NOT THE ONLY ONES

28. HOW DARE HE?

I don't know where I ran or how fast I ran but I bumped into Robert's back.

"Where did you go?" Robert asks.

"Ro... Robert.. they're.. here"

"Who's here? What are you saying?" Robert asks.

"The people, no the aliens who wanna kill us, rule our planet"

Robert intakes a sharp breath and stares at me with fear in his eyes. He embraces me and presses his forehead on mine.

"I guess it's time for you to know" Robert says.

"You wanna tell me now?!? It's not the time, we need to prepare for the war, call your forces"

Those people started filling up the ground.

We were outnumbered by a lot.

"We. Are. So. Dead"

"No, we won't die. Professor will be here with the military any moment now, we just have to manage till then" Robert says.

"What-" before I'm able to complete Robert grips my waist and before I even know we're running away from the aliens.

All the students, teachers the entire staff and all the people who came to my school for training are standing together. We make our way to them.

I could see panic in their eyes, they'd witnessed everything. All of them are looking at me, begging me with their looks to say something, anything but I can't, I don't know what to say, but I can't crush their hopes just like that, I know we don't stand a chance at survival but they don't need to know this.

Its not their fault, all of them are innocent, they cannot die for me.

"Guys, they're here. The military will arrive here any moment but till then we need to take care of the situation. When I say we I refer to Robert, his team and myself. I don't want you guys to be a part of this. I don't want to risk your lives. Please save yourself, find for a place where you can hide. Just run" I lie about the military part.

"No" they shout in unison.

"No?"

"No. We haven't been undergoing training for the last couple of months to leave you alone to fight" someone shouts.

"You don't understand, they're here for me, I don't know the exact truth but I know that they're here for me, I can't let you die because of me"

"We don't care, all we know is that we're with you in this fight. We don't care if we die" Binoy says.

"Guys run away you still have time. Just go, run away to safety"

"We are not going anywhere" the principal adds.

I sigh in defeat.

I can't let them die. I'll just save as many lives as I can.

Those inhumanely beautiful aliens come to stand in front of us. We're face to face, I hear people taking in sharp breaths, everbody is mesmerised with their beauty.

They tower over us, we appear like dwarfs in their presence they are more than 6 feet tall.

It's getting annoying to call them 'them' or even 'aliens', so for our convenience we'll call them MBA- (Mysteriously beautiful aliens).

We stand a couple of feet apart, they are so many. After a while I just stopped counting. If I'd climb a tree and take the view from the top I'll see the MBA as the sizes of rabbits. They are that many, spread all over.