My Girlfriend is an Alien Princess

An Unknown Planet Called Earth

Night on the outskirts of Hanamiya, Japan.

It was particularly cold, even though it was the end of spring break. Many schools in the country would now be resuming classes.

This suburban area was particularly quiet, apart from the croaking of several species of frog, whose calls were an ever-present chorus throughout the spring. An occasional bat echolocating could also be heard.

Most of the residents of this quiet neighborhood were already asleep, but one individual stayed up, gazing at the stars through his telescope.

He was your average teenager, around sixteen and about to enter his first year in high school. He had short chestnut brown hair parted in the middle, and he wore glasses. A typical stereotype for people like him would be "nerd".

He had an almost skinny frame, mostly because he hardly did any strenuous activity. But his lanky physique only made the stereotype more obvious.

He was a rather good-natured boy. Even so, he had few friends because most people thought he was weird because of his peculiar hobby.

Hitoshi Takao, for that was the young man's name, peered through his telescope at the starry night sky, looking at the various constellations that dotted the bluish black canvas of the heavens.

Astronomy was his hobby, and he did this every night. He had various astronomical tools in his room, owing to the fact that his father, now divorced from his mother, was an astronomer.

His mother, on the other hand, was a botanist and rarely came home. She appeared sporadically with no schedule, often surprising Hitoshi.

To cut the long story short, Hitoshi was often alone. But he was a very capable boy and could cook, wash dishes, maintain the house and even sew.

For the longest time that night he looked up through the lens at the constellation of Scorpius, right at the bright star Gliese-667, which was home to one of the top candidates for potentially habitable planets.

Apart from astronomy, Hitoshi was also an ancient astronaut enthusiast. He could not bring himself to believe that humans were the only sentient lifeforms in the universe.

He stared at Gliese-667 for a good hour now. He knew that the star looked brighter than most of the other stars forming Scorpius because it was a system of three stars close together.

But then the boy noticed that the star was getting brighter by the second.

"What?" wondered Hitoshi as he peered out of the lens of his telescope.

Even with his naked eye he could tell that Gliese-667 was getting steadily brighter.

He looked into the telescope again and now the star was too unbearably bright to look at. He then looked out with his naked eye once more and and saw that the bright light was getting closer.

His eyes widened as the brightness enveloped his entire field of vision and culminated in a loud crash right in front of him.

Hitoshi shut his eyes at the impact. When the light died down, he opened them.

An unknown object apparently came from the sky and landed on his backyard. It was mired in smoke so Hitoshi could not make out what it was. He decided to go downstairs and investigate.

Outside the back door he went, wearing his light blue patterned pajamas and with a flashlight in hand.

He ambled slowly towards the smoking object on his backyard, which looked to be the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. He wondered if it were an aircraft of some kind.