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Tom's POV.
I shuddered as I stepped into the attic, thanking Lucy more and more for coming with me. True I had told her to stay, but that was only because I still felt awkward around her after failing to kiss her-again! I can't believe she tried to talk to me about it. Maybe she wants to tell me she loves me too? Or maybe she wants to tell me that when we got home we should stop being friends because I'm creeping her out.
I felt a cold chill go down my spine at that thought, not bearing to even think what my life would be like without Lucy. Speak of the devil, I felt a warm hand slip into mine.
"Are you ok? You keep shivering." she asked, her beautiful blues glinting in the darkness. My heartbeat sped up as I swallowed to find my voice.
"Yeah I'm fine, just cold." I knew I couldn't keep this up for much longer, not since I realised I loved her.
It was during me and Jakes' scope of Bethany and Rickey. Jake was asking me loads of questions about Lucy and I finally snapped and told him to leave her alone and not to ask her out. It's then that I realised that I didn't want Jake to have Lucy because I wanted her for myself. I think the next time Lucy asks about it, I can't just shut her out. I'll have to tell her I'm in love with her.
"Whoa. Total creep show." Rickey muttered as he looked around the attic. I followed his example, glancing at all the broken, abandoned dust covered items. My free hand brushed over an old counting grid, the ones where they slid the beads across. Lucy smiled down at it, flicking one of the beads.
"You can still re-take your exams." she offered quietly. I shook my head.
"No. I failed because I wasn't smart enough." I said. I knew that was a lie, I was supposed to be top of my class and Lucy knew that. She wouldn't understand why I did what I did. Lucy looked like she wanted to argue, but Rickey interrupted her.
"Alright, here we go." he said as he climbed up towards the sky light. I nodded, steeling myself for what had to be done.
"Listen about the paintball thing…" I started but Rickey shook his head.
"Oh hey, don't even worry about it." he said, wiping his hand before holding it out to me. I smiled as I was about to shake it, until he whipped his hand back, laughing. "Ha ha, fire cracker! to slow!" my eyebrows scrunched up as I tried to register what just happened. I looked back at Lucy, who looked like she must mirror my expression.
"You know what? Thanks to your little sharp shooting stunt back there I wrapped up pity points with your parents and big sis is just itching to be my privet nurse. So thanks a ton ace, that was a text book wingman move." he said smugly, flicking my collar. I glared at him as he stepped away from the window. "Now come on, get up there and make me nana's hero."
"But your told my dad you'd fix it." I said slowly. He smirked at me.
"Yeah well I told your dad a lot of things. Like my car broke down, my parents own a lake house. I'm eighteen." he finished as he stepped up to open the sky light. My eyes widened.
"Wait. You're not a senior?" Lucy asked. Rickey smirked.
"Not in high school. Now go." he demanded, gesturing outside. I felt Lucy shiver as a cold breeze swept through the room. I glared up at Rickey, refusing to help him trick my family. "Go." he said lowly. Lucy backed up slightly, pulling her hand from mine.
I turned to her. "You stay here and keep the window open. I'll be right back." I smiled. She smiled sheepishly at me.
"Thanks." I heard a groan behind us, Rickey effectively ruining another of our moments.
"Oh shut up and get your butt out there lover boy." I blushed as I turned away. That blush turned to a scowl as Rickey grabbed my collar, shoving me out the window and onto the hard roof. Wow he was strong.
I wiped the grit from my face and stood up, looking out over the roof. I turned to see Rickey saying something to Lucy, who looked like she wasn't even listening, just staring out the window at me. I flashed her another smile before I turned to look at the dish.
"Whoa!" I gasped. It had been completely obliterated, a giant smoking hole in the middle. As I picked up a fallen piece of it, I really didn't want to know what had happened.
I looked up at the sky, glad to see that the storm seemed to be blowing itself out. I was started out of my thoughts by the sound of a pot breaking. I gulped as I stood up to investigate.
"Hello?" I asked as I stepped closer to the tangled mess of garden supplies. Just as I thought there would be nothing there, a hand grabbed my shoulder, spinning me around and making me jump.
I was met by a laughing Jake "Dude you make it too easy." he said as he laughed. I scowled.
"That's not funny." I muttered, calming my heart rate. Jake shrugged, turning towards the dish.
"What the heck happened to the dish? I can't do a week here without TV." he mumbled humorously. I chuckled.
"I can't do a week here period." Jake smirked at me.
"Nah, you have that girl to have fin with. Lucy right?" I narrowed my eyes at him. He threw his hands up in defence. "I know I know. Leave her alone. Can I at least hang with her when you're around. I know you wanna get with her but don't smother her." he smirked as he walked towards the dish.
"I don't want…" I trailed off, knowing he wouldn't believe me. It was lie anyway.
As Jake stopped walking, both our heads turned to look at a shadow that was growing on the wall. My heartbeat sped up as I realised that it looked like it was a little frog on two legs with four arms. Slowly, Jake and I turned to look at each other, both of us with wide eyes. Slowly, preying that whatever was behind us was just from my imagination, we turned around to see a little green thing that looked like a hobbit with four arms standing there with something in his hands. He was only three feat tall and seemed shocked to see us standing there.
"Hello, humans." he said, smiling at us. My breath stopped.
"Please say you see that too." Jake whispered franticly.
"Not sure I want to, but yeah." I stated frankly as the alien kept talking.
"We come from upstairs." he was interrupted by another thing running up to him, shouting at him to be quiet. This one only had two arms but a big gut.
"I handle human contact." he said gruffly. Me and Jake just stood there watching them. The fat one started flicking through a book before he turned to us. "Hello humans." he said brightly, but I cringed at him. "No need to notification army we come in pieces." he said before the four armed one interrupted him, correcting him by say they come in peace.
As they argued the fat one seemed to get frustrated. "Stupid book! Forget the book!" he finally yelled, slamming it on the ground. "Attack the humans!" he commanded. At that instant two more aliens jumped up. One was really ripped, but he was really ugly. The other I think was female, and she seemed to eager to hurt us.
"With pleasure!" she smirked as she got ready to pounce,
"Humans! Submit!" the ugly one yelled, pointing at us with a weird looking gun. 'He's got a gun?' me and Jake backed up as he pointed it at us. It was then that Rickey chose that moment to climb onto the roof, his back facing the aliens. It was at that point that I could only guess what these things were, they didn't look from this planet.
"What is taking you girls so long?" he questioned, completely ignoring our shouts to turn around. The ugly alien smirked as he aimed and fired his gun at Rickey, his shot hitting him in the back of the neck. Rickey instantly fell forwards with a shriek, landing right on his face.
"Rickey!" we yelled. No matter how much I hated him, I didn't want the guy dead. The fat alien smirked, bringing out controller and something that looked like a Bluetooth headset.
"What's happening to him?" I yelled, not really expecting Jake to answer.
"Now the fun begins." the fat alien laughed, sticking the headset on his ear. "Testing. Testing." he mumbled as he fiddled with the controller, which looked like one of those paper fortune tellers. As he did, Rickey twitched and twisted, repeating the word testing over and over again in a funny voice.
Jake and I backed right up, I didn't even want to be near those little freaks now. The alien smirked as he stopped mindlessly fiddling with the handheld device. He spoke again and this time Rickey's voice was normal. With a flick of the aliens wrist, Ricky was back on his feet, not even bending his knees to get back up. I felt bad already.
"In humanoid subjects. We are the Zirkonian species." I looked down at the alien controlling Rickey, who didn't even bat an eyelid at what he was doing. "And we claim your luscious planet as our own." Rickey started advancing forwards. Instinctively Jake and I backed up. "You have the choice of eternal enslavement or…" Rickey stopped talking as he reached towards me and Jake, as we tried vainly to scramble over the railing. I took one look over and froze. I hate heights. I felt Rickey grab my collar and I cried out as he spun me and Jake around and slammed us back on our feet.
"Instantaneous death." my mind stopped working as I realised something. Lucy would never take enslavement, she was far to proud.
"Run?" Jake suggested, lifting his elbow. I caught on and nodded.
"I'm good with run." I agreed as I followed Jakes' lead and elbowed Rickey in the stomach. While he appeared to be in no pain, he did let go, and me and Jake sprinted away.
"You have chosen instantaneous death." I heard Rickey growl before his footsteps crunched. Me and Jake leaped towards the window, pulling on it.
"It's locked!" I shouted. "Where's Lucy?" I fretted. Jake was to busy trying to open the window.
I flinched as another of those alien shot thingies bounced off the window. We got up and ran as Rickey advanced on us again, running back over to the railing. I felt my legs turn to jelly as we approached the railing, Jake looking over the side.
"We're trapped!" I shouted, not prepared to look over the edge.
"Duck!" Jake shouted as Rickey came crashing through a wooden wall. We ducked and Rickey flew past us, tripping over the edge of the railing. I swallowed my sick feeling as he toppled out of site.
Luckily for him, a cable from the satellite dish was snagged around his ankle, jolting him to a stop and breaking the wooden perch the ugly alien was standing on.
"Unbelievable!" he shouted. "Razor, go!" the fat one commanded.
"Yes sire!" she yelled before launching herself at me. I used an old crate to block her and her…nails? I focused on keeping her away from me, chucking the crate away with her stuck to it.
I spotted Jake screaming at the window. "Hannah! Thank god! Open the window!" a second later he was yelling. "No! Come back!" I was busy taking out the ugly alien with a crate, saving Jake in the process. I rushed back over to the window to see Art, Lee and Lucy standing there. Lucy looked scared out of her mind. I could see her mouth moving but I couldn't hear what she was saying. I could see Art and Lee arguing about who should open the window.
I could tell because Lucy eventually pushed them out of the way and opened it, just missing getting crushed by me and Jake as we fell through, the window slamming shut behind us.
"Everyone downstairs now!" I shouted as Lucy tried to help pull me up.
"Tom! What's going on?" she yelled. She screamed as the window shattered and the four aliens leaped through.
"Creepy crawlies." Hannah murmured.
"GO! GO! GO!" I yelled, ushering everyone downstairs. I pushed Lucy ahead of me as I heard the gun the ugly alien used charging up. Just as Jake and I were stepping onto the steps, the others waiting at the bottom of the stairs, I felt something like a bee sting in the back of my neck. It hit so hard that I was forced from my feet and went tumbling down the steps.
Jake thudded down next to me. I felt my body twitching violently before it stopped. I felt weird, not like a zombie, just stunned. I felt a hand on my shoulder roll me over onto my back.
"Tom are you ok?" I heard Lucy cry.
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