NOT HUMAN

Chapter 3 - Mystery men

They all sat down silent for a moment, Lily in between Andy and Blade, Angelica standing by the countertop next to Cherry sitting on a stool from the kitchen, her long legs crossed slurping her green tea loudly disturbing the silent moment. Cherry's hot pink hair was hurting Blade's eyes who was thinking over the best, and the calmest way to go about this.

Lily had changed into black jean shorts and a white crop top, her blond hair tied up in a high ponytail, two strands sticking out barely hovering over her gray eyes. Andy kept with her short chestnut tomboy haircut and her brown eyes smiling as she bragged about jugging her coffee the quickest.

Angelica had pretty red hair and brilliant green eyes and she was very kind.

"Please, will you stop slurping that so obnoxiously?" Andy demanded, shooting daggers at Cherry.

"Hmph, you jelly cuz you have nun of your coffee left?" Her hazel eyes shot daggers back, sharper and more fierce.

Before Andy could say another word to Cherry, Blade cleared his throat, "So, do you guys believe in aliens?" Lily almost slapped him for that introduction. Who starts a meeting out like this?

"Yes, it is a possibility. Ooh, why have you seen or heard anything?" Cherry looked intrigued by the idea of aliens, only if she knew they would kill her, Lily thought to herself.

"Aliens...?" Angelica inquired. "How could they be real, I don't know." She looked utterly shaken by just the mere thought. Aliens, no way! She was thinking in her head.

"Yeah, sure I do," Andy shrugged like it was no big deal. "Of course, we have no proof, no clue either, of what's out there. So, I'd say yes, I do believe in aliens. We can't be the only ones out there."

"Well, that's an interesting way to look at it, Andy," Blade said, leaning his head into his hands. "I'll tell you all flat out, now, they're real," He continued, as all of them listened closely, their facial expressions changing. "Did you know what attacked Lily?"

"No, she wouldn't tell us," Cherry glared at Lily.

"I see, well did you look at her wound?"

All three of them looked at each other then at Lily and down to her arm still dressed in bandages.

"I figured, well, you can look at mine, I have the same marks." He turned, pulling his shirt up just enough for them to see, but what they saw were bandages. "Oh, right, forgot about the wraps on it."

"Hey, leave it alone, Blade!" Lily scolded, finding all eyes on her, surprised. "I just put that on you. It needs to heal. I'll show them mine, okay?"

She had just stripped her arm of the bandages, revealing three long marks that looked like anything non-human, and non-animal. The marks were too big, and they went out at odd angles.

"That could've been an animal," Cherry argued, staring at it in disbelief. She left her stool and hovered over Lily, like everybody else looking at it, with a look of wonder.

"I saw it, Cherry, you have to believe me. That's why I didn't tell you the whole story. I didn't know if you'd ever believed me." She said, in a rush, hoping her friends would believe her for just her word.

Lily, redid her bandages. They were back on her arm, covering the marks.

"No...that looks nothing like an animal, Cherry. I have never seen anything like this, it looks alien to me. I always knew they were out there!" Andy smiles widely, a gleam of excitement twinkling in her eyes.

"Oh, lord, that looks scary," Angelica shivers.

"So, they're really real?" Cherry arches a thin eyebrow at Blade.