Please write a thrilling science fictional story.
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let's pretend this is about two other people. Call them Ada and Jane. Ada was an overweight, sarcastic software engineer, fed up with people assuming that because she was black she must have dodged drug-dealers on the way to school. Jane waited tables in a Thai restaurant, the customers barely noticing her even when they placed their orders. But Ada noticed Jane, and ate at the restaurant every Saturday for three months before finally asking her out. Soon after, they moved in together, and everything was as close to perfect as anything ever is.
Being with Jane brought out Ada's paranoid, protective streak. She stockpiled food, water, batteries, and first aid supplies in the basement. She bought life insurance. She analyzed consumer safety reports before buying Jane a Volvo for her daily commute.
When the aliens first manifested, Ada bustled Jane down to the basement. When the diet of tuna fish and news reports palled, Jane suggested that they return upstairs since the aliens hadn't hurt anyone. They simply manifested out of empty air in pairs, lingered for a few minutes, maybe brushed a plump purple tentacle across someone's shoulder, then vanished again.
Ada liked Jane's optimistic, trusting nature, but she didn't share it. She suspected the aliens of planning a mass invasion. She imagined weapons smaller than a fingernail concealed in the folds of the aliens' corpulent purple bodies. She imagined a fleet of alien spaceships bombarding every major city. She imagined alien computer viruses infiltrating the internet. When no evidence of her fears emerged in the first few days, Jane talked her into leaving the basement.
For six more weeks, everything was nearly as close to perfect as it had been before.
Aliens manifested in thousands of places. They didn't make threats, nor offer gifts, nor ask questions. They didn't communicate at all until they recruited their first two humans: a thirteen-year-old boy from a Guatemalan village and a quiet-spoken older man from Hamburg.