Alien Abduction
“I’m going to be late for class!” She yelled accidentally. In her haste she had slipped on the greasy kitchen floor. Metal bowls and spoons tumbled to the ground.
“Chelsea, look at all these tables,” Mickey Valdez gestured with a blackened spatula while glaring at the mess on the floor. “What am I supposed to do, kick them all out?” Mick was a big guy, tall and when it came to the waist… he was a cook after all. His dark face was covered in grease and sweat from the hot kitchen.
In contrast Chelsea Roberts was short and blonde. But Chelsea was definitely not one of those blondes-have-more-fun girls at all. She was smart and she worked hard. A full time student at NMU and a full time waitress for Mick’s family owned burger shop. She exhaled knowing he was right. “I know, I know, I’ve just been so busy with school lately and the final is next week. What will I do if I’m late?”
Mick looked at her knowingly, “Look, just help me take care of these customers and I’ll do the dishes and close without you.“
Ah Mickey you’ll be up all night with this mess,” she said with a half smirk at the sinks while she grabbed two plates and headed out the kitchen door.
“That’s alright, you can make it up to me Friday night.” He yelled out the kitchen window, “Not like you’ll have any dates anyway!” She never did.
An hour later, Chelsea was out the door and unlocking her red Honda Civic.
“Nine twenty! I’m leaving after nine on a Wednesday! What got into all those customers?”
She started down the road toward the school and realized she was going the wrong way. Tonight was her astronomy lab, and the class was going to meet at the school, and then carpool to a spot in the desert where they were going to do the lab. She would have to drive there on her own. She turned up the radio and drove towards the desert. Before long she was out of town and the only lights were her head lights and the stars.
“Was that a shooting star?” She had seen a flash. It was huge. “I bet I could wish my way out of New Mexico on a star like that.” She laughed and looked back to the road. Not that New Mexico was bad per say. But what did she have here? Her mom had been a single mother, and she had died of cancer seven years ago. Mickey was the only real friend she’d had after that. She started working for Mick when she was in high school, back when the place was full of waitresses. When things started to get slow and he’d had to let the staff go, he kept her on for four years. Now she was paying her way through college as best she could in hopes that she could do something better with her life.
There was another streak of light, waking her from a daze. “I need to get more sleep,” she said yawning and correcting back to the right side of the road. Ten minutes later she was falling asleep again, her eyes barely awake. Instantly something massive crashed into the road. Chelsea turned off the road into the desert, panicked. “What the hell?!”
She leaped out of her car and ran to the thing in the middle of the road. She had no idea what to call it. It was too dark to see, but she could tell it was big. Right in front of her a light came off of it, the brightest she had ever seen, getting bigger. “Is that a door?”
Out of the door came a man, a tall man, with the brightest blue eyes she’d ever seen. She gasped in awe and confusion. “Chelsea Robertson, from New Mexico.”
Chelsea began to walk backwards, terrified. She tripped and fell almost to her back but something stopped her fall. It was the man. “Chelsea Roberts, my name is Ayden.”
“Who?” She stared, meaning to say who or what are you but she was too shocked to speak further.
“I am from a place far, far away Chelsea Roberts. I have come to find a human, and I have found you. I’d like you to come with me, if you are willing.” She was startled at first, but he made her feel at ease. Chelsea looked up at his calm face and remembered the falling star. “I guess I am getting out of New Mexico,” she said and smiled.
