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black wall with different
displays popping over it, like a giant touch-screen monitor. Some
of the screens had blog accounts pulled up, and others showed
celebrities that I had seen on TV just going about their normal
routine. It looked like I had just jumped into one of those virtual
reality simulators that you find in an arcade.
    “Ace, our new intern is here." Ody slapped
his furry paw on my back.
    A small chair in the center of the room
twirled around and I came face to face with those inky black eyes
that had saved my life.

Chapter 3
     
    I stood there speechless. For a moment we
just stared at each other, him with his eyes dark and calculating,
and mine opened as wide as they could go, before Ace finally stood
up. I expected all aliens to be little green men, but Ace was
definitely not short and he definitely wasn’t green. He towered
over me. His pale face glowed against the television screens as he
approached me. The temperature control suit molded onto his body
like a second skin that stretched along his broad shoulders. Not
that I was staring at the way his biceps curled underneath the suit
or wondering if aliens even had biceps. He absently ran a hand
through his spiky black hair before extending it out to me.
    “Good to meet you. I’m Ace, but I guess you
knew that." His eyes focused on me with his face expressionless.
His hands were covered by black fingerless gloves, but as I felt
his fingertips against mine a rush of warmth ran through me and I
hoped it wasn't showing in my cheeks. His cold, unmoving face
startled me, but the warmth from his hands left me curious and
longing for more of his touch.
    “Alex. Alex Bianchi." I kept shaking his hand
as we stared at each other. It was like we were having a silent
conversation, but neither of us knew what we were saying and at the
same time knew exactly what we wanted to say.
    “Okay, then." Ody slapped us on the back,
snapping us both out of our trances as we released our hands. “You
two have fun and don’t get into too much trouble. I know how
enjoyable alien security can be." Ody winked before stepping out
and shut the door with such force the whole room shook. Ace and I
stood silent for a minute, shuffling back and forth and trying not
to meet each other’s eyes.
    “So, alien security?" I didn’t look up from
my feet.
    “Yeah." He shifted his stance before his
whole body shook, like he was trying to get rid of whatever
thoughts he had. “Which you probably know nothing about."
    I looked up to see that he was actually
smiling. He had the whitest, straightest teeth that I had ever
seen, like something out of a toothpaste commercial. His smile
warmed his otherwise statuesque face, and I was finally able to let
out the breath of air that I had been holding. I was apprehensive
to be working alongside someone from a different planet, but there
was something about Ace that intrigued and frightened me at the
same time.
    “Up until a few hours ago I didn’t even
realize that aliens existed or that I’d be working in some sort of
an alien Air Force base." I watched as Ace wheeled another chair
out from behind the large screened wall and stopped it next to his
before sitting down.
    “Well, it’s more of an operations center than
an Air Force base.”
    I shrugged before plopping down next to him.
“Whatever you want to call it.”
    “Basically with alien security we troll
different social media sites and blogs to make sure that aliens
around the globe are staying incognito. Not putting anything out
there to out themselves or trying to destroy Earth or anything
else." He put his hand up to the screen and moved his fingers back
and forth so different websites would pop in front of us.
    “Wait." I jumped up, leaning into the screen.
“Is that my blog?”
    I touched the screen and, yep, there was that
picture of me surrounded by books in my black Stop your bitching
and start a revolution t-shirt. My mom hated that shirt and
hated that I blogged even more.