Snippet #1110793

Amelia moved from the bus down into the crowded street. Her hair in the bun she always had was beginning to curl around her shoulders. She pulled the pencils out and once more put it up tightly with the pencils holding it just right. She crossed the street. looking like the average teenager, with loose jeans and a t-shirt, she stooped to pick up a penny. Once pocketed she stared up at the huge building in front of her.
Dr. Heirich was located inside the massive building. She entered trough the revolving doors and the guards stopped her and made her run her backpack across the metal detector. She waited tapping her foot down and staring off into the distance. Once she was cleared she was led to the front desk were a pretty woman asked for her name.
The waiting was hellish and boring. She took out her notebook and drew as the clock ticked away. Finally the woman asked her to go inside.
She followed the hall and entered a large office.
A man in his early forties, with brown hair and a kind expression on his face sat behind the desk.
Amelia plopped herself on the chair.
"You are a liar" She hissed "there are others"
"yes there are" he confirmed, unruffled by her accusation.
Amelia stood up and planted her hands on her desk "you said I was the only one! But Jimmy from math knows....he sees them too...he hears them too...but he doesn't know what to do"
He smiled calmly at her but she continued to speak "how many more are there/ how many of us..."
"ten...ten little problem children...you and Jimmy and eight more. "
"are we just lab rats to you? those things. those monsters are feeding off human beings. They suck them dry until there is nothing and what do you care about this...we are just your little experiment aren't we?"

She turned away angrily throwing his things on the floor breaking whatever came in her way. She hit the desk with clenched fists while he watched her.
"they suck the life out...it is not just humans, anything with the ability to reproduce, to breathe, to grow and change, anything living is sucked dry. from flowers to insects, bacteria...nothing is safe and when they are done they will move on but leave this world dead...it will be another mars." His words went trough her like an arrow. She slumped on her seat staring down at her hands.
'what can we do?"
"right now, we are studying you...we are studying them. They need to have a weakness. They are like ghost to you...they are nothing to the rest. The rest cannot see them, or feel them. They just know that they get weaker everyday, that their pets are weaker, that their flowers are wilting. You can see them, but you can't touch them..yet. They cannot see you, but they are attracted to you. They feed off you with more ease. That is why you have started to see them more, to hear them more. The more they feed the more they want you..."
"what about the rest"
"some will survive..some will not..even Jimmy at this moment could be attacked and there would be nothing he could do. He would just die. Tomorrow his fathers would wonder what happened...but no one will have an answer"

Amelia stared at him with horror "why...why don't you tell the rest...why don't you help them...why?" she cried.
"because maybe they can evolve...you should...all of you should evolve...change...and then maybe we can do something against this threat"
She shook her head. "you will let us die..."
She stepped away from the desk and picking up her backpack she fled.

She did not take the bus home but she wandered the streets until it turned dark. Her head was exploding. She had to find the rest.
She had to talk to Jimmy first. Yes
She needed to talk to him first. He needed to know what was going on.
She took the bus then and then made her way to Jimmy's house. Everyone knew where he lived. Who did not?
Many mother's had gone there with their children seeking a lost ball, stolen money, apologies for their beaten up eight grader.
She snorted. The guy sure was a bully and a coward. She stopped in front of his house and sighed.
Which one was his room?
She moved into the dark shadows of the porch and looked under the flowerpots, under the eaves of the house, inside the flowerpots, under the rug, behind the ugly fat Buddha...underneath the fat Buddha ..aha!
She took out a key and entered the house, closing the door gently behind her.
The house was dark and it smelled faintly of bleach. She climbed the stairs slowly. One creaked. She cursed under her breath. Up she went until she reached the second floor.
The first room was clearly not his. There was a large flowery sign claiming it to be "Valerie's Room". she opened the second bedroom to find two sleeping forms. She backtracked quickly into the hall. In the third room she was met with luck. It stank of feet and unwashed clothes.
And as she was going to go in...the room became gray.
She could see the things clearly now as they all attacked Jimmy. All of them fought for his life energy, writhing and moaning.
Amelia wanted to puke but she was frozen to her spot. With considerable strength she moved her limbs. It was like walking trough pudding. She had never tried walking trough pudding, but she guessed it would feel like this.
She moved in, while her hand dug trough her pockets until the flat metal disk was in her hand.
"Aler Diu Geshin"
And her whole arm stiffened and thousand of little stings went trough it, as if she had ants running up her arm.
She felt weaker as the ray shot forward, sending them back . Back where?
Amelia wanted to know, but she had no idea.
As the room became technicolor again, Amelia fell to the floor and felt something squishy underneath her. a ketchup packet had burst when her knee had connected to the floor. Groaning she tried to wipe it off.
"You are a pig Jimmy Woods"