There she was, Allison, swinging by the woods. I knew I’d find her here. She was always here, swinging on the swings. I asked her one time why she always swung on the swings everyday. She said her and her dad used to come and swing on the swings everyday. Before her dad died, he told her to keep swinging on the swings that he’d always be there with her. She said its the only place where she can still feel him. His presence was always there right with her. I can relate to that. My mom and I used to walk every to the mountain overlook by our house every moning. That’s the only place I can feel her presence. It’s like she’s still there holding my hand. I can feel her other places too but the overlook is where I feel her most clearly. Sometimes I go and swing with Allison but I know its the time she uses to remember her dad so I only go if she waves me over. She waved me over today so I went and sat on a swing. She asked me if I had a place where I could still feel my mom. I told her about the mountain overlook and how I go there every morning just like she comes here. She said she’d never been so I told her if she wanted, I’d take her sometime. She said she’d like that. The next morning when I got to the overlook, she was there. She smiled and said she wanted to be at the overlook like I was everyday when she got to the swings. I didn’t know what to say and I guess I never really put any thought to it. It just became a habit, I wanted to make sure she got there safe. I told her I was just looking out for her. She said maybe she wanted to do that too. After that, we started going to the overlook every morning and the swings every afternoon together. We looked out for each other and shared our burdens. We became best friends and if I’m being completely honest, maybe even a little bit more.

I went inside the ship. It was huge and I mean huge. I’d never seen anything like it. There was halls and corridors and stairs. I went to the highest part of the ship and I saw the big window. There were dead people or animals or something everywhere, in the halls and the seats. I think they were aliens but I don’t think that anyone else would agree. They’d make up any excuse to not believe there are aliens in our land. I went to the middle level, it was dark and cold, but i got my flashlight and powered thru the fear. I saw giant glass jars or I guess they were like coffins. They were bigger then me. They had some weird gel-like substance in them and there was bodies in all of them. I realised this is a spaceship and these are aliens in cryofreeze. All it would take is a push of one button for all of them to wake up. I dont know what they’re like or what they’ll do if they see humans so I’d rather not be the one to push that button. I went to the lower level of the ship and saw lots of doors. They all had sensors on them so I couldn’t get into any of them. I came across one door that was open. I went inside and saw a body. I went in further and saw another bodies but it wasn’t on the floor its feet were strapped on the ceiling. There were other straps on the ceiling they were empty. There was a giant egg or something attached to the head of the alien on the ceiling. Alll of the dead aliens had black blood. None of them had any clothes on so they were completely exposed. Their anatomy was close to a human but they had 2 times everything that we have. So they had two heads, four arms and legs, and so on. It was fascinating to see how closely related we were. I saw that they had a language, it was carved into wood on the wall. The more I learned about them, the more I wanted to protect them. I dont know how I’ll do that but I’ll figure it out. I always figure things out.

I was making chocolate chip cookies with a new recipe from a book I found in the attic. It was a weird recipe with numbers after each word and symbols after each sentence. I couldn’t figure out why but it got me wondering, how old was this recipe book? I finished baking the cookies and they turned out well. I went back up to the attic and saw more symbo;s on the roof beams and the floor and walls. I went back to the kitchen and got the recipe book. I turned to the cookie recipe and looked at the symbols in the book and on the roof, walls, and floor. They were similar but not the same. I looked further through he nbook at every recipe, searching for more symbols. I couldn’t find any. I went back to the page and tried to figure out the numbers and symbols but I didn’t come up with anything. I looked back at the roof and saw that the symbols looked like arrows. They pointed to the symbols on the floor and the symbols were all different. I followed them like a trail and realized then lead to the walls. I followed the trail on the walls and I saw one symbol that stood out to me. It was like an X but it had weird spirals on thwe ends. I thought back to all the stories I’ve ever heard and how X marks the spot. I looked all around the X but there wasn’t any other symbols or anything else. I decided to try to push it in and to my surprize a door opened. There was another door behind it but it had a lock one the handle. It was a 4 number lock. I immediately knew that the numbers in the book were the code but there was too many combinations to try. Then I thought about the recipe, it said there were 4 main ingredients and the others were optional. I looked at the numbers behind each of those ingredients, 5683. I put 5683 into the lock and it opened. I didn’t know what I was going to find behind the door. I was nervous and a little bit scared but I knew that if I didn’t open the door I’d always be wondering what was behind it. I slowly opened the door and saw large bookshelves and the other surfaces were covered. I uncovered one object and it was a desk, another was a pinball machine, there was also a chair, and a very old television. I realized it was an old office and library. It was cool but it was never in the blueprints or disclosed anywhere when I bought the house. It was like someone didn’t want anyone to know it was there. It was like a secret library. There was nothing in the desk but a dictionary and there was no secret spots in the desk. It was just a room and I’m sure it had its secrets but I’ll figure them out.