why me

31

It was my last day at the facility before the ball and before me and ailign faced the queens demand. There were two things I noticed when I was on the spacecraft with artis: that the controls were very complicated, and the second was the guns plastered to the wall on the main deck. How tempted I was to grab one and threaten the mans life to take me to earth. But I would wait and bide my time, convinced I would get a better chance in the future.

Soon after I arrived at the facility I found Amy. She was sitting at the cafeteria happily sipping away at a milkshake.

"Hey there stranger" I say as I take my seat across from her.

"Megan" She smiles up at me from her tablet.

"Is there communication on that thing?" I ask her

"Sure is. I have most of the girls contacts. Give me yours we should do dinner sometime" She says

"I am Megan's go through I will give you my contact" One said as she held up a hand, Amy's tablet lighting up automatically.

"Cool I can find you easier now" I say as I look around.

"Is there someone else your trying to find now?" She asks me curiously

I turn back to her embarrassment lighting up my face.

"Just a hot alien I met" I say and she laughs.

"You'll have to be more specific there's a lot of those around here." She says

I roll my eyes "the one with the green hair. His name is artis." I say

"Ooowww the head of the facility security guy. I've seen him on patrols a few times." She goes on "Don't worry I'm sure you'll see him soon anyways look at this dress.."

"I'm not interested in a dress. Listen Amy I think we can use artis to escape" I whisper.

"What? Him? No way. He's head of security. As in keeping us inside." She says and begins sipping at her drink and looking at her tablet again.

"Well I think he could be useful. Help me Butter him up." I say

"If you wanna flirt with an alien I'm in." She says "even if nothing happens you need to flirt with someone."

"Don't i" I say and my mind drifted to ailign and our dance lesson. I had actually had a little bit of fun, to my surprise. He was a good teacher, patient and understanding. My brow creases as I pounder my feelings for the strange male. Later. I'd think about that later.

"Ooow here he comes" Amy says excitment coming to her voice.

Turning around I see artis walking our way, he was wearing the classic mech white, a drapping shirt and loose fitted pants.

"Laddies" He said then looking at me "megan"

"Hey artis. You on patrol again?" I ask

"Actually I'm on break" He said "would you ladies care if I join you"

I motion for him to take a seat and he does.

"I'm going to get a milkshake. Artis you want one?" I ask

"Vanilla" He says

The day goes on merrily with the three of us chatting away. Artis leaning closer to me throughout our conversation. 'Ow this will be easy' I think to myself. Eventually the conversation takes a turn to the tour artis gave me of his spaceship.

"Can you take me on the spaceship?" Amy asks her face lighting up.

"Do you have a body guard waiting outside?" He asks

"No my mate picks me up and drops me off" She says sadly.

"Surely one is enough of a chaperone for the both of us" I say

Amy looks at him pleadingly.

"Fine" He says "but this is the last time."

The last time? f**k. I think back to the guns. Should I take the chance? Lights are blaring in my eyes as I ponder my options. Perspiration starts to gather under my shirt as we walk towards the landing strip. Objects become clearer and more sharply defined as my anxiety grips me from the inside. Artis waves us through the doors that take us outside, the security guards taking his orders, and we place our masks on.

"Ow I know. I'm a really good pilot you know back home." Amy says

"Not as good as I am I'm sure." Artis jokes

"Wanna test it? Get this baby in the skies?" Amy asks.

"No way sorry ladies but that's deffinatly against the rules. Can't have the prince coming after me." Artis says looking back at me

I awkwardly laugh at the statement.

"Megan you feeling ok?" Emily asks me

"I'm fine" I respond.

"Good because I'm totally taking advantage of this situation" amy says

Was that code to me?

"This is her ladies" artis says

She was a smaller space ship, compared to some of the monstrosities in the parking lot, with a dome shape. It shined bright silver with a giant blue stripe down the side, a golden layered design lay inside. Pondering the likelihood of it making it to earth I got in. The maindeck was visible as soon as you entered the machine, opening up into a large circular sphere, shining lights and monitors could be seen everywhere with the majority infront of three chairs, two in front and one in the center.

"She's an older model but she drives like no other" artis says

"She's beautiful" Amy says in amazement.

I grab Amy's hand then and peer at the guns strapped to the wall, she follows my gaze. Letting go of her hand I walk forward to the center chair where artis sat, smashing buttons on a key pad. Turning my body to obscure his view I try to make small talk.

"How fast can this thing go?" I ask artis

"It has hyper speed so pretty f*****g fast" He says

"This model has a max speed of 3 million killits in a second in hyper speed" One says

Atris turns to one with a smile. "Thank you one." He says "like I said pretty f*****g fast."

I hear Amy moving in the background, followed by shuffling sounds. I close my eyes, racking my brain for more questions.

"Whats your favorite planet you've visited" I ask

"That'd have to be Tara's. They have the best forest." Atris says as he continues to mess with his monitor. "Here I'll bring it up"

"Don't move" I hear I chilling voice come from behind. I turn to see Amy holding one of the guns to artis's back. He puts his hands up in surrender.

"Your going to take us to earth now" She purs.

"I bet the safety is still on, on that thing" artis says, hands still high in the air.

A clicking sound soon ensues, and I look over at Amy and whisper "really now" the look on my face matching my words. She gives me the same look back, pointing to the guns on the wall. Ow right. I quickly move out of the way and to the weapons wall, picking out the same gun Amy had, quickly clicking off the safety.

"Take us to earth" I breathlessly get out

"Megan it is prohibited from..." One says

"Shut up!" I cut her off "I'm going now"

"Ladies ladies ladies" artis looks back, a gleam in his eyes. "If you want to go back to earth so bad you only had to ask."