Hey mom, there's something in the back room.

3.

Rian stared at the alien who stared back. The two almost had the exact same expression, fear, curiosity and awe. Rian reached up to brush the aliens hair out of its eyes when it scrambled backwards till it fell off the bed, scrambling into a corner and staring at Rian fearfully. 

"Hey hey whoa, I'm not gonna hurt you" Rian said, holding his hands up, "I'm not gonna hurt you..." 

The alien stared at him suspiciously, going to stand up however it made a weird hiss of pain and clutched its leg. Rian frowned a bit, 

"Yea you uh...woke up before we could work on that, what's your name?" 

The alien made a clicking noise which Rian tried to replicate, the alien looked amused and swished its tail to coil around its body. Rian rolled his eyes playfully, 

"Alright alright fine...I'm just gonna call you Alex okay?" 

The alien nodded, Rian going to sit in front of the alien who shied away, Rian scooting backwards a little which made the alien stare at him curiously. 

"So uh...hi Alex, I'm Rian" Rian said, holding up a hand in a wave. Alex staring at his hand for a moment before pressing their hands together, 

"Al....ix" 

"Yea that's your-wait, did you just speak English?!" 

The alien stared at Rian and nodded, Rian laughed a little in disbelief, 

"You just spoke English!" 

"...Hi Rian, I'm Alex" The alien said in an oddly accented voice which just made Rian stare at the alien, lowering his hand and the alien-Alex stared at him curiously. 

"Hey Rian you doing o-the hell?!" Rian heard Jack exclaim from the door and Alex once again looked petrified. Rian standing up and holding a hand out as a sign for Jack not to come closer, 

"Jack he's awake" 

"Well yea I can see that but-wait, he!?" 

"...I think its a he, he responds to Alex" 

"Alex is a unisex name Rian" 

Rian rolled his eyes, "Look we can ask the alien some questions when we get food into them, that sound good?" 

"...I'll make some macaroni" Jack said, leaving the room again and Rian looked back at Alex, smiling reassuringly, 

"It's okay bud, that's just my friend Jack, I have a friend named Zack too, they won't hurt you...okay?" 

Alex nodded slowly, "...Yes...okay" 

"Good, you hungry?" 

Alex nodded, "Hungry" 

"Okay, Jack's gonna make you some food...mind if we ask you some questions?" 

"...No" Alex said, shaking his head, "Don't mind" 

"Okay..." Rian said quietly, smiling again at Alex, "it'll be okay bud" 

Alex just smiled back at Rian.