Chapter Twelve
"Very well then," said Zero.
"Zero, I think I might be in love with her. I know it's weird because I'm an alien and she's a human, but it doesn't matter to me," said Slimy.
I felt evil for eavesdropping on them, but also I was finding very useful information.
"Yeah I know what you mean Slimy. I kind of have a little crush on her too," said Zero.
Now things were getting really weird.
All this time I thought of Slimy as my best friend and Zero as my big brother.
Now I found out that they both liked me.
I decided to stop hiding and just go back inside the house.
I stood up at horrible timing.
Slimy and Zero saw me and all three of us froze in place for several seconds.
"Um…" said Zero.
"Oh my God!" yelled Slimy.
He grabbed both his antennas and walked in a circle saying "oh my God," over and over again.
"Tell me you didn't hear that," said Slimy.
"Uh…I didn't hear anything," I said.
"Lies," said Zero.
"Okay yeah, I heard it all," I said.
"Oh well," said Zero.
He walked back inside the house.
Slimy looked over at me.
"Y-You're not m-mad are you?" he asked.
"No, why should I be? Why didn't you just tell me before?" I asked.
"I don't know. It's weird of me to say that I love you. I mean, after all I am an alien and you're a human. It's just…I don't know. Awkward I guess," he said.
I walked over to Slimy and hugged him.
"So you love me?" he asked.
"Yes, I do love you, Slimy," I said.
Zero walked back outside and saw us.
"Okay, so I went upstairs to see the news on TV, and apparently there is no news! There's no TV channels at all," said Zero.
"That's obvious," I said.
The whole world was dead. Of course there was no TV.
Our only option now was to find help from someone.
The three of us walked up the street for a long time until we found a cardboard box strangely sitting in the middle of the street.
Slimy picked it up and a person was inside.
"Hey! I'm sleeping!" yelled the person.
"Hey John! Why you under a box?" called out another human standing a few yards away.
The person under the box stood up and walked over to the other guy.
"Who are you?" I asked the guys.
"I'm John and this is Steve," said the box guy.
"We're in a group to protest and destroy the aliens much like the two that are right next to you," said Steve.
Slimy made a fist.
"Say, you look familiar. I've seen you around this town before. You always walked around at night with a little alien. He was like a pet to you, always following you around," said John.
"Yes. That's Slimy," I said.
Slimy smiled.
"I'm Slimy," he said.
The expression on John's face changed.
"Oh…well…you're not so little anymore," he said.
Slimy half smiled.
I looked up at Zero.
He looked pissed.
"This here's Zero. Both of these guys are good aliens really. I've been to their planet and it's destroyed much like ours," I said.
"Hmm…I see. Well if you've been to their planet, then maybe you should become one of them," said John
"Wait…how does that work?" I asked.
"Steve, mind explaining?" he asked.
"Okay. Due to past experiences, our team of human survivors discovered that if a human touches alien blood, even just one drop, then they become an alien. It's true! I've tested it myself. It's not a graduate process either. It doesn't take days and days to turn into one of them. At the most, maybe just five minutes. Just one drop of alien blood and right then you start going insane in the head and your whole body changes completely and rapidly. It's scary I know, but I warn you, if you like being human, never go back to that planet," explained Steve.
I wasn't just worried now about going back to the alien planet, I was also scared of being around Slimy and Zero. What if one of them got a cut and their blood accidentally got on me?
"Is there a way to turn back human?" I asked.
"Not that I am aware of. We tried to put human blood onto a previous-human-currently alien person before but nothing happened. It's a permanent state. Once you're an alien, you will always be an alien," said Steve.
"Are there any survivors left?" I asked.
"Yeah, but they're all hiding underground. There's several thousands of us left. But not many. If the aliens leave and we're safe again, our World can be back to normal in no time. We need help. I think you guys are our only hope," said John.
"That's what we're here for. Boss wrote a peace treaty," I said.
Just then, aliens everywhere came out of random places.