Ch. 02 Wolf Feather
I still could not believe it, even as I looked at the items upon the small table: my favorite bright red dildo with the various nubs all along the shaft, the pair of vibrating bullets, the tethered cuffs lined with fake fur, and the several discs in their innocent-looking cases.
Even stranger to me was that I was wearing a schoolgirl uniform for the first time since I had graduated from high school. While I was fortunate enough to still fit into those same clothes, I wore them not so that I could be taught, but so that I could teach him.
...about a subject never ever taught in school.
When I heard the knock at the door, I almost jumped out of my skin and just barely bit back a shriek of surprise. Once I willed my heart to begin beating again, I moved across the tiny apartment toward the door, the reality of what I was about to do settling in with each furtive step.
Kyrl stood at the door when I opened it, and as soon as he saw me, his eyes lit up like those of a young child receiving a birthday present. He was dressed rather nicely, casual yet certainly presentable to my parents.
...if they would have survived the war.
I invited the alien inside, and as soon as I closed the door, I realized that it was the first time I had ever truly been alone with a Zentraedi. Despite having been reduced to Human size, he was still quite strong, and could easily overpower me if he so chose.
"You are nervous, Elaine," he noted aloud. "Are you... scared of me?"
I had to think about that for a heartbeat. "No," I replied honestly, "but it is the first time that an... an alien has ever stepped into my apartment."
"Oh. Is that good?"
I smiled, hoping to reassure him -- and myself. "I think so," I said honestly. "Besides, what I have to show you is best not... shown in public, generally."
"Oh?" His eyes had been upon me the entire time -- he had not looked around the small apartment. He had yet to spot the items upon the table -- items which would certainly be foreign to him, coming from a culture which had purposely segregated the sexes at all times.
Yet, strangely, he was not looking at me like a young man alone with a given young woman for the first time. He was looking at me as if he could judge my character, my personality.
It was, in a word, weird.
"L-let me show you..." His eyes remained fixated upon me, but not in a lecherous way. He stood by the door as I moved across the small room to the table, and only then did I feel his eyes move off me and onto the "teaching aids."
"What are they?" Kyrl asked as he finally approached the table. "The discs I have seen before, or at least I recognize that type of casing as something which typically holds video discs. But the others are new to me."
"These are all... sex-related items."
"Oh? They bring the males and the females together? Is that why people go to that shop we say last night? to come together with the opposite sex?"
The Zentraedi's naΓ―vetΓ© was both endearing and frustrating. But as he looked from the objects on the table to me and back to the objects on the table, that was when I realized that this was essentially a First Contact type of situation.
After all, there was no known evidence -- at least amongst the civilian population -- that a Zentraedi male had yet had sex with a Human female. To my knowledge, Kyrl and I could engage in the first Zentraedi male-Human female coupling.
...but I highly doubted it would go that far.
"I think first I should show you one of the discs," I said, really more to myself than to my guest. I picked up the case at the top of the stack and handed it to him.
Kyrl looked with interest at the young woman on the cover. She was dressed in an angel costume, with a crooked halo digitally imposed above her head and a knowing smirk upon her face. "I have seen such images before," he noted, "on an advertising board at the church near my barracks, but why is her halo at such a steep angle?"
He was clearly observant -- but that made sense, since virtually everything about living amongst Humans would be new to him. "She is a 'fallen angel,'" I replied, "because she does what some consider to be naughty things on this disc."
"Naughty?"
"Bad things. Things of which many people do not approve."
"What bad things?"
"She has sex with a man who isn't her husband."
"Sex?"