A flash of panic went across my mother’s face as I stared at her, unwavering in my resolve that this was the truth. It was the truth. I got abducted by aliens and they did experiments on me. I was drugged for most of them but I knew they were done…191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIs4iZteHwT
“Wh-what?” she asked, trying not to sound as flabbergasted as she probably was.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUKJ8YqWNui
“I got abducted by aliens. Like in movies and stuff? Straight up beamed onto a spaceship.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0bz3M27Kp2
Mom just sat there looking at me for a moment, probably wondering how serious I was being. She finally sighed.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVsbBpJWQbn
“Max… I… I want to believe you, truly, but… That’s far-fetched even for you.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0IyHcSRz45
“Doesn’t that make it more believable? The fact that I don’t make up stuff like this? Mom, I’m not lying and I’m not trying to cover something up. I swear upon God and everything holy that I was actually abducted by aliens.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF3JiVsYjUM
Mom was about to say something when her phone started ringing and she looked at it. I could see the visible relief on her face.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrVt6thHB1g
“It’s work. I have to get back… We’ll… we’ll discuss this later when I get here tonight, alright?”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6joweCSMpz
“Forget it.” I growled, crossing my arms. “You don’t believe me.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8DIglu0RxM
“Honey-“191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ65Bs2iv39c
“You literally just sat there and told me I could tell you anything. So I did and this is the reaction I get. Forget it, Mom. Go back to work.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhngMRyYTOq
Mom looked confused about if she wanted to stay or not but the phone rang again and she got up.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHLSNElCdhp
“I’ll see you tonight.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLfgPxQ24lJ
I don’t say anything to her and when she left, I grabbed my pillow and tried to suffocate myself for a second, screaming into it. I knew she would never believe me, the one person I had hoped and counted on. If she won’t believe me, then no one else will…191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2u0Yqj9tFX
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Dad came back with some clothes and a toothbrush and toothpaste. He helped me out of bed and we made our way to the bathroom so that I could freshen up.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhA6r7na9fo
“You need me to be in there with you?”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpmS0wzQqmK
“No, I think I’ll be alright. I’ll call if I need you for anything.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMJJVK8hj4N
He nodded and I went into the bathroom to get all washed and stuff. The hot water felt so good on my body and I could feel the dirt and grime that was on my body from months of neglect wash away. Of course, I wasn’t going to get everything until I started using the rag but it was amazing to see how much stuff I accumulated on me. Once the water ran clear again, I lathered up a washrag and began the real cleansing process.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfLEncrOBjo
It was disgusting. Just… that’s the best word for it.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFBtaJjqMCa
Dis-gus-ting.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKOjVr9KUDv
As I was washing down, I looked down at my stomach and saw what the doctors were talking about regarding the bruises they had seen. There were about seven of them in different places and when I skimmed the rag across my stomach, I could feel how sore they were. I also felt like my nipples were sore as well when I washed my chest. Now that I thought about it, my stomach looked slightly pooched out more than I remember. Panic struck me suddenly, remembering what the doctor had also said: ”We saw a mass in your stomach and we wanted to get an ultrasound for a closer look.” was basically what he said. The aliens did something to me… I know it now… Realizing that I didn’t get away with just my life but with something else harbored inside of me, I felt like the walls of my life were crumbling down and I began to sob uncontrollably, sliding down the wall of the bathtub. What was inside of me? Would it kill me? Would it devour me?191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNQZ1sM7rbE
“Max?” Dad said, knocking on the door. “You alright in there?”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkeOCtZUMYC
“I’m fine!”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNR88Y2FaP7
“You’ve been in there for a while.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfUGu4fIJiU
“I’m just… just getting really clean.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlctWISIVtx
“Well, hurry up.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4MjnF6lS7O
I pulled myself together and finished washing. I got out and put the towel around me as I brushed my teeth, sighing in happiness over a nice clean mouth. It felt so good to be fresh. I opened the door a little and asked Dad to hand me my clothes. He handed me some boxers, some sleep pants, and a sleep shirt. I usually sleep in just my boxers but this is a hospital… I walked out and Dad smiled at me.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ50QQIecR4u
“You look refreshed.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl8dmIqBO3n
“You have no idea…”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyHyhs8b9v1
I started heading back to the bed and Dad helped me climb in. I got settled into it and sighed, wanting to go back home.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBJkWYFDfd6
“Your mother called me on the way back to work.” I looked up quickly as Dad looked at me pensively. “She said you claim you were abducted by aliens?”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjKoafscMvq
I clenched the sheets beside me.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrKPMUXS8OJ
“Please don’t dismiss it as some ploy that I’m trying to do. I already told her it was real or I wouldn’t even bring it up.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYg4ZQYVKdQ
“But why do you believe it was aliens?”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTD4V0xqccr
“Because it was! I literally got beamed aboard a spaceship, Dad! It’s not that I don’t know who my captors were and so I’m trying to fill in the gaps with some silly fantasy! These were genuine aliens.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ45hEHFh39d
“Okay, okay, calm down… Look, I just want to understand. If it really were aliens, then what did they want with you? I mean, why you?”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ6bi90G4Q8
“I don’t know, Dad, they didn’t speak English. It was a language I had never heard before. When I wasn’t being experimented on, I was in a blank room with only a bed and a small hole in the wall where they would give me food and stuff. There were some symbols on the side of where the hole would appear but I couldn’t make them out. When I wasn’t in the room, I was drugged and taken someplace else. Sometimes they wouldn’t drug me completely and I had some cognitive abilities and that’s how I found out where I was and everything.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhXNCdtLYqb
Dad took off his glasses to knead the bridge of his nose, trying to comprehend what I was telling him.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5IpeDJNgBA
“Let me try to understand what you’re saying: you’re saying that you got beamed up into a spaceship where they drugged you to do experiments on you except every once in a while where you wouldn’t be completely drugged?”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQTAwP1nAs1
“They only did minor things then like, physical examinations or drawing blood and stuff. From what I gathered, they were only drugging me then because they were being precautious.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPHeSJGqk4e
“Did they do anything to you? As in… you know…”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbciMv46GNa
“Probing? Yeah, they did. Not necessarily anal probing but yeah, they did a lot of weird shit, Dad. I’m pretty sure that mass that the doctor was asking to take an ultrasound of is something they did. I don’t… I don’t really want to know about it. I just wanted to come home and I wanted to be away from them.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhISwVADLqi
“You don’t want the ultrasound?”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsiUokK4xkP
“I just want to go home, Dad.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡITomecvDG8
“But you don’t want to know what it is? What if it’s a man-eat parasite that grows with every piece of flesh it eats? What if they impregnated you?”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvKfs04HSgf
“Yay, you’re a grandfather.” I said, waving my hands in fake enthusiasm.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4HgaEB6UGv
Dad made a face at me. “I’m being serious, Max.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrUDC8cBMKa
“Well so am I. I mean, what would it take for you to truly believe me?”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwajLx2OZKN
“I do believe you, Max.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5PMN1bnWY3
“Y-y-you do?”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV6clE5yvi6
“This is too elaborate even for you, son. You had your moments before you were gone but you’d never be adamant about something you weren’t completely sure of in your own right. If you believe that you were abducted by aliens and they did experiments on you, then I believe you. My problem is figuring out what they did to you.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZZpS5k8q0d
“If you’re right, we’ll see soon.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnSg0uktNZP
Dad sighed and rubbed his face. “Oh, Max, how in the world could you have gotten mixed up with something as strange as that? Aliens?”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBNfhZUsRAt
“Beats me. I was walking home and minding my own business so…”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZKR90FjCpt
“Well, we can talk about this a little later. Now that you’re all nice and fresh, I’d take a nap or something.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5QGK3HfnEe
“I just woke up.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqrtfqwHa2v
“From a body-forced slight coma. Now your body is tired of fighting and you can take a relaxing nap that will actually rejuvenate you.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOWISDze6La
“You just don’t want to talk about this anymore. I’m not stupid.” I growled, pulling the sheets up. “Don’t worry about it. If I grow a second head then you’ll have two sons that you can love and maybe one of my heads will be able to convince you of odd happenings.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNLzHuQtMwO
“Max-“191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKkMNLsTEpY
“Goodnight, Dad.” I growled, throwing the sheets over my head.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkfmdhCVQyR
I could tell he wanted to talk more but if he didn’t want to talk about the issue that was at hand (which was real) then I didn’t want to talk to him at all.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFNewy3hlns
I woke up on a reflective floor that was so white that it had its own glow. It was almost blinding having my face right next to it. I sat up slowly, looking around at the room. It was made of the same reflective glowing material as the floor. Where the heck was I? I was walking back from the gas station when I went to get some last minute milk and then I was blinded by someone’s brights… A whoosh noise startled me and I looked over. I was too numb to move as fast as I wanted to as a weird looking creature walked into the room. I was still delirious and the brightness of the room was keeping me from seeing exactly what came through the door but through the blur, I knew it wasn’t human.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqBK4e4UGnA
“Tineztiro whiriwhirimulde akefel ehogy tatoumi nal i nel eztenai tangberiata. Reira’azko tinotoke mintauri aegy.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ118j1HnRI
W-what language is that? Where am I?191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaUzHgikzX7
“Kovannak katud tyupai tomi tojasl koete bizpono tangberiatal?”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡojV4WZqzvW
“Kovannak tiakimeg banrotoben tomi verseny manako raok tomi csakan.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8FadywLh6G
“Manako akarate’nem oktake aegy raruraru en ate tuhikihotahi.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM9rFBx56DH
What the hell are they saying? Who were they?191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmIVEaKFrPX
“Kovannak tangberiatal torekino. evane toljak tatoumiaka hoki ate temeny whaka esa eljanga nakinek nekia.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ11FadGOvh6
“Akarate tangvesz keszrite ahamegkoa nakinek nekia reira aegy. Makicsi gonaaro akarate motud nyzikmeg okoia’nem tangberiatal koete ate?”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVtKUbX7OzT
I felt something prick my skin and I fell into a dark hole of unconsciousness.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbtkkZ46Ass
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“Hey! Hey! Stop fighting me, Max! Honey, it’s me!”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeJK758QoFF
I opened my eyes, blurry and confused.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5K9UDD6s0T
“Sweetie...”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKVxvyyv7hA
“Mom?”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTf2MLLiQQO
“Yeah, it’s me… Are you alright? You looked like you were having a nightmare. I was trying to wake you up and you started fighting me.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡniYFvmuhX9
“I was remembering when-“ I looked at Mom for a second and narrowed my eyes at her. “This isn’t real, is it?”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrdYI9SxUOj
“What?”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡikZfQYhpyp
“You’re not real.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZgpPj5pAHO
“I… don’t understand.”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvbWvlJ2gTU
“YOU’RE NOT REAL!” I screamed, pulling away from her. “Get away from me!”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtDvrrckot4
“Doctor!” she yelled.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdOZf5yDUgG
I lunged at her suddenly, pulling out all of my tubing as I practically spider-monkeyed her into the wall. The look of fear on her face actually gave me pleasure.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWX4TIMmBxM
“Are you scared? I hope so, you horrible shapeshifting alien piece of shit!”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVSv3U4wnvT
“Doctor!” she yelled again.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT9l5WB9sph
“Don’t you dare yell for help! You take me back home right now! TAKE ME HOME!”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3OhMSzkQqy
“Kuavolt whakazummul tiniha’nem ate! Visszapur ate hajonga!”191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSi6vwtWnLW
I felt something prick me and I watched as my mother’s face melted into the horrible face of those creatures. They had gone too far this time. They almost had everything so perfect to keep me in line that I almost fell for it. But what information they gathered from my mind could never do the justice of my mother.191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqXRqVneXzq
They may have replicated her touch and they may have replicated her voice, but they could never replicate her love. I was too excited to realize the little mistakes but when I had that dream, I realized that my mother would have rather been fired than to not be there when I woke up. I don’t understand what they want from me…191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTixwJbi9Lb
I just want to go back home. 191Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOdRfaPpia5
