I awoke with a noise and a strange light blaring on my face... not being a morning person I immediately grumbled "mom just 5 more minutes!" (even though I was well over school age and living on my own) Still refusing to be awakened from my sleep with my oh so warm and soft bed I immediately pulled the covers over my face.... I barely remember hearing the soft laughter...
Next thing I know the cover is pulled slowly but firmly away from me and I finally decide to let whoever had the nerve to wake me have it.... I sit up and began "WHAT THE H..... the curse I was about to utter died midway on my lips as I saw him...
He was the most gorgous man I'd ever seen and why was he in my bedroom?! I'm not the type to bring anyone home with me, having long ago given up on the possibility of any kind of relationship with anyone.
I start to speak and humiliating enough all I can manage is incoherent babble... (I'm also not the stuttering type)
The "man" must have known what a site he made because he had apparently mastered that cocky grin so many men with an abundance of confidence have...
That was it I was fed up with men and what did this guy think he was doin anyway? no matter how goodlooking he was he had no reason to be in my house much less my bedroom! .... I finally find my tongue and begin the verbal tyrade I had not finished earlier...
I also throw in some police threats and warnings to certain anatomy parts which may be injured if he didn't leave right that instant...
Suddenly it was as if a light bulb turned on in his brain and he realized why I would be upset to find a perfect stranger in my house, immediately contrite he began to humbly apoligize and explain himself...
He had not meant to startle me, but he was so entranced.... he had watched me from afar for many moons and had not expected me to awaken.. He claimed to be astounded by the acts of kindness which was second nature to me and had immediately fell in love...
However this is when the story spins into a whole new dimension... he began to tell me of himself.. that he was a Xorvian prince who was so lost in despair that he despirately landed on our planet in an attempted to clear his mind of the sadness which had overtaken him.
He spoke of the tragec death of his parents, and the plague which was haunting his planet... feeling foolish at first and only listening to keep him talking until the police arrived I soon became wrapped up in his story and grieved with him.... it seemed his planet was falling apart without leadership and in his dispair he was in no condition to take the throne..
Without thinking I began to comfort this gorgous albeit weird stranger, he hugged me and tells me his burden has already lightened a bit... then vanishes into light particles... (if my this time I didn't believe him, the particle trick sure served as proof). when the police arrived I hastily explained the alarm went off by error and apoligized vehemiently, once I was given a stotic and stern lecture they finally departed to leave me with my thoughts..
I spent the rest of the night and well into the morning trying to convince myself I was hallucinating, yet looking at the floor by my window where the strangest and my beautiful flower I had ever saw lay it was impossible..
This began what was soon regular visits from my "prince" sometimes we would talk all into the night compairing the diffrences in our worlds and others we were content to simply enjoy companionable silence while we each pondered our own thoughts...
as the months rolled by my prince (who I renamed Skylar when I couldn't pronounce his native name) became restless. I pretended not to notice at first. The visits were growing shorter and more silences occured that the talks we used to have... Finally one night I asked him what was wrong... he explained to me his people needed him, he could not put it off any longer or else chaos would insue. Unknown to me tears were glistening on my cheeks at the thought of being seperated from my friend who had so quickly became such an important structure in my life.
That was when he suprised both of us.... he kissed away a tear and asked me to join him on his journey home... after all what good was a lonely king without a queen to share his life with? Stunned I couldn't find words to reply. Thinking this was a rejection he began to do the so familliar but still amazing particle dissappearance. In the last moment I finally found my tongue! Wait I cried with every ounce of longing in me and reaching to grasp the particles of his hand before they completely dissipated!
He began to take structure once again and I found I was not the only one with tears glistening in the moonlight!
We embraced in a hug that was more like a caress as I began to feel lighter than air..
I assumed this was my own mind playing tricks on me (after all I had fallen in love with an alien, albeit a gorgous one!) until i looked down and saw not only him whirling into particles but myself as well! At this I paniced and began to pull away but his whispers stopped me... the sound of his voice asking me to trust him was all I needed and soon the weightless feeling was accompanied by a glorious light which seemed to cradle us..
Arriving on his planet was strange yet somehow familliar.... there was plantlife very reminiscent of our own only diffrent... and as we drew closer to the most astounding and strange castle I could have imagined I began to see the people... This was when the though finally occured to me.... I asked what of the little green men with big eyes so many people thought were aliens? there was no one like that here actually they looked more like a race of elfs with such an abundance of beautiful people I wondered why he would ever choose a rather plain and slightly chubby woman like me to bring home.
At this he laughed, a true unchecked belly laugh! The stunned look on my face must have registered because he broke into another fit of laughter. Once he had caught his breath he began to explain.
The same particle transfusion his people used for travel can also be used to alter ones appearance... he explained how all the "abductions" of my planet were due to rebelious children daring each other into mischeif. The illusion was as much to make a more dramatic shock on the people of earth as it was to protect themselves from being identified and caught by their irate parents and adults!
this friendly banter lasted all the way to the castle until suddenly relality began to return.. I was nervous! I was in a strange land and about to become part ruler! Skylar must have sensed this again he wrapped his arm around me and mummured "trust me" in my ear.. I did.
Many years later I was written into history along with my alien prince as being the greatest rulers of Xorvian in remembrabce! Not only that but my life was full and happy, Skylar was a true loving husband that I would give anything for and I had 4 beautiful children who were our hearts.
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This is not a story about me, but rather a story of my great grandmother, as wonderful as Xorvian was 2 of her children were more human than Xorvian and made the trek home sometime in their 20th years. But the story is passed from mother to child through each generation after all it's only appropriate to be proud of ones heritage!
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Disclaimer- Ok so none of it's true but it makes for entertaining reading anyway
