Chapter Two
Thinking that she had found some kind of freaky animal, I ran over. Christopher was on my tail.
When we got there, what we found, sure was not any animal.
"What is that?" I asked. Shaking and amazed.
"I really don't know." She admitted looking at it while smiling that strange smile, the one you make even if all the hairs on the back of your neck are standing up on ends.
"Let me see it." Christopher said. She handed it to him. It was like a computer, only flat, but with no keys per say.
"This is like so way X-Files'!" Phoenix yelled as her face brightened.
"What do you think we should do with it?" I asked my brows moving up and down.
"I think that we should turn it over to the F.B.I., or someone like that." Christopher said looking at me.
"We can't!" Phoenix yelped grabbing my arm.
"Why not?" I asked rather confused.
"I don't know if it's from Earth," she stopped and lowered her voice."If we give it to them, it would end up lost in a vault with all the other UFO stuff!"
"A good point, but what do we do with it then?" I asked.
"We try it out!" Phoenix said, sounding a little too excited.
"We do what?!" Christopher shouted his eyes growing so large I thought that they might
explode.
"We try it out." Phoenix repeated.
"Whoa! Slow down! We can't just try it out'!" I said panicking.
"My mom and dad are out, so we can try it out in my basement. So that means Ryan, you can
keep it until then." Phoenix said with that sparkle that she gets in her brown eyes whenever she
"Why do I get to keep it?" I demanded an explanation.
"You just do." Phoenix replied with that voice, you know the one your mom gives you when
she wants you to clean your room.
"Well maybe I don't want to." I said, hoping that she would give up.
"That's nice." She replied, sounding quite cheerful. Somehow I didn't think that I would win with her.
"See you guys after dinner at my house." Phoenix chirped, with a big grin. Then she left us boys stuck with the whatever'.
"Well I still say we turn it in, but I guess we should do what she says." Christopher said with a
"You would do anything that Phoenix says." I teased, which wasn't very smart.
It ended with me running through the park, yelling "I meant it in the nicest way possible!"
When Christopher and I got to my house, no one was home.
So we went into the kitchen to get a snack. You know, the usual. Candy, (and lots of it)
popcorn, and Kool-Aid.
I turned on the radio on and one of the Offsprings' songs was playing. Christopher put two liquorice strips in his mouth, so that they dangled. Then he went on to jump all around my
kitchen and play the air-guitar. "Derner! Ner ner ner ner!" Christopher sang, and I soon was
playing along.
Sometimes I look back at that memory, and I wish that I could relive that one more time. It just felt so 'normal'. Sure we still do it, a lot but it's not the same. It will never be.
After our snack, we went into my T.V. room, we had put a tape in to record our favorite show 'Bay Watch.'
"It's Carmen!" Christopher yelped pointing at the screen. The way he had always done. "Man is she hot!" Chris said for the millionth time.
"Hotter than Phoenix?" I teased, which wasn't really that smart, because it ended with me getting hit with one of my couch's pillows.
"You pain-in-the-butt!" Christopher said as he waked me again.
Although all this happened, a few months ago, it feels to me like years.
