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„Ugh, I have to do my homework now“ Rachel thought as she slumped into her favorite chair in front of her laptop. „I‘d better just have a few quick looks into Facebook  and Tumblr before I really start working” she thought and resumed her computer. She didn’t even turn off her computer anymore. She just left it in sleep mode when she was away. And even when she was away, she didn’t really was away, as she had Facebook and Tumblr apps on her mobile  and she had mobile internet. No way she is going to miss anything that’s happening online. A few hours and about a hundred rebloggs later, Rachel decided it was about time to hit the books as she heard her mom coming home. She didn’t want her to come up and start asking whether she finished or not. But she got hungry in the mean time, so she decided to make herself some mac’n’cheese. Carrying her plate upstairs she nearly fell as she blindly stepped on a block with a letter L on it.

“Destiel, damn it” she cursed and reminded herself she should clean up some time. Probably never. This time she satisfied herself by just kicking the block into a far corner, so she wouldn’t step on it again. When she came to her room her plate nearly dropped on the ground. There was a woman standing, pillaging through her drawers. She had a weird greenish brown color, but she somehow reminded her of Lara Croft. Probably because of her clothes.

“The key, the keeeey, I have to find the key!” she yelled.

“Um, excuse me?” – Rachel said.

“who are you?” she turned to her.

“My name is Rachel, who are you?” – she decided to put down her mac’n’cheese.

“I am princess Alessandra of Athius. And I need to find the key”

“The key? Listen, girl, if you are cosplaying for some kind of convention, you’re a bit too late for that. But I like the mask though.”

“Cosplaying for a convention? What does that mean?” Alessandra looked puzzled.

“Riiiight, as if I’m going to fall for this one”

“Fall…for this one? Why would you fall? Are you instable?”

“Um. What? No, I’m not instable. It’s an expression. Are you foreign or something?”

“Yes, I have come to this planet to search for the key of Alea. I’m sorry, it was accidentally sent here, we were trying to send it to our twin planet, but it got lost on the way. The coordinates might have been mixed up. But it says, that it landed here.”

“Aha, yeah, as if I’m going to believe that. Do you have some kind of ID?”

“ID? What might that be? Is my translator not working again?” – she scratched a bug on her arm and it wiggled its feet.

“Woah, what the hell is that?” Rachel jumped away.

“That’s my translator.”

“Ok. Weird. Ok, I’m still not sure if I believe you, but I’ll help you look. Hey, do you have a spaceship?”

“Spaceship?”

“How did you get here?”

“I used some portals. It’s so odd, your planet has just a few of them. I had to follow the way the key went. There were two possible routes, and the one I tried before was some kind of tower. But it was oddly built – leaning to one side” – Alessandra flipped through some papers.

“You were at the Pisa tower?” Rachel stood in awe.

“I guess if that’s what you call it”

“Wow, cool.” Rachel accidentally kicked her backpack and her books flowed out. One of the books opened and a shiny odd material key fell out. “Hey, is that it?” she asked after she picked it up.

“Yes!” Alessandra exclaimed while looking at it. “Thank you so much!”

“Don’t mention it. It’s still better than doing homework”

“Your help will not go unnoticed.” Alessandra turned and searched through her bag and took out a necklace. It was bright yellow with many symbols which looked like ancient runes.

“Wow, no, I couldn’t take it.”

“No no, you have to.”

Rachel took the necklace. “Uh, thanks?” By the time she looked back up, Alessandra was already gone.

“I have to sleep more” Rachel said to herself while shaking her head. She wondered how many people would believe her. She decided that probably none.

“Ugh, I should have taken a picture!” she said to herself.

“Honey, who are you talking to?” Rachel heard her mom’s voice.

“To an intergalactic alien called Alessandra! She gave me a beautiful necklace!” she shouted back.

“Very funny, now get on with your homework!”

Rachel smiled. Yeah, no one’s going to believe her. But she could push out a short story out of this. She sat to her laptop and opened a blank Word document.