Last #ThrowbackThursday I did a post from How to Date an Alien, so today I'm continuing on with the alien tried and posting an excerpt from How to Break up with an Alien. Enjoy!
One would think that saving the world from evil aliens would
be enough to exempt me from my senior year of high school. Or even the fact
that I was promised to the prince of Calta, home of said evil aliens. A future
Caltian princess needed her beauty sleep. But no, I was expected to join the
non-alien masses in Advanced Senior English at 8 a.m., which meant I had to be
awake enough to get through my school and work day. Only there weren't enough
sheep in the world to count my way into sleep. My anger and annoyance kept me
wide awake.
A brilliant blue light streamed down from my bedroom
ceiling, reflecting off the mirror above my dresser.
“You’re late,” I mumbled, not even lifting my head from the
pillow.
The light disappeared and the weight shifted on the left
side of my bed. A cold burst of air bore through my covers and I knew that my
alien was nearby.
“I’m sorry. There was some sort of Martian threat on the
Utah capital and I had to handle it.” Ace’s warm fingers brushed against my
cheek. The rest of his body might have been cold, but his hands were always
warm and left me with a sensation that I couldn't resist. It felt like rubbing
aloe on a sunburn.
“A likely excuse.” I opened my eyes and grabbed my glasses
from the nightstand, placing them on my face and sitting up next to him.
“But I brought you something.” He grinned, pulling a box
from behind his back with a giant cartoon purple dinosaur on it.
“Feeble Weebles!” I tried not to scream and wake up my
family in the middle of the night, but it was freaking Feeble Weebles! The
Caltian cereal that was like Lucky Charms but with only marshmallows.
“So does this make up for me being late?” He leaned in
closer.
I nearly brushed my lips against his, pulling the cereal
from his grasp. “I’ll think about it.”
“Oh, come on, for me?” He lifted his eyebrows and flashed
his irresistible smile that could have been on its own cereal box.
I swallowed, setting the box on my nightstand. I tried to
think of something to say instead of just staring at the way his temperature
control suit molded to body. With his body's normal temperature being half of
what a human's was, he always had to wear it when he visited, which was
supposed to be around ten o’clock instead of two in the morning.
"I just wanted to come and wish you luck on your first
day of school and work." He ran his fingers along where my sleeve met my
arm. "Sorry, I couldn’t get here earlier.”
“Is this what it’s always going to be like?” I looked up to
meet his eyes. They were endless pools of black, a bit frightening, but
intriguing at the same time.
“Always like what?” He lay down next to me, his long body
spreading along my twin-sized bed while he propped his spiky-haired head up on
his extended arm.
I sighed. “Me waiting up for you, only to have you show up
late or busy with some alien duty.”
Ace shook his head, his hair brushing against my headboard.
“I hope not. Once you are at Northern Arizona, I can arrange to see you more
often. Then we won’t have to worry about sneaking around
when your mother isn’t awake, and you can even come see me instead of this
beaming thing.”
I lay down next to him, pressing my body to his. His muscles
shivered underneath me, and even through the temperature control suit I could
feel his icy hot chill. “How about you figure out how to beam me places, and
then I can just come see you at work whenever I want?”
Ace pressed his forehead to mine, his eyes dark and close.
“Why must you ask me questions that you know are impossible?”
“Impossible things are happening every day.”
Ace let out a silent laugh, the cold air blowing through his
nose and tickling my lips. “You stayed up watching musicals while you were
waiting for me, didn’t you?”
“I can sing some of them if you would like.”
“I think there is something better that you can do with your
mouth than sing.”
He tilted his head and pressed his lips to mine. After
waiting all night for him, the electric current his touch sent through my lips
and all the way down almost made up for it. Almost.
"Alex?" a woman's voice rang through the door.
Crap, my mom. I
broke the kiss and put my finger to my lips. Ace rolled off the side of my bed
and crawled underneath it. I pulled the comforter up and over the side to try
and hide him the best I could.
The door squeaked open and mom poked her blond mess of hair
in. She reached her fingers under her thick glasses, rubbing her eyes. “Is
everything alright? I thought I heard something?”
"Oh, no, just woke up and thought I would listen to
some Ira Glass podcasts.” I pushed the comforter farther onto the side of my
bed, hoping that she wouldn't walk over and see Ace lying between the bed and
the window.
"Oh.” She glanced at my IPod in the dock. Hopefully she
was too sleepy and wouldn’t realize that nothing was actually on. “Well you
should probably get to sleep. I know the first day of school is exciting, but
it'll be better if you are awake for it. You need your rest."
"Okay, I will do that.”
She nodded and I thought she would leave the room, but instead
she walked over to my nightstand. My heart pounded as I thought about how close
she was to finding Ace under my bed. Hopefully he didn’t breathe too loud.
“What is this?” She picked up the box of Feeble Weebles,
squinting at the giant purple dinosaur.
“Just some cereal I got the other day. Been hiding it in my
room so I wouldn’t have to share with Elijah.” Good excuse, Alex, Good excuse.
Mom shook her head. “I’ve never seen anything like this
before.”
I shrugged. “Yeah it’s new.”
“Huh. Alright, well next time let me know when you get a box
and I will try and get some for Elijah as well.”
“Will do.”
Finally she walked to the door and closed it behind her. I
waited until I heard the door to her bedroom shut before I pulled up the
comforter and leaned over the side of the bed. But Ace wasn't there. Nothing
but dust bunnies.
Huh.
I sat back up and felt something cold against my back. I
looked up and there was Ace, kneeling behind me.
"Looking for something?" He placed his hands on my
shoulders and brushed his lips to my forehead.
If only I had the speed that my alien boyfriend had, then I
could just zip through my senior year and forget about distance and mom’s annoyingly
great sense of hearing. But when said alien boyfriend was in my bed, I wanted
nothing more than the opposite speed. I wanted to freeze time to keep
everything just the way it was.
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Let's start out with Keanu Reeves in Bill & Ted's excellent adventure. To complete a project for school two dudes travel back in time and bring back famous people throughout history. I'm not sure how 'hard' Keanu actually had to act in this role, but his reactions to different people made me laugh out loud. At first it was just the little things, like the fact that I mispronounced 'Socrates' for almost an entire year after seeing this movie since I thought it was the right pronounciation or how Keanu just stared at every single new person he met wide-eyed like they may possibly beat him in his fluffy head. Then I started to notice his body language to different objects and people in the past, how he would lean his body back slightly when he was aprehensive about approaching someone or how he would nod profusely when he actually had no idea what the other person was saying. By watching his body language I was able to gauge a bit on how Ace might react to something like pork chop sandwiches and still think it was impossible to eat a pig out of foil.
Then of course there is Hugh Jackman in Kate and Leopold. How would someone distinguished from the past deal with modern day society? I love me some Hugh Jackman, especially his sideburns in Wolverine, so any excuse to watch him dressed up like an English noble is a good one for me. Ace has been around Earth for a few decades and when he actually did interact with humans, it was the 1940's a definite different way of life. So I watched how a man from the past interacted with a future world, using different languages, bowing, and just looking so good in a suit. Mmmm men in vests...
Yes! You are correct the vested man is Joseph Gordon Levitt and he started his career as an alien on the TV show 3rd Rock from the Sun! JGL is the ultimate in playing a displaced character, he did it throughout his years as a confused, long-haired teen in 3rd Rock and then cut the hair and rocked a vest to play a dream entering hottie in Inception. If you want a laugh you can watch himi and his family with their reactions to life on Earth and dating humans OR you could just watch him wearing a vest in inception...your call.
Brad Gage played by Devon Bostick
Simone played by Deborah Ann Woll 
Brody played by Sean Michael Cunnhingham
Alex's Mom (Wendy) played by Laura Linney
Alex's stepdad (Brian) played by Evan Handler
Monte played by Adam Levine (I just wanted to use this picture...
Jen played by Madison Riley
Malcolm played by Dayo Okeniyi
Justin played by Rubert Grint
Rachel played by Emily Osment
