Chapter Four
I put my arm back in the air.
Still, my reflection did nothing.
I won.
I snickered to myself.
"I did it. It's over," I said.
I could now die happy.
I waited a minute for an alien to come and rip my heart out.
Nothing happened.
I stuck my tongue out at the mirror.
My reflection sill did nothing.
What was going on?
Just then I felt something poke my back.
I spun around quickly.
To my surprise, there was a little green slimy creature there behind me.
I stared at it.
It took me a second to realize that this wasn't like any of the ones I've seen before.
No big ugly ones that steals hearts.
This one was actually kind of cute.
It was still green, and looked rather slimy, but it looked up at me, not smiling or having any signs of evil.
It's eyes were green and it's pupil's took up about ninety-five percent of it's eyes.
It looked up at me with an expression like "please don't kill me". I didn't know what to do.
It seemed to be more scared of me than I was of it.
I decided to talk to it.
"Hello, do you speak English?" I asked it.
It nodded.
"What's your name?" I asked.
"What's a name?" it asked.
"Um…what do you call yourself?" I asked.
It looked down and thought about it.
Finally it looked back up at me.
"They called me 32975," it said.
A number?
"Well that's…interesting," I said.
It shrugged.
"What are you?" it asked me.
"My name is Jaycee," I said.
"Oh that's cool," it said.
This problem was getting on my nerves. I still didn't know exactly what it was.
"So are you a boy or a girl?" I asked it.
"Dude," it said.
"Okay so apparently it was a guy alien,"
"So you're a male?" I asked him.
He nodded.
That made things a little easier.
"And, what exactly are you?" I asked.
He looked around the room.
"I don't know what you mean," he said.
"You know, I'm a human, what are you?" I asked.
He was silent for a few moments.
"I'm an alien to you," he said quietly.
An alien.
That's exactly what he was.
He noticed that I wasn't saying anything after what he said.
"Don't kill me please. He told me that I had to come here to the human world and bring back a human heart or else our family would die. We had to pay Boss. I was forced to come here," he cried.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa little buddy, don't get so worried. I'm not going to kill you. We need to set things straight. We are friends okay? I will help you get what you need if you keep me and my family safe from your kind. Got it?" I asked.
He nodded.
"Now secondly, we need to trust each other. We are both scared of one another because you and your alien friends are taking over my world. You're scared of me because I have weapons downstairs and I can kill you. We both have a way to kill one another. We have to have trust. I won't kill you if you don't kill me, fair?" I asked.
He nodded again.
We shook hand, though he only had two fingers.
"So what were you saying 32975?" I asked.
"Oh about Boss? Yeah he's the leader of our kind. He makes us work for him. He says that if each of us get a human heart then we won't get killed. If one of us fails, then we will be executed. I can't kill you. I can't kill anyone. I don't want to do this. Mom and Dad told me that Boss is a bad alien for making us do such a crime. We don't want to hurt humans but we have no choice. He's a comu…err a comun….a bad person that is demanding and bossy," he said.
I think he was searching for the word "communist".
"Well do not fret little one. I'll help you if you help me," I said.
He smiled.
We walked downstairs to the living room.
"So why does this "Boss" person want with human hearts?" I asked.
"I dunno. Something about having proof that all humans are destroyed and dead and we can come and take over all of your world and technology," he said.
It made sense, but was rather disturbing.
I decided not to question the situation anymore.