Alien in My Pocket #3 Read Online Free

know.”
    â€œI may have seen him in there yesterday,” Olivia said in a whisper.
    â€œYou did?” I croaked, forgetting we were making this up.
    Her response came quickly. “Yes. Over.”
    I couldn’t think of anything else to say.
    Then Olivia spoke again. “I said ‘over,’ you know.”
    â€œI know. Over.”
    â€œShould we tell him?” she asked. She sounded like she was getting bored.
    â€œTell who?”
    â€œWho do you think? Your brother!”
    â€œOh,” I said, getting it now. “Oh, no. We cannot tell him. He will be upset. He does not like spiders. Plus, he’ll tell my mom and dad, and I will get in big trouble.” I dropped the walkie-talkie and nodded. I was good at this.
    â€œBut your spider named Amp may eat your brother,” Olivia’s voice crackled back through the tiny speaker. It sounded like she was holding back a laugh.
    â€œThere’s nothing funny about this.”
    â€œOh, I know,” she said back.
    â€œGood night, Olivia,” I said. “See you tomorrow morning. We will look for my spider tomorrow after school when Taylor is not around. It is probably in his room.”
    â€œOkay! Over!” Olivia sounded bored again.
    I put the walkie-talkie on my nightstand and got cozy.
    â€œThat was ridiculous,” Amp’s voice said from the dark.
    â€œThat, my alien friend, was not ridiculous. That was revenge.”
    Before long, I drifted off to sleep, not knowing what disastrous events I had just put into motion.

07
    Spider Fallout
    A side from the fact that I found Taylor asleep on the living room couch, Thursday morning proceeded like a normal day.
    I grabbed some breakfast and was just gathering up my homework from my desk, when I heard Erdian bad words coming from my closet. I opened the door to find Amp at work inside his ship. And it obviously wasn’t going so great.
    â€œI’m off to school, Amp,” I said, smiling.
    â€œ Floofy bolt! ” I heard him squeak in frustration. “ Flab dabbler! ”
    â€œHey, watch your language in there,” I said, holding back a giggle. Erde may be an uppity, advanced civilization in a galaxy far, far away, but they still have way more bad words than we do.
    â€œI cannot work under these conditions,” he growled. “If I only had brought that dabsnapping molder flincher with me.”

    â€œOh, hey, I think I might have a molder flincher around here somewhere,” I said, unable to hold back my laughter any longer.
    â€œDon’t be such a doozle, Zack,” he snapped, poking his head out of a hatch near the ship’s front that I hadn’t even noticed was open.
    He looked like a blue gopher.
    â€œJust so you know, our prank worked like a charm,” I told him. “Taylor was so freaked he slept on the couch.”
    â€œAll because of a spider?” he asked.
    â€œAll because of a spider,” I agreed.
    â€œFascinating,” he said, turning his back to me. He whispered into the contraption he wore on his wrist:
    â€œNote to Erdian Council: Humans are afraid of spiders. Spiders are web-spinning, eight-legged arthropods. An arthropod’s body is in sections. A spider’s body has two sections. Most spiders also have four eyes. Some have more. Weird. They are also smaller than the smallest Erdian. Perhaps we can use this information in planning our invasion.”
    â€œYou know that not all humans are afraid of spiders,” I interrupted.
    â€œAgggh, you were listening?” Amp screamed.
    â€œYou weren’t exactly being quiet.”
    â€œStop being a doozle, Zack, and get to school. I have work to do.”

    â€œI’d play hooky and help you, buddy, but I can only fit about three fingers in there.”
    He glared at me. “ Blagh ,” he said, waving a little tool at me and returning to his secret tinkering.
    Once on the school bus, I almost felt bad for Taylor. He