“Erm sorry about that.” I said to him, feeling like a complete idiot. “Must have been in a world of my own.”
I let go of him and stepped away, I had completely forgotten about my friend Jessica and sure enough I had walked out of the shop before she even chose her own dress. I turned to look for her and smiled nervously as she stood in the doorway of the dress shop. She smiled joyfully back at me and then walked over to me. I am sure she must have seen what happened between Danny and I. He just looked at me again for a moment, nodded then walked away, not quite sure what that was all about but I still really liked him a lot, I had avoided thinking about him during the last few months and everything had come flooding back to me. I watched him walk away, noticing he did have a slight look over his left shoulder at me and then the next moment he was gone and no longer in my eyesight.
“What just happened there?” my friend Jessica curiously asked me
“I do not understand, but whatever it was I loved every moment of it.”
She playfully nudged me and I playfully pushed her back then we carried on strolling through town linking arms, giggling away and just talking about him. It felt good to talk to her again about Danny and how much I still truly liked him, those feelings from when I first saw him the day we were all starting secondary school in year seven. Nobody knew nothing about his past as he had not gone to primary school with any of the pupils at secondary school. I can remember during the school holidays that year when a U.F.O had been spotted flying over our insignificant town, it was some kind of flying saucer like object hovering above like it was observing the area. I saw this flying object myself, as I did a late evening walk to and from the local shop and I could have sworn it hovered over me at one point, it was like whoever was inside it wanted to take a closer look at me. I remember there being a green illuminated light glowing underneath the object, the saucer itself was like a dark gun metal grey colour with red flashing lights round it. There was a loud humming sound as it hovered over me and since then I have longed to know who was inside of it. As I witnessed this alone, I had not shared my story with anyone apart from Jessica, I was thankful she believed me when I explain what I saw that night and how it looked. Since then Danny appeared on the scene starting secondary school the same time as myself, no one knew where he lived and he was always dropped off and picked up from school in a black Mercedes-Benz SUV with tinted out windows. I knew this as I walked past this vehicle one afternoon from school and just had to observe the vehicle in all its details. This mysterious side to him is part of the reason why I was so attracted to him. Deep down I thought he might have been one of the beings in the flying saucer that evening but I hoped he wasn’t. The more I thought and spoke to Jessica about this, the more I thought how would an inter-galactic relationship ever work and then again, my idea of all this must have been my teenage hormones going into overdrive. Everything I spoke of this to was Jessica, she listened and often told me to turn this fairy-tale imagination of mine into a story about Danny being an alien and me falling in love with him.
The week of the school dance was when I found out Danny was not from round here, in fact he was not of this world. The incident happened at the masquerade ball. The school hall had been decorated with silver and white decorations from glittery snowflakes to fake snow sprayed across the tables. At the far side of the hall was the DJ booth and scattered round the ceiling we huge flashing disco lights, the centre of the ceiling had a gigantic disco ball that added a sparkle effect round the room. I was one of the last to arrive at the ball, I came with Jessica but all I was bothered about is if Danny would be there.
He was sat at a table on his own in a corner away from everyone else but it was like he wanted to watch out for someone, I walked over to join him, leaving Jessica chatting to a couple of guys in our school year. She winked, stuck her tongue out, but gave me the thumbs up when she noticed I wanted to go over to him. I was feeling nervous but swallowing the lump in my throat I headed over in his direction, passing bythe unmanned drinks table, I picked up a cup fall of punch. Not thinking why the drinks table was unsupervised, I sipped a mouthful of punch. As I began to walk over to Danny, I felt a burning sensation in my throat all the way down to my stomach, my throat then closed up preventing me to breathe. I was suffocating, my eyes felt heavy and my head was spinning, thoughts of my life ending was all I could think about. Someone had poisoned me.
Feeling like there was no hope, Danny appeared by my side looking worried. He held my hand and supported my balance. He laid me down underneath the nearest table, feeling his hand stroke my cheek as he whispered something into my ear.
“Stay
