The Aliens

The Aliens

By Sarah Gordon-Macey

Dedicated to anyone who just wants peace in the world.

Maple Leaf book writing project

Brattleboro Vermont

Copyright 2014

August 17, 2017

Hi Diary, I’m Luka. Let me tell you about myself. I’m 13 years “young” and this is the year we all might die. “Why?” you may ask. Well, you see, the past six months our planet, Earth, has been at war with aliens. But not like the ones you’ve seen in movies. I’m talking huge, squidy, drooly, ugly ones, the size of the empire state building. But no one knows why they first attacked us. I have two best friends named Brandon and Mike. Brandon, he’s 15, and he’s fighting for us. And Mike, he’s also 15. I have longish dirty blonde hair (It’s kind of shaggy) and eyes as blue as the sea. I live in a zone called 095. And my life has been anything but average.

My favorite things to do is think. I think about what it would be like if the world was average. If we were safe. It helps me take my mind off the thought of possibly dying. Sometimes, I dream about the things that could happen if lost. If the aliens won. If I was homeless, alone, the last one left, or worst of all, dead. And it hurts to think about it.

Next week, I have to go to the field. Where they test me. To see what I will do once I’m ready. I don’t know when I’ll be ready. It just happens.

Today we visited the field. And took the test. But I won’t know until next week. I met this guy named Mr.Frankfurt. I’ll call him Hot Dog. I think Hot Dog is the head honcho as some would say. Meaning he runs it. Mrs.Ebony watched over and judged it. She is his co-worker. Then we were put into a building where they store the tested. When I was walking around the building, I noticed something. The walls practically have ears because there are cameras everywhere, plus pictures and posters all over the place that have eyes that practically follow you. It’s weird. Usually I’m with my family, in my house. It’s medium sized. But sometimes it’s only me and my parents and my goldfish, Larry. Because my siblings, Craig, Silas, and Anna moved to college. Anna is my oldest sibling, being almost 21. She’s working to be a doctor. We don’t talk much. Craig and Silas are identical twins. They’re both 18, and they went to college early. Craig wants to be an engineer of the weapons and Silas wants to be a…transfer to the other side.

August 27, 2017

Today my parents told me something out of the ordinary. They’ll be adopting some kid my age from a zone that used to be called Russia, but is now called 294. They apparently had been planning it for a while, and they got the letter saying that they could adopt the kid 3 months ago. How do they think they’re going to manage that when they don’t speak the kid’s language?! Sometimes I think they go too far.

Okay, so they do speak that language. Actually, quite fluently. I didn’t expect that. But I don’t. I only speak one language. English

Now they’ve told me that we will be picking her up tomorrow which is only two days away from the day when I try the part out. That sort of ticked me off so I started screaming. And they sent me to my room. But they forgot to shut off my TV so I am able to watch my favorite show “Wipeout”. I like to make fun of all the people who fail and mock them. Ya, it’s kind of mean, but my whole family does it. It’s like a weekly tradition.

August 28,2017

Today we will be picking up Katie. (Thats her name.) Apparently she doesn’t know much English which is no surprise. Like I wouldn’t know. I’ve actually met other people from different zones. My school used to send adults from other zones to our school so we could see aspects of the other zones.

Katie is at our house now and she looked puzzled so I tried to tell her about stuff. I guess I offended her and I could only understand

“Me unlike he.” That doesn’t even make sense! I can tell this is gonna be a bumpy ride.

August 29,2017

Tomorrow is the day and I’m GROUNDED. Grounded. I didn’t do anything, I think. It’s not science to try and understand what’s going on, it’s harder. I think there’s a secret that they’re not telling.

I’m gonna find out what’s up.

Today I will be trying my task, which is still unknown for some reason, and I’m about to have a panic attack. I’m so scared.

My parents are pulling into the curb of the newbie building, a lot like I’m about to have a trial for prison. It’s like they aren’t even afraid of what will become of me. Sometimes, I honestly hate them.

As I walked into the doorway, I saw everyone staring at me, like they were mocking me. I nearly passed out. So I’m walking as fast as my legs can take. I’m real scared.

Now I’m at the main room where we learn about what each task does, and we met the head honcho of it. Her name’s Mrs. Cheek. She’s old. Real old. Like if she was born in the 19th century, also known as the 1800’s. I bet she was. She falls asleep all the time so these two kids named Jackie S. and Kyle drew on her face with Sharpie, then put shaving cream on her hand, then tickled her nose so that the shaving cream would go on her face. They’re jerks. Everyone laughed except me. She thought I did it because Jackie S. and Kyle put the shaving cream and Sharpie on my desk so now I have detention. And I need to go to Hot Dog’s office and confront my parents for something I didn’t do.

I guess they decided to bully me because of the stone on the back of my neck.

September 3, 2017

I know I haven’t written in a few days so here’s a recap. Jackie S. threw up during conditioning from dehydration, Kyle got kicked out for punching some girl named Fiona, and Katie had a few English lessons. Man, Katie may be different, but she's sharp as a knife, just resharpened too. I tried to take her iPod from her, and she, without even looking, took it from me and slapped my face! Now today is Saturday and we are going to go shopping. For Katie. It’s like they forgot about me. So I blew up with fire in my eyes and said “You never pay attention to me, so I suppose you don’t even love me!” Then, I went to my room and called Mike. Remember him? He’s one of my 15 year old friends. He told me that they just want Katie to feel welcome and not homesick. He told me they’re doing the best they can. Then I called Craig, him being my favorite and closest sibling, I poured myself out. Turns out he dealt with this too. Poor Craig. He used to live when everything was normal, but then when the war started, he was turned against.

I lost my diary. Reason: What do you think? Jackie. Yup, he did it again. He made me get in trouble, yet again, then I was so distracted, that I forgot it. Luckily, no one took it and read it. Katie has learned most of English, except hard words. But her best sentence has been,

“Hey Mom, can I go to Fiona's house? We’re studying the beginning of the war.”

And that made me surprised. Everyone knows you can’t say war or write it. But she didn’t get in trouble. And she did go to Fiona’s house.

Next month is the second test. It’s like the first test, only it’s not the first test. They test what you’ve learned and see if you’re ready and the task was the right task for you to be in.

October 30, 2017

Ha ha, funny story actually. You see, my mom took away my diary for a while. She said “Luka, you need some real fresh air. Why don’t you hang out with kids your own age? You can’t have this until you get home from the trip. Why do you always keep your nose in that book? Remember, you’re going on that road trip soon. Get packed and ready, Mike’s aunt will pick you up in about an hour.” And then the rest of the week I went with Mike on a road trip. We went with his aunt because his dad died fighting aliens and his mom died being so sad about the loss of her beloved husband. On the trip, we went across the zones of

our country. I saw lots of interesting customs. In zone 172, people dressed in fruit and danced to rock music. The whole trip took about 2 and a half weeks to do. After I got back home, Mom forgot she took my diary, and so did I. So then I forgot for a few days. Then when I remembered it, Mom said she put it away and it would take a while to find. So I fell asleep on the couch instead as I was watching reruns of the show, “Guess That Item”. All it is a quick image of an item, if you guess right 10 times, you win $50,000. Every time you guess 5 wrong, badgers attack you.

November 3, 2017

Today we went to a concert. It was of the band “White Eskimo” and it’s a band that my brother, Silas, is in. He plays the keyboard. The concert was to raise money for charity, but not many people showed up. Jackie did. This time he had thugs. And I knew that they were at least in 10th grade. Straight in front of me was a path to the woods. Without thinking, I ran faster than my legs could carry me through the bushes. My mind was telling me to go back and face them, like a man would. But I couldn’t. No one in their right mind would. So I hid until I thought it was clear, then ran into the crowd most clumped together in the front. And then it happened. And let me tell you, there were lasers.

November 10, 2017

Everyone is silent. No one, not even the youngest baby makes a sound. And I can’t help but wonder what’s going on. I knew my parents were hiding something and Katie definitely wasn’t it. My shoulders shook as it happened. The day I would never see my family again. And the day aliens came.

December 9, 2017

Glass is shattered everywhere. Aliens came. Our worst nightmare is finally alive and I can’t stop it, alone. But they need me. So I’m taking a break from writing for a while. They need me. They don’t want to lose. I was taken by our side to a facility where they asked lots of questions. About the aliens. And immediately I understood why.

January 2, 2018

I guess now I need to tell you why I’m needed. See, I was born with a stone in my neck. Not an ordinary stone. This stone was from the aliens. They somehow got it in my neck before I was born so I have their powers. Maybe that’s why they want me. I can think like them. And I can predict what they’ll do so our side knows what to do at that moment in time.

January 13,2018

Today is the first day I’m in charge. I will tell the fighters on our side what to do. The aliens better fear me. They created my power. Now I need to learn how to use it.

I just got my suit. It’s bullet-proof, and it’s colored fiery colors. Plus I have made my first order. They were coming from behind so I told them to turn around and shoot from under them. We wounded two and killed one. But they wounded fourteen and killed five. And Brandon, my friend I told you about way in the beginning, was one of them.

Brandon is alive. Thank god he is alive. He broke his right arm and his left leg got bombed so he needs it amputated, but he’ll be unable to fight anymore, so he can go home to his mother and father and relax.

February 6,2018

If we win, I don’t want to be known as a hero. I want to be known as Luka. Just the normal school kid from zone 095. If we win, I don’t want to be hurt because I’m different. I don’t want Jackie to put up a fight. If we lose, I don’t want to be known as the kid who ruined our world because he wasn’t right. I don’t want anything to change whether or not we win. And so far, we actually might win.

February 19,2018

Today is the day I will meet the aliens. I will meet their leader. I will live. I will conquer this. But most importantly, we will win them over. Today I will either win by talking, or win by fighting. Either way, it’s fine.

To most, this is hard. But if you have a mind like mine, plus an extra terrestrial rock stuck in the back of your neck, it’s like spreading jam onto a toasted bagel. I just hope everything goes as planned and fighting will be the last resort.

I met them. They are friendly. They gave me royal treatment. They just want to get something they need. They won’t tell me. I need to talk to the head honcho of our side, and it’s not myself. If I don’t, there will be blood.

I talked to the real head of the Earth’s army. His name is Dan. Dan is a tall man with lots of upper body strength and a six pack. His hair is bright orange with a tint of red. He reminds me of fire. He doesn’t understand the aliens. He is terrible and doesn’t co-operate. Time to talk with the president.

The president, his name is Giorgio Cantwell. He wants me to hold a press conference talking about the aliens. But they’re not aliens. Now I know why Silas wanted to go to their side. He wanted their side of the story.

March 1,2018

Today is the conference. I’m going to tell the world why the aliens attacked us in the first place.

The conference went well until the aliens came. Everyone panicked and forgot what I had just told them about the whole situation.

We need to use force. It’s the only way to save us. If we let them use force first, we will surely die. But what will happen if the aliens die? Will I die with them? I’m part of them. Katie told me that I probably won't. But how could she know? Is there something with her too?

Katie has a stone too. Suddenly, I feel quite closer to her as an adoptive brother than I did before. Now, it’s like I’ve known her since birth and I don’t want anything to happen to her. “Finally, someone who understands how much this hurts.”

“Haha ya, part of the reason I needed to be adopted was because I kept blowing up things in the house.” After Katie said that, I gave her a hug. She’d been through so much. It was now my job to protect her.

In conclusion, if the aliens die, and the stone affects us, me and Katie could die together. I hope we’re buried together.

Once again, it’s just me against the aliens. I’m gonna use fire power. Literally. I can do that. And forcefield. I just wish Katie was doing it with me. She can do some awesome things that could be useful.

Just as I was starting to fight them, Katie ran in and helped.

Then, my mom and dad dragged her out because she got slashed on the arm by an alien and then just after she left, the aliens started to really hurt me. If I didn’t have a way with words, I would have seen the light.

So I used a loudspeaker. I told everyone what the aliens wanted. “The aliens just wanted to meet us, but we feared them, thus us thinking there was a war when really, they were only trying to have peace.” But then the aliens broke down the dam and it started to flood. And then everything went black.

March 30,2018

“You must save us, you’re our only hope.” said Craig, my brother. After the realization of Katie dying, I noticed everything. What I was doing wrong. The aliens were lying. I knew I couldn’t trust them. Plan 3 is a go. By the way, plan 3 is a spacewalk to the alien planet, Bruiga.

As I was spacewalking, I found the source of their power. I heard what was going on while I was in space, on Earth, It was coming from a glowing orb of… soap and water? But then I realized that the person controlling the aliens is a giant mutated alien, hidden inside of a big mop.

As I bounced from meteor to meteor in my bouncy space suit, I got even closer to the “mop”.

He wants our water and he wants to wet our universe. So they could rule the world. But I couldn’t let that happen, so I set the “mop” on fire using my stone powers and all of the aliens shriveled up into what looked like raisins, and poof, they were gone. So I floated back to earth and I felt normal.