"An Alien Has Landed in My Backyard"

It was a cold, stormy night as I tried to sleep my way through the heavy rain. The tree branches tapping against my window had been keeping me awake for the majority of the night, imitating the sound of knocking at my window.

It all started at 2 a.m. when I was raiding the fridge for leftover pizza. Just as I was about to take a bite, a loud hit shook the backyard. I froze. My first thought? Serial killer. Nah! Probably just weird animals fighting over my trash again. Curiosity struck , I grabbed the nearest weapon , a plastic spatula and tiptoed my way out. What I saw was neither a serial killer or an animal but  an alien! This thing looked like a giant, wobbly jellybean with three eyes, six small arms, and  I can only describe it as spaghetti like figure wiggling out of its head. It was covered in what appeared to be orange slime. Out of fear i gave a look while saying hi in a croaky voice. 

The alien froze, chewing the grass while turning all three eyes toward me. It spit out a bunch of leaves and let out a sound somewhere between a honk and a beep . I stood there, holding my spatula , as it stared at me. Slowly, it raised one of its tiny arms and wiggled its fingers like a jelly. To my guess ,it was waving. It honked again, then flopped onto its back like a helpless dog . Was it asking for belly rubs? I had no idea, but I wasn’t about to risk touching it who might melt my skin off me. Instead, I crouched down and pointed at myself then I pointed at it , introducing myself .

The alien blinked its three eyes, making bloop sounds while wiggling like a spaghetti  I nodded as if I understood anything. I named it Squishy and it  honked approvingly. I hoped that was approval.

From that moment on, Squishy and I became the best yet weird of friends. He followed me everywhere, floating just  above the ground like balloon that refused to drift away. We hung out in my room, where he mistook my bed for a giant marshmallow, and nearly choked on a sock he tried to eat. I taught him  human traditions, like how to high-five .It was cute that the fact we high-fived with his six arms .

In return, Squishy taught me some interesting alien tradition too, like how to communicate with eyebrows wiggling which I failed at, how to burp in three different pitches which surprisingly i mastered it, At school, I tried to smuggling Squish in by stuffing him into my backpack. He kept honking whenever I took a step  that I had to tell the  people it was my weird new ringtone. In class, he would  peek out and started spitting jelly balls at my mat teacher. Thank God , I almost got detention, but honestly? Worth it as it was funny watching the teachers reaction.

It was at a point where one day, I introduced him to my best friend, Naresh. He whispered,  if this was my pet alien with eyes wide open as Squish balanced a basketball on his spaghetti body. Squishy wasn't only a pet but my favorite roommate. Squishy honked proudly hearing  it but  ate the basketball trying to act cute.

Everything was going great....until the government showed up. One night, black vans surrounded the front of my house. Squishy and I had just finished a very competitive staring contest . It wasn't fair though as he had three eyes. We froze as we got disturbed by lights that lit up my backyard. A loud voice announced. “SURRENDER YOURSELF.” Squishy panicked and floated straight into the ceiling fan. It was scary to be honest ! I grabbed him and tried to escape. We ran with him floating beside me as agents encountered the backyard. Just when it seemed like we were dead, Squishy pressed one of his fingers to my forehead. A  tingly sensation spread through me, and it spoke saying we gotta bounce. Again another shock at the moment !

I blinked a thousand times ."Bro, I’ve been talking this whole time. You just were listening?". Before I could yell at him, Squish beeped, flashed bright green   and suddenly, we were both floating. Just like that, we blasted into the sky, leaving the government agents shouting angrily down there. Somehow, Squishy managed to steer us into space, where we next moved towards  his spaceship ,a giant, glowing orb covered in what looked suspiciously like neon bumper car.

It was finally a goodbye i guess , suddenly realizing how much I was going to miss him. Squishy wiggled his spaghetti body. Without hesitation , before I could argue, Squishy grabbed my arm, pulled me into the ship, and hit a giant glowing button labeled “BOOM.” And that’s how I accidentally became the first human , i believe ,  to go on a road trip with a jellybean shaped alien named Squishy. To end it with a simple note ,Best - Friendship - Ever.

  

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