The Alien's Return by Jennifer Scocum Read Free Book Online

The Alien’s Return
    Chapter One
    We are born, we live and then we die – in between, we make a lot of mistakes, we make a lot of right choices. We make people cry, we make them remember us even after our death. We leave a mark on this universe by how we make love to our soul mates. Ever since the conception of time, humans have been cynical about almost everything in this world. Let alone world, we have questioned everything in the universe, right from its conception to its end, everything has been talked about so much.
    There is an African tribe who believe that we humans are a part of a mythical race that came somewhere from the stars.  The Earth was originally the home of Mother Nature and all her beautiful creatures – it had a diverse pool of animals and plants, the flora and fauna that comprised the whole of land, oceans and everything in between. Then we, humans invaded the world and started our revolution. We came somewhere far from the stars, made Earth our new home and started exploiting the resources of the Mother Earth.
    We started believing that Earth has always been our home, as we have been living here from so long. But deep down, we all are made up of stars. We have alien blood and a soul that takes us back to the outer space. We call anything that we can’t understand “strange”. Anything which our science can’t comprehend, we either blame it on religion or overlook the fact. There are also people who think of outer space. We try hard to communicate to the people of other planets, who exists somewhere in the universe. We often overlook the simple fact that the people from outer space with whom we are trying to communicate could be our ancestors.
    Carter was oblivious. He didn’t know the simple fact that he, unlike every other human of our planet, was originally from the outer space. He was found by an average American couple when he was a little kid. It was a night full of stars when John and Charlotte were driving back home. They saw a newborn child, who was only a few months old lying in the middle of the street. The couple who was trying hard to conceive found a blessing in disguise as they saw the child. He didn’t have any birthmarks, no lost identification – nothing at all.
    “We are keeping him. It’s not a question. We are keeping him, John!” Charlotte said and she held Carter close to her arms and hugged him tightly. Carter looked at her with his crystal blue eyes and touched her nose. The moment Charlotte touched Carter; she realized that he was different. For a moment, it felt like the mere passage of time stopped. Everything was standstill and Charlotte stared at John with her wide opened eyes.
    “He is not one of us,” as she said, they realized that keeping Carter would be a tough decision. They were right.
    In spite of knowing the fact that Carter was different, they decided to keep him. He was their child, maybe not by birth, but certainly by choice.
    As Carter grew old, he too realized that he was different. He was not like any other kids of his age. He could run and walk faster, way too fast than anyone else. He would read any book just once and can memorize in one go. He had a tremendous IQ which was miles away from everyone else. His physical strength, his mental abilities – everything was way ahead from everyone else. He could go on for days without eating a thing. He could hold his breath for minutes, sometimes even hours. He didn’t know what sleep was, and could go on for months without closing his eyes.
    When he was a kid, he would ask John and Charlotte numerous times why he was so unique. They would spare some or other kind of lie to him, but the older he got, the harder it became for them to keep his away from the truth. On his eighteenth birthday, there was just one thing that he wanted from his parents.
    “You both know that it is time. I am an adult now and I need to know the truth. Please, it won’t change a thing to me – you both will always be my