RARE FIND | Selena Gomez

Chp. 6 - Flying Saucer

Squinting my eyes, holding my phone almost plastered to my forehead, I double check the email. I throw my phone off the opposite side door across the backseat after confirming the price.
"Hey! What was that man!"
"Sorry, that was my phone. It slipped."

The Uber driver looks confused but doesn't respond any further. I was not seeing things. Elon just offered me one million dollars to go to Mars. I spent the rest of the ride home staring out the backseat window looking out at the Moon. As soon as we arrive to my apartment, my cellphone rings. It's an unknown number. I glare at the vibrating phone. I ignore the call and place the phone in my pocket. While walking to my apartment door, the phone rings again. This time, the number is blocked. I forwarded the call again. I get to my apartment door and there's a note hanging by the doorknob. It looks like a folded piece of computer paper. Maybe it's from the landlord. I pick up the paper and unfold the note. The note is blank. I flip it over to see if I'm missing something. The whole sheet is blank. I crumbled the paper and threw it inside my apartment as I opened the door. As I enter the room, I hear someone in my kitchen.

"Hello?!"

I reach for my umbrella behind the door. No response. I lift the umbrella and hold it like a baseball bat as I walk towards the kitchen.
"Anybody here?!!"

As soon as I turn the corner...

I witness Selena's secret agent guy, Karl, making a pot of coffee.
"Dude! What the fuck you doing?! How'd you get in here?!"
"We have to leave."
"What?! No. I'm not going anywhere. Who let you in!?"

My cellphone begins to ring again. It's my sister.
"Go ahead, take the call.
"Yeah I'm gonna. Get out my house dude."

Karl continues to make himself a cup of coffee as I answer my phone.
"Hello?"
"Hey! I'm off! Just got home. You ok? Is this a bad time?"
"I wouldn't say a bad time, but a weird time."
"Weird time? Why?"
"Well, Elon offered me a million dollars to go to Mars."
"He did what!?!"
"Yeah, and there's this dude standing in my-

ZAP.

And that's the last thing I remember, is talking to my sister on the phone trying to dodge Karl from shooting me with some type of  futuristic weapon or laser of some kind. I woke up two hours later outside of the same bookstore in Studio City that I met Selena at. No one is around. The blacked out Cadillac pulls up to my left. The passenger window rolls down...

It's Selena.

"Hey baby!! Hurry up get in!!"

Baby? Maybe she's drunk. I begin to get up and walk towards the car. Selena leans out the window smiling.

"You gotta kiss me first!"

She's for sure drunk. Baffled, but not questioning it, I walk over to the window and kiss Selena. After we kiss, I try to explain my final decision about earlier.
"Hey so, I think I made my decision about Mars and what not."
"Mars?"

Miguel yells from the driver side.
"Avery hurry up, we don't have time."

Selena rolls up her window.

I enter the black Cadillac and signal to Julia to slide over. Julia now has to sit in the middle so we can all fit. Julia looks speechless scooting over. Julia, looks to Selena, "This isn't what I meant about being more spontaneous yesterday."

Selena, addresses her worried friend, "It's fine babe, just go with it." I squeeze in, sit down, and slam the door shut. Miguel flicks his turn signal on adjusting his seat belt.

Inside the car, is now as silent as a library. I feel like I'm reliving the whole moment again. For now, I play it cool for a sec. The turn signal beat echoes in the emptiness. Tick, tick, tick.

The Cadillac pulls away...

As the car pulls away, my heart begins to race a little faster. I don't know what's going on. Right before I can speak, Julia tosses the getting to know someone question all over agin, "So, Avery, where are you from?"
"Are you kidding me? Julia stop. It's me! You guys are real funny. Jokes over. You got me."

Julia almost begins to glitch as her head nods left and right and begins to repeat herself,
"So, Avery, where are you from?"
"Excuse me?"

Julia asks again,
"So, Avery, where are you from?"

I reach for the door. Miguel locks it, now accelerating the car.
"Selena?! What's happening?!"
"Sorry Avery."

Again she repeats herself,
"Sorry Avery."
"Miguel slow down!!"

I reach to grab Selena's shoulder, she jerks her head at me, and it's Elon wearing a black wig.

"Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!"

SLAM.

The car crashes, and begins to flip and roll. After a few hard spins, the car stops rolling, and lands back on its wheels. A loud noise from above commences. Dizzy, nauseous, and perplexed, I try to look out of the broken windows. I am covered in glass shards as I hear who I believe to be Selena...

"Avery! Are you okay!?"

A round of what sounded like silenced gun shots ring off. The noise of the weapon was bizarre. Mario peeks his head into the car wearing a blue uniform.

"You there?"

I nod my head at Mario. Mario points a laser inside the car and shoots everyone in the car again around me. After he terminates all the passengers, Mario unlocks the door and begins to drag me out of the vehicle. Selena rushes over to my aid wearing the same blue uniform as Mario. I couldn't speak as much as I tried,
"Selena...
"Hey! Everything's okay. I promise! We're almost there. Just one more ride."

Selena lifts up my feet in tears as Mario picks up my shoulders. My neck jerks back and eyes roll to the side. I look over and observe a blue flying saucer, same color as their uniform. Selena's new music from 'Rare' is playing inside the UFO amongst the bright lights and smoke.

Mario and Selena carry me up the ramp. I am struggling to keep my eyes open. Selena try's to speak to me...
"Please hang in there, Avery. We're headed to Antartica, remember? It's not far."

I attempt to respond, but I have no strength. My eyes fall shut...

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