Foretold by Carrie Ryan

was really all very upsetting and quite tasteless.
    “Would you please chill out?” I heard Kyle say to Amber. “This is not cool.”
    “You know what’s not cool?” Amber screamed back. “You saying you loved me when you were in love with
your best friend’s mom
the whole time!”
    Then things
really
got out of control. Both KC and Duncan jumped to their feet and began marching down the lawn toward Taylor’s car, looking perturbed. I didn’t know what to do, so I started running after the things that were blowing away, like the valentine. I was thinking that in the wrong hands, it could be quite embarrassing for Kyle.
    “And who’s
that
?” Amber shouted, pointing at me. “How many sluts do you have, anyway, Kyle?”
    I must say I’ve never in my life been called a slut. It was a tiny bit thrilling, but also quite embarrassing. I could feel myself turning bright red, and saw that Kyle had an outraged expression on his face. I will admit that this was also a bit thrilling.
    Excuse me, I forgot to ask, you won’t be making this video available for public viewing, will you? Oh, good, thank you.
    Well, before Kyle could say anything, I saw KC grab Duncan’s baseball bat and stalk up to Taylor’s car.
    “Hey,” KC said. “You ladies want to live?”
    I must say, mine wasn’t the only jaw that dropped. Amber’s did, too.
    “Are you
threatening
us, KC?” Amber asked. “You better cut it out, or you aren’t going to know what hit you.”
    “No,” KC said, angrier than I’ve ever seen her. She was still holding the baseball bat in the air. But she wasn’t looking at Amber. She was looking up. “In about ten seconds, if you don’t get out of that car,
you
aren’t going to know what’s hit you.”
    I looked up, following KC’s gaze.
    And I realized the light I’d been seeing that I’d been mistaking for the moon wasn’t the moon at all.
    It was a large spacecraft … its engines were what had been causing all the wind.
    And a second later, it landed directly on top of Taylor’s car.
Interview of KC Conrad
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    It was a pretty dramatic entrance, landing on Taylor’s dad’s car like that. I don’t mind admitting, I was scared. Someone could have been seriously hurt.
    But of course thanks to my warning, no one was. Taylor and Amber escaped just fine … not that you’d have known it from the way they carried on. Neither of them was the least bit grateful to me, either. It was like they thought he’d done it on purpose. Which I’m sure he didn’t. He wouldn’t want to draw that much attention to himself.
    Things had changed a lot since the last time he’d been there. Now ours wasn’t the only house in the middle of a bunch of empty lots. So he couldn’t just swoop in and out undetected, the way he had ten years ago. Dozens of other houses had sprung up all around ours.
    Which meant everyone in the whole neighborhood came out onto their front porch to see what the racket was when Taylor’s dad’s car got squashed … including my parents, Duncan’s mom and dad, the Garrisons, everyone in town, practically, who wasn’t already up and on their way over to my house because they’d read my blog entry, like you guys.
    And those of our neighbors who didn’t grab a cell phone and start filming what they were seeing used their phone to call the local news and tell them to get over there right away. It was an instant media frenzy.
    Which I’m sure is what made him switch on the force field. That’s what the big blue light was that came out from his ship and circled it … and us, Kyle, Radha, Duncan,and me. It totally freaked out my parents. Like they weren’t freaked out enough that there was a spaceship on the front lawn.
    “Don’t worry, kids! I called the base!” Dad yelled. He’d rushed down to the side of the ship. “General Henry and the rest of the boys are going to be here any minute. They’re bringing everything we’ve got. Whatever this