"Humans are such strange creatures..."
I muttered these words as my eye steadied its gaze at the bright moon above. I bear only one eye, we only have one eye; that's always the way we were born, bearing a single eye at the center of our forehead, with a nose similar to the humans below it, only our nostrils are much bigger, which makes our sense of smell much stronger, and lips as thin as paper plastered on our faces. But humans are different: they had two. Two eyes, that is. Yet, unknowingly, what's more difficult to understand is this: despite of them bearing two sights at once, it's strange how they can still remain blind sometimes.
"I can hear you, you know. And, in case you don't remember, I'm one of those 'strange creatures' you say."
My head tilted as the words said by a voice slowly registered inside my head. My eye returned its gaze at the human standing at my side. We're inside this what they call "kitchen" and the window gave way to the sight of the moon above.
Daniel was his name, he said. My name's Muri, well, not that he asked me about it before. He keeps on calling me Ali instead, to his liking, a shortcut for 'Alien' he said. I didn't even know what an 'alien' is. I inquired to him about it the first day we met, but all I heard was a loud, merry sound which escaped from his lips. A laugh, he said. That's what it was called. A boy human he is, aged twenty-seven, with a messy hair not cut out for four months now, because he was too busy. He told me all of these the day we first met.
"Holy shit."
That was the first few words that came out of his mouth when he first landed his brown eyes on me. It turned out, quite fortunately, that I landed on a garden of his. When I was still high, up above the skies of the Earth, his garden caught my sight, for, amidst all the other small things which surrounded the garden on my sight above, it was the only thing which bore the color green. All else were silver, brown, and it was not a good sight for me. It reminded me of the reason why I came to Earth.
"Wait a sec, what's with the long stare?" At this moment, his lips are arched in a curve showing his teeth. A smile, he said, that's what they call it. I tried smiling with the help of him once, but at the end, he laughed at me and told me it was "really creepy, it creeps the hell out of me" which is one of the few expressions I am still studying about. I saw him drop his smile. "Don't tell me you were planning on smiling again?"
In human time, it has been a week since I've landed on Earth. I have grown quite a liking to him since the day I came here, and for that, there are two reasons. First, was his garden. He's a lover of nature, you see. That's what he told me. And, as much as possible, he wants to preserve this place for the one he loves, he said. Second, he's a human, but different from the others, I believe. I haven't told him my purpose of coming to Earth yet, but he has helped me a lot of times already. Other times he was gone, though, work, he said. But I didn't mind that. I think he's worthy of my trust.
"I was not," I told him. "I was thinking of the first day we met."
"Whoa-ho, getting melancholic now, are we? I didn't know you had that side on you, Ali." He let out a loud laugh while I remained silent, not able to grasp all the words he had said. "Come to think of it, I almost passed out when I first saw you."
My only eye looked straight at one of his eyes, and I tilted my head in curiosity. "Why?"
"Be-cause..." His smile was getting bigger. "You had that really weird and kind of creepy expression on your face. And then, all of these small bright lights were coming up from--I don't know where--but they were going up, but then when I looked up, it never reached the sky. They were disappearing like bubbles, but more kept on appearing. You were glowing. I swear, it freaked the hell out of me. But now that I think about it, it was kind of beautiful, too... if only I wasn't that surprised by your appearance.
