A Somewhat Unscientific Story (8)

Chapter 5: The Truth Revealed What happened next, I'll remember for the rest of my life, because it was one of the funniest sights I've ever seen. The eggshell cracked with a 'crackling' sound, and a hand emerged from within. A hand covered in dirt, with a few leaves stuck to it. "Aaaaaah! Alien hand!!" The six of us screamed our lungs out. Ah-Fei's instant noodles spilled, Tie-Tou dropped his branch, Ah-Guei closed his eyes and chanted, "This isn't real, this isn't real," and Dr. grabbed his pen, ready to write his will. Then, that hand propped itself up on the eggshell, and a black, dirty head poked out from inside, letting out a huge yawn: "Haaaawwwn… Huh? What are you guys doing here?" That voice, we all knew it. "Ah… Ah-Mao?" Ah-Mao, a classmate from the next class, lived in Frog Village, and was known throughout the village as the "Master of Dodging Cram School." "How did you get inside an egg?!" I yelled. "Oh," Ah-Mao rubbed his eyes, covered in mud from head to toe. "Yesterday, my mom was going to take me to math cram school, so I said I had a stomachache and needed to go home first, and then I ran off to hide in the mountains. I happened to see the village chief bringing the giant festival egg to dry in the sun here, so I crawled inside and took a nap. It was dark and cool inside, and I had my phone." "Phone…" Xiao-Mei pointed to the phone inside the egg. "So that blue light…" "My phone has a call-flash light. My mom called 183 times, and it just kept flashing. I had it on silent, but the vibration didn't wake me up. I was sleeping too soundly." (To be continued)