The Baby Monitor!!

By: Katie Cat

Everyone loves summer break, whether it’s getting to play out in the warm sun, hanging with friends, relaxing, and going back to school and telling people about their summer. Everyone thinks that they had a crazy and chaotic summer, but, I don’t think you’ve heard of one this crazy.

“Come on, we’re going to be late!!” I yelled. We were getting ready to go to the second to last football game of the year. Everyone was so excited to go. We have been undefeated!!

We were just about to make a touchdown when billions of people started to say “ooo, that must have hurt.” I looked around to see what had happened, I couldn’t tell, so my friend Chloe pointed out to Billy on the field. Then I saw it, HIS BONE WAS STICKING OUT OF HIS LEG!! The police came and were talking on the walkie talkies to signal the ambulance to come to their location. My brother Sam saw the walkie talkie, and he instantly wanted one, so I told him that we have baby monitors that could work, and he was so excited to go home and find his old baby- monitor.

 “I found it!” Sam yelled, “It’s in this box!!”

 I ran over there to see if he really did, and he did find it! Chloe came over and helped us get the cords untangled. We sat them up and turned them on. 

Kkkrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. 

The static overwhelmed the room. “Hey!! I hear something. Do you hear that?” Chloe said

 “Ya, I hear that too!!” Sam said 

“But wait,” I said, “I turned this one off to make the static go away.” “It must be picking up another signal from another baby monitor.” Chloe explained. 

“Y, y..ya, I, I guess you’re right.” I said. 

“Ashley,” said Sam, “are you ok?”

 “Ya, Ya, I, I, I’m fine.” I said 

“Well I’ve got to go home, it’s getting late.” said Chloe 

“Ok, I’ll call you later.” I said

Later that night we kept hearing those strange noises on the baby monitor. My mom said to put it away, but when Sam got up I started to hear words, English!! 

“Wait!!” I yelled “Stay right there!!”

 “What?” Sam asked 

“Do you hear that?” I said.

 My brother swung his hands up, and I heard it more clearly.

 “Wait!!” I said, “Hold that up again!!”

 “I hear it!!” My brother exclaimed “The higher it is, the more clear it gets.”

 We held it up higher, but it was still too quiet, so I put a chair on the table and squatted down on it.

 “Stop!!” I yelled, “Nobody move” 

Krrrrrrrrr “Yes” Krrrrrrrrrr “That is de plan. Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Get more of those earthlings to do more studies. Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr “Wait!! Nrrrg nnrrrrrgsssnrrggg”

Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 

“Oh man, We lost the signal.” I said, “Earthlings!!”

 “What?” Sam asked. 

“They said earthlings, so that must mean that they live somewhere else, and not on earth.”

 “You mean like aliens?” Sam asked.

 “I don’t know.” I said, “But what I do know is that somethings up, and I don’t think it’s good.”

We kept hearing the noises, but nothing was abnormal. We didn’t think much more about it, and went on with our summer. I was helping Sam get packed for camping at our cabin,when I saw the baby monitor on his dresser. We didn’t think much about it, but we still took it just in case. 

Afterwards we picked up Chloe and headed to our cabin. When we got there we unpacked and went to bed. When we went to bed I had this strange feeling that something was wrong, or something bad was going to happen, but I still didn’t think much about it. I went to sleep and when I woke up I was outside, so was my brother, and chloe!! I didn’t know why but we were. We were all confused about what happened. I itched my arm. 

“What?” I thought to myself, I looked down and there was this strange marking on my arm, almost like a diamond with a line through it. 

I grabbed Chloe and Sam’s wrists and looked at them. They had it too. That’s when I really started to freak out. We ran back inside and turned on the baby monitor and there it was, the voices again.

 Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Those earthlings, they’re perfect!! Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr They will make perfect specimens for our labs!! Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

 “I think they’re talking about us!” Chloe said. That’s when I got this eerie feeling in my stomach. 

“Here it comes again!!” Said Sam.

Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Them Krrrrrrrrrrr I think they know our plan!! Krrrrrrrrrrrrr Noo!! They must not know of our plan!! Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 

“Oh man, we lost the signal again!!”

 Later on that night, we all three tried to stay awake, I looked down at my wrist to see the sign again, but it was not there!! They looked at their arms too. Theirs was also gone!! We looked outside, nothing was different. 

We all eventually fell asleep, but I got spooked or something and woke up. I looked around, and I was in this strange white room filled with these strange creatures with big heads, but little bodies doing some sort of lab work! One looked over at me with these big glowing eyes!! 

I tried to scream but my throat felt like it was in my stomach. It hovered over to me and put some sort of mask over my mouth, and I fell asleep. 

When I woke up again, Chloe and Sam were at my side yelling my name.

 “We have to get out of here!!” Chloe said 

“Ashley!!” My brother cried, “I just want to go home!!”

Just then, a loud bang came from the left!

“Come on, we’ve got to go!!” yelled Chloe. 

We ran down this very narrow hall to this weirdly shaped door. 

“It’s locked!!” I yelled “Come on, this way!! They’re following us!! Quick!! Hurry up!!” 

We ran down this hallway to our right that led us to this big circle on the floor. Right beside it was this big red button, and of course Sam pushed it. As we stood on the circle, it shined this big beam of light down towards the ground and we floated down to the ground. Right as our feet touched the ground, we ran towards the trees to hide. The weird creatures floated down from the beam of light right after we ran toward the trees. Just then, the marks on our arms started glowing this bright blue. 

  “Wait, what if they are tracking us!! What if this is how they know where we are always at!” I said

  “Hey, Do you still have that flashlight with the magnet on the bottom?” Chloe asked. 

“Ya, In Fact I do, I was going to use it tonight just in case we heard something outside. Why?” 

“Because we could rub the magnet on our wrists to mess up the tracking device so they can’t find us.”

  “Ya, then we won’t ever have to worry about them ever again! You are so smart!!”

  “Thank you, hurry now up, let’s do this fast.” 

We all rubbed the magnet on our wrists. Just then a beam of light shined around as if it was looking for something. 

“I think it’s looking for us,” I yelled. Come on, go this way!!”

 All of a sudden three rays of light shot down at us and we all three floated in the air. We could,’t move, we were like frozen in our place. 2 figures came out from the trees, and hovered right to us. They spoke to each other as if we weren’t even there. 

“Those earthlings are too smart for us, we’ve got to hide their GPS trackers better, and where they can’t find them, like in their nose or on their tung.”

 “I got a great idea for a place.” 

“Really? What?”

 “What about on the surface of their eye or behind their eye socket?!”

 “Great idea!!”

 Just then, one snapped their finger and everything went black. 

When I opened my eyes Sam, and Chloe were laying at my side. All three of us looked around, and we couldn’t remember what happened. I looked at and at Chloe and Sam. I could see tears in Sam’s eyes. I couldn’t believe how hard it must be for a 7 year old boy going through this. I went over to him and gave him a big hug. Then all of a sudden, This big eerie screech came from the night sky. All three of us jumped. 

“We’ve got to go find your parents!!” Chloe yelled

“I know.” I said

“And after that, we should go tell the police!!” Sam cried

“Good thinking, we will.” I said “I promise you, I will never let anything happen to you. Neither of you.” I said 

Scr Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

“Did you hear that? It’s getting louder!!” I yelled, “Come on, let’s get to the cabin!!”

“Where is the cabin?” Chloe yelled

“What do you mean?” I yelled

“Where are we?” She yelled

“I don’t know where we are?” I yelled

“I just Want to go home.” Sam yelled, “I want mom, and dad.”

“I know buddy, We just got to find..

Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

“Ahhhhh” We all held our ears from the loud screech. 

“It’s gettin closer, RUN!!” I screamed

We ran for as far as we could, when Sam collapsed. 

“Sam!! Are you ok?” I yelled

“I can’t run any farther!!” He yelled back

I put him on my back and kept running. When we reached this pond I just remembered that I read this book that said Aliens don’t like water, it kills them!! 

“Jump in the water!!” I yelled

“Are you crazy?” Chloe yelled 

“Just do it!!” I yelled back

We all jumped in the water and that’s when we heard the most gut rotting, the most eerie, the most terrifying screech ever!! Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!   It sounded like 200 or more screeches all at once. All of a sudden I saw something swoop down and grab Chloe. Chloe screamed as loud as she could, but nothing worked. Then something swooped down and tried to grab me and Sam, but I dogged it, then a second one came and grabbed me by my arms as I was still holding Sam on my back. We screamed, and kicked but nothing worked. We were brought into the ship, and into this very little room with three hard plastic looking beds. All I remembered was that Sam was taken off of my back, and all three of us were placed on the bed like things and we were strapped down to them and about 13 figures circled around us and I blacked out. When I woke up, I was at home lying down in my bed. I couldn’t remember anything that happened. 

“Was it all a dream?” I thought to myself, “It seemed so real. Did I dream my whole summer? That’s impossible!! You can’t do that.” 

That’s when I had the idea to go to sam. He didn’t know what happened either so I called Chloe and asked her to come over to our house, but she was already here. She had no idea what happened either. I went down stairs. 

“Mom, Dad?” I yelled “Where are you?”

“Ummm, Ashley, don’t  you mean where are we?”Chloe said as she looked out the window.

“What do you mean?”

“Look!”

I looked out the window and we were not at home. There were stars, and a dark sky. 

“We’re in space!!” Sam yelled “But why?” 

“I don’t know Sam, but…” 

Something interrupted me and woke up.I was sitting up against a mailbox. I was all alone, I started freaking out and I started yelling for Sam and Chloe. Nothing, nothing but silence. I looked around in this nearby field. I saw something lying on the ground, and to the right of it was another one. 

“Sam!!, Chloe!!” I yelled, “Sam!!, Chloe!!” I ran over there, and sure enough it was them. I shook them until they woke up. 

“Where are we?” Sam asked 

I ran back over to the mailbox to read the address. It read “San Diego, California”

 We are in San Diego, California!!” I yelled to them as they ran towards me. 

“Why are we in Calla, fonia?” Sam asked

“It’s pronounced California sam, and I don’t know why we are.” I said

“Wait!! California is the state with the most alien sightings!!” Chloe said

“But why would they take us over 1,800 miles away from home?” I asked 

“I don’t know.” Chloe said as she looked down 

“Wait!!” she said “what if this is where the ship is located, what if this is where we’ve been this whole time!!”

“Is 1,800 a lot of miles from home?” sam asked

“Yes buddy, it is. But the real question is how do we get home? What if we don’t get to see our parents ever again!!” I panicked 

 Sam started to cry.

 “Oh buddy, I’m so sorry. I never should have said that.” I said  

“You promised we would get home!! You promised!!” 

“I know buddy, and I will keep my promise.”

“How are you going to keep your promise?” Chloe asked me

Chloe looked at me funny. 

“What?” I asked

 She didn’t answer me. 

“What? Answer me!!”

“At the corner of your eye!! She said

“What about it, is there an eyelash? I asked, “Chloe!!”  

“There is a tiny blue shining diamond with a line in it.” She said

“What do you mean?” I cried

I itched my eye

A large ship hovered above us.  

“Hide!!” I yelled!! 

We hid behind this bush, as if it was going to do anything. 

“We’ve gotta get out of here, make a run for it!” 

“ Where are we going to go?” Sam asked 

“Wait!! I know where!! My aunt Edna lives in Los Angeles!!”

“But that’s about 130 miles from here!! How are we supposed to get there? We don’t have any money, we haven’t ate anything for over 3 days, we are tired from running, what are we supposed to do now?” 

“I didn’t think of that.” 

“I know you didn’t, you never think about what’s happening, you only think about what could happen.”

“So that’s how you feel about me.”

“No, Chloe, I didn’t mean it.”

“No, I get it, I always try to find all of the good things, or the good possibilities that could happen.”

“I know, and that’s what I love about you, that’s what makes you, you!!” 

“Thanks!!”

“Now come on!! We need to get a head start to your aunt Edna’s house!! Come on Sam!!”

We went into the big city to go find Aunt Edna. 

“Guys!! Look!!” Chloe yelled as she pointed to the jumbotron. 

“Hey, that’s the big ship that we were on!!” Sam yelled

“ That’s us!!” I said, “We were all shot down towards the ground!!” I said

“Hey!!” A man yelled, “Those are the kids that were in the UFO and got shot down from that ray of light!!”

“No, we’re not!!” Chloe said

(She doesn’t like crowds)

“Wait, Yes we are the kids!” I yelled

“Ashley!!” Chloe said

“I know what I’m doing Chloe, trust me.” I said back, “Hey everyone, We were taken over 1,800 miles from home, and these weird creatures have done so many studies on us. We haven’t eaten in over 3 days, and we are so tired. So will somebody be so kind as to take us home or at least to Los Angeles?” I asked

“Ya, and some food!!” Sam added

“Hey, I will!!” Yelled a woman from the crowd, “Just come with me and we can stop and get some burgers and fries!! Does that sound ok? Then I will take you home!!” 

“Thank you so much!! You are so kind!!” I said back

“ Ya, thank you!!” Sam said

  We ate for about an hour, and then we headed for home. The woman of course asked so many questions, and I was very comfortable sharing everything with her, especially for how much she has done for us!! We stayed at a hotel for the night because we still had over 1,200 miles to go. 

“How do you have so much time to help us?” I asked the kind lady

“Well, I recently lost my husband in a car crash and then I realized how precious life is, so don’t waste it all and enjoy your life. My husband always told me to “live as if this was your last day.” I never knew what that meant until he passed away. So now, I want to travel the world and live my life!!” She replied

“I’m so sorry.” I said back

“Oh, that’s ok, it feels good to let it all out.

I couldn’t sleep that night. I didn’t know if it was because it was weird sleeping with a stranger, or if it was because of what she said. 

 We traveled for 2 days and we finally got home. My mom and dad were so happy to see us, and They thanked the kind lady for bringing us home. When she left, they sat us down and we told them everything. They didn’t really believe us, but they were just happy that we were home. I heard my mom talking to dad in her room, and she said that she thinks that the real reason we left was because we were mad at them for taking the baby monitor away. Even if they don’t believe us, we will always know the truth about what happened. 

We tried forgetting about it, and I sort of did for a little while, until one day after school, I got an itch in my eye, and could see a little blue diamond with a line in it at the corner of my eye.