“I don’t think I’d be too annoyed even if you did go on about it. It’s a passion – and those are always somethin’ fun to listen to someone ramble about. Whatever the case, it’ll be great. I’m excited, actually. You can probably teach me a lot.”

    “ You don’t think, no one really does until I do. My mom even gets annoyed with it sometimes, so it’s really not a surprise when other people do too. Yeah! You could help me learn about history too! ”

“hm, you really take all of this stuff fuckin’ seriously, don’t ya’? you sound like quite the researcher too - even though you’re taking a gap year, i’m pretty sure you’ll have no problem getting back out there to the college life. i’d actually like to see the information you’ve gathered though, so you can always show and explain it to me next time when you bring the evidence. government secrets, no fuckin’ way! wouldn’t you get arrested for showing someone that kind of information? or maybe even obtaining it to begin with? do you even have any of that, legally? wait, hold up. your dad is with NASA? now it makes fuckin’ sense why you were defending them so badly - it’s because you’re working with the possible enemy. since your dad works for NASA, he could be brainwashing you with faux information that they aren’t hiding any alien life when maybe they actually are? that’s what always happens in the damn movies, anyway.”

      “ All what stuff? Life? Aliens? Oh gosh thank you, I really hope that is the case I would not want to look like an idiot once I went back into school. Well I could always show you my book of research, I have like this whole bulletin board too full of stuff; clippings and such. Well they are from previous government employees that I have the information from so technically they could get into trouble. I don’t think I could, but just in case keep this hush hush. Yes he is! They are not the possible enemy but I would not fully trust all the information they are letting out to the public, just saying. No, I really.. well, my dad works a lot. So he really doesn’t have the time to talk about it, even if he wanted to. “

“ is this your way of confessing, dom ? are you trying to tell me you’re an alien ? because goddamn. or maybe, i’m the alien. maybe i should be confessing to you. spooky, huh ? if i revealed my alien identity to you, would you tell the world ? ”

         “ Believe me if I was an alien I would not be here. Not that I don’t LOVE Earth, it’s just that I would want to travel around space and visit just all the moons and maybe other planets. Please if you are an alien, tell me, although I really don’t think YOU are. If you were though I wouldn’t tell. “

      “ let me get this straight– they wrote on paper and threw a fucking rock? what the fuck? that’s seems so…primal. i thought aliens were supposed to be technologically advanced and shit. ”

     “Who else would it have been besides an alien?”

“They don’t? That’s a shame. I thought that would be more of a popular activity. Whatever the case, I’m glad your time isn’t completely taken and we can appreciate all Milan has to offer together. I’ll be sure to keep it interesting, I promise,”

      “Well I guess it would be if not for my knowledge of constellations and stars. I think most people just like to look at the stars and low key sleep or something but it’s kind of hard to do that when I’m yappin’ their ears off you know? But I promise to not yap your ear off.”

but pretty sure is enough, i bet nasa thinks the same thing..

     “I bet NASA knows an exact number instead of just ‘pretty sure’.”

    “ you pretended to sacrifice my boyfriend to some aliens? man, to bad it didn’t work. that’s a pretty solid plan. so how did you know what the aliens wanted? how the fuck did they communicate to you? i’ve got a lot of questions. ”

       “Ha! That’s funny! Well we knew because the aliens wrote on some paper with the rock and threw it at us. At first it was like ‘DO SOMETHING’ so we did something.”

“Really? Finally. You’re the only person that seems to want to go! Everyone else doesn’t want to look stupid, I suppose. I’d be into watching the stars with you though. Bet it’s really tranquil and pretty. So it’s a done deal. Art and stargazing can be on our list for the trip together.”

     “Of course I want to go, I love learning about stuff! You would? Gosh no one ever wants to watch the stars with me, this is going to be great! It really is tranquil, it relaxes me so much. This is going to be so rad Logan!”

❝ oh, well, i guess i’m not most people because i know my stuff because you get to tell me. ET could be what some aliens look like. 8 planets in our solar system and probably billions more, who says that all living life forms look the same as the next? years of research, huh? when did you get invested into this type of thing? exactly! we know more about outer space than we do about sea exploration. there are depths of the ocean that are still unmarked or visited by a human. mermaids are real until proven otherwise, i don’t care what anyone else says. when you meet them, how do you know they’ll be high tech? what if they’re simple with their technology, but the functions are used differently? that really depends. which answer will get you to tell me the signs? what if you’re an alien and you’re experimenting on us mindless humans? ❞

      “That’s impressive that you know stuff like this Cora. Well I mean there are chances that he resembles some aliens but there is no way that most aliens look like ET because he was just a puppet not an actual alien. I would assume most of the other lifeforms do not look like a cloth puppet. Well I have liked this kind of stuff since I was young, but I really started to dig into my research in like eighth grade. Exactly! We have only discovered less than five percent of the ocean and with space we have discovered at least half, that is just crazy! Mermaids could totally be real. Hm, you know I don’t really know. That is just what I assume. If they are simple with their technology and just use it differently that’s okay too. Maybe we can help advance them instead of them advancing us. No no I would never do that. Well, one of the first signs someone is an alien is if they are using a different language than us.”

“no, no, don’t apologize to me - apologize to all the adults in the world out there that you’ve just fuckin’ offended. you’ve probably ruined their lives, made them feel worthless and quit their jobs, y’know - all that stuff. hm, are you sure you have the real proof though and not actually the fake proof? because i’ve seen a lot of proof on the web and i’m pretty sure most of them are fuckin’ fake and photoshopped, somehow. tarry swiles, seriously? i’m not even sure if you got their ship name right, dom - it sounds all wrong. well, of course there’s going to be two different types of people and two different types of reactions to each situation. it’s just how the world works, really, so i’m not fucking surprised. hey dom, how did you even get into all this astrology and alien stuff, anyway? were you just born one day and raised by an alien mother - and that’s why you’re so protective of the alien race and so eager to prove to everyone of their existence? are you secretly an alien?”

     “I don’t think I have ruined their lives because they all don’t know I just said that. Besides they would probably agree with me that children are more optimistic than adults such as themselves. Well I have a full book full of credible information i found in books and stuff, but also information that I have found myself. I would explain them to you but it is kind of hard to explain without them in front of me. But it’s mostly like government secrets, pictures and such from NASA. And they are not like crop circles, they are like actual sky-pictures. Ah, unfortunately my mother is entirely human. But well, this is going to sound kind of silly, but my dad works for NASA and so I sort of just got into space and all that came along with it. I just want everyone to know the truth and understand that aliens can be really helpful and important to the human race as well.”

❝ how very humane of you, dom ! we need more lovers in this world, and especially on this ship. some of these passengers are absolute savages. ❞

    “ Especially on this ship? I think everyone on the ship, that I know, are lovers. They just don’t like to show to people because they think it makes them look weak. But loving, and being able to open your heart to anyone is harder than fighting. “

“ no way. i’ve never spoken to or seen anyone cool enough to be an alien. i always imagined they’d be tall and poised, their human faces void of emotion — but maybe i watch too many movies. right, well, i was thinking they were more like the aliens in the x files, maybe more lowkey if anything. maybe this is too much to ask, but why can’t they just reveal their identity to me ? like, who would i tell ? ”

       “ Hm, well aliens will identify themselves eventually and it may surprise you that the people you thought were your friends were actually lying to you about their alien nature the whole time. I feel that aliens are probably a lot like us. I mean they don’t really identify themselves to anyone because one person could spark a chain reaction and then the whole world would know. “