My Alien Boyfriend

Peabody

Updated 11 hours ago.

I'm on a role, guys! Oddly enough I worked this entire weekend yet still found time to write. Hehe. Sorry about this short chapter, the next one will probably be short too. I have the rest of it planned out, I just need to write it. I'll try to draw it out as long as I can..but..

We're reaching the end guys, only a few chapters left. Are you ready?

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"You should have seen it, Lewis. He came barreling in here and threw himself at me, sobbing. I barely managed to keep my balance. He couldn't get a word out. He finally stopped crying hours later. Then he passed out for a while. When he got up he didn't say anything when I asked him about it. Just told me that I shouldn't talk about it if I knew what was good for me. Since he came from the farm where you were I figured it was safe to tell you about it."

I sit in my office chair, staring at the walkie talkie that stands on my desk. Turps and Lewis are out by the tree farm, the sound of falling logs drowning out Turps' voice that comes through.

"I'm not really sure," Lewis admits. "Sjin said he got mad at Sips and Sips stormed out."

"Whatever Sjin was mad about, it was pretty effective."

"Yea," A bunch of white noise comes through the walkie talkie and I quickly switch the thing off. A few moments later the door creaks open and Lewis' voice carries up the stairs to my office. "Yea, I'll be over to help with that after I'm done talking to Sips." Then louder, "Sips?"

I move the walkie talkie and put a few papers from the people who bought out SipsCo. on my desk. "Yea?"

"There's something I'd like to talk to you about, can I come up?" I yell down for him to come up and gesture to the chair on the other side of my mahogany desk. "Thanks," He says, taking a seat.

"No problemo. Whatcha need, Peabody? I'm not upgrading your closet. I bet you could talk Turps into sleeping outside and you could expand into his room."

He chuckles. "No, that's not what I wanted to talk about. It's about Sjin, actually." I shift in my seat, my finger following the pattern in the wood. "He and I had a long talk after you, uh, left, and he wanted me to let you know he's sorry about what he said. He's just been really stressed lately. Even before we left; Chilli Wowas isn't doing so hot, and he's pretty bummed about it. And whatever he's doing with Ross I don't think is helping."

I look up at Lewis, my finger coming to a halt. "Ross? What do you mean?" The image of Ross coming in to Chilli Wowas and almost finding me comes back.

"Yea, Ross came over yesterday before I left."

"Why didn't you tell me sooner?" I say, standing up and slamming my hands on the desk.

He shrinks back in the chair. "You were asleep!"

"I've been up for at least two hours!" I sit back down.

"Turps just told me what happened a few minutes ago." I shrug and wait for him to continue. "I asked him what brought him to the farm, and Sjin said that builders had to stick together. Ross nodded, and asked when I was leaving because there was some important business they had to attend to. I said I just had to finish up and check the sludge machine, then I would be gone." I stare at the desk, telling Lewis about breaking into Chili Wowas and how Ross was there. "How weird. I wonder what 'important business' they are doing together."

Unpleasant ideas and images appear in my head. I quickly push them away. "Sjin loves me!" I yell, standing up so quickly that I send the chair crashing into the wall behind me.

"I didn't mean it like that! Sjin would never do that to you, Sips."

"Of course not. Of course not," I repeat, talking more to myself than Lewis. Trying to tell myself he wouldn't. "I mean, builders have to stick together, right?"