Kaia held her invisibility with a all her might. Starving, hurting badly and so cold bone deep cold she was barely hanging on to it. Since her ship had crashed she been surviving on the food that was still salvageable in the kitchen of the ship but that had dwindled and she had been rationing for a week now. She had barely made it out of the ship today before the crews had started their day digging around and taking apart different pieces of equipment. Kaia wished she could just sat inside while they worked but no room or area was uninteresting to these people. They were everywhere. She sighed in pained frustration cutting it off with her hand when she realized that her outburst had been louder than it should have been..
Andrew heard a muffled sound coming from the bushes. He had felt they were being watched since they made it to the crash site. Today though he was absolutely certain the sound he had just heard was from their audience. He searched the snow and the tree line closest to him with his eyes not wanting to startle his audience. For some reason he was not feeling any trepidation at all. Still casually scanning his surroundings he noticed the butt print in the snow as well as the small shoe prints slowly going into the forest. His heart started hammering because he knew he had just witnessed an alien! A real live alien! Sure they had the four remains of the crew, but if he wasn’t going mad and he was sure that he was not, he had discovered the single biggest scientific find of the century!
Without thinking he turned to follow the little prints in the snow. He had gone only a few feet when his coworker called out to him.
“Andrew, what are you doing man? Going to go play in the snow instead of playing with all these cool gadgets? Hahahahah that’s fine I will have all the fun.” Jeff turned to head back into the space craft.
Andrew stood in the snow looking back towards the tree line. He wanted to follow the footsteps so badly. His body screamed to follow, but his mind wanted to keep this find all to himself for now so he gave a lingering, longing look at what he wasn’t sure, and turned to follow his friend back inside for more “fun”. Before he had taken two steps the excitement inside of him bubbled over and a huge grin took over his face. He cold not wait to find the lurker. And he would!
Kaia’s insides did a flip flop. That grin was gorgeous she thought fleetingly. The last 10 minutes had been terrifying. Emotionally and physically drained she let another small sigh go. Shaking she weakly leaned against a nearby tree. At this point she was to weak to go far. Kaia turned back towards the wreckage knowing she could not risk going back in. The scientists would be in there for many more hours. Exhaustion overtook her better sense as she spied the tents of the nearby encampment. Walking slowly so not to make a sound she made her way to the closest tent. She was so tired and weak after nearly being seen that she just needed to lie down for a little while. She glanced around quickly before sliding inside.
The warmth of the enclosure hit her quickly. Without anymore thought she staggered to the cot.
Sarah drove home barely able to see the road with the flood of tears streaming from her eyes stained brown from her eyeliner.
What would she say!? What could he say?
There was no question in her mind as to what had just happened. Jason had just kissed someone other than her.
Her mind was made up. Pulling into the garage to their house was agonizing. Heading through the house to their bedroom was gut wrenching. As sobs wracked her body she pulled out her luggage and started to pack.
She was sitting in the coffee shop intently focused on the story lit up on the screen in front of her, sipping her steaming hot latte. She briefly looked up when a new customer came in and ordered his coffee. He noticed her and smiled briefly in greeting. Sarah was soon immersed in the story before her again. Her mind completely absorbed in the words before her, it took a moment for her to realize the foreign sensations that had begun assaulting her lips. Sarah’s mind went completely blank with shock. Then as the horror of the realization hit her with full force her gut lurched and she quickly covered her mouth. The ticking in her lips would not stop. They actually intensified. She blinked her eyes as the tears began to well.
Sarah had been 16 the last time she had felt this. Her lips had started tickling and the sensation was unsettling. She was not at all sure why she was so put off by the feeling that she just wanted to go home and talk to her momma about it. As she zipped her backpack, she threw it over her shoulder and went in search of DJ to tell him bye. Trepidation running through her, she barreled around the corner of the locker room only to stop short at the sight before her. Lips locked together was DJ and his ex girlfriend Heather! DJ looked up with her startled gasp and immediately dropped his hands and removed his lips from heathers and in that instant her lips stopped the tickling sensations. This had happened two other times and it meant only one thing. The man that she had gave her heart to, her soulmate of 6 years had just kissed someone else.
Sarah hastily gathered her belongings and was barely out the door of the coffee shop before the tears overflowed and the ragged emotions of the ultimate betrayal completely overtook her.
