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"It sucks going unnoticed no matter what I do," ten-year-old Stephanie muttered, lying on her back on the thin bed in her bedroom, on top of the blanket, her arms spread but her legs raised vertically, her feet moving in the air as if she intended to kick some invisible punching bag suspended above her.
She smiled when a gentle hand petted her hair in a comforting fashion.
"You don't go unnoticed," the low albeit soft voice whispered. "You are like a little sun. My little sun. You... radiate."
Steph giggled, her bright optimistic temper allowing her to go from a 'down mood' to cheerfulness in record time thanks to her alien bestie's compliments.
Eddie, as she renamed her extraterrestrial, bonded with her one night he oozed from... the body of one daddy's friends, passed out drunk on the couch in the living room. She hates when her parents have dubious acquaintances over. That night however... she grew curious, silently walked down the stairs toward the being.
Not scared in the slightest, Stephie knelt in front of the pool of oily black-and-green substance.
Best decision ever: the injured, weakened symbiote who desperately needed a compatible host to recover his strength and the lonely child in search of a friend became a complicit, inseparable duo.
One day, they'll get their occasion to shine.