Crash-Landed in Love (He's Out of This World Book 1) by Piper Scott & Renee Fox

Author:Piper Scott & Renee Fox [Scott, Piper & Fox, Renee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

13

Al

The worst part of being human, Al decided, was crying.

He could not, for the life of him, figure out the purpose. For infants, perhaps, it was useful, as they had no other means of communication, but for grown adults it seemed pointless. He had witnessed humans crying on entertainment programs, but he’d always thought it was for dramatic effect—he’d had no idea that it was also an involuntary action.

And how insufferably involuntary it was.

It had been nearly a full day, and he had not stopped crying. His nose was stuffy, his eyes swollen and damp, his cheeks flushed red, and his head hurt. Why did crying cause humans’ heads to hurt? What was the evolutionary advantage? Wasn’t sadness horrible enough on its own without tears, snot, and headaches making it all so much worse?

It was getting to a point where he was considering reverting back to his real form just to make it stop, except Jude had instructed him to not ever do that when he was on Earth, even if he thought he was alone, just in case. He’d said he hadn’t wanted to risk Al getting hurt by having his secret get out, but honestly? Could Al really trust what Jude had to say anymore? More than that—did he care? After all, the only human to have hurt him thus far was Jude.

However, the answer, of course, was yes. Yes, he did care, quite ardently, and that was what made it all so awful. That was what made him cry and cry and cry.

This was, he realized, what humans meant by the term “broken heart.”

Al curled up into a tight ball on the living room couch. He had successfully managed to avoid Jude before he left to go to his classes for the day. He knew that he also should go to campus to work on his communication device, especially since current circumstances seemed to warrant a speedier-than-expected exit off the planet, but he simply couldn’t find the motivation between the bouts of tears. Instead, he had taken from the refrigerator an aerosol can that was labeled “whipped dessert topping” and a large bag of potato chips, and was currently squeezing globs of the whipped topping onto each chip and stuffing them into his mouth as he sobbed.

“Hey, buddy? You doin’ okay?” Ezra’s voice startled Al. Ezra was what Jude referred to as a “night owl” and was asleep most of the day, so Al had not mentally prepared himself to interact with him.

Al glanced over the back of the couch at Ezra, who was leaning against the doorframe to his room, arms crossed over the chest of his sleeveless jersey. Upon it was printed a single word: “SPORTS,” and below that was printed the number “69.”

“I feel all right, Ezra,” Al said, voice watery as he struggled to control his sobbing. Ezra raised an eyebrow and gave Al a good looking-over. Al considered his fetal position on the couch covered in potato chip crumbs and discerned that his lie had not been successful.

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