Nice Try Barry

"And in local news tonight. Residents have been reporting strange glowing lights in the night sky, prompting some locals to have concerns over a possible alien invasion. We go now to our corespondent in the field for more of the story."

"Barry! Did you leave the washer door shut again! " The grating voice of Barbara, Berry's wife, blared from the laundry room across the house.

"No!". Barry shouted back rolling his eyes and turned the volume on the TV up again.

"Bollocks! I've told you time and again the machine gets moldy if you don't air it out!" She nagged.

"Woman's got a voice like a blasted buzz saw" He mumbled to himself as he fumbled with the TV remote jamming his finger on the volume button repeatedly.

"My Betsy! The love of my life! They...took her!" The dirt covered face of an elderly bearded man wailed into the news reporters microphone.

"You're saying the aliens took your wife?" The reporter responded quizzically raising an eyebrow.

"What? No! My prized dairy queen! My Betsy! I saw them! I saw them take her!" He sobbed pointing to the empty cow pasture behind him.

"Barry! Where's the screw driver! I need it for the kitchen drawer. Your so called repair job was botched. The bloody thing is off its guides again and wont close properly." His wife caterwauled as she stomped her way towards the livingroom and stopped in the doorway and bunched her hands on her waist glaring at him. "Well Barry!"

Barry groaned and shifted in his chair to face her. "It's outside in the to shed where it always is Barbara!"

Barbara huffed and made her way to the front door.

"And this door is still squeaking. You said you'd fix it!"

Barry just swiveled back in his chair and went back to watching television hoping the irritant would go away.

"Nevermind! I'll bloody fix it my self. " She snarled abrasively and slammed the door behind her stepping outside into the darkness.

"I swear if you want something done right you need to do it yourself..." he could hear her whinging as she clomped her way across the dark field behind the house and toward the tool shed out by the barn.

He breathed a sigh of relief at the momentary silence of her absence and leaned back blissfully in his armchair. And then, Barry got a brilliant idea... literally.

Eyes wide he quickly got up and ran to the hallway closet and grabbed the brightest flashlight he had on the whole property.

*Gotta act quick! * He thought and dashed to the livingroom throwing it open and hung half his body out and began frantically flashing the torch on and off into the night sky.

"Please work". He pleaded as he searched the sky and continued flicking the light on and off.

And then he saw it. A lone blue star dislodged from its perch high over head and began an erratic descent towards his house.

"Barry! What are you doing with that torch! You imbecile that's not helping!" Barbara shouted now trudging her way back towards the house across the muddy field.

"Come on!!! Come on!!" Barry murmured and began to shake the torch around wildly, beckoning the approaching orb.

Suddenly Barbara was illuminated by an unearthly blinding light. Barry saw a flash and she was gone.

"It worked!" Barry giggled madly jumping up and down.

"Yeeeessss!!! The aliens took her! Yeeeesssssss!!!" He exclaimed and began to dance gleefully waddling side to side and spinning around as fast as his geriatric old legs would let him. "Thank you aliens!!! Thaaaaank youuuuuuu!"

His manic laughter filled the old house but was then cut short only a minute later as a glow permeated the yard out side his window. Barry glowered and ran back to the sill and looked out crestfallen.

"No! Why? .....Why!!!!" Barry yelled out the window shaking his fist in the air furiously as the ufo settled down briefly in the yard, its hatchway open. There in the doorway stood Barbara backlit by the spacecrafts interior lights yelling at a clearly annoyed short alien that was struggling to force her out of the craft. The bobble headed alien gave her a good shove from behind and finally expelled her back onto the field.

"No! Take her back!" Barry pleaded but the alien simply looked at him, shook its head once pitying him and slammed the hatchway shut. In a blink the ufo zipped away over the horizon and disappeared probably never to return to his particular household again.

Barry fell to his knees and began crying. "They brought her back." He said stunned. "....They brought her back."

The front door slammed open with Barbara framed in the center scowling at him. "BARRY!"

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Hello Hive people and members of the Freewrite Community! Just a short little, hopefully funny, story that popped into my head. I wrote it in one go over a ten minute period so apologies for any poor grammar.

Hope you guys enjoyed it.

Best,

-hidave

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