Reality Check!

Comforting Presence (Maybe)

August's POV

It seemed to understand because it quickly responded after I signed that to it. Is it even an it? Maybe a he? Do they have pronouns on this planet? This is so confusing! I just want to go back home! I regret ever coming here! I blame it on my brother because he was the one who advised me to go on this trip but even before that I always planned on going to this planet! In the books it said they had over 250,000 different types of plants! How could it have been so wrong? I haven't seen anything other than grass and trees here! What a waste of a planet! Maybe my brother was right by obliterating it....

No! Don't say that August! There's over 9 billion humans in this world! There's also numerous different types of species on Earth! They have bears, and raccoons, a-and tigers and ravens and and-!

"Hey I'm back! I brought ya some food options also do you eat humans because if you do I'm obligated to stay away from yOuuU-? What happened?! Why are you crying?!"

I hadn't even realized that tears had started to roll down my cheeks. I looked at him in despair knowing that anything that were to come out of my mouth he would not understand.

"Nevermind. You don't have to tell me."

Despite not speaking his language, for some reason, I just- understood. Then he did something I did not expect. He wrapped his arms around me, pulling me into a tight embrace. This felt....nice. My brother did this to me once after planet 98 exploded. Maybe this is how they comfort each other? Well I appreciate the effort I suppose.

Felix's POV

I didn't know what to do! I panicked! What if she thinks I'm attacking her? Should I let go? Is this a defensive type of behavior on her planet?

"Thannnnnnnkks....."

I blink twice and pull away from the hug, I stare at her. Did she just speak? In English?

"You speak English?" I ask her, with a puzzled expression.

She looks at me with an equally confused expression. Perhaps not but she does seem to know the basics. I didn't expect aliens to be so smart!

August's POV

English? I think that's what he (or she) said, I recognize that word. I think my system has that language on it. I had practiced the basics of it because my brother told me it was a universal language, but he also told me that this state didn't speak much English. Can I even trust anything he's said anymore? It seems like he just wanted me to die here. I quickly back away from him and take out my device. (Trallixer if you may,) It does have it. I tap at it aggressively trying to get it to download quicker as he stares at me with a bewildered look. These humans sure like to stare. The language finally downloads with a loud beep, it releases a small pill. The human picks it up and inspects it, he hands it back to me with an even more confused expression.

"(Wait a minute..)" I sign to him, he seems to understand as he nods. I swallow the pill and feel the effects of it immediately start. My brother told me about this. He said that one day my system would have another language for me to consume. I was always confused about what he meant by consume and always thought that perhaps it was a figure of speech, but now I think I understand. My throat feels raspy. I slowly take in a deep breath and speak.

"Hello?" I say, not sure of what else to say. I hope he understands. I've always wanted to communicate with humans!

Mikaela's POV

Yesterday Felix called me and started frantically screaming about meeting an alien, blah blah blah. I hope he's okay and you know, not taking drugs or something. Ever since his parents died he's been acting a little too hyper. He had always been more on the hyper side but not to this extreme. Lately he's been dumpster diving and building weird devices and I fear he's gone insane. I know he doesn't trust me as much as his other friends despite us being friends longer. I wonder if I've done anything to lose his trust. He's been acting extremely odd lately, not hostile-like or anything but more like....anxious? I reallyyyy hope I haven't done something wrong. Because despite my constant lectures I really do care about him and I only want what's good for him. I wonder what he's doing right now actually. If he truly- well this is going to sound so stupid but if he truly met an alien and he's not just going insane I would like to meet them too! Or it- I'm not sure. I'll head to his house, just to check on him.....and possibly meet an alien.

Shorter chapter since like I'm just taking out parts that I think make sense together from the rough draft I had already made lolz uh anyways Mikaela and Felix are my loves 💖💖 They were the first characters I created and I ended up keeping them! Fun fact: Felix has ADHD and Mikaela has autism because I've always really wanted to add some representation to my stories and I finally found the chance to :DD Anyways the story is still boring so far and i honestly don't even know if it gets more interesting bc to me it does but to others it may not so if you like this plz plz plz tell me! Anyways (I say anyways a lot) I hope that you my fellow peoples have a magnificent day/night!! 😋😋😋

(btw, some of the words in this story shall be made up and will be revealed later on in the story but if you put together like context clues you can probably figure out what some of them mean)