Okay, that was definitely a little weird. Alex had said there was a secret to tell and now it was a secret to show. But Alex gamely hopped off of the truck and got back into the passenger's seat.

"All right, but if you tell me you're actually a little green man," he joked, "I'm going to have to call bullshit. I've seen all your bits up close, now." Aliens were pretty much the running joke in Roswell. Either you were a local and didn't believe in them, or you were a tourist and the locals took you for all you were worth. There wasn't a lot of in between.

But now he was getting nervous. He'd said yes and he meant it, but clearly whatever it is was really important to Michael. Like, really. The only thing he'd seen Michael this intent about was the time he got to see Michael play.