Strange lights and other occurrences; a guide to alien housemates

Chapter 6: Penam

"WOAH" said Phil. "So, you're... one of them? That's so cool!"

"Explains the age!" exclaimed Dan.

"I thought you just meant you'd lost track of your age and you were exaggerating" Phil chuckled.

"Phil, she fell from the sky. The fact that she's thousands of years old kinda works with that, right?" Dan laughed too.

"I'm so glad you told us where you're from, though, Anya, like that's so cool!" Phil was still excited from her answer.

"Haha, yes, I'm glad you took it so well rather than being too boggled by it." Anya was beginning to feel more comfortable and at home here. Like she was making friends, like she had found a home. She had rarely felt this before.

"So, your people, I'd assume they're worried about you? Looking for you?" asked Dan. That was the question she had been dreading.

"Well, uh... my brother should be looking out," a sharp flash of pain danced in the welled up tears in her eyes for a split second, but she cast it away and smiled again "he sometimes watches your channel, remember, so if I introduce myself, he should see it." 

This seemed, luckily, to answer their question.

"Yeah, about that, how does he get YouTube in space?" Dan was confused once again. He thought it was a natural occurrence to be confused by Phil, but this was on a whole new level.

"Wires, Dan, wires." Phil's response only confused Dan's confusion, which, he noted, was a new feat. He squinted at Phil, his hand expressing the confusion in collaboration with his face. 

"Wires? How the hell do "wires" answer the question?" he glared at his friend, blinking sarcastically. "Where would they go? Tell me, Phil, where would you hang wires in the atmosphere. And how would you get wires long enough? YouTube isn't even IN wires!"

Phil was laughing, mainly because Dan looked super weird when his face was scrunched up in confusion, partly because he was trying to imagine a thin black wire just floating up into the sky, outside the planet and into a spaceship. "I don't know, like maybe they have antenna?" He added. Dan's glare changed from confusion to an 'as-if' stare. "This is why you aren't a scientist, Phil. Wires? Antenna?" he laughed, face-palming. That was pretty funny when you imagined it. 

"You'd actually be surprised how close to the truth that is." Anya piped up. Now even Phil was confused. "I mean, obviously it isn't just a thin black wire just floating in the sky, up to some flying saucer with a man looking at a screen watching cat videos" How was the description so close to what Phil had imagined? He didn't know. 

"I mean, the cat video bit is true, but honestly, all the satellites your people build, they aren't that difficult to hook a comms-system to. All you have to do is be close enough to it, connect to some sort of internet, and there you have it, YouTube. And once you create your own connection method, all you have to do is allow broadcasting capabilities to the ship from the YouTube servers, which, by the way, takes longer to update if you're in another galaxy, but can be done. Robert is your parent's brother, YouTube!" She waited for a response, but all she got was a pair of glares. Neither of them knew what to say. Aliens had figured a way to get YouTube, that was the only thing either of them had come to the conclusion of. A question finally appeared in Phil's head.

"Robert is your parent's brother?" That was all he could think to ask.

"Yes, its a saying, isn't it?" Anya wondered if she had it right. 

Dan finally understood "OOOOHHHHHH!" he turned to Phil "She means 'Bob's your uncle'"

"Ooohhh" that made sense.