This past weekend I read Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac and Catching Fire. Both were GrEaT! Definitely different ends of the spectrum, but that's what I'm going for these days. My personality has changed a lot. I'm no longer looking toward the distant future, but looking at what makes me happy and satisfied in the here and now. It's working out quite well, actually. I'm making some good friends at my new, second part-time job and enjoying the job itself immensely.
What I am not enjoying though is my other job and school in general. I have Senioritis as some of you may call it. I'm freaking itching to graduate already! And that's in May ... it's so close I can almost touch it. I can hardly contain myself. I'm about to burst!
Now, the main reason for this post. I started a new story. It kind of just hit me one day. I'm sitting in my Western Civilization class with this SUPER cute guy next to me. I think I see him looking at me out of the corner of my eye, but that part of your eye can play major tricks on you. So anyway, I start thinking, "What's your story? Why won't you talk to me?" Of course, you might be saying, "Well, Kori, maybe you should talk to him." Oh no! I couldn't do that! The bubble would totally burst if I did that! So each day as soon as we are dismissed from lecture I turn around to smile at him ... but he's gone! POOF! Just disappears. So one day I walk out of class and look around for him in the hallway but he's nowhere to be seen. Now that gets my brain rolling! I'm thinking, "Well what the crap just happened? Where did he go?" So the next class he's sitting next to me and I look over at him a couple times but he never acknowledges it until I turn away. Of course, that's out of the corner of my eye again. Tricky business, that. So then I start thinking, "Can he see me? Am I supposed to be able to see him?" And then, well, the fantasy/sci fi part of my brain really takes over. What if he's an alien sent to study humans during class? Is he sitting in a protective bubble that makes sure none of us humans can see him? Am I not supposed to see him? No wonder he is always gone when I turn around. I bet he just disappears back to his planet. Well ... then the story formed. Haha, wow. This sounds ridiculous now that I'm "saying" it out loud. Okay, read on if you're interested.
Michael is an alien living in an alien world. Their schooling is a lot like "Jedi" training because it starts at a young age and is very intensive, but they learn about their powers and other planets. The main job of the species is to explore space. This semester Michael's class has to take an "Alien Studies" course to learn more about humans. Michael originally wanted to join his planet's space fleet instead of going to school, but because his father had gone missing on earth during a mission, his mother forbade him to join the space fleet. This Alien Studies course is exciting to Michael. When he begins his course, his assignment is to sit in on a regular, human college course and not only study the material, but also the humans in the class. But there's one problem: the human girl that sits beside him in class begins to talk to him. The reason that's a problem is because the humans aren't supposed to be able to see their alien visitors. The "veil" is splitting between their worlds and her being able to see him is the first sign, but he has to tell the elders before the students doing the Alien Study are taken captive like his father was. But telling the elders could mean never going to his Alien Studies class again, so never seeing the human girl again. When she breaks through to his world, the "veil" splits more rapidly and they have to figure out a way to repair it before the problem is blamed on her. He must hide her for fear of the elders learning about her passage into their world because if they send her back, she could tell of their existence, but even worse, the veil could tear completely. That also takes the girl away from him, the only link to finding his father.
