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The Missing Evening He was always punctual, at least for his own agenda. Each evening Jim would run through and through the forest just for fun. This summer night was no exception. The night had grown dark but he was not worried, for he knew the woods well. He sped crosswise an old beaten path and glided over rotten old fallen trees. The damp air was wonderful, he thought, because he could run and never get too hot, and if he kept running hed never get too cold. This forest was made mostly of pine trees, and the needles put a kick back in the young boys step and kept him cheerful. At the clearing he stopped, as he always did, and rested upon a spacious rock and observed the inky-black sky. This was his favorite spot, his secret spot. Stars shined far brighter here then they did in town, and Jim always felt like he could stay forever. He sighed, and pulled his arms behind his head and stretched out his legs. For some reason this night he was especially relaxed. Either scho ol letting out last workweek or just one of those giddy days, he didnt know. It is a wonderful day to be alive. After looking into the sky for a hardly a(prenominal) minutes he saw a falling star. It shimmered for merely a moment and went out. Then another came, and another, and after a dozen or so he sat up and beamed, awed by the glowing sky. It seemed that just above him there was a whole meteor shower, purely for his delight. They evil slap-up down and glowed longer then Jim had ever seen before. Soon the whole clearing was shining a bright white, like on Forth of July. The dozens became hundreds until in the end a large radiant circle seemed to be coming straight down above Jim. He let out a sharp bitty scream of excitement and sprang from the rock, twirling around and around singing to himself as he always did when he was really cheerful. It was another minute before he know that they werent meteors anymore, but actually the colorful bottom of a spaceship. He ste pped back slowly, alert but unafraid. Slowly the craft hovered toward the widest part of the clearing and fell to the earth.