"Bye Mommy, bye Daddy!" I said as I walked through the door.  Mommy looked up from her lab paper and waved me good-bye.  Daddy floated in her stasis tube.
    My name is Lily and I am 21 years old.  Mommy says that I would be seven if I was all human like her.  The reason I've grown so slow is because Daddy is something called an "Irken".  That's why she is green and short and has bug-eyes.  The daddies on TV aren't like that.  The daddies on TV aren't ladies either.
    I am going to school for the very first time today.  I will be joining the First grade class at St. Woodworth's Academy for Girls.  I hope I will make friends.  I powdered my face today so I wouldn't look as green, and I tucked my antennas behind my ears.  Mommy tried to brush my hair.  My hair is very unruly.  It never hangs shiny and straight as it should and it's this funny lilac colour too.  Mommy said no-one would notice.  No-one will notice my feet, either, because they are in shoes.  Woodworth's makes you wear a uniform.  I match it, with my grey eyes and purple hair.  Mommy says it will help me blend in.  Mommy is always wanting me to blend in.  I hope I don't blend in too much.  How can anyone make friends if no-one notices them?  A lorry horn shakes me from my thoughts.  I look to my watch, and am horrified by the time.  I hurriedly walk out and close the door behind me.  In my mad dash to the school, I stop looking where I'm going.  Smack.  I look up at the big iron gate of St. Woodworth's.  Hoping no-one noticed, I pull myself up and march into the school yard.  I hope school will be fun.