The B.G.S.'s

6th May 2025

Hi Kiki. After school lessons were over with today, Shizuyo, Yuko and I went straight to the high school section to talk to the boys about our bit of excitement yesterday.

"The boys will not believe this" said Shizuyo.

"They will believe once they see our little friend" said Yuko. She had the B.G.S. in her schoolbag.

When the boys saw us on the school ground they ran up to us right away. "We heard stories about the janitor of your section saw a ghost yesterday, is that true?" said Kouhei. The story of the janitor seeing a ghost yesterday spread through the whole school.

"Well the janitor did see something, but it wasn't a ghost" said Yuko. She opened up her school bag and the B.G.S. jumped out.

"Oh god!" gasped Tatsuya.

"What is that?!" gasped Hiroshi.

"We do not know what it is," I said "we just call it a B.G.S. because it bounces, glows and squeaks". The B.G.S. started to bounce and squeak in happiness.

"Okay," said Hiroshi, dumbfounded, "I take it doesn't talk huh?"

"Only squeaks," answered Yuko "but it seems to understand what we are saying though. When we told it to stay put in the janitor's closet and to keep quiet it did as it was told. And when we talked to it, it squeaked in response".

"You girls really don't know what it is?" said Kouhei. He couldn't stop staring at it and began touching it.

"As it looks like a mixture of a jellyfish and octopus, it's hard to make out what it really is," said Shizuyo "not to mention it doesn't need to stay in water to survive like actual jellyfish and octopuses". The boys thought this was strange indeed.

"There is only one way to solve this," said Tatsuya "we ask it questions". Tatsuya kneeled down on the ground to talk to the B.G.S. "Okay little guy, I am going to ask you some questions. So I want you to squeak once to answer yes and squeak twice to answer no. Do you understand?" The B.G.S. squeaked once, meaning it did understand.

"See I told you it can understand what we are saying" said Yuko.

Tatsuya started to ask questions. "Okay do you live in the sea?" he said. The B.G.S. squeaked twice for no. "Alright what about living in a lake, pond or a forest?" The B.G.S. squeaked no.

"Maybe he lives in outer space or something" said Kouhei. We thought Kouhei was just joking but the B.G.S. squeaked once for yes.

We couldn't believe it Kiki. This B.G.S. was an alien? I didn't know what to think of that; everyone knows aliens don't really exist in the real world.

Tatsuya went back to questioning. "Okay so you're from outer space, are there are many more like you up there?" The B.G.S. squeaked yes; another unbelievable answer.

I stepped forward to talk to the B.G.S. "Did you come here to earth yourself or are your friends here with you?" I asked. The B.G.S. squeaked no and then yes.

"I reckon that means this thing didn't come here itself," said Hiroshi "did you girls see another look alike of this thing when you found it?"

"No we didn't," said Yuko "I reckon this B.G.S. got separated from its friends when it arrived here. It's always like that in the science fiction stories; strange creatures or something coming to the planet earth and getting lost from each other".

"If that's true then this little guy's friends must be scattered somewhere outside the school" I said.

"Oh that's great," said Shizuyo "what shall we do now?"

"Well we should not tell the teachers this;" said Kouhei "because the teachers will call scientists to come and take our little friend away from us. And those scientists will use and might dissect it for experiments, and we'll never see it again".

"I'm certainly not having anyone take this B.G.S. away from me" said Yuko, picking it up and giving it a hug. All of us started to shudder at the thought of our little friend being taken away from us and we were never going to see it ever again.

"If there are any more of these weird alien things, we should go look for them before somebody else finds them or they'll be sent to science labs" said Kouhei.

"I agree with you Kouhei," said Yuko "it's not fair that we have only found one B.G.S. and the others haven't been rescued yet. Besides this little guy will want help of finding its friends, don't you little guy?" The B.G.S. squeaked yes.

We stared at each other for a second. "Okay then," said Hiroshi, at last, "its official we are going on a hunt for little aliens". We started to laugh a bit.

"Hold on a minute," said Shizuyo "how should we start looking for these little aliens?"

"Easy Shizuyo," I said "as we found our little friend here at school, the other little aliens couldn't be that far from here. So we'll start looking around the school and outside the school grounds and then we'll go to places near the school".

"I guess that makes sense" said Shizuyo.

"Okay everyone we start searching for the little aliens on Saturday sharp" said Tatsuya. We all agreed.

"One more thing;" I spoke up "apart from never telling the teachers about our discovery, we must not let any other students find out about this. And we most especially not let that student Kazuko find out because she will just tell on us to the teachers about our friend".

"Not to mention she wouldn't care at all of how sad we will become once our friend is taken away from us" finished Yuko.

"Our high school head disciplinarian student Masato Nii is no better either; he likes tattling too" said Kouhei.

We all agreed to never tell anyone about our friend the B.G.S. and about our quest of searching for its friends.So Kiki this was our start of searching for more little aliens like our friend the B.G.S. I hate to admit it, but I do feel like the girls, boys and I have just started our own science fiction story life, even though it sounds really ridiculous and impossible. I knew yesterday was just the beginning of a strange science fiction story life for us and I feel more weird days are yet to come.