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I based thsi short after one of my favorite scene from That 70's Show where Kelso, Hyde and Fez are looking for aliens and Leo shows up. I re did this one after many many months after posting it to read it again and see where I can change it. I'm most statisfied with it now then I was before.
Quentin's Tale
Wilderness Area: 11:59 pm
It was a cool quite summer night at Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp. Right now the good campers slept peacefully in their bumpy, smelly bunks. For those who like to sleep in comfort while staying in tune with nature, sleeping on the grass was the way to go. Bobby, Benny and Elton lay on their backs, not sleeping though, and watched the skies.
“Say um Bobby?” Benny, who was in the middle, turned his head to the left.
“Yes Benny?” Bobby turned slightly.
“Why are we out here looking at the stars again?”
“We’re looking to see if Vernon’s right, that UFO’s come by once a year looking for the psitanium meteorite that landed here. If we prove him wrong we get ten bucks”
“Ah, I see”, Benny had to pause for thought. “What if he’s right?"
“We give him twenty bucks an all our arrow heads”, Bobby shrugged as if it was nothing.
“That’s not a very fair wager Bobby Filtch. We are suppost to rip him off”, Benny emphasized the “we” part. Bobby had changed a bit from his old ways. While he still acts like a bully, he’s been more fair and nicer, especially around a certain space girl. A bit tizzed that his boss had gotten soft, he muttered through his teeth. "So why’s Elton here and not Vernon?" Benny gestured to his right, where Elton was fiddling with his disposable camera.
"Vern said he needed sleep and Elton is the only one who heard the story and believed it", Bobby shrugged.
'What about Chloe?” Benny didn’t' see Bobby blush.
“She heard the story, but didn’t believe it”
Benny pumped his fists into the night sky, “Hah! If the space loon doesn’t believe it, then this’ll be a sinch”. His smile turned down when the bigger blue boy turned his body to stare him down. “What’s that suppost to mean, big ears?”
“Umm, um”, Benny gulped. “Well…”
“Hey look at that!” Elton pointed at the sky. There were two red dots that were a few feet apart and a flashing red behind them in the middle.
“It’s just a helicopter. They’re all just helicopters, planes, and levitating frogs with night vision” Bobby growled not taking his eyes off the fearful Benny.
“Yeah but we’ll see about that” then there was a bright flash where Elton was, “I’m taking photographic evidence”
“Of what, that helicopters fly?”
“Good one Bobby” Benny nervously laughed, but shut up after he was given another dose of the stink eye.
“Hey dudes”, Quentin walked over and laid down. Bobby finally calmed down and laid back down, but Benny still stayed quiet. After a while he checked his watch. “Quentin, what are you doing here? Don’t you usually sleep for another 2 hours to wake up for practice?”
“That’s a nice question there Benny G.”, Quentin crossed his arms and kept looking at the sky. There was a long silence before Bobby continued with the question. “... Well?”
“I’m working on it bro, don’t sweat it. Say Benny, how do you know my normal sleep schedule?”
Benny's eyes darted around a bit, "No reason, no reason at all". The others looked back at the sky. Finally Quentin asked, “What are we looking for?”
“We’re looking for UFO’s”, Benny responded.
“oh that’s cool man”, Quentin twiddles his thumbs. “I remember seeing one once, it was rad”
“Really?” Bobby yawned.
“Yeah, it just hung there, doing its own thing, chillin like I was. It was in a rectangle shape and had a lot of lights”, Quentin kept looking at the sky, the light from the distant stars shining brilliantly as he recalled the encounter.
“Right”
“It even sent me a message bro. It was the coolest thing ever”
“Really?” Quentin had all their attention now.
“Yeah it told me “Try our new Mars Bars, they’re the best in the Galaxy”. Man, aliens can advertise”, he chuckled. Everyone else however, laid back on the grass and tried to contain themselves. Quentin bugged out at everyone’s silence. “It’s true guys”
Elton was the first to recover, but he hid his face behind his camera, “We believe you man, we really do”
“Yeah we do Quentin. Tell me, did you see this on a road trip?” Benny snickered through his teeth.
“Yeah, near the side of the road?” Bobby had to turn his entire body away from Quentin to let out a silent howl.
Quentin squinted his eyes at the dark sky and thought outloud, “Come to think of it, yeah… you don’t suppose…”. Elton’s snickered made Quentin pause once again in deep thought. He sat up immediately and stared out into empty space. “The aliens were going to Palm Springs too!”. All three of the boys just bursted out laughing at poor Quentin's aquesasion. He stood up and stared at the boys rolling around, "Man... you guys don't take anything serously anymore". He shook his head as he walked back to the his bunk house. Benny was the first to recover and sat up with his legs crossed. "You know guys, I've had Mars Bars before"
Bobby rolled on his stomach and finally spoke up, gasping after laughing so hard, "Oh yeah, how was it?"
"It was ok, nothing special", Benny proped his left arm on his knee and placed his head on his hand. They had been out the whole night just waiting for aliens, but none came. After Elton settled down they just sat there in the grass, watching the sunrise.
"You know... we could try to use the Mars Bars as bait for the aliens"
"Shut up Elton"
"Yeah, shut up Elton"
"You too Benny"
"Yes sir..."
Now to destroy- I mean redo the horrible things wrong with chapter 2 :D