Pieces ~Their Stories~

Me and The Alien Blues

***Pertama-tama, saya minta maaf karena cerita ini berbahasa Inggris. Ini adalah tugas sekolah, dan saya malas untuk menerjemahkannya (sorry... Tehehehe) jadi, yah begitulah. Semoga bisa anda nikmati. Oh ya, saya sangat menghargai kalau anda sekalian bisa membantu saya mencari kesalahan grammar maupun pronounciation. Thanks.***

It's already the dry season, and my body felt really stiff because of sweat right now. But here am I, riding my motorcycle from upper town to down town, in the middle of the afternoon, surrounded by cars which puffing out smokes that makes me choked. The sun's right above my head, seems eager to follow me wherever I go. Sometimes I saw fatamorgana in the form of traffic light—the light is always red—with huge trees around it. In other words the perfect place to rest. But then I shook my head and accelerated my motorcycle to my destination, the university where I enroll.

The class went like nothing. The lecturers were just spouting some sentences which I couldn't understand, it's like a fly's noise. Thousands of them, repeated several times. I talked to my friends, but just for kicks. I'm talking but not speaking. I'm hearing but not listening. All of this were just to fill my quota of communication with my friends that day. I'm not anti-social and I don't hate my friends, but I just didn't want to fill my head with useless information, or my brain could burst into pieces. In an instant, the sun left it's throne and the sky got madder. My day here was done.

I, once again, rode my motorcycle. Now to the south, to the upper town. Not too fast, but not too slow. After I reached the upper town territory, I didn't turn to the suburbs, but I kept going straight to the mountains. Not because I wanted to hike or anything, but I had something to do there—not really a duty. Well, maybe self-imposed.

"Ah, Mr. Lecturer. Hello."

She said with a friendly, cool, yet lovely tone. Her silver hair fluttered in the wind, looks like it's sparkling or something. Her purple eyes were facing me, like it had some kind of gravity force in them, trying to suck me into the bottomless well. In the bench where she sat, there were pile of books. All mine. There were several genres, from non-fiction to fiction. In fact, one of them was in her hands. I exhaled, trying to calm down, then sat beside her.

"Stop calling me that. My college friends are enough. What are you reading?" I took a peek, but then she showed the cover to me. Looks like The Princess Bride book I bought years ago.

"This book is interesting. To be able to express their feeling in the form of letters... I feel like humans really have those potential to evolve. Your 'core' is really pure, and beautiful. It's like a gem. Us... We don't have something like that. Our 'core' is pitch black. It can't regress, and it can't evolve. It just stuck like that for the rest of eternity," When she said that, I could feel some sadness slipping away from her pink, tiny lips.

You must be asking yourself, why was she talking like she isn't human—one of us? Because she isn't. Believe it or not, she's an alien. From outer space. Riding her UFO and landing here in the feet of the mountain. Apparently there were some errors in her flying saucer, so she's going to stay here for a while.

Why did I believe her, you ask? Simple. Because I saw her 'true form' in our first meeting. And you bet it was disgusting. She's like a silver piece of blob, with eyes in every place on her body. She was just slithering on the ground, waving her tentacles like crazy. I, who just appeared in the mountain for some reason I couldn't remember, saw her and got scared like a little boy who saw Sadako coming out of the well. But strangely, I was composed. For some reason I felt like I can talk with her. And it wasn't just a hunch, it's something I could feel deep inside my heart. So I talked to her, asked her who is she.

"I'm no enemy, calm down," As she said that, she transforms her body to a gorgeous female, with silver long wavy hair and the body of a supermodel, "I think you will be more comfortable if I maintain this appearance?" She was so beautiful that I just nodded without thinking. Then she smiled and introduced herself, "I'm Eliminator # 777854601 [Moon Princess], nice to meet you." She ended the introduction by bowing her body and pulling her long skirt slightly.