in the dark. But she would make it up to them somehow. Right now Kyle, Liz and Alex were waiting for her in the same diner they went to yesterday. She told them she had to do something and she would meet them there then. Hopefully they were gone long enough. Suddenly she stopped in the middle of her room. She could hear footsteps outside and quiet whispers. Immediately she went to the door and opened it. Michael was standing in front of her, his right hand lifted and in the process to knock.
" Come on in".
Everybody stepped into the room nervously. Max looked around confused. He hadn´t the slightest clue what the meeting was for. He was just told Isabel found others like them and that they were looking for answers. Carefully he placed himself at one of the chairs in front of the desks. Michael stayed near the door and leant at the dresser of his sister with an unreadable expression on his face. Tess went instantly to her bed and sat on it. Isabel followed her and made herself comfortable besides her. Maria decided to keep standing, just in case. For what she didn´t know, but she had the feeling that something might happen. After all it wasn´t everyday that people with powers were in the same room.
" So now that we´re all here, can we know why this meeting was called?", Michael hated to be in close proximity with so much people in such small space. It wasn´t that he had claustrophobia or something. But he had the gift to read the feelings of others and he didn´t know how to shield them from him.
Maria turned to everyone and watched their faces. They were all curious what they did here. " I wanted this meeting because I want to find out what happens with us right now. I mean don´t you think it´s a little strange that we´re meeting here after all this years? I don´t think it´s coincidence that five people with powers, they have no knowledge why they had them, go to the same college and find each other there".
Tess had to agree when she thought about it that way. It was definitely a little strange. But what did it mean? That they were supposed to meet each other? That something pulled them to this college? " What are you hinting at?".
" Think about it. Since I meet you all, I feel like I found part of my family, although I didn´t know you until a week ago. I have strange flashes from people, who are familiar to me and I haven´t met them in my life. I dream about things that spark something in me. I look at you and I feel a familiarity, which I only feel with my family and friends, who know me my entire life", Maria didn´t know how to describe what was going inside her any better. She had no clue how she could make them understand something she had no words for. It was just a gut feeling and it never had let her down so far.
Michael finally pushed himself from the dresser and went to her. She had just described what he felt. Now he knew that it wasn´t just by accident that they found each other. " I know exactly what you mean. I felt it, too".
Isabel looked at her brother and saw that he nodded at them. Slowly she stood up. " I think we all felt it. But I want to know why we feel that. It had to have a reason for all this".
" Maybe we´re aliens", Max spoke up for the first time. He was a little stunned about the reaction he got immediately. Everybody was looking at him like he grew a second head.
Michael started laughing all of the sudden. Now the others turned to him confused. " Are you for real?".
Max jumped to his feet and moved near his sister. " Since I know that I´m a little different than others I searched for clues about the reason for it. I read books, I browsed through every newspaper and every magazine I could find and even used the computer at the library. And about a year ago I didn´t find anything. At least nothing that was real. But then I came across some article in a science magazine from 1982. Did you know that there was a UFO sighting that year in the desert near Roswell?".
" I think I remember my Dad telling me about it. He said that he was called there. But they didn´t find anything. There wasn´t even one hint that something crashed there", Maria was familiar with all the rumours about aliens and the supposedly crash in 1947. After all she lived all her life in Roswell and she knew that most of it was just a big joke to keep the tourists entertained.
Tess rose from the bed and put herself to the others. Now they were all standing in a small circle around the room. Just as she wanted to open her mouth to point out that the UFO sighting happened in the year they were all born, something strange happened. A white light was shooting from each body and illuminated the whole room. Everybody simulanously shielded their eyes with their hands. As fast as the light came it disappeared again. Shocked they looked at each other and asked themself the same question. What was that just now? But before someone could utter a word, the door flew open and a man stepped into the room.
" Finally all together again".
Everybody turned to the door and gasped. Maria brought just two words out. " Professor Potter?".
TBC