New Life

June 2033 - Oasis Springs, Nevada
Craig/Morris family: Tucker is 43, Cynthia is 42, Raven is 4

It's a hot, steamy summer in Oasis Springs and so Raven spends as much time as she can in her little blow up pool.

Tucker is spending his summer days in the laboratory at work. One day he finds someone new sitting at one of the computers. Tucker has never seen him before, and he's not dressed in a lab coat and protective glasses like everyone else.

"What are you doing here?" he asks.

"Just working," the guy says, trying to sound casual.

But Tucker doesn't accept that excuse. He does some investigating on this new guy, Jarvis Pulido, and cannot find any information on him. No record in the lab employee database, not even anything on the internet or the private databases Tucker can tap into.

And so he corners Jarvis, carrying the new radar he had recently created in the lab. If Jarvis is an ordinary human Earthling there will be no reaction to the rays.

But Jarvis isn't an ordinary human Earthling. Tucker knows this as soon as the rays hit him. Jarvis is frozen in place and Tucker isn't sure what to do. He's never met an alien that he knows is an alien. 

Madison Craig gasps when she finds her uncle with the frozen alien in the hall. "What have you done?" she asks.

"I stopped this guy from accessing our files here," Tucker says. "He's not an Earthling, and he was looking for information of some kind."

"What do we do now?" Madison asks. "What are we supposed to do with someone you think is an alien? And what if he's not?"

"He is," Tucker says confidently. "I'll go to the higher ups and let them know where to find him. They can do the questioning." Tucker didn't know what would happen with this alien when he was taken into custody. He didn't even want to think about what might happen.

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Cynthia loves her side job of flower arranging so much that she rents a small part of a building downtown and opens a flower shop. 

She's excited that first day when customers actually do show up and look at her arrangements. She never imagined herself wanting to be around a bunch of people like this, but this day has her excited and proud. 

Opening this little shop was one of the best decisions of her life, Cyntha tells herself when she closes the store that first day.

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So in my story, Madison knows that Anna and Dewey's daughter is an alien since she and Anna are best friends and tell each other everything. But Madison has kept quiet about it. Lily knows that Ethan and his family are descended from an alien abduction, and Caleb also knows because Emily has told him. But those are secrets no one talks about. 

But now Tucker has discovered that there is at least one alien walking around on Earth and that alien is being moved to the military base in Paradise City (Strangerville) to keep him in custody. What happens next I'll have to figure out as I play the game, lol.