The Little Brother

5/21/33

Dear Diary,

This is how my day went. Something like me screaming-

"STAY OUT OF MY ROOM YOU WORM!!!"

He deserved it.

Little brothers are the worst.

At least mine is.

I'm 17, and he is 11, now can you see why he's so annoying? I really don't know what my parents were thinking, having another child. Kevin is a little brat by the way. He is always being gross, he messes with my things, steals my candy, tries to pull all these stupid pranks with his dumb group of friends... and my parents just let him get away with it. I can't wait till next year when I go to college, and can be away from this psycho family!!!

I'm going to bed now.

5/22/33

Dear Diary,

I had the craziest dream last night. My brother and I were abducted by aliens, and they took us on their ship. It was iridescent, and was continuously changing form, almost like a fluid motion. The aliens were strange creatures, pale green skin, tall and thin frames. Their eyes were huge and black, but when you got closer to them, they seemed to be reflecting back galaxies.

They ran all these tests on us, took samples of our hair and blood, put us in this weird room that kept changing colors. Without speaking out loud, I heard them tell me we were chosen to be their hosts and then I woke up. I must have fallen out of my bed because I woke up on the floor with a scrape on my head. It was super creepy. Too bad they didn't just abduct him then take him away!

I have to get ready for school now.

5/23/33

Ok so Kevin is acting super bizzare since yesterday. He didn't touch his breakfast or dinner, he's barely said a word to anyone, and not once has he thrown a spitball at me. Something is wrong here!!!

I had another weird dream again. This time I was standing in front of a large wall that had many different sized and colored portals. All of them spinning in different directions. When you looked in one it was like looking onto space. I didn't know why, but I felt urged to pick one and go through, like it was some kind of test.

There was a really pretty deep blue and purple one that sparkled light a clear nights sky, that was the one.

Just as I was going to walk through it, I heard my brother scream out my name. It spooked me badly enough that I woke up. I wonder what was on the other side though, hopefully I can continue this dream tonight!

5/24/33

Dear Diary,

So I think something is wrong with me. I had another dream of the ship that took me and Kevin. This time I feel like I wasn't supposed to be there, because when my brother and the alien noticed me, they looked surprised, almost angry. Then I woke right up. It was weird though, my brother and the alien were like, communicating in a language that I couldn't even understand.

I just got done with breakfast and now I know something is really wrong with Kevin. He looks sick. He is pale, has purple bags under his eyes, and wait, he has a scrape on his head too? That's got to be a coincidence right?

Anyways, I ask the little booger where the scrape came from, and he just looks at me and raises his finger to his mouth, as if to tell me to be quiet.

Something was weird about his eyes.

Gotta go to school.

5/24/33

Dear Diary,

I just got home from school to find my parents in a panic. My brother passed out in his last class at school, and they just got him home. They are trying to decide if he should go to the hospital. I think

5/26/33

Dear Diary,

I don't even know if I should write this, because if anyone finds it, they are going to think I'm freaking crazy! Maybe I am crazy...

No I'm not. I know what I saw. They are real.

Last night I passed by my brothers door and I froze because I noticed something totally weird. My brother was standing very still, but his eyes were moving from side to side, and then I heard it. Not in my ears, but in my head, he was speaking the same language as he was from the night in my dream.

My stomach feels sick.

8/14/33

Dear Diary,

He isn't my brother. Not anymore. They took him, I don't know how or where, but this thing in his body is not Kevin.

They want to take me too. I guess they don't have me already because I didn't jump in the portal. Was my brother already dead by then? Was that him screaming somehow to save me from the same fate?

It doesn't really matter anymore. Becuase the new Kevin spoke to me last night. He told me it's time to go into the portal, and that if I don't they will take my parents too. Guess I have to do it. This will be the last thing I write to you.

Dear new Diary,

Well I don't know how much time has passed, as time is calculated differently here, and I'm still learning all the customs. I went through the portal though, and ended up here. Where is here? An entirely different star system apparently. I was taken by a very different alien to the one who was with my brother, I guess because he chose a different portal.

The alien explained to me that we were days away from a mass human extinction event, and some species of aliens love the human race, and didn't want to see us gone forever. So the star systems came together to collect the children of earth and distribute them amongst the different star systems. So Kevin is ok after all, he was just a hollow shell version of himself when I saw him cause he'd already left through his portal, I don't think I'll see him again though. And my parents are now dead, that's a bummer.

They have a similar system for children in their government as Earth did, a bit more advanced, and I'm now stuck in it, waiting to see who my new alien family will be.

I just hope I don't get stuck with another little brother.