They came. And they took everything from us. They took our homes, our loved ones, our freedom ...our lives. Nothing is the same anymore. And now, they want us to "Peacefully co-exist and even learn from one another" That is never going to happen- I thought until I met him, and everything changed once again. __________________________________________ Rose was just an ordinary girl in an ordinary world... that is until aliens came and took the word ordinary out of her dictionary. After a year in a prison called "region", six teenagers were selected to go to school with aliens as the part of integration program. What happens once Rose finds out that aliens aren't so bad after all?

"Cinderella is stupid." "At least she found her Prince Charming," he said. "Have you?" Cinder Roxanne did not have the simplest life on Earth. Unlike Cinderella, she had not dance with the Prince or live a life of "happily ever after." Before all these could happen, she chose to break the Cinderella rules. And breaking those rules brought her to a new game of cat and mouse, where her life was on the line.

"Hello?" "Um, hey?" "Wait, you don't sound like my Aunt Kathy." "Unless I was miraculously converted into a member of the opposite gender and somehow related to whoever is on the other side of this call, then yeah. I'm not your Aunt Kathy." "Oh, shiitake mushrooms." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Short Story #1 (19/04/18) 2016 Fiction Awards Finalist © 2015 evethespy. All Rights Reserved.