Are ‘They’ Really Out There?
Well, we had a bit of a family emergency over the weekend.
MC has been, as you probably know, studying everything she can in order to get as many scholarships as she can for when she goes off to college, and, to that end, Alkanet and Blake brought her an expensive telescope on the salesman’s recommendation that it was the best that money can buy. I dunno much about that, but I do know that the thing has been nothing but trouble! First of all, some thoroughly horrible old woman came over to Alkanet’s and tried to accuse Bescarum of peeking in at her (he wasn’t even home at the time, he was over here having a water fight with the twins), and then, on Saturday night…
I got a frantic call at 10:30pm, with Alkanet telling me that something had come down out of the sky and stolen MC away. Naturally, I did what most people would do: I asked my sister what the heck she’d been drinking! Well, wouldn’t you? I mean, Little Men from Mars (or wherever, it’s a big solar system) had been nothing more than a myth. Then again, Pops did pass on the story about Eric Carlson, a relative (although I’m not sure how he was related) who supposedly had green skin…
Anyway, while Adi woke the children and hustled them down to the basement (you can never be too careful), I called Amby, then raced over to Alkanet’s. She was right, of course. There was no sign of MC anywhere, although I still wasn’t ready to believe that she’d been abducted by aliens. Not just because I’m not, or wasn’t, sure I believed in them, but because we’ve got elections coming up, and the people don’t need that kind of scare right now.
There wasn’t a lot I could do at mys sister’s, except try and calm her and Bescarum. Blake wasn’t any trouble at all, he looked like he’d been sucker-punched. Anyway, I sat with them for a couple of hours, and then we all heard this funny, buzzing noise, so we rushed out to investigate…
We were all pleased to see MC back safe and sound, and after she told us all she could remember, I came home.
Adi and the sproglets have gone back to bed, and I’m sitting here at my kitchen table thinking I don’t know what.
(Yay! My second ever alien abduction in just over two years of playing Sims 2!)
