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She shrugged-off the goose bumps and agreed it must have been the open closet doors in the dark, which frightened her.

Adam now seemed fine so they both tucked him in and gave him a kiss on his forehead, then tipped-toed out of the room.

Open closet doors in a dark room can be scary to a child and could stimulate one’s imagination; however, that wasn’t what grabbed Adam’s attention. Still bothered, Adam continued to look toward the closet as the floating-shimmering outline of the two Entities slowly disappeared.

Feeling safe, Adam settled down and fell back asleep.

“I thought we were hidden from human view?” E-2 thought.

“We are!” thought E-1, as it waved its hand, adjusting the energy bubble that surrounded them.

“Then why was this child able to see us? Could his mother see us too? It seemed she could feel our presence!” E-2 thought.

“They should not be able to sense our presence again. The child is asleep now and is no longer concerned,” thought E-1.

“So this child is a direct result of our genetic engineering of the human species on this planet for the last 50,000 years?” E-2 thought,

“Yes! In fact there are millions that have been genetically engineered to our specifications,” E-1 thought, “however, this child is special.”

Selected from millions of other human species, Adam will lead a new race of humans.

“So now we can begin the implant process for this child?” thought E-2.

“No, not until the child is a little older his brain hasn’t completely developed yet. We’ll just need to be patient for now; however, there are others we can tend to in the meantime.” E-1 thought.

The Entities begin to visualize another location they wanted to be and instantly transported there, leaving Adam who was by this time, deep asleep. ...

Chapter – Two

T
he 1960s was an age of extreme cultural changes compared to the conservative fifties. The baby boomers born after World War II were coming of age. With all the radical changes going on during this period, the baby boomer generation experimented with everything, especially for one purpose, going against the grain of society. Nothing was boring about the sixties.

The Vietnam conflict, however, was something no one wanted to be involved with. Going to Vietnam to fight a war, against an enemy nobody knew anything about – let alone
cared
about – was something most teenage boys who turned 18 years old in the sixties tried to avoid.

Adam was fortunate enough to still be in high school and too young to be concerned about being drafted and sent off to Vietnam. His only concern was about having fun with his friends and finishing high school. After high school, he planned to go to college and then start his career; however, both seemed so far away that it was hard for even him to think about them.

Adam became slightly rebellious like all young adults were at his age; he always liked to do things his own way.

One day his parents walked by his room, and when they turned and looked in, they were both shocked at what they saw. His room had transformed into a weekend hippie-den, decorated with cheap Indian rugs, and black light posters thumbtacked on the walls. There was a black light turned on that made the posters come alive with almost a 3D visual animation effect and the aroma of sweet incense floated gently through the air. The most disturbing sight was the color Adam painted the walls, it was a midnight blue, however the paint did not completely cover the walls and the original white color showed through, which gave an impressionistic artistic effect. The style of music Adam now preferred - psychedelic music, sounded like irritating noise to his parents, however, it was what all the teenagers were listening to and now it was blaring at full volume from his room.

“ADAM! Turn down your music, and what on earth did you do to your room?” his mother said with an extreme shocked tone in her voice.

All proud of what he had done, he said, “I decorated it. I was tired of it looking like a twelve-year-old boy’s room.” To Adam it was a masterpiece; however, his parents were less than pleased.

“I cannot wait until you move out so I can paint the room a normal color again!” His father just shrugged his shoulders and walked away, but Adam laughed.

Adam and his best friend Scott always hung-out on weekends. They always made a point to go out and have fun with their friends.

Although they were both popular with the girls, neither one had a steady girlfriend. They were still growing up and didn’t have the confidence yet, but it didn’t stop them from talking about them.

One evening after Adam finished his homework, he and Scott were talking on the phone, planning their fun-filled weekend as always. “Did you see that new girl during lunch period?”

“Yeah, she was cute, I think she’s a sophomore” replied Scott. “Hey will your parents let you use their car this weekend? I used my parent’s car the last two weekends and I think they might say something if I ask them again.” said Adam.

“Yeah, I’m pretty sure they will.”

“Jim’s parents are going out of town for the weekend, so he’s having a party,” said Adam. Jim was a good friend of theirs.

“That’ll be crazy,” said Scott.

“Yeah, I hope he invites some girls, it’s not that fun when there’s no one but guys there.”

From the next room Adam heard his mother call him, “Adam!”

“Hang on Scott, my mother is calling me... Yes!”

“Did you finish your homework?” “Yes!”

“Your father and I are going to bed; please don’t stay up to late, you have school tomorrow.”

“I won’t Mom, goodnight.”

Looking at the clock Adam could see it was almost 10 PM. “Hey Scott, it’s late; I should get to bed.”

“Yeah, I need to get off the phone too, I’ll see you tomorrow,” replied Scott.

The weekend came and Adam and Scott went to Jim’s house for the party of the century. When they arrived, there were about 50 people already there. It looked like it was going to be a blast; they noticed there were girls everywhere. “Scott, this looks like it’s going to be a very interesting party.”

“Yes indeed, it sure does.” They immediately ran into Jim. “Hey Jim, where’s the beer,” asked Scott. “Out back, there’s a keg.” “Can you introduce us to some of these ladies,” asked Adam. “By all means, follow me gentlemen...”

Adam and Scott shyly followed Jim up to a couple of girls standing together. They looked like they could be a year or two older, and obviously a little more experienced than Adam and Scott. They wore tight blue jeans and low cut blouses; there were rings on almost every one of their fingers and bracelets on both wrists. Both were very pretty with blue eyes, light brown shoulder length hair, and they both looked slightly intoxicated.

“Hey there ladies, I’d like to introduce you to a couple of my best friends. This here is Adam and this is Scott.” They both smiled and said, “Hi Adam and Scott. I’m Laura and this is Mary.”

Being very inexperienced with girls and nervous, Adam didn’t know what to say except, “Hi!” However, Scott seemed a little more confident about how to handle the situation, “Can we get you two ladies a cold beer?”

They both giggled and said, “I thought you’d never ask.” The girls followed Adam and Scott out back where the beer keg was located.

As the evening progressed and more beer consumed, Adam and Scott settled into crazy conversations with the girls. The two girls kept whispering in each other’s ear and giggling, and then one of them asked them, “Have you two ever dropped LSD?”

Adam and Scott both stared with their mouths slightly opened. They didn’t know how to respond, both were very inexperienced and hardly drank beer, but not wanting the girls to think they were still children, they reluctantly said, “No, but we are dying to try it.”

“Follow us...” Adam and Scott followed the two girls to the bathroom and closed the door behind them. One of them opened her purse and produced a small folded piece of foil, she carefully unwrapped it. They all stood staring at what looked like three tiny orange colored pills; they were about the size of a split pea. She took one and roughly broke it into four smaller pieces. She then licked her finger and touched one of the pieces, placed it on her tongue and swallowed it. With a big smile on her face, she said, “Your turn.” They all did the same thing, before Adam and Scott knew it, they had just dropped LSD for the first time - there was no turning back now. The girls began to explain what they should expect from this LSD experience, however, Adam kept wondering to himself if this was a good thing to do.

The girls suggested they all leave, go to their apartment and trip out in private. Seeing that the party was quickly getting out of hand, both Scott and Adam could not have agreed more. Leaving the party was the last thing Adam remembered with any semblance of reality.

When they got to the apartment Adam was starting to hallucinate, his hearing started first. Everything he heard sounded like it was in slow motion and when he tried to focus on something, it would begin to melt before his eyes. At first, Adam resisted the effects of the LSD and the feeling of losing touch with reality, but with a little encouragement from Mary, he began to go with the flow... and learned to enjoy the effects, which were hard to describe. Adam found himself staring at his hands, wondering where they came from, and every time he waved them back and forth, they would leave beautiful trails of blue and red sparkles, that slowly evaporated before his eyes like smoke. Being amused with the trails his hands made, he continued waving them back and forth and in the distance he heard the sound of water dripping, the sound reverberated like an echo chamber. Each
dripping
sound made brightly colored flashes illuminate the room, and then slowly dissolve until Adam could recognize objects again. Each flash was a different color so vibrant that he could almost taste it – as least that’s what Adam thought he could do. He later realized it was just the blood pumping through his brain.

Adam found himself lying on the floor and when he looked up, he saw Mary wearing only a bra and panties standing over him, dancing. The perspective from his point-of-view made her look over 10 feet tall and all distorted. When she moved her arms, they seem to stretch out then spring back like a rubber band. Adam lay there watching this spectacle, being very amused. The sound of the music was finally something he recognized and sort of brought him back, or close to reality. The whole scene was so absurd that Adam broke out into an uncontrollable laughter.

Sitting up he looked around the room and saw some of the most beautiful black light posters that projected illuminated colors and shapes that stretched out in all directions. Adam looked over and saw Scott sitting on a couch with Laura laughing; it looked as if they were staring at a lava lamp that was slowly erupting on the coffee table, but he was not sure. Mary continued dancing by herself to the music. Again, Adam could not stop laughing, and then he heard Scott say, “Adam, are you having fun?” He slowly turned and looked at Scott and said, “I think so...” Adam stood up and looked down at his feet, he felt 10 feet tall and his arms seem to touch the ground. He marched in place and the rug under his feet felt like thick foam rubber. “Boing, boing, boing,” was the sound Adam heard as he marched in place and laughed. He looked around, carefully studying everything in the room. Objects looked like thin cardboard cutouts with strange, out of proportion angles.

In the corner of the room, Adam saw two mannequin heads with only slight indentations of where the eyes and mouth would be. They were very polished-looking, reflecting everything in the room. Adam saw strange characters flash on their faces and thought, “This is cool.” They seemed to be floating in midair. He turned to Mary and asked, “Are those heads floating?” Mary was in her own little world and did not respond. However, when he looked back they had vanished, and realized he must have been hallucinating. “Wow, that was pretty trippy...”

Hidden in their invisible bubble were E-1 and E-2.

“Adam could visualize us,” thought E-2.

“Adam’s mind is in an altered state” E-1 instantly adjusted the energy level of the bubble. “He will not remember seeing us,” thought E-1.

Adam took a moment to get a hold of himself, just to remember that this was all the effects of LSD and not real. Looking at his watch, Adam suddenly realized it was very early in the morning. “Scott, I hate to tell you this but it’s almost 3:30 AM.” Scott was shocked. They were having such a good time they didn’t want it to end, but their parents would be very angry if they never made it home. ...

By the grace of God, they both made it home without any incidents. Both Adam and Scott were laughing about their LSD experience when they pulled up in front of Adam’s house; he looked at Scott and said, “Wow, this was one crazy night.”

“Yes it was!”

“I am so tired. I’ll give you a call tomorrow.”

He quietly tipped-toed into his house and found his way to his bedroom and silently closed his bedroom door, then collapsed on his bed. Lying there, he continued to hallucinate, but could tell they were much less intense. He kept thinking about the two crazy girls they met and kept silently laughing about tripping on LSD. Slowly he fell asleep. ...

The next day was Sunday, and if it wasn’t for his mother he probably would have slept all day, but she finally woke him up at two in the afternoon.

“Adam, what time did you get in last night?” his mother asked.

Looking at his mother with a guilty grin, Adam said, “It wasn’t too late.”

She had a way of looking at Adam and you knew what she was thinking, “Please don’t make a habit of staying out so late again...” However, what she was really saying was, “...do this again and you will be grounded for life...”

Later that evening after dinner, Adam needed to finish some homework for school the next day. After he finished he called Scott to recap their crazy evening last night.

“Wow, what an interesting night,” said Adam.

“Yeah, you looked like you were having fun. I looked at you and you were marching in place like a little kid laughing hysterically,” said Scott.

“What made me almost wet my pants laughing was when Mary took her clothes off except for her bra and underwear and was doing some weird dance by herself,” said Adam.