"We Are Not Alone"

When Jack spoke the words, he did so as he looked outward in the direction of the window. When Sara moved him close to the window in his wheelchair, in the company of Jack’s doctor, Jack Redman stared upward and his eyes seemed unusually focused on the stars. That night also presented an unimpeded view and the stars seemed to sparkle everywhere, particularly those same two or three stars that held Jack’s attention. The specialist recorded his patient’s voice and there was no question that Jack said it over and over at a more rapid pace, once he was directly by the window.
Sara Redman was confused and the bewilderment of the specialist made her all the more unsteady. The words didn’t make any sense to her, but then again nothing in her life seemed to follow any rational anymore. The fact remained that Jack was going to make her a widow and the doctor said that the last CAT scan revealed that he only had perhaps, one more month to live and that was stretching it. There was no hope!
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Michael Price was an average student among his classmates, within his senior year in high school. At seventeen years old, he sometimes felt awkward, didn’t quite know what profession he wanted to enter into and wasn’t particularly popular with the young ladies. He was of average height and weight, lived alone with his divorced father, and rarely saw his mother, who had moved to the States.
Michael’s father and he lived in a Tudor style, four thousand square foot, single home in Sydney, Australia. He thought of his father as being very wealthy and kind, but that he spent far too much time at work. Michael couldn’t blame him though. He knew that his father was brilliant and not only were there a great deal of people who admired