Impulsivly, we all reached out and and began to feel her. "Damn she feels soft!" John said. "Her skins burning." Rowan added. "Yeah," I laughed, "Burn...ng with rage!" Sarah pulled away and looked back at me furiously, tears streaming down her face. I noted that they made her face look uniquely pretty as they flowed over her features that were contorted with a mixture of anger and embarrasment. She marched over to the CD player and turned it off. "Now," she demanded, "Give me the photos!"I just. The wake had been the night before, we had all cried even more. Seeing our beautiful Kaitlin alone there, sleeping quietly.A never ending sleep, where she wouldn't wake up the next morning and smile to Mike who was sleeping next to her.A never ending sleep where she would never wake up to face the sun and beauty of a new day.A never ending sleep where we could not wake her up. Where you couldn't turn back the hands of time, and change what had happened.I think that was the hardest part. Knowing. John and Kylie had removed their ball caps,but with their hair still in pony tails and the dark glasses, theylooked like any of the other teenage girls, if just a bit sunburnedfrom roaming around the sunny parks.The adults began applauding as the kids crossed the restaurant, whichwas dark enough to demand that Kylie and John remove their glasses.Ed stood as he applauded, "Here come the princesses," he said, probablytoo loudly for a quiet restaurant. In fact, he attracted enoughattention that. " That statement was met with loud applause, so I guess that we were welcome if we decided to move here.I did say that I would tell everyone else in our community that we would be welcome to move in, but we would respect the rights of those who had moved in ahead of us. To whet their appetites and to see just how cowed these people were, I also said that we needed people to man some of our flying machines, and we would welcome any who wanted to join us in our fight against the aliens.Someone.