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around me and imagined
whatever came out of the alien had to have landed nearby, but the
sound of my own heartbeat rang louder in my ears than the other
sounds around me.
    "Are you okay?" Jen yelled.
    I felt a warm hand pressed to my cheek and
expected to see Jen hovering over me, but when I opened my eyes, I
saw Ace's dark orbs staring into mine.

Chapter 4
     
    After the incident in the cafeteria, Ace was
off me and disappeared out of the room. I didn't even get a chance
to thank him. Even as Jen helped me up off the floor and walked me
toward the infirmary, I couldn't see Ace, but I could feel his
stare. He was like this constant shadow that watched my every move,
or maybe more like a guardian angel, I still wasn't sure. I wanted
desperately to talk to him, to ask him why he chose to save me. By
the time I was done at the infirmary, we were all ordered back to
our rooms for the night and I didn't get the chance to see him.
    When I walked into my dorm, I smiled to see
that Jen and I were sharing a room. Her contagious laughter had
kept me in a good mood while I was stuck in the infirmary, even
though my head was pounding. But my smile quickly disappeared when
I saw Riley scuffle out of the bathroom, mumbling something about
peeling linoleum. Three girls in a small room with one bathroom and
only one window that had bars secured across it wasn't exactly my
ideal living situation.
    It wasn’t enough that I had already been
almost killed, twice, by an alien, but then I had to end my day by
sharing a room with Riley! While Jen and I tried to get to sleep
early, Riley spent all night complaining about our beds being made
with cheap metal or that our room wasn’t much bigger than her old
dorm room at Penn State. I wanted to just cover my head with the
pillow and drown out her whiney voice.
    Sleeping wasn't much better. Since Riley took
over about half of the bedroom, I was squashed in the corner near
the bathroom with the squeaky metal, cot-like bed and my dresser
staring me right in the face. By the time I finally relaxed and
stopped worrying about my creaking bed, or that another alien might
come after me, it was already morning.
    “At least you survived day one. Think you can
handle day two?" I rolled over to see Jen already fully dressed and
staring down at me.
    I scrambled to grab my glasses off the
nightstand, hoping I didn’t sleep in and make myself late for my
second day. I squinted until the red lights of the digital clock
became clear.
    I groaned. “Jen, do you know that it’s only
six?"
    She smiled, way too perky for that early in
the morning. “I know and while you’ve been sleeping I’ve already
checked out cultures in the lab, gone for a run, and showered." She
beamed again. “Now get up so we can go to breakfast before you wake
up someone much less pleasant than me.”
    She threw off my blankets, making me realize
how cold the room was as I shivered in my t-shirt and shorts.
    “You better hop in the shower before you
freeze,” she sang as she headed toward her dresser.
    I sat up on the bed, running my fingers
through my hair that had become a big rat's nest in the middle of
the night. “Where’s Riley?”
    “She’s still in bed, but I’m definitely not
going to wake a sleeping beast." She covered her mouth to stifle
her giggle.
    I peered over to the other side of the room
to see Riley propped up on three large pillows with a sleep mask
over her face and giant headphones covering her ears. She looked
like her own little science experiment. I was sure perky Jen would
do any morning over an overly grumpy Riley. I stumbled out of bed
and got ready in record time, hoping not to wake up Riley, but she
didn’t even move from her pillow throne.
    “Are you finally ready, Alex?" Jen put her
hands on her hips, standing in the doorway to the bathroom just as
I finished putting my hair into a ponytail.
    “Yes, ma’am," I said, doing a small curtsey
in front of her.
    “Ha-ha, very funny.”
    We walked into