“Humans live on Earth. A planet in our neighboring galaxy, the Milky Way.”
The teacher turned on her heel and drew a picture on the board. A circle with irregular shapes on the inside. She colored the inside of pieces green and the rest of the circle blue.
“This is Earth. While it isn’t far away from Loren, our planet, humans aren’t aware of our existence. We should be thankful for that. For if the humans found us, we’d be doomed.”
Opii tried to follow with what the teacher was saying. He was in class, but he couldn’t concentrate. Mom was sick again and he was worried about her.
“The humans would’ve wiped us all out if they knew of us, for they have a habit of taking new creatures for their experiments,” the teacher went on, drawing on the board with every new bit of information.
A ringing noise echoed through the hallway. The class was over, finally.
Opii hastily gathered all his things and bolted out the room. The hall was a blur of voices and colors, drowned out by his need to see his mother and to make she was there with him. The voices talked and laughed. At him or at something else, he didn’t know.
He sprinted home. His aunt would be there, but he cared more about his mother than hated his aunt. She was an obstacle of sorts, keeping him from the happiness and safety of mom.
He was in front of his house now, slowly opening the door to not alert his aunt of his whereabouts. She was probably in her room. Opii crept up the stairs and entered his room. After quietly locking the door, he sunk down beside the bed.
“I’m worried too, Opii, and scared,” Esii mumbled from their headspace.
“I just want her to come back,” Opii said aloud, “I want her to be back here, all better.”
“I do too.”
Opii sat silently on the floor, waiting for his aunt to start yelling for him.
“ARE YOU READY?!” she screeched, “WE’RE GOING TO VISIT MY SISTER NOW,” she used the name that Esii and Opii hated so much, “SO GET DOWN HERE!”
She called his mother her sister like she couldn’t bear to think that this was her nephew.
Opii stood up and walked downstairs to find himself face to face with his aunt. Her face contorted to a mouth-full-of lemons expression, and she grabbed the body’s wrist and pulled Opii out the door. The wrist hurt. They hated her.
The hospital was close by and didn’t take long to walk to. Opii could feel eyes on him. He didn’t know whose, but he didn’t look up.
Their mother was sick. Very sick. Again. He had that to worry about, not the eyes.
When they entered the hospital, Opii's aunt sat away from him. A doctor walked up to him and smiled.
"Opii, nice to see you again," the doctor said, extending a hand.
He flinched at the sudden movement but shook the doctor's hand after a few seconds.
Opii sat, waiting for someone to tell him to get up to see his mother. There was something wrong. The doctors were panicked. People were in whispered talk.
A faint boom sounded and everyone sprinted outside to check it.
"They're here," someone murmured. Opii didn't know who "they" were. The same doctor picked up Opii and ran. Ran like their lives depended on it. The doctor ran from the hospital and dropped Opii after what could've been a few moments, or several sunlit days.
"The humans," the doctor panted, "They're here. Keep yourself safe, Opii and Esii. I'll go back for the patients. You just hide, please."
Opii was crying now as he nodded and hugged the doctor. He ran. Ran as fast as this stupid body's legs would go.
Almost everyone died that day. Opii looked for his mother after the humans left. For days and days. Everyday, he found nothing and his hopes dropped. He and Esii thought they were the only ones left.
That's what they thought as Opii moved aside the rubble of the hospital.
"Anybody?" Opii called without much hope, "Please, just answer if you're there."
Six others peeked out. A tall yellow one, a green one with floating rainbow orbs around their head, a star with a body, a tall black cat-like one, one that looks like they're made of ice and messy red being.
They looked at Opii. Opii looked at them. He and Esii weren't alone in this.
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