The sun was out but overcast and she sit on her bed ,she realize she had woken up early. She loved her work ,it was all she could do after abandoning school. She was never good at any school and she was lucky to get a job at the fast food. At first she was a cleaner and learnt the ins and outs of the cafe. She now was cooking or sometimes working on the front taking orders.

She rummaged her phone through her blankets. It wasn’t under the bed. She assumed it slipped through the sheets. She found it covered with blankets near the edge of her bed. She wanted to check any news about what was happening in the world. She knew the social media would a alert them on something because people were obsessed on taking pictures or video of anything interesting. That what people could do these days.

A big pentagon was found in the sky. It didn’t move ,it was positioned on one position. It was found in Washington DC ,America. It looked like a pyramid, It was seen at night in the moonless dark night. It was a strange triangle shaped object flying object as a onlooker describes it. She didn’t see the face of the one who took the video. It was described to have a diameter of 100 metresand it rotated at on its own axis at altitude of around 500metres. The government said nothing about this object but that they were investigating.

” They don’t want to scare their people,” she murmured and heard a loud echo ,her breathing was fast and notice the echo wasnmade by pedestrians chatting and laughing from outside. She peeked through the window and she clicked her tongue, irritated.

She noticed she had to bath quickly and leave for her work. Her mother stood by the window looking at the sky. It was unusual of her,she usually sipped tea after waking up and go to the main house and work.

” Mama ,go to work ….aren’t you?”she grumbled and quickly popped a cheese and tomato sandwich which was in a saucer on the table.

Her mother didn’t flinch,she was a robot . she nudged her then a growling sound came from nowhere. It sounded like it came near her mouth and she suspected she misheard. The fear in was misleading

The car that gave her free transport stopped at the gate, hooting and she rushed out but she was more worried about her mother who was still standing on the window. Her eyes looked at the sky troubled. Life looked still normal,maybe her Mom was just stressed and needed a quiet time.

Carl had his head out as if he was trying to escape from suffocating and Tayana was fiddling her smartphone. She alighted in the Golf GTI 8.

” Chichi ,today we have too many customers,it’s month end,” Carl grasped as he speed off in a fast note.

” We will get more tips,”Tayana chuckled rubbing her finger tips and they laughed.

As the Golf drew close to their cafe ,there was a big crowd standing in a field , suddenly Carl pulled the car out of the road.

” Won’t miss this,” Carl jumped out of the car quickly and joined the crowd. Tayana screamed with excitement and joined ..

Chichi dragged herself to get out of the car,she didn’t like any not this,she wanted to work. All that was in her mind was her mother. There was a dark shadow above them,Chichi only noticed as she came closer to the crowd . All sea of faces were cast on the sky. Chichi looked up and saw the big pyramid ,it looked like the one she saw on the video. The difference was that the pentagon was in daylight than the one on video which was seen at night.

” Jesus is coming back soon”

” This looks weird”

” It looks like a big spaceship….. The aliens have taken over the world. There is no place to hide”

“God is punishing us…. He send this to punish us”

” I saw this thing on Facebook …..,” she dug in her pockets and scrolled through her phone but the video was gone.

” Let’s go to work,”Carl dragged them by wrist,he found the scene unbelievable. The onlookers remained looking up,murmuring and ,scared. Some were petrified and trembling and shivering.

After lunch break ,her colleagues were acting strange ,they were ignorant and quiet maybe it was way of acting strong and hiding their true emotions. But she suspected they were behaving like her mother. The aliens had taken over ,she assumed but she could be wrong. The supervisor wasn’t present,Chich tried to get hold of him on his cellular to no success, but Patie and Tatyana were happy because they didn’t like his ordering around. She chose to remain in the shop when the colleagues ran to watch the pyramid again . She was scared of outside and wondered how she would go home. Carl and Tayana also acted strange in the car when they headed home. They were heavily in thoughts but Chichi knew they were different. A idea came in her mind that all of them were controlled by aliens but she discarded her thought . The night was dark but the pyramid was still on the same position,the crowd had dispersed. She wanted to say something but she was scared of her colleague.She wasn’t safe ,she wanted to jump out of the car. They looked like programmed robots.

” Chichi ,you need to be one of us ,” Tayana ‘s voice sounded like the aliens.

She thought she misheard and alighted out of the car, horrified look at her face. Where could she hide? Home felt heavy for her to enter. Her mother was gone and that Glenda was a alien