《She told me about aliens.》


 She told me about aliens.

    We had a three-day weekend. Quite exciting when you¡¯re a senior and have already given up on school. Colleges don''t care about my last year¡­ so why should I?


    Besides it being a 3 day weekend it was a pretty typical Saturday afternoon, I was working the front desk at a local gym. It''s what some might refer to as a ¡°not very exciting job¡±, I too refer to it as such. I pull out my phone and do what any 17-year-old would do when you¡¯re bored. I started to text all my friends.


    I didn¡¯t know ¡°alien-girl¡± before Labor day weekend. We happened to have mutual friends and it wasn¡¯t particularly unusual that we began to text. What was unusual was how fast we decided to hang out. Right then and there, later that Saturday night I was in her car.


    She drove me to a place she knew by the water. I can¡¯t remember the last time I looked out at the ocean. Living on an island makes it easy to forget how lucky you are. Alien-girl always seemed to be able to remind me how lucky I am.


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    After about an hour of conversations sitting in the trunk of her car, I decided to muster up the courage to ask her to walk down on the dock with me. Let¡¯s just say¡­ It''s very clear that this was a private dock and wasn¡¯t open to the public. Even with this knowledge, alien-girl hopped the fence with ease¡­ and because she had, so did I.


    This is where it happened, between laughter and looking up at the stars¡­ we ended up lying face up and staring at the stars. She began to tell me about the last time she looked up at the stars. ¡°Last time,¡± she said, ¡°a star so big appeared and burst across the sky¡­ I was sure it was an alien¡±.


    All that was going through my head was ¡°how comfortable does someone have to be with you to tell you something as outlandish as that¡±. From that point on things just seemed easy with alien-girl. She was no longer just a girl¡­ but she was my friend, someone I could tell things to.


    It''s crazy how the craziest things can create bonds between people. I still wonder when I''ll be able to tell someone about aliens.