Charley and Lisa had headed to visit their best friend. It was a long cross-country trip—From Georgia to New Mexico, Clovis New Mexico to be exact. They couldn't believe that their best friend had gotten married straight out of high school and landed here. Here in the dust and the dirt. But then that's what happens when you marry a military man. Hillary and John had been stationed at the Air Force base out here in this hole in the wall town of Clovis.
The girls new all the jokes about the area: "Come and be abducted" the coffee cups at the local diner read. They laughed and joked about all the signs they'd seen along the way that touted Clovis as the biggest sight of all alien abductions and sightings in the world. But they didn't put any stock in it.
They'd had a good trip down. Teased the truckers, swam in the pool at every hotel that they stayed at. The girls had sung to the radio until the radio had gone out...they'd laughed at all the tiny little shacks that were covered in aluminum foil with alien keep out signs posted everywhere.
Their visit with Hillary was great. They'd been there just in time to see the baby arrive and she was as cute as anything they'd ever seen. But now after two weeks it was time to hit the long road home again. They figured they'd drive out of Clovis tonight and then be out of New Mexico by the end of the next day. They were about half way through Clovis when the car ran hot. The dry desert heat Charley theorized. It was only about 3 hours from daylight so the girls decided it was deserted out there and it would be safe to lock their doors and sleep until daylight, but they couldn't have been more wrong.
