Lost Generation

It started out as a sleep over. Finding out who they really were was a galactic adventure.

Contest Prompt

Write a story or poem from two different points of view, describing an adoptee discovering her biological family. Use Genealogy as one of your genres.

“Why would you think that? Emily moved away from her best friend. They’d been enjoying the sleepover until Beth got weird.

“I don’t think it. I know it. Look.” Beth reached under the edge of her mattress to pull out a newly embossed letter. “It proves I’m adopted. That’s a letter from my biological family. At least I think it is.”

“Wow. Let me read it. Where did you find it? How did you find it? Do your parents know?” Emily shut up when Beth began sobbing and lay back to pull a pillow over her head.

“What’s this ring thing that came with the letter?” Emily’s fingers tingled when she touched it. The ring began to hum. A holeograph of both Emily and Beth shivered into view above it. “What the?”

“Rub the ring with a finger.” Beth’s muffled voice whispered.

“DNA match. Subjects are sisters.” The ring’s voice rang with authority.

“I gave the ring my DNA when the letter arrived. It told me to.” Beth threw the pillow at the wall.

“This is creepy., You know that I’m adopted. You are too? We’re related?”

“Stop asking questions and read.”

“The subject has a unique, unidentified genetic structure confirmed to be extra terrestrial. More time will be required to determine the exact origin.”

“You’re an alien? I’m your sister? I’m an alien, too?”

Beth picked up the pillow and threw it at Emily. “Oh shut up. Do we tell our parents or what?”

“How did you get this letter?”

“It flew through my open bedroom window last night and landed on my face. It woke me up. I was having the strangest dream, I think the ring was reading my mind the last couple of nights, probing me. I’m sounding crazy, aren’t I?”

Emily hugged the pillow tight to her chest. “This is all happening too fast for me. I’m human, not a little green man. So are you.”

“Maybe our mom was abducted by a flying saucer, fell in love with an alien and had twins. Just guessing. Nothing else makes sense.”

“Then we should still be with her, out in a megalenic cloud somewhere.”

Both girls were stunned as a second letter flew in and hit Emily in the head. She ripped it open and silently read.

“I know.” she snapped her fingers. “We’ve got the code to our DNA in this letter. All we have to do is upload it to a genealogy site and we’ll find out about our family history.”

“These letters show someone or something wants us to know who we are. Why isn’t an alien flying saucer beaming us up and just telling us?”

“I bet it’s like people who raise wild birds try to keep them wild by not making them pets.”

“You think?”

“Maybe.” Beth got busy on the Internet, submitting their DNA to the Family Search site. The results came back within minutes.

“It says we don’t exist. Say’s the sample is off by a thread and wants us to correct it and resubmit.”

The two best friends stared at each other, then looked up at a shadow crossing the moon. The shadow grew as a humming vibration filled the air.

The ring spoke, “We wanted you prepared before a choice was given to you. You are old enough to decide if you want your questions answered or not.”

“Are there others like us? Why were we abandoned? Where is our mom?” Emily bit her tongue as the flying saucer opened up. The entrance beckoned.

“We’ll have to climb through the window. I’ll leave a note to our parents. Come on. We need to know.”

They walked on a ray of light leading back to the saucer. Inside, a shadowy figure with open arms reached to embrace them.the two letters floated in from behind.

“Time travel is answer,” The tall man stepping out of the shadows revealed characteristics of both girls. “You are being given the chance to see all of your family back to the beginning, if that is your desire. It is how my craft works. It is how I met your mother. She was chosen for me. I loved her before I even met her. Enough talk.”

“No. Tell me how you met our mother,” Emily asked. Beth nodded her head. The craft lurched as its vibrations grew stronger and the world disappeared from the port window they’d entered from.

“There is one perfect match in the universe for each of us. Time travel enables us to find that one. Once together, There is no breaking that union apart, except for one thing.”

“That’s so romantic,” Beth sighed.

“What’s the one thing? Emily asked.

“A Time warp glitch. It happened with you two shortly after you were born. It’s like a hiccup that landed you here on Earth. Not a bad place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live here. The ring took forever hunting and finding you.”

“So we’re going home?” Emily wanted to know. “Where is that? When is that? What about our parents back there?”

“One thing at a time. You’ve been up all night and need to rest. Put these rings on and your dreams will explain a lot,”

Beth and Emily held hands as they lay down, heads resting on pillows and rings tickling their fingers. Sleep and dreams beckoned.


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