That Was My Sister

 

That Was My Sister

I got the jeep the other day. I looked at the gal sat next to me. I wondered what it would be like if she was abducted by aliens? This is my story.

 

The other day I got the Jeep from Cubao to Santa Lucia. It was just another normal commute in Manila. Off to my graveyard call centre job. Same crap different day. I got the jeep at 7.45PM. my shift was 9PM. I was sat on the left side near the rear entrance. There were twenty four passengers jammed inside like sardines. I was looking at the gal sat opposite me. She was wearing cut down jeans and had wonderful legs in the blue UV lighting. Loud dance music played from the jeep’s sound system. It was quite enjoyable when the jeep was riding freely on the road out of the traffic. It was fast loud and swerved left and right for the joy of it. Passengers in back were shaken about. When the traffic was gridlocked it was exhaust fume horn beeping Hell. We were half way there when it happened. The gal sat next to me was using her phone to message people. She was suddenly lifted up off the seat. The jeep swerved side to side going fast. Was it that? Everyone else was sat down. The gal gave a startled yell and looked up from her phone. She was now two inches off the seat and continued to rise. What the fuck? The gal in the shorts shook her head and said something. The music was loud. The phone gal was level with the roof now. She shouted Help Me! and shook her head. It was obvious she was scared. The jeep fare collector looked back to see what the commotion was. He saw the gal off her seat. He called to the driver to stop the vehicle. He slowed. Now the gal was actually being lifted through the roof! Through the actual metal. She screamed and grabbed at other passengers. She dropped her phone as her head neck then shoulders effortlessly went through the metal like it wasn’t there. Other people were shouting. A few took photos or videos of it. Meanwhile the crazy dance music and UV lights lit the scene. It was I who looked out of the back of the jeep and up into the sky. I motioned to the others. Look! Look up in the sky! Look at that! Above over the jeep was a round flying saucer! It was fifty metres overhead and silver. And quite beautiful. You just knew it wasn’t from here. It glowed orange and yellow in the street lights. A passenger screamed Grab the gal! Two people tried to hold her jeans as she continued up out of the jeep roof. It did no good. How was it possible that she could pass through the metal like it wasn’t there? Like entering water? The gal taken by aliens! I saw her float upwards in a beam of faint white light that almost wasn’t there. Others saw it. Some pointed. Most were silent or whispered among themselves. The jeep driver called his boss. Several passengers made calls as the gal disappeared into the bottom the disc. The light flicked off and the ship effortlessly rose. Slowly at first and then it rapidly shot from sight. I went back into the jeep and picked up the gal’s phone. It was still open on the message. There three new messages unanswered. I sent a quick reply saying her friend had been taken from the jeepney by an alien spaceship. That this was no joke. I didn’t wait for a reply. I called the message sender. They answered. Hi this is Jimmy. Your friend. She was just abducted by an alien craft. They took your friend up into the sky and their ship. She’s gone now. Over twenty people saw it. Gone? Gone where? That was my sister…

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