Elaine Fagerman

"Is it an airplane?" I ask my two best friends, Taylor and Kaylee.
"What if it's a UFO?" Taylor thinks out loud.
Kaylee and I giggle in response.
It was, August fourth, the last free night before school started back again. We were jumping on the trampoline in my backyard when we saw something glimmering in the sky. Kaylee claimed to have not seen anything. She is an extremely optimistic girl. As for Taylor and I, we are very mysterious and mischievous.
"Surely it is just a plastic bag in the wind," Kaylee tries to reassure us.
Abby, my pesky puppy, howls at the neighboring canines. Kaylee shivers. "Oh, I'm sure that's what it is," I sarcastically respond.
"Maybe we should try and go to sleep," Taylor suggests.
"Yeah! Good idea," I reply.
I try to sleep, but the same thing stirs in my mind, What was that thing?
Time seems to fly. I glance down at my watch. It had only been ten minutes since we had stopped jumping. "Are y'all still awake?" I whispered in the still darkness.
They groan as a sign that they are still conscious. "WHOA!" Taylor exclaims.
Her finger pointed up high in the sky. I follow the direction that her finger is pointed. "That's weird! Wasn't that shine to the South earlier?" I wonder.
"Indeed it was," Taylor replies,"and it seems to appear bigger and brighter too."
A loud roar beats down on us as the light flies further and further and then back where it was to begin with. Speckled dots surrounded the larger light. "What is it?" Kaylee asks.
"I'm telling you, Its a UFO!!!" Taylor tries to convince us.
" Oh Taylor, I highly doubt that!" I jump into the conversation.
"I'm thirsty!" Taylor blurts out of the blue."I'm going to go get a drink."
"We'll wait here."
A few minutes later, Taylor runs out of the house screaming. "Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!!!" she bellows.
"What's the matter?" I ask.
"I just happened to go downstairs and check the news and as I stumbled to see the screen, it said that there was an airplane in the sky and that whoever were to take a picture and email it to the website would receive 10,000,000 dollars to their front door the next day!"
"Awesome!" Kaylee admires.
"Well..... What are you waiting for? Go get the camera!"
We took several pictures and emailed them to the user at the website.
The next morning, I woke up and I heard the doorbell faintly ring. Without hesitation, I slowly get up and answer the door. First, I looked through the window. Nobody there. I decided to check the door just in case. I stepped through the doorway. From nowhere, Kaylee and Taylor jump in front of me with bottles of silly string. Giving me a second to recover from the shock, they then plastered me with it. "Ha ha! We got you!" Taylor grins.
"Say what now?" I ask.
"Yep!"
"Ugh! Why?"
"It was a good joke! Ha ha!"
"But.. but.. but.. What was the light?
"A flashlight hanging from a tree branch with fishing line."
"The dots around it?"
"Lightning bugs I guess."
"Okay well what about the website?"
"Um.... I really don't know!"
"Hm.. You girls are so mean! Just kidding."
They eventually left and then school started up again. Same as ever. They didn't pull another prank on me again, that I know of.
Yet I still wonder what the loud roaring was....