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It was Wednesday morning, about 4:10, I had been called up for early morning duty due to last night's rainstorm, which not only flooded the supply room and multiple aisles of the paint sector, it had also knocked over 2 dozens of product and shelves. fortunately, I was only responsible for self restock. so I got up, got ready and walked to the bus stop and waited for the 5:00 bus, looking around I relaxed for a second and slid back into my mind, to only snap back when the bus arrived, I forgot what I began to remember. For the longest time, my mind has been a maze of events that only made me more confused, there it was, the memory I had attempted to recover, the blue shine of the Strato star cluster. I fell deeper into my seat, shaking, eyes wide open, my mind entered the same setting, I was in the middle of a galaxy; a field of asteroids and stars. Except for this time I was aware of the events that are to come in the next 30 seconds, just like last time, I saw Septh's "vehicle" it had the saw purple glow as before, I dreaded to come back to this memory. Then I remembered that I was also hit by a small rogue rock, and my heart dropped as I was immediately hit by it, which made me snap out of my deep memory recovery as the bus halted to a stop causing me to fly right into a pole on the bus. coincidentally, it was my stop so I swiftly got up and hopped off, I really wasn't the type to freak out loud while in an embarrassing situation but I almost screamed the second I got off.

The day went as planned me and the rest of the restock crew put the shelves back to their upright position and restocked them, I ended up staying past my shift but it's fine I only missed the first period. Anyway, I refuse to talk about school, we civilized people don't support authoritarian prisons like school. After school, I felt as fed up with life as I usually did so I went to cry out and eat out my feelings in my Local Tim Hortons because I'm a very sad Canadian. I ended up coming right before dinner, surprisingly mother didn't make chicken today, fantastic. If there was ever a good time to cry, that was in 10 seconds pronto! I ran to my room and cried for exactly 3.14 hours, a perfect "pi-cri" as I call it. But today I wasn't rejected or felt like a failure, I was complexed because I could get something out of my head, Septh. For a long time I dreaded having to talk to him again, I doubted that I should contact him, but I had also fear never seeing him again.

Yesterday I decided to ask my parents what I should do, I think total dismay is light.

"My life is slowly nosediving the longer I continue living my life like this," I said in a low monotone voice.

"Vertan, what the hell are you talking about?" questioned my father.

"When I explored the universe with Septh I felt better about-"

"Excuse me, who?" burst out my dad, in the most indiscrete and vexing voice

Immediately my mother responded in a dumbfounded manner "Graham, vertan is talking about the alien guy"

There was a long moment of silence

Me being flabbergasted by dad's painfully subtle confusion I ended the silence

"Anyway, I'm going to attempt to regain communication, goodnight."

Back when I and Septh zipped through the universe, he gave me a hexagonal looking block that was metallic with circuit and plating of gold. He said it was a signal booster, the best one in the outer void connection, so I guess it'll finally utilize it. Unfortunately, the input cable is not Type A plugs, I'm not surprised, the universe is big and expanding even bigger every second, only us stupid humans use 12 types of sockets and plugs. Well, I'll have to wire one in then.

After a load and a ton of Soldering, and almost burning my room down I finally got the block to the local electricity network and connected the router/model system through ethernet to the block. At first, I was scared that this thing either short circuit and explode, or kill my whole Wi-Fi system. Alien technology isn't really compatible in our little blue marble, as it has been established 3 years ago when our 5th alien encounter happened, the aliens were amused by how different one civilization can be from the rest of the Milky Way. But back to the Internet, to my surprise, both my cellular and Wi-Fi connection bars where on their 10th bar, it felt too good to be true, a connection booster made by aliens, works on earth? But it worked, so I began to set up a Universal Messaging System (UMS) the aliens from the 3rd encounter shared with us. The system was later safely stolen from the United States Government, by us Canadians, and they still don't know who it was; the United States of America really is seeing its downfall these days, they barely win wars now.

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