"Mother! Xion!” I burst open the front door only to see an empty living room. I was expecting to see my brother sitting on the couch. He wasn't. Not in his bedroom, toilet, kitchen, in the shower, not even in my bedroom. Where on earth was he? I knew mother wouldn't be home since she usually comes home when I wake up the next day, but for even Xion to not be home, that was a bit strange.

Maybe he was out doing something with his school friends. I relaxed myself and sat on the worn-down sofa while trying to find if the remote was under the cushions. We don't live in a very awesome place like Mickey and Minnie do, we have a dining table with only two chairs but both the chairs are broken and then a couch with a tv standing in front of it. In the toilet we have a toilet but with no sink. Mother said that if we place a sink in the toilet, it would probably never be used since we have one in the kitchen. We didn't argue on the matter at all. In all 3 of our bedrooms there are beds… just only beds. Most of our light's don't work, and haven't actually worked for years. Our walls and ceilings are already peeled off. Mother said that we loved eating the walls as children, even though the walls were made of a sticky toxic alien glue called wiq, she had never tried to stop us.

I could hear a key rustling behind the door, it had to be Xion! I sprung up and leaped for the door. Both mother and Xion walked through the doorway with perplexed looks on their faces. Mother has these crazy glowy, twitching eyes whenever she's mad or scared. Whereas, Xion looks at everything (which is actually nothing).

"What's wrong? Where were you guys?” Mother started speaking Dofhhez, which I was never taught although Xion knows some of it (also Dofhhez is mother's mother language, most people speak Nollais in NOLLA but all the adults know or speak it). She looked like she was about to throw a chair (a broken one-because that's the only one we have) out the window. "Xion… what's wrong? Where were you guys when I went out?!”

"You went out!?! It's like you don't understand Nollais anymore! Do I have to beat some sense into you!” Mother said while throwing her bag onto the broken chair that is now no longer a chair because mother has officially broken it completely. 

"Come on relax, let's all sit down and talk about what is happening and what is going to happen?” said Xion, taking mother's bag off the floor and onto the table.

"They are going to kill us! They're going to kill us all!!” Mom said now growing taller and taller and having her hands on her head. It's going to end up like last time, half the population dead!"

I looked at Xion, who looked back at me. We had no idea what she was talking about. We both knew mother was always worried or perplexed but we had never seen her so scared that she would grow taller. I felt like she would end up going through the ceiling. It was quite a sight.

"Tell me what happened? Why does everyone look so worried? Was it the alarm from before? Tell me!" I said already growing more irritated, what did they see while they were out? Does it have to do something with the red sky?

"Mother and I went out to post a package to the headquarters, it was an important package that she was supposed to send a long time ago.” Xion started off.

"You mean we?” mother interrupted. Xion rolled his eyes and continued.

“It was when we had reached there that we saw people running and screaming, two space soldiers were holding huge blasters and shot at two people and-” He did a gulp looking at the floor. 

"They EXPLODED, just like that!” Mum said not even allowing Xion to finish. "But guess what, they're bits were flying around landing on different people. It- it was like a chemical reaction, because after that everyone else started exploding!”

I think my mind went kinda blank after what she said. Exploding aliens? Chemical reactions? Space soldiers shooting at innocent people? It all seemed like a stupid joke but I know that from the way they both were reacting this was no joke.