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frightened as I took a big swallow before
answering. “What if I am?”
    “My name is Alex and I love to make stupid
jokes and watch terrible movies about infidelity,” he mocked in a
voice that sounded exactly like mine.
    I inched my chair closer. My curiosity had
overpowered my fear, and I wanted to know what else he could do.
“How did you do that?”
    “Do what?" His voice had returned to his
normal silvery tone.
    I put my hands on my hips. “Do you have any
other super powers? Like, can you fly or something?”
    He laughed, shaking his head. “Alex, you seem
to think I’m a superhero or something.”
    “Well you never said that you weren’t." I
wiggled my eyebrows.
    He shook his head. “No I can’t fly without a
ship, but there are a few things I could do that might impress
you.”
    I tilted my head toward his. “Are you trying
to impress me now?”
    He let out a deep breath. “Everything isn’t
about trying to get into your pants.”
    I stammered, “That’s, uh, not what I
meant.”
    His eyes met mine as I tried not to gasp from
the way they seemed to drink in all of me. With one look my body
ran the gamut of emotions from the fear that caused my heart to
beat like a drum in my chest to the way my breath would get caught
in my throat at the mere sight of his glowing eyes.
    “Then what did you mean?”
    “Well, we are friends, right? Friends can try
to impress each other." I saved myself by blurting it out as
quickly as I could.
    He nodded, looking back to the screen.
“Right, friends. We can do that.”
    I looked back at my own screen, trying to
avoid the lingering feeling that his eyes left on me. Sure we were
friends. But part of me couldn’t deny—after sitting next to him all
day long and staring at the curve of his jawline—that maybe I was
losing my breath because of something other than fear of the
unknown.

Chapter 6
     
    “You ready for movie night?”
    Jen knocked me out of my daydream. Whatever
kind of weird alien crush I had on Ace was really getting to my
psyche. I would try to flirt with him at work and sometimes he
would reciprocate, but most of the time he would give me the cold
shoulder with one-word answers and groans. When I wasn’t at work, I
was constantly thinking of how I could get his attention or try to
get him to lower his guard.
    “Yeah.” I shook the lingering thoughts of
Ace’s dark eyes out of my head as I looked up at Jen. “Doing
something human and normal definitely wouldn’t hurt me.”
    “I’m sure you’ll get used to it, eventually,
or you’ll just go crazy and end up in the supermarket tabloids."
She beamed.
    I rolled my eyes. “So where are we going for
this movie night, anyway?”
    “We usually go to the boys' room since
somehow they manage to have less stuff than us and can fit in an
entertainment center,” she remarked as she opened one of her
drawers. “But as the new girl, you get to do the honor of popping
the popcorn before meeting us there.”
    She grabbed a few bags of buttered microwave
popcorn from her drawer and handed them over to me.
    “Where am I supposed to pop this? Some alien
lab that zaps them in a minute?" I arched an eyebrow.
    Jen grabbed a plastic bowl from her closet.
“You still have so much to learn. There is a microwave in the
cafeteria. Just don’t get lost on your way there or to the boys'
room, which is just down the hall from ours.”
    “Aye, aye, captain.” I mock saluted her
before grabbing the bowl and turning out the door toward the
cafeteria.
    Usually I had someone with me to walk to the
cafeteria, and since all the halls looked the same with their
blinding white walls and floors, it was pretty easy to get lost. I
ended up running into a few different rooms, one with balls of
light bouncing off the wall and another with the spider aliens
lounging on recliners and smoking from a giant hookah. I quickly
ran from both of those rooms and was eager to find my way.
    Finally, I made it to the cafeteria and
spotted