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That afternoon after Helena left I spent it on my hammock just thinking and

watching the sunset. I pondered on all that had happened in the last few

days; on the mysterious appearance of these five people. It couldn’t have

been just coincidence. They couldn’t have given me so many details of that

place where the extraterrestrials took us without actually being there. They

were definitively there with me! “And for what purpose would they be

revealing themselves so suddenly? What was behind all this?” With all

these things I went back and forth in my mind. I closed my eyes to rest a bit

and I fell asleep.

Kristina’s barks woke me. Everything was dark and when I got up I noticed

a small figure, about four feet tall, standing outside the gate. Kristina was

barking at him. I ran inside like a bolt of lightning and shut the door behind

me. I also closed the back door. I panicked and my breathing got heavy. I

then heard the creature speak. It called me by my name. I heard my name

clearly two times. I sat on the sofa in front of the windows that look

straight out to where the figure was calling me from. I looked at the clock

and it said 10pm. The restaurant was still open so I thought if I could get

out through the back door I could go over there and ask for help. All the

lights of the house were turned off so I dared look out the window. I

thought that the figure couldn’t see me. I looked everywhere but didn’t see

anything. I felt my heart was in my throat. I then saw some movement in

the restaurant’s parking. It was that little figure. It walked at a fast pace

towards the restaurant. I saw him go in through my window. Since there

were a lot of cars in the parking lot I was expecting to hear lots of screams

and see people running out. I waited a few seconds and nothing. Among the

many scenarios that I imagined there was one were the creatures put

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