ET- Influence on Lance

  Lance smiled, feeling that he was finally getting somewhere in the world. With his face on the cover of Time, he could go straight from the fifth grade into the aerospace program and give advice on communicating with extraterrestrials, for wasn’t his head beeping constantly with just such messages?

  “He’s talking to me, Elliott, all the time. He likes me.”

  “I wonder why.”

  “He senses that I can be useful. Elliott—” Lance took Elliott by the sleeve. “Do you realize that we’re the most important people in this school, at this moment? Because we’re in touch.” Lance’s squinty eyes became more so, like a nocturnal squirrel of the flying variety, out in daylight.

  Elliott looked into those beady, watery eyes and had to admit—the glow of E.T. was there. He couldn’t kick Lance in the pants, much as he’d love to.

- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in His Adventure on Earth, chapter 13