You stare at the cola can. Nothing happens. It's only a can of soda, you tell yourself. The silence must be getting to you. You grab the cola from the six-pack, along with some chips and a slab of chocolate cake. Why not? You don't usually have a chance to pig out like this! Then you head for the family room. You flop down on the couch in front of the TV. No battle over the remote today! Where is everybody, anyway? you wonder again. You flip up the tab on the cola can to open it. Instantly you hear the fizzy gas escaping. PSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Whoa! The fizzing won't stop! You shove the can away from you, holding it away from your body. The can must have been shaken up. A fine wet spray shoots out all over you. Then a cloud of misty white gas begins escaping from the can. Your eyes widen as the cloud grows bigger and bigger. It fills the room like a giant mushroom cloud. Your mouth drops open in awe. Something else is coming out of the can! Something alive! ______________________________________ Go on to PAGE 3. |