Jesper woke up, and with eyes smaller than a sleepy Chinese, he
noticed that his digital watch displayed 07.15. The surprise of finding
that time had entered the eight hour of the day, without Theresa
destroying his sleep made his eyes turn into circular objects.
However, the strong sunshine in the room made Jesper's eyes go back to
half-closed. He saw his mother, asleep in front of the bathroom
door and with her right hand as a fist leaning against the door. Jesper
walked to the bathroom door, and unlocked it from outside with one of
his nails. Then he carefully opened it, so carefully that he didn't
wake up his mother. He walked in, and noticed that he had no
toothbrush. He also noticed that he was fully dressed:
"Well, after wearing my night clothes a whole day, the day before
yesterday, I now have compensated that with sleeping in my ordinary
clothes. But, now I don't need to get dressed, I'm already dressed!
I'm already dressed for breakfast!"
He waked out of the bathroom all excited over not having to get
dressed or having to brush his teeth. When leaving the
bathroom, he slammed the door into Theresa's head. She woke up and
Jesper said:
"Now I'm done. You are free to use the bathroom"
Then he walked out of the hotel room, haunting for the free breakfast
that were included in the hotel room fee. However, when Jesper had
come to the end of the corridor, he stopped and realized that he had
forgotten why he was walking away from the hotel room. After a few
minutes of thinking he concluded that it was probably to get away
from his mother. So, he walked out of the hotel and just outside the
hotel entrance he noticed that all the persons around the
swimming-pool seemed to be upset. When a very suntanned man noticed
Jesper he pointed at him and said:
"There is the reason why the pool is almost empty, so we can't take
our morning dip. He splashed out the water yesterday!"
Then four men, upset by the empty pool and with a genetic inherent
to be violent, approached Jesper with evil grins.
At that precise moment Jesper
understood what his physician had meant when he had told Jesper that a
morning run could be good for his health.
So, Jesper ran, ran like he never had ran before. The four men with
the evil grins also decided to take a morning run, and followed
Jesper. A fantastic coincidence, that proved to be very lucky for
Jesper, was that all the five running men had the same ratio between
waist size and IQ. Furthermore, all men except Jesper had an IQ, above
average. So, in less that two blocks the four very fat men, had to
stop and gasp for air, while Jesper ran another ten blocks before he
dared to look around only to find that no one was chasing him.
He slowed down and realized that he just had saved the money a bus
trip to the utter of Suva would had cost.
As he stood there, glad over the saved money, he noticed that the
ground begun to vibrate.
Fearing an earthquake he turned around and noticed the vibration
was caused by the two impressing
figures of Tjoobee and Beetjoo who approached. When Beetjoo saw Jesper
he yelled:
"Jesper! You are alive??!!"
"I think so...", Jesper responded insecurely, like he was afraid that
there was something that he wasn't aware of.
"Good! Jesper, my friend, we are planning to leave, and go back home to
Bleep. After all that happened yesterday, we have realized that we are
not yet mentally prepared to stay on earth. So, now we have phoned
home, and some bleeplings are coming to get us."
"You phone home!? You phoned a planet in another solar system??
But how...?"
"How, could a message that can not travel faster than the speed of
light reach our home planet in less than a day, when the closest solar
system is many light-years away, you mean?", Beetjoo completed Jespers question.
Jesper, had meant to ask how the aliens knew the inter planetary access
code. Was it in the phone-book, or what? However, Jesper thought that
Beetjoo's question was much better so Jesper nodded, pretending that
he had meant to ask Beetjoo's intelligent question. Beetjoo
continued:
"The answer is: This is of course absolutely impossible! I'm amazed
that all humans, including an intelligent man like you Jesper, believe
that aliens must come from another solar system.
Do you really think that anyone is willing to travel hundreds of years
to see your simple little planet, and then hundreds of years back home
to tell about it. I certainly wouldn't do that! We come from the
planet Bleep, in this solar system!"
Even though Jesper didn't know the name of all the planets in the
solar system, he was pretty convinced that no one was called Bleep.
So, he said:
"It is not the first of April today!"
The aliens looked extremely puzzled after Jesper's last comment, even
if it indeed was a correct one. It wasn't the first of April today!
However, Beetjoo decided to ignore Jesper's comment, and continued:
"You have probably already figured out where Bleep is. Bleep has
exactly the same distance to the sun as the earth has. The only
difference is that Bleep is half an orbit after the earth."
"Before!", Tjoobee corrected.
"Yeah, well, this means that Bleep is always behind the sun, and
impossible to see from the earth. Actually, it wasn't until about 2000
years ago that we become aware of the existence of the earth.
This was after we had learned how to use the solar wind to bend light.
A few years later we tried to contact the earth to see if there were
any intelligent life there. We sent a strong light, that must have
looked like a really huge star for you. But, no one responded.
The strangest thing about all this is that your calendar seem
to start exactly the day we sent our light."
"Strange.", Jesper said and continued:
"Have your visit to the earth been a success. What was your mission on
earth?"
"Our mission was to locate and bring home the most intelligent
creature on earth."
"Have you found what you were looking for?"
"Yes we have!", Tjoobee and Beetjoo said in chorus, looking at
each other and blinking with one eye.
As they stood there a flying saucer came down from the
sky.
"Follow us into the spacecraft intelligent creature.", Beetjoo said to
Jesper.
"Me intelligent? Oh, you flatter me...", Jesper said turning red.
Jesper was very curious how a flying saucer looked like from the
inside. Now he had the chance to take a short look before the aliens
left. After the flying saucer had landed a door opened, and a rather
primitive wooden ladder, that seemed strong enough to carry an
elephant, came out of the door. Beetjoo, Tjoobee and Jesper climbed
onboard.