The Fall (On Hiatus until otherwise stated)

The Fall: Chapter 18 - Finn

"Serena just sent me a really odd message." Amy said, but I wasn't paying attention. My mind was on Skeron and Isaac and my Father. I didn't have time to worry about an Earth girl as well, regardless of how interesting she was.

"What, she off sick?" I heard Hambell say. Amy seemed to pause, and I could hear her fingers on the glass screen of her phone. Unheard to the human ear, but not to mine. It tapped about furiously in reply.

"No, she asked if Finn was with us." she said, and suddenly my attention seemed to pick up. I leaned over the seat to talk to her.

"Did I hear my name?" I asked, trying to be coy, but with little effect. Amy looked behind her, spinning a little in her seat and showed me the message. "Why is she asking if I'm here?" I asked her. Amy shrugged her shoulders.

"I don't know, maybe she's trying to avoid you. What did you do?" she said, an accusatory tone to her voice. Hambell stood by her side and gave me a knowing look.

"I haven't done anything." Amy still glared at me, her eyes burning into mine with the fury of a woman scorned. "I swear!" I tried to tell her, when her phone pinged and she looked at it again. Her face crinkled in confusion as she read the message, then looked back up at me.

"She wants you to go to the woods behind her house. She says someone called Isaac is with her. We don't even know an Isaac!" she exclaimed, and my face went white with fear. I knew Isaac would be looking for me, but to use an innocent girl to lure me to him was low, so low I wasn't sure I even knew who Isaac was anymore. He certainly wasn't my friend and guard I had known for the last eleven years.

"What?" I said, panicked now. I grabbed Amy's phone out of her hands and she yelped as I did so.

"Finn, give me my phone back. Now." she growled, and Hambell took it out of my hand and gave it back to her, which seemed to calm her down. The bus swerved around a corner and I was jostled a little in my seat. I didn't grab the bag I had bought only the other day, filled with school books, and got up out of my seat and headed towards the front of the bus.

I could hear Amy typing something back to Serena and she grabbed her things and told Hambell to follow her. When I made it to the driver I asked him. "You need to stop the bus, please. I need to get off. Right now." The driver looked at my from the corner of his eye, his head facing the road.

"I can't stop the bus until the next stop, sorry kid." I slammed my hand down on the back of his chair in rage.

"You don't understand, you need to stop this bus right now. I have to get off!" I told him, the longer we argued the further away from Serena and Isaac I got.

"Let me handle this." Amy said, I didn't realise she was right behind me. "Excuse me driver, but we all need to get off the bus. It's a life or death situation." The driver laughed.

"I'm sure it is, what did you do? Break a nail." he laughed some more. I was almost at breaking point and revealing myself as non human when Hambell walked past both of us and pulled the emergency stop handle. Neither Amy or myself were ready and the bus came to a shuddering stop, nearly throwing us through the front window, but I managed to gab Amy as she screamed and cushion her against me as my shoulder collided with the window. Luckily it didn't break, but a long crack crept its way along the large window.

"Sorry everyone." Hambell shouted so the whole bus could hear. "Normal service will be resumed shortly." he joked, tapped the open door button and hopped off the bus. I picked Amy up ff of myself and pushed her towards the open door. I was about to exit as well when I felt a hand on my arm.

"You kids could have killed us all. I know all your names. Don't think I won't be informing your Head of school." he let go of my arm, and I turned from him, his words meaning nothing to me, and stepped off the bus.

"You're all banned from this bus!" he shouted, as he closed the door and drove off. I could hear cheers from the students left on the bus as it pulled away.

"What the hell was that Hambell? I could of died!" Amy said, exaggerating a little bit.

"You both wanted the bus to stop, I stopped the bus. A simple 'thank you Hambell, you're amazing.' would do." he joked, but this wasn't a time for jokes.

"You didn't need to get off the bus. You should head to school. Serena asked for me." I said, trying to get rid of them. I couldn't bring anymore innocents into this.

"Oh no you don't" Amy said as I turned to leave. "You either tell me what the hell is going on with Serena or I'll have no choice but the call the police." I tensed my jaw, Amy was infuriating, but I was glad Serena had such a caring friend in her.

"You cannot call the police." I told her, trying to sound authoritative.

"Well, you better tell me what's going on with my best friend and then I'll decide whether or not she needs police assistance. She's been distant these last few weeks, and it's not like her. What have you got her into?" I had to wonder, what had I got her into? I know it was pot luck that she had found me, but she had and now I had dragged her into the politics of my world and that wasn't fair. I sighed, we didn't have time for this, but I knew I had to tell her something.

"Amy you are not going to really call the police, are you?" Hambell asked, standing next to her, looking a little anxious himself.

"Try me." she said, her voice steely. She had made up her mind. I pressed the numbers on her phone but didn't press call - yet.

"Okay I'll tell you, but on the way to Serena. Please?" I almost begged. Amy cocked her eyebrow up, as if she was determining whether I was being truthful or not. I heard her fingers tap her phone and delete the call. I sighed a breath of relief.

"So, what's the deal? What is going on with you two?" she asked. I took a deep breath. Hambell and Amy walked a a quick pace next to me, trying to keep up as I almost ran back towards the village and Serena's home.

"I'm an Alien." I said, and Amy's jaw all but dropped off. Hambell laughed off my statement.
I tried again. "I really am an Alien. You wanted the truth, well, there it is." I said. Amy stopped walking.

"What the actual hell are you on about? You are not an Alien." she said, stopping in the middle of the country road.

"Try me."  I said, using my telepathy. Amy's eyes grew wide, as did Hambell's. Now I had their full attention. I began walking back down the lane and they both started following me, no questions asked. Now, it was time to get Serena back.