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felt like crapping his pants. The thing was far more hideous in real life and it stunk of ozone.
    The monster held the device up to Mike’s face but then a strange look, maybe one of comprehension, played across its strange features. It lowered the device and turned to its fellow beasts. It communicated with them in a hiss-like whisper. Then it came at Mike quickly with what looked like a gray jelly-bean. It jammed the jelly bean in his ear before he could react. He clutched at the ear but it was already too late, the thing had wormed its way into his head. He felt dizzy and disoriented but he quickly recovered.
    The beast said, “That’s a translator. Do you understand me?”
    Mike took a step back into the closet as he said, “Yes.”
    “Why are you here Michael Williams?”
    Mike said, “I’m trying to find out what you’re doing to her,” he pointed at the still slumbering figure of Melanie.
    “We’re preparing her for a journey. We’ve been preparing you too.”
    “What journey?”
    “The Earth is doomed. We’ve selected a thousand people to save. You are one of the lucky chosen ones.”
    Mike was hyperventilating now. “What do you mean, it’s doomed?”
    “A rogue planet is headed this way. It’ll be here in less than a decade and it is on a collision course with the Earth. All of Earth life will be destroyed.”
    Mike was about to say something like, that’s bullshit , but the creature held up a contraption and Mike’s senses turned off like a light.

Morning After
     
    He woke up in Melanie’s be d. He was naked and so was she. He was spooning her too, which was a little awkward since he had morning wood.
    He put just enough distance between them before she woke up.
    She mumbled, “What the hell are you doing in my bed?”
    “I don’t remember. I confronted the intruders and then I just woke up here.”
    “Are they aliens?”
    “I’m pretty sure they are.”
    “What do they want with me?”
    “They said they’re taking us away with them. They said the Earth is doomed.”
    “Um, ok. I’m not sure how I feel about that.” Then she added, “Are they just taking me or are they going to take my dad and my little brother too?”
    “I think just you, but they didn’t specify.”
    “I won’t let them.”
    “How can we stop them?”
    She paused, deep in thought. “I’m going to spend the weekend at my friend Tiffany’s house. Let’s see if they can find me there.”
    Mike now felt like he was in this alone. Apparently Melanie was only thinking about herself.
    He said, “Maybe I’ll take a road trip out of town.”
    She said, “I bet I can talk Tiffany into letting you stay too. She has her own apartment.”
    Mike’s heart skipped a beat. He’d had fantasies about things like this. Then he came back to reality and said, “That would be great. Let me know what she says.”
    Melanie stood up, noticed she was naked as the day she was born, and then said, “Those aliens are pigs,” but she didn’t automatically grab her clothes. She traipsed off to her bathroom, her perfect ass doing a little dance as she walked. Mike stared after her, not giving a shit if she saw him ogle her. What was she to him anyway? If she got upset, he could handle that.
    When she turned and caught him, she just smiled before closing the bathroom door.
    Mike wasn’t so comfortable in his own skin so he jumped up and quickly looked around for his boxers. He spotted them at the side of the bed and put them on before Melanie came back out.
    She came back, still fully nude, and looked around for her own clothes.
    She asked, “So when are they planning on taking us anyway?”
    “I didn’t get that far. They freaked out and knocked me out with some kind of device.”
    Then he remembered the little jelly bean and he clutched at his ear.
    “They put a little translator in my ear too. I think it wormed its way all the way into my head.” She took a look and said, “I don’t see anything.”
    There was no