The Kid

"WHAT!" I screamed.

"They are secret agents, like myself, designated to protect the time machine stationed at Area 51," he replied in a calm voice.

"Wow, wow, wow," I began, "okay even if I believed you, what does this have to do with me?"

"Well we believe that there was a problem with the testing of the time machine that caused all the adults to disappear," he told me. Seconds later Katie and David pulled up parking next to my car.

"Who's that?" Katie asked as she walked up with David, hand in hand. They had been dating for two years now and really loved each other.

"This is Tom," introduced Melanie, "he's a spy."

"No really who is he?" David asked.

"He says he's a spy," I said.

"Okay, if he says so," David said, "have you seen Steph or Matt?"

"No, weren't they at Kroger's when you left?" I asked.

"No I thought they were with you," I stated a bit worried.

"I know where they are," Tom butted in. I turned my head towards him.

"How the hell do you know where they are?" I asked.

"When your parents were first admitted into the program, we kept track of everyone they met and everything about her kids and their lives. We put tracking devices on all of your closest friends," he replied nonchalantly. We all looked at him stunned.

"You bitch!" Katie yelled as she ran up to him fists raised. David grabbed her shoulders and held her back. It was a pretty easy task for him like it would have been for either of us considering we were on the football team.

"Okay, just tell us where they are," I said turning my gaze from Katie back to Tom.

"They should be pulling up the driveway any second now," he said as he glanced at his Groznian. I had never heard of it, but it had its name written on it.

Sure enough they pulled up just seconds later. They got out and joined us. Before they could even ask I answered their question.

"This is Tom, he's a spy who worked with my parents, don't ask any questions," I told Stephanie and Matt, "where did you guys go?"

"We stopped and gave some food to this little child who was wandering around on the road yelling that his parents were dead," Stephanie stated, "I felt so bad for him I couldn't help it."

"Okay that's fine," I said to her softly as I grabbed her hand and put it in mine, "but you have to realize that we can't do that for every person. We'll run out of food. We need to look after ourselves first then worry about others." She cupped her hands around her mouth and whispered into my ear.

"Can you excuse us for a minute Tom?" I asked. I grabbed my friends and we took a safe distance away from Tom to where I believed Tom couldn't hear us.

"Okay so what should we do about Tom?" I asked as we huddled together in a group circle.

"I don't think we should trust him," Stephanie said.

"I don't know, if he wasn't who he said he was why would he go to all this trouble?" Melanie added.

"Where does he want us to go?" David asked.

"I think he wants us to go to Area 51," I stated.

"But that's all the way in Nevada," Matt added in.

"Yes it is, but it may be our only chance to bring back the adults," I added.

"Okay I think that we head to Area 51, but keep Tom prisoner," Melanie said.

"Sounds good to me," I said.

"I'm doing what Lucas is doing," David said.

"So you're doing me too," Stephanie butted in with a laugh. In fact we all laughed.

"So it's settled then?" I asked. Everyone nodded their heads in agreement. We walked back over to where Tom was standing.

"So what did you guys decide?" Tom asked.

"We decided that we would go to Area 51 and try to get the adults back," I told him. I winked at Stephanie. She swung out with her right arm and hit Tom right in his temple. He fell forward right into Matt's awaiting arms.

"Well I guess we better get moving, it's going to be a long drive," I said.