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High School Extraterrestrial

Author's Note: This is the beginning of a little story that I thought up when I was in class. I used to doodle these characters in the margins of my notebooks, but this is the first time I ever put it into words. This is also unedited, haha. Hopefully, I can improve my writing and continue making up stories like this. Please enjoy :)

Xyler stood by the door, letting Scott fix the collar of his new forest green polo shirt. Scott had insisted he get new clothes to celebrate his first day of school. Xyler had agreed, deducing that he would be more favorable to his human peers if he wore neat and appealing attire. 

“Now, the rules,” said Scott, smoothing Xyler’s collar down one last time. 

Xyler stared back at him, reciting their rules, “Call if I need anything, no alien talk, and observe human customs and behavior.”

Scott nodded, not expecting anything less from his alien ward. Scott had been apprehensive about sending Xyler to school but over the past few years, he’d been raising him as his son, and he realized that Xyler had grown restless in just his company. Scott hoped that high school would act as a deterrent against the Xyler’s boredom, and that he would learn more about human culture and that he might make friends.

Xyler looked human… enough. He had shiny black hair that mostly covered his slightly pointed ears, his pale complexion could be passed off as him just needing more sun, and the brown eye contacts Scott had found concealed his golden irises. If no one looked hard enough, Xyler was just a normal human teenager.

“Alright, be good and safe,” said Scott, pushing Xyler out the door.

Xyler nodded and walked out to stand at the bus stop, just like Scott had showed him the day before. The straps of his book bag seemed to dig into his shoulders. Xyler looked up to the window where his and Scott’s apartment was. This would be the longest he would be separated from Scott. What if he messed up? What if people found out he wasn’t human?

Xyler was pulled from his thoughts when he heard a voice next to him, “Hi! Are you waiting for the school bus, too?”

It was a human girl about his age. Her hair was styled into lots of small braids with pink and white beads at the end of them. Her clothes followed the same color motif, a pink and white floral top and jeans. 

Xyler stared back at her beaming face, “Yes, it would seem we have the same goal.” 

The girl furrowed her eyebrows for a split second but smiled nonetheless, “Cool! That means we go to the same school.”

She didn’t give Xyler much time to respond, and instead stuck her right hand out, “I’m Brandi. What’s your name?”

Xyler read about this gesture in a book once. A handshake. He knew that he is supposed to place his hand in hers to move it up and down, establishing respect between the two of them. A perplexing ritual, but one he must follow through with if he wants to blend in. He grabbed her hand and jerked it stiffly up and down.

“My given name is Xyler,” he said flatly. 

The ritual was a success. Brandi smiled again.

“It’s very nice to meet you, Xyler. Hopefully, we become friends this year,” she said as the school bus pulled up.

“Come on,” she was already stepping onto the bus, “let’s sit together.”

Xyler hesitated, turning to look back at the door to the apartment complex one last time. Scott would not be around to cover any non-human slip-ups that Xyler might make. He would be completely alone while at school. Xyler turned back to the bus, stepping onto it.

This bus stop was the first on the route, so no one else was on the bus save for him, Brandi, and the bus driver. Brandi waved him over to the seat she’d chosen in the middle of the bus, and he slid into the seat next to her. Brandi smiled again and began talking again. Xyler listened.

The academic year hadn’t even started yet, and Xyler was pleased that he had seemingly made a new friend. As the bus pulled off, Xyler couldn’t help but feel a little hopeful about the school year. 

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Hi, you can call me Kenny, Ken, or K.

I write in my free time. I thought this would be a fun way to organize all of my daydreams into one place.

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