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were going to buy his back-to-school supplies and soccer gear that afternoon, so we agreed to hold the meeting that night. I said I’d pass the word to Quincy and the Bogle twins.
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    It was a beautiful night. Not a cloud in the sky. Just one big, round moon. While I waited for the others to arrive at the gazebo, I stared up at the stars. The littlechill in the air said that fall was coming. Soon the leaves would start turning colors. The days were beginning to get noticeably shorter.
    The others were probably thinking I was going to scream and yell about how we had blown millions of dollars, but I had gotten over my anger. Even though we hadn’t gotten rich, the Get Rich Quick Club had accomplished a lot.
    â€œWe were a great team,” I began when everyone had arrived. “Quincy, we couldn’t have done it without you. You figured out how to make a UFO photo that would fool the world. We couldn’t have done it without Teddy or Eddie either. You were the ones who got us on TV and made us famous.”
    They beamed up at me like angels. I don’t think they ever fully realized exactly what we had done, or what had gone wrong.
    â€œAnd Rob, well, if it hadn’t been for you, we never would have come up with the crazy idea in the first place.”
    â€œWe couldn’t have done it without you either, Gina,” Rob replied. “You were the leader. None of thiswould have come together if we didn’t have you as our CEO.”
    It was true, and I appreciated that he said it.
    â€œWell.” I sighed, unlocking the metal box. “I guess we’d better divvy up the company assets.”
    There were fifteen dollars in the box. We paid back Quincy the $10.95 she had spent for film, plus the sixty cents she owed her dad for postage. That left $3.45. Rob divided that by five on the calculator from the metal box and came up with sixty-nine cents. Luckily, he had a lot of change in his pockets, so we changed some of the dollar bills, and I handed out the right number of coins to everyone. Then I tore up the last profit and loss statement and dropped it into the box.
    â€œWow!” The twins marveled as they examined the coins. To them, sixty-nine cents was just about as good as a million dollars.
    â€œWell, that’s that,” I said, gathering up my stapler, Scotch tape, and other office supplies that I had brought from home. I tore my photo of Bill Gates into little pieces.
    â€œI’m knackered, mates,” Quincy said. “Gotta gostack some zzzzs. See you in the soup!” 1
    The moment after she said that, there was a flash of bright light in the sky just above the horizon. I saw it out of the corner of my eye.
    â€œBy jingoes! What was that ?” Quincy asked.
    â€œIt must be a plane,” I said.
    â€œThat was no plane,” Rob insisted. “Planes can’t fly like that.”
    â€œMaybe it was a shooting star,” suggested Teddy.
    â€œI don’t think so,” Rob said.
    Then, right behind us, we saw it. It was a shiny metallic object, shaped sort of like an egg, but about the size of an elevator. It hovered over the field for a moment, and then it swooped down until it rested gently on the grass not more than twenty feet from where we were sitting.

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    I t was like nothing I had ever seen before. The egglike thing had no lights. We could see it only by the light of the moon. It didn’t make any noise. It had come down silently, as if it had cut off its engine and coasted the rest of the way.
    â€œStone the crows!” 1 Quincy whispered as we stared at the thing. “It’s…a UFO.”
    â€œEverybody stay calm,” I said, but I felt my teeth chattering, and the little hairs were standing up on my arms.
    â€œI’m scared,” Eddie said, huddling against his brother. “Maybe we should call nine-one-one.”
    â€œI gotta pee,” Teddy said.
    â€œThis UFO looks a lot