The Alien Neighbor
Story 1: The soccer play
Chapter 1
I live in a house that’s 50 years old, with only one house on sale for 3 years. In a million and a gazillion times one strange boy with his family came to see the house. I heard them talking, but didn’t understand a single word except “We’re moving here!” I jumped with excitement. Even though it wasn’t a girl, I was still happy I had a nearby friend.
I ran into the house and roared:
“Mom, dad! Someone is moving here!”
“Sweetie, dad is still sleeping, do not shout like a wolf in fire,” said mom
I forgot our dad is a late sleeper. Plus he’s trying to find work, so he tries to take the day wisely, snoozing off until somebody contacts him and says “Let’s go to work!”
Of course, when dad raced down the stairs to meet the new neighbors, there stood a crop circle instead of the neighbors. Dad fastly took a photo and ran back to show mom. Mom threw up her hands.
“Not ALIENS” she moaned
Dad accidentally pressed the shutdown button, but when he turned it on, the crop circle was gone in his photo. He ran outside to show it to me, but the crop circle was still not there.
“Yeah, that boy did look strange,” I said slowly “He had
a silver eye on the right while a brown eye on the left”
“That’s it! We got to call the A.S.C.” said dad “Wait! I can’t. Their phone isn’t on Google. Their company is kept secret for some reason.”
“I’ll figure that out. Maybe aliens aren’t so bad after all! I’d rather go to their world and have a long summer adventure than sit at home and do nothing rather than playing a game I already mastered 1 year ago.”
So that lets us wait for another week, then 2 weeks, and then 3. Finally, there was a car parked nearby. I took a magnifying glass and studied the car. I read:
“Whoever is reading this note is reading the note of aliens. We are here by accident and are no harm. We sense there is a kid nearby our house, so if you want to become friends, you’re welcome. Knock on the door.”
Oof! That was a long note. I hid my magnifying glass and went to knock on the door. At first, I heard no one answer, so I decided to go away, but as soon as I moved a robot appeared and said in a realistic voice:
“Sorry, but our owners would come in two,”
The door slammed shut. I started waiting, waiting, waiting, UNTIL FINALLY, a UFO landed near me.
A family I saw before was in front of me.
“Do you need a friend?”
“Yes, please,” I said bravely.
“No Problem!”
The boy walked to me. He tugged my sleeve and I followed. As soon as I knew it we flew to my house 7 feet away in 0.5 seconds!
“What’s your name?” He asked.
“Helen. What’s yours?”
“Dabsber . I’m from the Planet GUI. It stands for Garove Unisel Ipohelisrin.”
“How did you land here? And do you have any secrets? Trust me, I never betrayed or spoiled anyone”
“Well, GUI is an octillion miles away from the plate. Or what do you call that small planet? Pltas? Pluto? Yeah pluto. So an octillion miles away there is GUI, and our plane or whatever you call it took 3 days to go to your Solar System. We explored it but the Star was too hot, so the other two planets were in flames also. But researching the earth, our satellite got broken, and we didn’t have enough time to get out of the safety satellites as we crashed into the earth. We flew over China, Israel, UK and we landed at 100 kilometers per hour on an abandoned road. We were all saved, and our army of 70 robots got to save all materials from the UFO, is that what you call it?”
“Yes”
I was shocked at how much he had to wait out.
“And yes, I do have multiple secret rooms.” He said at last with a smile.
I asked him to fly me to his house but slowly. As we flew at a gigantic height, I asked him if he ever played any sports.
“At Garove we play some sports. But with powers…”
“I play soccer. Wanna try?”
Chapter 2
As soon as we landed, Dabster said
“Yes”
“But no cheating with powers!” I reminded
“Fine, but it’ll take some practice.”
“Of course everything takes practice. But first, show me your secret rooms.”
In a second we were in some kind of strange room.
Dabster let me through a door hidden by a bookshelf. There opened the door to a wonderland. Lands were floating. You can slide on the waterfalls or jump on the clouds. And between your legs stood wonderful forests.
“These are rare wish-makers. But this kind of wish is from three thousand years ago. So we just bought it for 340 dina euros. But of course, there is way cooler stuff. Helen, can you teach me to play soccer now??”
“Sure,” I replied, “It’s like kicking a ball towards a goal. But some opponents might kick it away from you and try to score your goal. So you have to both protect and score the ball. Of course, you’re not alone so you might be the goalkeeper or shooter. Get it?”’
“Yeah, it’s like Boally Flier. But it’s way harder than on earth.”
“I almost forgot! I have soccer classes on Tuesday! Hey Dabsder, can we teleport to my house fast? I have another pair of high socks and shoes so I can give you one.”
“Teleporting is harder than it looks,” He sighed. And after two seconds we were near our house. Mom was standing on the doorstep. She gasped as she saw an appearance in the middle of nowhere Dabsder and me.
All my mom gave was a blank look
“Mom, Of course. Let’s go to soccer practice before we are too late!”
“We’re already late, Helen. We drive to soccer practice for 10 minutes.”
“He’ll teleport us there. Fine?”
Mom just widened her eyes. Then she nodded.
Chapter 3
We landed in a town where there were unusual signs. At first, I thought about China! But one sign caught my eye. It said ‘Bollywood’.
“Are you a crazy Dabsder?? We landed in India!” I said with my eyes open.
A man on a bicycle stopped near us, but then he got scared of something and rushed away.
“Why is he so scared? Oh, because he can see that you’re an alien…”
“Of course! RRobot is right here right now! ” He said so the robot could understand. In a second we were in front of the coaches in their room. One teacher spotted us appearing out of nowhere and she gasped as I tried to escape the rooms. But it was late. Three other coaches saw us appearing. Worst of all the founder of ‘Kids lov’ Soccer’ saw us first. I roared:
“Do you think what we’re doing? Let’s go or they’ll figure out I have an alie-… never mind, Come on, and fast!”
“Is this place prohibited for kids?” He asked when we left the practice room.
“This place is for teachers and coaches to take their time or get ready for… PRACTICE! Come on, practice already started!”
We sprinted to the field just in time. Drasber was on my team. We scored 20/14.
“Way to go!” I heard coming from every side of the arena.
When we finished, I heard the loudspeaker announce:
“Congratulations to team Green! We are announcing that the Greens, reds, blues, and blacks are going to the arena! We will send more information to your mailbox tonight”
I took a deep breath. I hope I wasn’t going to fight with team black. Well, timing!
Chapter 4
I ended up getting an email and of course, I was with team black. They said it is going to be fun exchanging teams to try and challenge yourself. My head was on fire since I wanted to show off to Red’s parents I was the winner. But instead, I had another team to deal with.
“Alright,” I thought, “Time to ask Dabsber for using his powers!”
I was all sad and the robot that opened the door asked:
“Are you ok? You seem sad.”
“Yeah, gotta deal with a bunch of teams.”
Just then Dabsber came out and said:
“Don’t worry Helen. I know how to beat team Black. Easily. Without my powers.”
My eyes suddenly got bright. I asked:
“How?”
“You’ll see”
All I could do was just nod, but in my head and all around my body were independence day fireworks. Maybe trying to beat the Black’s wasn’t so bad after all! At home, I went to my iPad, and just as I opened it up, a new notification from Mom came. She was at work, and she was trying to call me. I pressed the ‘Accept Call’ button and she excitedly said:
“Helen! A billionaire came to our town!”
I turned blue.
“So, why are you happy about a billionaire coming to our town? Would he make a new building with apartments???”
“Exactly Helen! He is going to make 7 apartments!”
I fastly pressed the Decline button and burst through the bathroom door. It seemed like I was in the world’s hottest bathtub, and was burning like a crab in the kitchen. I turned the sink on, and finally, I was feeling like Helen again!!
10 Days LATER
Finally, I made it! The construction was going pretty fast, but I hope not a single kid from those apartments will ever never know that Dabsber is an alien. So for now, fingers crossed. I came to Dabber’s house. He was playing outside, actually, he was just sitting.
“Hey!” I shouted. Momentarily I was pulled high in the air and landed softly near Dabsber.
“Wanna play Tic-Tac-Toe?” I asked
“We played Tic-Tac-Toe the same. So try beating me now!”
We played Tic-Tac-Toe for a while, and Dabsber knew every rule in Tic-Tac-Toe, and he was a master at winning. We played for the next hour, but then Dabsber’s mom said:
“Dinner!”
I ran home but then I got teleported there. So, I’m telling you, it’s not bad after all! But to be floating over a city filled with skyscrapers is way cooler than flying through a town.
“Mom, when will we move from Mango Tow-… I stumbled. I didn’t want to lose my best ‘Alien Friend’. So I just silently finished the rest of the week.
Well, hm…
. “Maybe I’ll play Hopscotch with him…” I thought while it was midnight outside my dreams. The next morning, I had an assembly at school. They said school will start earlier for 5th Graders. That means I will miss 3 weeks of summer! And of course, I have 2 weeks left to enjoy. I fastly ran to Dabsber.
“Helen!” he shouted “The school picked me in 5th grade for math and reading! Now we could enjoy the five weeks together, and then go to school together!”
“No Dabsber, fifth grade starts three weeks before any other class. Maybe they did it to just celebrate that we’re moving to middle school.”
Dabsber’s face didn’t drown like mine. Instead, we just started playing hopscotch together. When we finished playing, I asked him:
“Does your mom permit you to fly to other cities?”
“No. I can even fly to space since I was three.”
“Can we go right now?” He nodded. We flew for 10 minutes until I started noticing other people were seeing us. I also saw a bunch of cameras towards us.
“Just hope that we are not going to be in the newspaper. My dad loves to read them every evening.”
“Mine just instead of reading studies the paper itself. Well, maybe a ‘not scientist’”
Cool. Now there was a helicopter. I tried to move, but the helicopter just passed through us. Just then, we appeared back on land, by the White House.
“ So now instead we’re being stuck in front of the president, Metal Hand?” I asked. Dabsber has a metal right hand but he says he uses it for powers. He also says he uses it for some kind of Ice cream on GUI. He says those are shaped like carpets, doors, and floors. (Yuck)
“Really? It’s already midnight here, don’t you get it?”
Oops. I forgot that the White House is on the other side of the US. Well, alien boys are strange. Very Strange.
Chapter 5
Finally, the buildings were done in just one month! Yippee!!!
But I had a new problem to deal with. Shoot. I had forgotten that the soccer play was going to be this Friday.
“So, how are we gonna beat them?” I asked sadly
“Easily! We will just use some…” He hesitated. “Nothing”
“REALLY??? So, why did I have to wait all those thirty days??? Huh?” I Shouted
He just gave me a wink. Well, hm. At school today, Dabsber was absent. It was the “Choose your club” day. Well, I don’t know how he passed that one, it’s practically impossible to do that on this day. I had to choose a club like Math, Science, Alien Research, Biography, and so on. Of course, you know which one I chose. Alien Researching. The next day, there was nothing to do. Nothing new, just researching with a telescope. Until I spotted something like 20 thousand miles away! Not a comet, and not an asteroid.
“UFO,” I whispered. Some kind of eagled-eye supporter saw that I was nervous about something.
“So what’s up? UFO?” she said. Need those Japanese war telescopes? You’ll see the details perfectly with this. Been the first one to prove it”
“I hope so she doesn’t figure out I have an alien friend! She looks suspicious to me.”
Nope. Nothing. Comet.
That evening, mom asked:
“So, encountered anyone? And I got some bad news. I got kicked out of work, and dad would just start next week!”
“Nevermind, find work.” I grumbled “I have a whole soccer play tomorrow. Oh, and my friend said there was going to be a reward of ten thousand dollars to the person who shoots the most goals in 30 minutes. So, who cares?”
“TEN THOUSAND??? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND? Yes!!!! Go to bed today at 7:30 and I don’t want to hear a single need neeh nor nahs!..”
So that’s why I was left without dinner today.
Chapter 6
Today was the big day, and at breakfast, I ate like a wolf. The practice starts at twelve, and the show starts at 1:00 noon. So I had a bunch of time to think about how to beat team black, the most powerful team. They’ll have a hissy fit when they find out their team is in jeopardy. I was sitting in the yard when a lightbulb appeared in my head. It was awesome! All I had to do, is put in a slipping device, which Dabsber has. And dozens! So, that was why he said nothing?
I pressed Teleport on the device Dabsber gave to me. I wrote out his location and immediately was in his yard.
“So, got the same idea as I do?” He asked.
“Yeah,” I said without surprise. I was used to his Mind-Reading skills.
“I already installed it. And the more they slip, we would just get the ball and through it through the Goalkeepers
Then, we have nothing to worry about !!!” He gave me a wink.
I was gut-wrenchingly nervous when we entered the arena and people from the stadium were all gazing around.
“Calculating eyes…” Said Dabsber when it was quiet “Three thousand and fifty-six eyes on us!”
There was one mathematician, who was my school friend’s father, who counted all of them in five minutes and said:
“Correct! But how did you-”
“WHY DIDN’T YOU SHUT UP???”
Finally. Our big chance. The soccer match started in ten seconds, and I was so nervous, that I could have puked all over the arena so that everyone was floating in my, you know what.
It hasn’t even passed a minute, and two guys from team black lost the ball like, easily! And the third guy kicked the ball so hard, that it struck my knees. And, guess what? It flew in their goal! 1/0.
The second time, Dabsber kicked the ball hard, that it hurt the other goalkeeper so much, that he laid down and the ball went into the goal! 2/0
The third time, Jane scored it by ACCIDENT. Do you know how lucky was that???
3/0
Then, as I said, one guy was reversing the ball, but he slipped, and guess what? It went in the goal!!! 4/0
And the next one was successful!!! I kicked the ball so hard, that it bounced off Max and the other teammates and went into the goal!!!! IT WAS 5/0!!!!
And the winners were:
Team Black: 0
Team Blue: 5
The winners are: Helen, Jane, and Dabsber
“PRESENTING 10 THOUSAND DOLLARS Dabsber!” the loudspeaker roared. 5 HOUSAND TO HELEN! 1 THOUSAND TO Jane!
After the show, it was great having Dabsber as my teammate after all! And as I say, every story has an end to it.
THE END
Coming up soon, The Alien Neighbor, Book 2: School Chaos
Helen has an ALIEN Neighbor! Read to find out about the first adventures!