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Sure, the city lights can make them fade into the distance. In his head, he could make out each one of them as clear as day. It was like his personal road map to the stars. It made him wonder..
"Hey, Khaji Da," He said.
Yes, Jamie.
"Where is your home? I totally know that you aren't from here."
There was a long silence.
I do not remember.
Huh? He didn't think that would be the answer.
"Do you remember your other "hosts"?"
Yes
"What were they like? You never really explain how you…"
His question was cut off by a loud thud. He moved his head to see his sister coming onto the roof.
"Pshhhh….Jamie…whatcha you doing?" His sister said with a twizzler in her mouth and a bag in her hand.
"Talk to Khaji Da. Asking about her home and stuff…"
"Oooo…interesting…Anything good?" She asked as she took a seat next to him and shoved the bag into his hands.
Of course, there were like two twizzlers left.
"Not really. She doesn't remember," He said.
"Bummer. Anything else?"
"She remembered her other hosts."
"Ooo..any cool badass girls?"
Yes…some of my hosts have been female.
"She said yes."
"Yes! Girls for the win!" His sister shouted as she threw up her arms.
He laughed.
"Oooo…I had another question! Are you a girl or a boy? Bro says that you sound like a girl."
I am neither. I picked the voice most pleasing to my host. This voice is most pleasing to you.
"Huh? I didn't know that. Do you mind if I call you a female? I mean I don't want to insult you or something…"
It is fine. I have no preference.
"Okay…as long as you are good with it."
"You know…these one-way conversations are hilarious outputting," His sister said.
"She said that she picks the voice most pleasing to the host but she is neither female nor male."
"Makes sense that you would love a girl's voice."
His sister mocked him as he stuck out his tongue at her.
"What are you two planning?" Uncle Rudy said behind the pair.
"We don't plan…" His sister said.
"Uh huh…my weed satchel says otherwise," Uncle Rudy said with a knowing look.
"In our defense, it was easy to find and hiding it under your driver seat isn't a good hiding spot. No, we are just asking questions to Khaji Da," He said.
"Huh? So, where is our blue beetle friend from?" Uncle asked.
"She doesn't remember."
"Bummer. Besides our government, how many aliens should we worry about?"
There are hundreds to thousands of different foreign entries across the universe. Some are even living on this planet. If we are going to calculate current threat level, we are level yellow.``
"Yellow?"
Our actions have made others aware of us.
"Bro…what did she say? You look like you missed your alarm on the first day of school…"
"Shit…maybe we can ask your girl for some alien detection stuff along with anti-government stuff…
He shook his head no.
"No…it's fine…she said that others may be aware of us now because of you know…everything."
"Okay…Me and my glorious glove are sleeping together tonight…"
"It looks like I need to update my baby."
"No! It's fine! We aren't under a threat now!" He said in a panic.
You are correct.
"And…Khaji Da agrees!" He added quickly.
"What is going on? Your nana and I can hear you from the living room." Mama said as she poked her head from the window.
"We are under the Threat Yellow and other aliens might attack us again," his sister said to mama in a panic.
"No! Khaji Da says that they are aware of us! But they won't attack us now!" He said in a panic.
Correct.
"Will you protect my boy?" Mama asked as she gave him a critical look.
Of course.
"She said yes."
"And make sure that he stays out of trouble?"
Yes.
He nodded.
"And make sure that he changes his underwear?"
"Mama!" He shouted as he threw up his hands. The only saving grace was that it was dark and they couldn't see his red face.
This. Is. So. Embarrassing!
"What is going on up here?" Nana said as she popped her head behind mama.
"We are asking Khaji Da questions…and embarrassing Jamie at the same time. It is great!" His sister said to nana.
"Tsk..Khaji Da is family. She knows everything about you," Nana said as she shook her head.
"Family?" He said.
"Of course…she saved us and you. She is family. Unless she has a family of her own?"
No. I do not believe that I have one.
"She said that she doesn't have one."
"Well…you do now even. Even if something happens to Jamie and you have a new host. You are family, understand?"
He couldn't tell if the emotion was coming from him or Khaji Da but it doesn't matter.
He just nodded his head.
"Besides, she has been up his ass…if that doesn't make her family, I don't know what will…" Uncle Rudy commented.
"Uncle RUDY!"
End