chapter 1: the beggining

Intro-

My name is Tom, yes just Tom. My real name is Thomas lye Shunning-burg but my evil step-dad made my mom change my name to Tom, just plain Tom. probably because my last name was my fathers.
My dad died when i was about 2 years old. My mother never told me what really happened to him, and the answer has been haunting me to this day. Right now I am 12.I always thought that our lives would be so much different without my step-dad. I didn't even know why my mom married him in the first place.
My step-dad keeps me in the attic supposedly called my bedroom. Its hardly even a room at all. The wall paper is stained brown and tearing to little shreds, the floor boards squeak and a few boards are missing, on the walls there is mold in the corners and its also stained brown like the roof. I often get rats and all kinds of bugs coming out of the floor boards and holes in the roof and walls.
I use to go to school but now I have to hide in my room for the rest of my life, even when people come to the house I am ordered to run to my room.I don't even have home-school. Everyone thinks that I died in a car crash with my dad because that's what my mom lied to get people to stop nagging the family.
I think you are ready to here my story... right? not just plain boring facts about my sad depressing life? well here we go this is how my story began...this is how it all started.

Chapter 1: The beginning

"Tom, Where are you boy!?" Step-dad screams as he stands at the bottom of the stairs holding the whip. Me and my family live on a farm, In my house we have long stairs that our stained yellow that rap around in a circle leading to the attic in a dark hallway , My room.
"coming, sir!" I assure him. I know if I don't come quickly he will start yelling uncontrollably.
I come down the stairs to meet Kilo, My step-dad. I turn around the corner and the first thing I get is a big smack in the face.
"Your chores!? You haven't done them all yet!" He says like I'm stupid.
"Sorry sir, its only 8:00 am and its Saturday." I look down I know I'm going to get into trouble for saying that, but what I really wanted to say was worse, I wanted to say "you keep me locked in the room! there's no way I could of done them right now old man!" but instead I was good.
"what!!? whatever! Just do them, boy!" He says boy again, it bothers me a lot because he changed my name to Tom, why didn't he just change it to boy, or even bad boy for all I cared.
I run outside and start sweeping the barn where we keep the horses, chickens, and pigs.
I sigh and finish most of my chores by dinner which include sweeping in sided the house and in the barn, washing dishes, cutting wood for the fireplace, washing the dog, moping, dusting, feeding the animals, cleaning step-dads truck, washing the windows,vacuuming the whole house...not my room though, and making everyone's beds.
My mom called me to come to the table to eat. Me and my mom use to pray at the table every night before dinner, but since Kilo came he hasn't aloud praying in the house. But I didn't care I would pray secretly in my room, what could he do anyways? he couldn't control that.
"Hey Sweety." Mom tries to smile but she knows how Kilo makes me work everyday and beats me. She's just to afraid to divorce him because we couldn't get money without him.
"Hey mom, whats for dinner?" I smile and sound cheery to cheer her up.
"oh...chicken and mashed potatoes, is that okay?" She tells me.
"Of course it is! shut-up! just eat your dinner and get done with it Tom! You to Jane!" He screams at me and my mom in anger. I nod and sit at my spot at the table.
"So Kilo...hows work?" Mom asks. Passing me the potatoes.
"I'm getting money that's all that matters." he grunts. My mom sighs
"I'll eat in our room." Mom says plainly. she stands up and starts to walk away.
"Stop! why!? you can eat here like all of us! Sit Jane!" He demands. Mom doesn't notice two tears that drip from her face as she finished dinner, the rest of the night its quite.

chapter 2 : The forest

Well now that you seen my life, what do you think? I know what your thinking, run away, well your right that's exactly what I did.
Right after dinner I ran up to my room in the attic and waited until 1:00 am to relax because that's Kilo's working hours until 6:00 am. I get so frustrated I start packing my back pack full of things, all I wanted to do was run away, I would have to leave my mom...but I can't live like this any longer, I have to leave.
I packed my backpack with a notebook, a pencil, 50 bucks I have saved up for a long time, snacks and 2 water bottles from the kitchen, 2 outfits,toilet paper ( you never know) and a small blanket. I put down my backpack and peak in my moms room. She's reading a book like usual.
"I love you mom." I say as I stand in the door way.
She laughs "I love you too, whats wrong?"
"Nothing just wanted to say i love you, goodnight." I smile. She smiles back
"Good night Tom." she goes back to her reading, I look at her face for the last time and close her door.
I run to my room to pick up my backpack again. I glance at the clock it is 2:30 am. I yawn and open my window. The breeze was cold and the wind was blowing hard. I saw the tree that's been in front of my window since I lived here, but in this time of year it didn't have any leaves on it. I drop my back pack first, it was a long way down and the backpack landed with a big crash. I think for a while. I remember when i was little I watched this movie where a kid was running away from home like me, so he tied his blanket sheets all together and tied it to an edge on his window, so that's exactly what I did.
I tried carefully sliding down the wall of the house while holding on the sheets. I took about 4 steps down when "rip!" the sheets untied and ripped from my window, I didn't have time to yell and I landed with a crash. My back had been hit hard on the ground, my butt was sore and probably would get a bunch of bruises on it, and my foot had been twisted backwards, i think I had strained my ankle. I get up as good as I could surprisingly I was okay and started limping toward the forest to think.
I sat on what I thought was a rock, it was all bumpy and rough. Well that's what I expected from a rock. I took out my notebook but It was to late to write in my journal the night was to dark, I would have to wait until at least 5:00 am until the sun would start coming up. i put it away and took out my blanket and put it over the bottom half of my body because I already had a big jacket with real sheep hair in it, my mom had actually made it her self. I lied there and looked at my watch I fell asleep at about 3:10. I woke up to birds. I quickly glanced at my watch getting mad at my self since I wasn't supposed to fall asleep. It was 4:30 a.m. I was so relived.
I picked up my back pack and an idea came to me. What if I got some wood and made a a house, at the time I was so excited about the idea I had to do it. I started running around the forest getting certain kind of wood, but right after i got a bunch of wood there was something I forgot. Nails. I couldn't build a tree house with out nails.
I still remember that one afternoon I came home from school and my dad surprised me to a tree house in my yard, it was the tree I mentioned earlier when i was by my window. I was so happy my dad was outside putting the finishing touches on it.
"Thank you dad! thanks!" I remember yelling and climbing in the tree house with joy and I loved that tree house, but when my mom met Kilo he destroyed it and made me use the wood as wood for the fireplace.
I wiped the tears that had came down my face. I kicked one of the wood pieces out of anger and it went flying.I sat back on the rock and sat for a long time, sooner or later I would have to leave the forest and find another hiding place in another town. So nobody would know I was Thomas lye shunning-burg. The one that died in a car crash with my dad.

chapter 3: meeting Jalarci

I know that sooner or later step-dad will start looking for me, and if he found me I would get beat really bad. I went down to the forest river, picked up some water and put it in my backpack.
Right as I get up to leave I hear rustling in the bushes. I jump back and look around. Nobody was even around. some animal, I thought. I start walking up the mountain that leads back to my home, I had to go home I knew I couldn't survive all alone in the world. I mean come on I just got scared from a stupid animal, how am I supposed to face the world?
Well anyways. I started walking up the hill again, I hear the bushes rustling again but ignore it. All of a sudden something grabs my leg.
"Ahh! let go!" I kick. I turn around and i didn't believe my eyes, It was an animal, well not an animal a animal/human deformed thing. "Ahh!" I scream again, but now I feel like a little girl when I scream. The animal thing mimcks my scream and goes to hide behind a bush.
"Hello?" I didn't mean to scare you, come on out." I say calmly.
"loip fdeoo polkn!" He says at me and gives me a scared voice.
"sorry I don't speak...whatever that was." I say. He grabs my hand and examines it carefully.
"uhhhh? hello?" I tell him confused.
"S--sorry." He looks down about to jump back into the forest.
"Don't go! what exactly are you? Whats your name?" I pull him by his arm so he won't go away, but his arm is slimy and squishy like a fish.
"me Jalarci. Me Recto species." He stutters. "Oh, well iv never heard of a Recto...umm I'm a human, My names Tom." I smile because I hope he'll stay if I'm nicer.
"oh." He plainly says probably because he still confused or he doesn't know what to talk about.
"Do you need some kind of help?" I ask. He looks like he's in a hurry and scared.
"Y-yes, will you help me T-om?" he looks up at me like he's begging for a cookie from his parents. He's about two feet tall, Chubby, green and wears old ripped human clothes.
"I-" I stop and think. "I don't know. Depends." I say.
"Well,ummm my ppp-lanet needs help. Quick. Fast. Me parents are died. I mean dead. they were the qu-een and kkking and they were the only people that could help us. We need food, workers, more gr-eens, more plants!" HE cries. I'm guessing he's probably a little kid because of the way he talks.
"okay, okay. Wow that's horrible Jalarci, I don't know how I can help though. How many people are still on your planet?" I say.
"You have to T-om! Theres only 100 people left! Please!" HE cries again.
"okay then take me to your world." I say even though I know he can't actually take me. or could he?
"Follow me." He says. I ask him questions while I follow him deeper in the forest.
"Why are you here? How do you know english." I ask.
"Well i came here for hhh-elp, and to lookie for others like me. Me parents taught me they did comie to earth a lot and they stud-ied the Humans main language. English." He says casually.
"oh." I feel stupid as I say oh.
I follow Jalarci for a long time until he came to a stop. I'm so confused I just want to run back home, even though its worse there I was scared and worried. An alien just came to pick me up and bring me to his planet to help him, of course nobody would believe me. But I did the right thing I stayed, and helped a creature. a creature Just like me. I wish Some body would help me, I was also a helpless creature.

chapter 4

Jalarci is behind a bush pointing into a cave.
"Whats wrong?" I ask.
"We ha-ve to goo this way." He says and runs to the cave, I run after him.
The cave is dark, long and and a lot of rocks at the bottom of our feet. All of a sudden Jalarci stops and turns to the wall and touches what I thought was the wall, but it wasn't it lit up and numbers were in a little square on the wall.
"Wha- what!?" I didn't know what to say.
"This iss the code whe-re youu can type-e a code which it will lead to me planet." He says calmly.
"umm okay." I say as I'm calmed down also.
I see Jalarcis green slimy fingers push on the numbers, and all of a sudden the wall opens up to a bright light. "He-he." He does a weird laugh and motions me into the light. I let out a big breath and say to my self "here we go." I walk in and behind me the cave wall shuts with a big boom.
"How did you know that, that was where the wall was?" I asked him.
He looks up at me again, this time he sighs very loudly and says "Been there manys of times." I feel Jalarci getting annoyed at all the questions that this earthing is giving to I decide to only ask a few more over time.
I look around his world and it is so different all the houses are made out of random sticks and the ground is blue and gooey, but the weather is very hot. There is floating U.f.o's flying around like in the movies. I could tell what Jalarci meant now when he said "no more greens!" there wasn't any tree's or anything around.
I just follow Jalarci like a little kid following their parents in a large grocery store.
"So where are we going? and how can I help you?" I say trying to be nice so he won't snap, I never knew what kind of patience and alien would have.
"well I don't know..." He says and turns to me. He stops and thinks for a while and then talks again. "I know I will take you to Maxie!" He's excited and starts walking again but now I know he knows where he's going. I was about to ask who's Maxie, but I stooped my self.
"Here wee's are." He points to what looks sorta like a tent.
"whos' house is this?" I ask.
"Maxie!" He said very short tempered. He pulls my arm and we are inside the tent like house. It is very cold and I set my bag down that I have been carrying for hours when i was going to run away. The tent was any bigger on the inside then It was on the outside but big enough i guess. In the middle of the room sat a old version of Jalarci, I was guessing that this was the "Maxie".
"Jalarci!" He swings up Jalarci and holds him tightly, I wish I had some one that would do that to me. "Unkey!" He said cheerfully. I was guessing Maxie was his uncle.
"ha-ha and who is this Jalarci? A human! very good boy!" He chuckles like Santa and holds his hand out like he wants a shake so I shake.
"Well hi sir, my names Tom. Jalarci's been saying you need help, maybe by a human?" I tell him making sure all of this is right.
"yes yes! but before all that how about you sit down and tell me about earth, boy." He pulls out a chair at the table him and Jalarci where sitting at. But when he says "boy" it reminds me of Kilo my step-dad. I sit there and I'm yelling at him in my head, I want to run away and live in this world forever where everyone's so nice and treat me like there king and not a servant!
"Are you okay, boy?" He asks with a worried face.
"Uh yeah sorry of course Ill tell you about earth. " I smile and run to sit down on the chair. "well... Its pretty cool." I finally say because both Maxie and Jalarci are staring at me.
"Well yeah but what are the people like? do you have a job? what do you live in? what do you eat!?" Jalarci says, but all the questions are to much for me.
"well some people are mean some are nice... only grown ups go to work if you go to school where you learn about things. I live in houses like you guys but ours are more bigger and more put together, its not that different then this world, and I eat...food." I didn't know how to answer these questions because I didn't know how much they knew.
"oh." Maxie plainly says.
"what about you? are you smart?" I ask him not trying to be rude its just he talks better then Jalarci.
"yes, well I the know more about other planets then anyone on this planet, iv studied every language in the world and ... everything." He says.
"well how do I help, Maxie?" I ask getting a little inpatient, I didnt know how much time they had left.


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