Megan Greenfield was sitting outside her house praying her children would return. There is a nationwide search for her children. The police told her they will do everything they can to help. The other children abducted a few days ago were found alive and well. So she had hope that her children would be found alive. She didn’t know that her kids were not even on the planet.

I can’t believe it’s been a little over a week since we were brought to Saclaurilia. I was told that on Terra, it has only been about a day gone by, since we got here. It seems strange due to the laws of physics, or is that time and physics? Almost like Doctor Who in his TARDIS, except we don’t travel through time.

Well anyways, I have a feeling that mom is having a melt down, looking for us. If the thoughts of mine were correct, I believe the police are in the house talking to her. I turn on my computer (which only takes a second to load) and do a Google search on kidnapping on Terra. Yes, we have Google on Saclaurilia. Google may have been created on Terra, but the founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have ancestors from Saclaurilia.

Google results show recent news from Terra, including news from everywhere in space. If I wanted to, I could check out the planet Geolara, but I was told not to. The Goahirians could track it and think we were spying on them.

I got the news from Terra.

“AMBER ALERT: Two Children, Mikayla Greenfield Age 9 and Cory Greenfield Age 12, missing. Last heard from around 17:30 last night. If anyone knows anything about these two children, please call the Lake Barkley Police Department at 932-547-0911.

I now know mom is freaking out. I kind of feel sorry for her. She is my mommy for gosh sakes.

I am a little scared. I was told today Mikayla and I started our first day of school. When I was on Planet Terra, I was in middle school at seventh grade and only one year away from high school. Now I am back in elementary school in fourth grade.

The worst thing is, we are supposed to get a shot or something. It is to show who we are as a form of identification. They usually have young kindergarten children get it done, but since we were not born on this planet and just got here, we had to get it done. I was told it was going to be a shot with a needle. I believe it’s going to hurt. Mikayla isn’t scared. She is a brave girl. I for one have always been terrified of needles.

When we walk into the school, daddy brought us to the nurse's office. When I saw the nurse, I started crying.

“I don’t want to have a shot!” I sobbed.

“Do you believe this is a shot?” the nurse said, showing me a little object in her hand. They brought it to a hologram computer, and it was floating in the air. Daddy gave her some information, which I was confused. Then she took the little object and walked over to me.

“Don’t worry,” she calmly said. “This won’t hurt. She set it on my arm and watched it get absorbed into my skin.

“What was that?” I asked, still staring at my arm.

The principal of the school, Mr. Joe Banko came into the room.

“That, if you want to know, is your Electronic Identification Device or EID for short. You scan it when you go to each class, so the teacher knows you are here. If you are ever late, you will be marked tardy. It also is a GPS, in case you get lost. This world can change on you.”

“Yes, I kind of know that. I witnessed it change on me once,” I muttered. “By the way, what would happen if I was tardy?”

“If you are late more than three times, your parents will be called, in this case your father. Most kids don’t like that. If you were in middle school and high school, you would also be sent to after school detention. This is more of a practice for the big school.”

This kind of made me glad that I was in elementary again.

“Oh, I almost forgot, if you ever misbehave or slack off in class, the one in charge will scan your arm. It will let me know you have been a problem child, which you will have me to talk to.”

Mikayla had the object absorbed into her arm as well. We were registered as twin sisters. That made me a little upset. Yes, I know, I look like her. I even talk like her. The terrible thing is, I am starting to act like her.

Class had already started when Mikayla and I walked into the classroom. We scanned in, which made an announcement that we were tardy. Mr. Banco did an override on both of us. That made me glad. I wanted to have a good attendance. Mr. Banco introduced us.

“This is Mikayla and Courtney Greenfield, from Planet Terra,” he began.

The whole class gasped. I noticed that some children in the class didn’t look like us. To everyone on Terra, we would consider them mythical creatures.

“They were sent here as a protection from the Goahirians.”

Again, more gasps.

“Please treat them like everyone else from this planet, because this is their planet from now on.” He glanced at Mikayla and me, and then back at the class. “And if you don’t, you know what will happen?” He left the room.

Our teacher introduced herself, and then we found some seats in the back, right next to this creature that resembled a Hobbit. Thank you J.R.R. Tolkien. Now I can’t say it is one, because if I did, I might get in trouble for name calling. I want a perfect record. I will just have to ask him what kind of species he is later.

Today in class, we learned a little about outer space. It was fascinating. Mostly everyone knew the answers to the planets in our part of the system. I found out we had five planets. We also had two stars. I was glad we had two. But anyways, in this order of our largest star, we had Drora, a planet similar to Jupiter, but much smaller. Our planet, Saclaurilia, Teonus, the planet that looks like Saturn, Cucreon, which I think looks like an ginormous watermelon, and ChiChi, the city planet, I was told the Japanese came from. The smallest star was located a little ways from ChiChi. Which I believe they used, since they are farthest away from our star.

I knew I would have learned the names of all the planets some day, but I never knew it was going to be today. The day we started school. I guess they wanted us to know it, since we were new to this part of the galaxy.

After school, Mikayla and I spent playing outside. The school didn’t hand out homework. I was glad they didn’t. I wasn’t ready for it yet.

“How was your first day at school?” dad said when he came home from work.

“It was fine,” I said. “We learned the five planets,”

“Courtney almost got scanned,” Mikayla giggled.

I glanced at her in shock and anger. “Why did you tell.” I whined.

“Did you?” dad looked at me.

“It was an accident,” I pleaded. “I was talking about the Goahirians and where their planet was located. I didn’t know it was against the rules to speak about them in school.”

Dad chuckled. Then kissed me and Mikayla on the foreheads and stepped into the kitchen. We didn’t speak about it for the rest of the night. Instead, we ate dinner and watched a movie. This is something I miss doing, when it was just me, mommy and Mikayla. Because mommy never had time for us. She was too busy with whatever she was doing. But still, I miss her. I miss her smile. I miss her hugs.

Oh, why do I keep thinking about her?