Alien Invasion (Book 1): Invasion Read Online Free PDF Page A

Are there any riots? I mean, not riots, but, like, panic, like people fighting and … ”  
    “A little in the car line,” said Trevor, looking away.  
    “Oh my God. Oh my God. Do you think it’s okay? Do you think they’ll be safe, or—”  
    “What are you going to do, put the whole school in the back of the Bug?” Trevor snapped, his newly deep voice booming more than intended. He pushed at his glasses, feeling her gaze and knowing they looked stupid and childish. He was fifteen, and every kid he knew had had their vision corrected if it was the slightest bit off. His dad was famous and rich. Why did he have to look this way, with big dumb frames on his face?
    He didn’t look up at Piper, but could see her shock in his peripheral vision while staring at his backpack. He played with one of the zippers, turning it over and over, back and forth.
    “Okay. Okay, you’re right,” she said. “We’ll just go. I’m sure they’ll be fine. We can only worry about ourselves, right?”  
    Trevor thought he’d have to snap at Piper before she’d pull into traffic, but she blessedly looked over her left shoulder, tapped the console, and confirmed that she wanted to merge.  
    Even her technophobia was adorable. The car, without Piper in it, could have picked him up, and it would have done so without rubbing forbidden tits in his face. And still she insisted on confirming every little move it wanted to make, reintroducing the possibility for operator error into what was otherwise a near perfect system.  
    Then again, judging by what he’d seen in the car line and what he was already seeing on the streets ahead, plenty of people were piloting manually today. Autocars tended to balk at driving on sidewalks, rear-ending stopped vehicles to make a point, and running over streetside trashcans to clear a path. And autocars rarely honked: the staple shout of rage for any driver in a rush.  
    “Did they tell you about the aliens?”  
    Trevor looked over, watching her profile. She hadn’t even tried to soften it.  
    “ Ships , Piper. Or maybe just asteroids or something.”  
    “I hope you’re right,” said Piper. “About asteroids. Or maybe I don’t. I don’t know if that’s any better. Unless they miss. They could miss, right? Because they could be shooting right at Earth, but Earth is moving, isn’t it? Do you think that could happen, that they could just fly by?”  
    “Dunno.”  
    “I was listening on the radio, kiddo.” Trevor hated when she called him “kiddo.” It implied he was a kid, not her midnight lover as he’d often imagined, doing things he shouldn’t do while thinking of his father’s wife. “They don’t think so.”
    “Think what?” said Trevor.  
    “That they’re asteroids. Or meteors. Or … what else? Like a comet or something. Or Spacelab.” She looked over, and he could see a small, exhausted smile on her wide pink lips.  
    “What’s Spacelab?”  
    “Maybe it’s Skylab. Is it Skylab?”  
    Trevor shrugged. He had no idea what she was talking about. He kind of wished she’d stop talking. Or that he’d invited a friend to be in the car with them, as a buffer.  
    “Where’s Lila?”  
    “She’s in the park.”  
    “Why is she in the damned park?”  
    “Easy, tiger.”
    Tiger , worse than kiddo .  
    “Well, why is she?” he demanded. “I had to go to school, and she can just ditch?”  
    “Don’t worry about it. I’ll make sure she understands she can’t pull stuff like that. And besides, right now all that matters is … ”  
    “We’re going to the park?”  
    Piper nodded. A traffic jam loomed ahead, so she jockeyed around, heading down the next block. There was an abandoned cab to one side. Piper swerved into approaching traffic just long enough to get around.  
    “Yeah. I told her to meet us outside the museum. I think she’s with Raj.”  
    “Fucking hell.”  
    “Trevor!”  
    “Oh, so she can ditch school, a fleet of