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trying to make sure the rest
of our time together is as pleasant as it can be.
     
    Now that we have a leash
on Gayle things should get better.

CHAPTER
    5
    ~ Hallie ~
    ♥
     
     
     
    Better doesn’t last
long.
     
    The slowing of the ship
throws me into high alert mode. We are probably approaching a
planet. I wish I could see outside. My stomach sours. What is going
to happen to us now?
     
    Megan starts to whimper
and then she blurts, “What’s going to happen to us? Are we going to
be killed? I don’t want to die?”
     
    I feel her panic and try
not to let it escalate my own sense of impending doom. Freaking out
is not going to help at all. I focus on my breathing. In through
the nose, out through the mouth. In through the nose, out through
the mouth. I do this several times and it helps a
little.
     
    “ I don’t want to die,”
Megan screams hysterically.
     
    “ Shut up,” Gayle screams
back.
     
    In through the nose, out
through the mouth.
     
    My nerves shatter as Gayle
and Megan scream at each other for a few minutes. I cover my ears
with my hands to dull the sound of their rising panic. My heart
thuds loudly in my ears dimming the sounds around me. I sink into
my own world for a long moment.
     
    The shuddering of the
spacecraft landing scares the shit out of me. It apparently scares
my companions into silence. I’m happy about that. The last thing I
need right now is their panic filled voices raking over my
uber-sensitive nerve endings.
     
    We wait in deadly silence
for what feels like an eternity. With no windows in the room it’s
hard to tell how much time has passed or even if it’s day or night.
Does this planet even have a sun and moon? What if it’s dark all
the time? I’ve heard of planets like that.
     
    I shiver and barely hold
back a whimper. Earth wasn’t a great place but at least I knew I
could survive on the ailing planet. The metal wire of my cage digs
into me as I move back and forth with my arms wrapped securely
around my body. Rocking hurts my butt. I keep doing it anyway. I
continue to shiver and long to hold my faithful
backpack.
     
    A screech echoes through
the room as the metal door opens. Holding my breath, I wait for my
captors to enter the hellhole I’m being kept in. Hide to stay alive ,
whispers through my mind. I look around but know for a fact that
there is nowhere to hide. A knot of fear and anxiety forms in my
chest and lodges in my throat. I hate it here. I stop rocking as
though being still will stop them from seeing me.
     
    It’s stupid, I know, but I
stay as quiet and still as possible. My breaths are slow and
shallow. Frozen in place, I watch wide eyed as two beings enter our
stinky room. They communicate in hissing sounds that I can’t
understand.
     
    Fear slices through my
heart when one of them turns his menacing slit-pupil gaze on me. I
cover my mouth with my hand to keep from crying. The smell of old
piss has me changing hands quickly.
     
    The green scaly creature
makes me think it’s some kind of lizard-man. His clawed hands reach
out and open the lock keeping me secured in my cage. I’m tempted to
scoot further back into the cage, but I don’t want to sit in old
pee and shit.
     
    My heart is pounding so
loudly I can barely think. A scream from Megan penetrates the pulse
beat thundering in my ears. I look over to see her being removed
from her cage. A hand on my ankle has me screaming and pulling
back.
     
    The stocky being makes a
loud hissing sound as he jerks me through the cage door. Before I
can fully understand what’s going on, the lizard-man has my wrists
cuffed and secured to one of Megan’s chains. The chains are about
three feet long. Just enough length for us to follow one
another.
     
    While the one alien
watches over me and Megan, the other lizard-man is busy removing
Gayle from her cage and cuffing her. Gayle kicks him and he slaps
her across the face. I watch in horror as blood run down Gayle’s
mouth. The woman seems to be