14

Claire de lune, moonlight.  Peaceful to the ears.  They keys being hit, the colors intermingling, the lights ring out with tune.  Fish in the air, monkeys underwater.

            “Glad to see you awake, Danielle.  How are you feeling?,”  he asks her, while gripping on the steering wheel, tightly.

            “Oh, I’m sorry” he jumps in his seat, “Hi, I’m Chris, Chris Oetzi.  You may not remember me, but I know all about you Danielle.”

            “What’s wrong Danielle?  I am your friend.  Me and you, we are both alike.  Not like soul mates, but we are the chosen ones.  Ever since you were a baby, man that was so long ago, I remember seeing you, so small on the gurney in the spaceships.”

            “To Austin.  It’s a beautiful town, and I think you should see it one last time.”, he says nonchalantly.

            “Dani, you have lots of questions that need answers.  So let me start with simple ones first.  You are not experiencing hallucinations.  These creature are not a figment of your imagination.  No matter what amount of mind-altering substances you are on, and I feel for you, for what you’ve seen tonight must be horrible in the state you are in.  These beings, or monsters as you described them, are beings from space.  Aliens.  From what space, I can’t tell you, because I don’t know myself-“

            “Is it a dance move?”

            “Not necessarily.  They may come from the heavens, but they care about us.  So they have been studying us humans for the past 20,000 years and especially in the last hundred years, they have been choosing the best specimens to relocate to this new Earth.”

            “You, Dani, you are one of the chosen ones.  The aliens are here for you.  It’s the same with me.  They are here for me, just like they are here for many others.”

            “Danielle,” spoke Chris softly, “there come times in your life, when you might not like to, but you have to accept the facts.  Its like that old adage, ‘sometimes to finish something, one must go against everything to have it accomplished’ or like when you ask why the sky appears blue?  Why love hurts so much with the loss of a loved one.  Sometimes you have to accept life on life’s terms.  Do you understand?

            Danielle, looking out the passenger window, she sees the sun-rays come over the hills, and to her that is peaceful.

            They drove on, while Chris and Danielle sat in silence.  Danielle thought and thought and saw icicles form in the corners of her mind.  They got too heavy with sun-light and they fell back to earth, crashing and breaking into millions of crystals.

            Danielle already had her hand on the handle before Chris pulled to a halt.

            “No matter how far you run away from destiny, fate will always catch up with you.”