A week passed on without disruptions at the Mifflin’s house. One peaceful morning at 6 a.m. as usual, Tom’s alarm rang. He woke, instinctively picked up his cell phone scratching his hair, and saw that he had a new SMS from himself.
“I sent my self a new message!”
He browsed on the screen:
Are you prepared to meet me? If so call your name out loud.
He was frightened and took his time to respond.
“Tom!” he expressed himself in a sunken voice, a few seconds later he called again. “Tom!” and got no response.
He was interrupted by something walking on the roof.
“Hey. They call me Phela from where I come from but my name is Aaro. But I cannot quiet say where I’m really from, what matters is that I’m here now.”
“What are you?” Tom asked.
Aaro jumped down the floor while Tom was still holding his phone next to his right hand trying to figure out what was going on with the prodigious approaching roach in his room.
“I’m the last evolution phase of my species that can be obtained by life at this stage. I was once an ordinary creature, I’m now a scientific born again.”
Frightened Tom paused for a while inspecting Aaro.
“Tom!” his mother called out. “Can you make it down here?”
“Okay friend it’s nice to meet you,”
“You’re not such a bad creature too man.”
Tom stood up from the bed while Aaro made way for him to go check on his mother. When Tom came back to his room ready to go to school, he found Aaro looking outside the window. Tom turned on the television which got Aaro’s attention.
“I have to get ready for school, you can search for channels you like to watch while I’m gone. And feel free to make yourself feel at home only in this room because my mother won’t stop freaking out if she sees you.”
The young man locked the heavy roach inside his room by itself.
“I guess young minds are easy to deal with in these situations,” Aaro took the remote and jumped on Tom’s bed. “For the first time I got to say it feels great to be me.”
He comfortably crossed his dangling, creepy limbs. Aaro was disturbed by a bang at the window, he took the shades off to go take a look, but saw nothing. On his way back another stone was thrown at the window, involuntarily he went back again.
Aaro finally unlocked the window to inspect the surface. On the eastern side of Aaro’s position, Captain Pain was standing on the far edge of the wall. From the west three ninjas jumped in, to show case their fighting skills inside the chamber. Aaro turned his head with the three warriors in action, Captain Pain stood at the window frame with his shadow staged exceedingly superior.
“What’s up?”
“So the hood has been good to you brother.” Captain Pain made his motionless leapfrogging as his gang laughed running around Tom’s room.
“No guys I’m still under cover. I just introduced myself to the young boy who is living here and so far it went well.”
Kevin and Donald were already standing at the tree next to Tom’s room.
“Did you hear what that big ugly rat without an eye had just said?” Kevin asked. The rats were making their normal shriek and Donald disapproved. They whistled a song to their flock to come take a look on what the new kid can do.
“How come other roaches we tried talking to cannot figure out what we are trying to say?” Captain Pain said.
“An evil scientist changed me,”
“Well, can he also change us too?” the rats steamed with excitement. Aaro took a deep breath with gazed stray.
“Yes, that scientist can change any animal in the world. It’s just that he is not a patient man.”
Outside, birds started talking loud about what Aaro has just said; the fat rat looked back at them with his gang.
“Can you hear what those birds are saying since they seem to follow whatever you say?” Aaro also looked outside.
“Yes, man. They are saying that they can hear every word I say. But you rats sound just like their young hungry chicks.” Captain Pain became furious.
“They see us every day hurting anything in our way, but still cannot respect Captain Pain!” he shouted and the birdflew away.
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Tell us what you think: Would you tell anyone if you were Tom?