The Artonien Crash

Chapter 3: She had no right

After Teri's death glare, Emma still stayed in place. She didn't seem to care because she didn't want a bad grade on this project. "What are we doing?" Josh asked Emma, unamused.

"Do you need me to translate it?" She questioned.

"No, you dumb ass. He wasn't paying attention. We've been learning English since we were 7." Teri interrupted sassily.

"Oh... Well... We are supposed to write a story pretending we were one of the Artoniens on the ship that crashed... But you two are allowed to tell your story... If you were old enough to remember...." Emma explained.

"Yes, we were old enough to remember the horrible, traumatic, day." Teri said, (she did not like this girl at all).

"I'll write my story, you can just sit, and do... whatever you do." Josh said, in an attempt to get her to leave.

"What was so bad about the day you landed on earth anyway?" Emma questioned Teri.

"What's so bad about that day? What's so bad!? Well, for one, we did not 'land' we crashed, we did not plan on staying on the poor excuse of a planet. For two, that day was terrible, I was 6 years old, and I watched a patroller kill my father. Who was only trying to protect my mother and I. And then, your dumb species trapped us in a caged area, like we were some sort of animal!" Teri was pissed, and stormed out.

"I'll get her" Josh said to no one in general.

Josh ran out of the classroom, to find Teri sitting in a small corner of the hallway, crying. He walked up to her, and spoke in Arrtronish.

"Hey, its okay. I know, they're assholes." He was now crouched down to her height.

"She had no right!" Teri yelled, in between sobes.

"I know, she didn't." Josh agreed. "Are you going to write your story for the project?" He continued.

"Yea... I'll tell them exactly why that day was the worst day of my life!" Teri said, trying not to cry anymore.

"Hey, lunch is next, do you want to go before they come out of social studies?" Teri replied with a 'yea' and they walked to lunch.

~•~at lunch~•~

"This is beyond gross," Kayla said with a look of disgust on her face.

"I would rather eat lntso! (type of poisonous Artonien plant)" Josh said while examining the hideous food in front of him.

"Same, dude."Derek agreed with Josh.

"Why don't we have the same food as the humans. That's not fair!" Teri whined.

"Maybe, their unintelligent brains need to make their ego's bigger, by treating us badly. I mean, we are clearly the superior species here." Wilson said while looking back at the slop they served the Artoniens.

"I'm not eating this, I'll eat at home." Teri said, as they all agreed and threw away the awful goop.

"Who are your partners in social studies? Mines some guy named Peter... I think." Kayla asked the group.

"I'm stuck with someone named Ben, but he doesn't seem as bad as who Josh got." Teri told Kayla.

" Yea. I'm stuck with some rude human girl who asked Teri what was so bad about the crash." Josh said.

"And, she called it a landing. Like we planned on staying on this poor excuse for a planet." Teri added.

"She had no right to say that, especially to you." Kayla exclaimed.

"I know, right? Like, she doesn't know what happened, she wasn't there. She didn't have to live through that." Teri agreed

"She was probably sleeping in her perfect little house, on her perfect little bed as it all went down, too." Derek said with annoyance in his tone.

"I heard that her dad was a patroller that night." Kayla gossiped.

"Her dad was probably friends with the guy who shot Josh." Derek said in Arrtronish this time.

"Yea, probably laughed as they took us to the pods, too" Josh said, annoyance creeping into his voice as well.

"I wonder how they would feel if they were put in cages, like the monkeys they are!" Wilson said in Arrtronish, finally breaking his usual calm demeaner.

Right after he said this, a teacher walked up to their table and said: "In this school, we speak English. And YOU are expected to, as well" and she walked off. As she did so, Teri said, "what a blonaze! (Artonien insult)"this whole phrase was in Arrtronish as well.Their whole table erupted in laughter.