years across and is 14.6 billion years old”
“Wow” Bobby said “I have to read science books more often. I’ve never heard those numbers before.”
“It takes the sun over 200 million years to travel around our own galaxy center.
“We will be able to travel like that one day, like they do in science fiction movies” Kyle said. What’s the fastest thing man ever made?”
“That would be the satellite named Helios 2” Sam answered “It orbited the sun traveling at 150,000 miles an hour.”
Bobby looked over to Kyle “That’s insane, that’s really fast. Sam is smart”
Sam laughed a little “I just like to read a few books on science, anyone can read them. You can find a ton of books at your library. Here’s another cool fact, the universe doesn’t even have a center”
Timmy looked over to Sam “How can it not have a center?” he said as they walked along.
“The universe goes on forever, all the galaxies are moving away from each other. There are tens of billions of galaxies and each galaxy has tens of billions of stars and each star could have countless planets and moons.”
“It’s crazy picturing that in your mind” Timmy said “One of them has to have life. Can we really be the only ones? Hopefully we find one of them tonight in the woods”
Bobby agreed, “Lets just hope its friendly”
They each took time thinking about life outside of earth as they continued looking for the mysterious oval object in the dark forest.
They slowly walked for a half hour more. Stopping every once and while to look through the bushes thinking they might’ve saw something, only to turn out to be there imagination. They desperately wanted to see anything, hopefully an alien.
Each boy wanted fame and fortune and knew finding an alien in there forest would change there lives.
They walked and walked looking everywhere.
Sam was feeling tired and looked around at the dark, quiet forest, then down to his watch. He turned to Timmy “I don’t think anything is out here. I really believe you saw a helicopter flying over head.”
Kyle felt tired as well and agreed, “The only thing I’ve heard this whole time is the sound of our feet on the road, and a few owls here and there, nothing around here looks alien”
“Maybe we should call it a night guys,” Sam said.
Bobby was too tired to even speak he just nodded.
Timmy paused for a moment and then slowly nodded “Yeah I agree. I guess I was wrong” he was now beginning questioning himself about what he saw in the backyard.
They each turned around to head back into town, to their warm beds.
Timmy was the last one to start walking. He was left standing alone in the middle of the road. Still questioning what on earth he saw in his backyard. What could’ve lifted up and head into the forest? He looked up in the sky “Hey is there anyone up there?” he yelled out “Can you hear me? If you want me to see you, you will have to show yourself now. Were all ready to see you” he looked at all the stars in the sky and lowered his head. He looked back at the other guys. “Oh well, worth a shot.” He laughed to himself and started walking towards them and passed by Bobby who had taken out his comic book again and was flipping through the pages looking at the creepy aliens images.
Bobby was lost in the story line when he looked up and noticed the three others where way ahead of him. He was about to start walking when he heard something moving in the dark forest a few yards in. He froze and slowly looked back over his shoulder and tried seeing what it was. “What’s in there?” He whispered to himself. He turned back towards the other three. “Hey guys,” he whispered as loudly as possible, hoping not to scare away whatever was moving. “Something’s moving in forest” he called out as he pointed. “It sounds really big”
The three other boys stopped and looked at each other with concern and then in the direction Bobby was pointing.
“What did you hear?” Sam called out, his voice echo in the forest.
“Sounded like a small tree branch on the ground breaking” Bobby whispered back as he stared into the darken forest. “As though someone stepped on it”
“You sure? Maybe it was an owl landing on a tree branch,” Kyle said.
Sam walked over to Bobby and looked closer through the trees. He quickly jumped back when something large move in the darkness. Behind the moving object he noticed a fate glowing light. He looked back to the others “He might be right guys. I see I bright light deep in the bushes to our right”
Timmy and Kyle both looked at each other for a moment in amazement. They quickly ran down the road and looked were Sam was pointing. They tried looking through the bushes for the light. It was next to impossible to get a clear view with the dark thick bushes in the way.
“We need to check it out. We’ll have to get closer,” Kyle whispered.
Timmy felt amazed that the object he saw from his bedroom might turn out to be something real. He knew he witness something big, he didn’t imagine it.
The four of them slowly moved off the road and closer into the dark forest by a few feet. Trying not to trip over the roots or rocks.
Bobby peaked through the bushes “I can see the light a little bit better. Its really deep in the bushes though, maybe it’s the flying object Timmy saw from his window”
Timmy could feel his heart racing.
“Cool” Kyle added, “I see it as well.” He called out as he pointed “That light is way to bright to be any car, it has to be what you saw flying above your bedroom.”
“Think it’s a landed helicopter?” Bobby asked as the forest closed in around them.
“No way, we would’ve heard it fly over our heads” Sam said, “But we’re not getting any answers standing this far back. Lets get closer”
“Lets hope whatever it is, isn’t evil” Bobby whispered.
The others quickly agreed and started moving inch by inch deeper into the forest, being careful not to make any noise. All four leaned forward staying low to the ground. Pushing the bushes and tree branches out of the way as they moved. Each one wanting to be the first to identify the source of the bright light.
Timmy knew in his heart something big and mysterious was ahead in the open patch of grass, but from where he was standing the only thing he could see was the thick tree branches right in front of his face “So hard to tell what it is” he whisper.
The other three boys nodded in agreement. They slowly approached a large oak tree. They knew once they were around the tree the mystery bright object would finally be revealed.
They each stepped closer and closer their footsteps matching in sync. They leaned forward, staying low and close to each other, holding there breathes. Not a sound in the forest could be heard. They were a foot away from the large oak tree ready to look around it having all of there questions answered, when something suddenly stood out from behind the large tree and stood right in front of them.
The kids looked up at it and froze in fear. They saw a short, thin, grey figure with large black oval eyes starring down at them, lit up from behind by the bright glowing object that sat on the forest ground.
For a second none of them could move or say a word. They just stared up at it for what felt like an eternity.
Bobby was the first to scream, followed by the others all at the same time. Bobby turned and took off running as the others followed, all still screaming.
The kids pushed and smashed through the braches and leaves. Jumping over the rocks and tree roots. Nothing was going to slow them down. They would’ve ran through a wall if one stood in front of them. Each one screaming as loud as they could out of pure fear as they ran along.
Timmy gave one quick look back and saw the mystery figure still standing in the same spot showing no emotion. He wasn’t ready to find out if it was the mysterious object from his back window. He didn’t care. He just kept running.
They all tried running faster then the other. None of them wanting to the last guy incase the cre
ature chased after them. They were running faster then they had ever ran in their life pushing aside the heavy, thick trees braches. They cleared the forest within seconds and didn’t stop running once they reached the road. They took off down Forest Road back towards town.
They only began to slow down once they reached the safety of Main Street, leaving all the trees and darkness behind. They stopped on the sidewalk next to the variety store. None of them could stand still. They were all freaked out.
“What on earth was that?” Kyle yelled out, out of breath, as he couldn’t stand still.
“You got that question right, asking what on earth?” Bobby said, “I’m telling you we just saw an alien” he nodded to himself. Leaning over breathing hard.
“That has to be impossible,” Sam yelled out “They don’t exist, just in movies” he paced up and down the sidewalk, trying to relax.
“We all saw it. It looked like it had big black oval eyes.” Kyle said.
Bobby nodded “It looked short and thin. I’ve seen those types of aliens on TV documentaries. People who have been abducted see those types of aliens all the time. I think the town of Springbrook Gardens has it’s own alien”
“We have to be logical about this.” Sam said, “There is no way a town like Springbrook Gardens has it’s own alien. That’s insane. Were not even on any map, why would an alien choose this place to land?”
“You saw what we saw. How would you explain it?” Kyle called out. “You saw the eyes on that thing. Nothing on earth looks like
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