A New Battle?

Continued from Spaghetti  

"Ali?" "Ali!"

Ali knew that voice, but couldn't place it.

"Grow away" she grumbled sleepily.

Alaina  touched Ali's lamp on her bedside table, or at least what worked like a lamp on Thrae.

Ali sat up. "What's a matter?" she asked, rubbing her eyes.

She looked at the dim room. Ali, Josh and Joe were standing by her bedside.

"We've come to take you home, Ali." Josh said.

Thoughts of her broken home, and her father she never even knew swirled in her head.

"What?"

In an instant she realized that they had been pretending! They weren't interested  in Christ, they had come to take her back to her grandfather's!

"I have a deal to make, guys." Ali said, going over and petting Caterwaller, to get him to wake up.

*******

"You're a great friend, Sara."

That thought kept hounding Sara Mills, as she lay staring at her ceiling. She knew she couldn't sleep. Not even reading Tears of a Dragon by Brian Davis on her new Kindle (or what they had like a kindle on Threa.) wouldn't help.

The front door slamming interrupted her thoughts. She went over to the window. Ali and Caterwaller stood battle-ready. As were Josh, Joe, Alaina and their sporemon. Something was going on. She had to tell her parents!



To be continued