Enough waiting

After what feels like an eternity sitting in the classroom just staring at the ceiling or the clock you hear talking outside the door that snapped you back to reality. You lean up in your seat as the door swings open and a middle-age woman with blonde hair and bright green eyes enters the room. The sound of her heels clicking is the only thing that fills the empty room with sound.She is holding a black folder with the initials J.D. written on the front in small print. She walks over to you and sits at the table placing the folder just out of arms reach from you.

“Well…you’re the one who saved the lives of 4 Raipads by opening the doors to a alien spaceship? I can’t tell if you’re incredibly dumb or incredibly naïve.” The agent smirks as she opens the file in front of her, scanning it for a second and looking back at you.

You don’t know what to make of this woman or what she is saying. You can feel yourself sweating nervously as you start to fiddle with your thumbs as you normally do and stressful/anxiety filled situations. It felt like being sent to the principal’soffice but 1000 times worse since you didn’t know what you didexactly.

“Listen…I just gotta know, am I in trouble?” You ask nervously with a dry mouth and fidgety fingers.

“That depends, did you run towards the wreck because you wanted to look like a hero for some girl you’ve been trying to impress? Or were you just trying to actually help someone out?” The woman glared at you with her green eyes as she leaned back in her seat, crossing her arms. You recognize that glare anywhere, that’s the ‘Tell me the truth or I’m kicking your ass” look.

You stared at the woman for a bit before swallowing what little saliva you had in your mouth. “I just acted, it wasn’t even a reflex. I just ran towards the wreck because I thought someone might be hurt.”

“And even if that wreck fell out of the sky? I find it very hard to believe that someone would willingly run towards danger of something they don’t understand.” The woman lean forward and opened the envelope just enough that you could make out a few words by nothing of significance.

“Like I said before, I just wanted to make sure that everyone was OK. I don’t care they’re human, alien, or whatever the hell you said before. Now, can you tell me what’s going on and why I was taking here?”

The woman sighed before looking at you up and down. She gave a smile before pulling out what looks like a business card. “Who I am…isnt important…what is important is that you have a lot of qualities that we need in our organization right now. We recruit certain people with traits that can help keep other people safe, even if they don’t know it.”

You take the card from the woman and stare at it before flipping it a few times front to back. The business card was plain except for just a couple of words “MEN IN BLACK”.

“We protect humanity from what it’s not ready to accept yet. Because there are some very smart people in this world, and there are some very dumb ones. Unfortunately, the dumb ones outnumber the smart ones and it makes doing our job very tricky. There are some things in the universe that we know for a fact, and one of those days we’re not alone. And another thing we do know is that humanity is not ready for what is out there. The real question is though, are you one of the smart ones or one of the dump ones?”