The next few months went on in the same way. I would spend my days in the lab under Lorchan's gaze and my nights in his arms. Sometimes I talked back just to have him be demanding and dominant with me. But most of the time we were tender and loving with each other and I felt myself growing more and more attached to him. We got to know each other very well. He had this sarcastic sense of humor but it wasn't mean just funny. We talked more about our planets and our lives there. He had been listening to recording to help him learn the English language and was picking it up rapidly. Mostly due to the fact that Mataisans can still hear and process everything while there are sleeping so he listened to recordings every night. In what seemed no time at all we began speaking exclusively in English without the aid of the translator. Except for those rare times we would argue about something insignificant and he would slam the translator down on his table so he could argue without having to think of the English words. But overall everything was great, although we weren't getting any closer to finding the source of the Mataisan sterility problem.
Toward the end of July I noticed that the overbearing arousal I had felt when I first met Lorchan was no longer present. Not that he didn't arouse me to the point of insanity, but my hormones were no longer ruling my body. I assumed this was because we were having sex regularly and if we were to stop it would continue.
One morning Lorchan and I were snuggling in bed, it was a Sunday so we didn't have work and we decided to just have a lazy day. We were just laying there when all of sudden I felt the immediate urge to vomit. I rushed from his bed into the bathroom slamming the door behind me and wretched into the toilet. Lorchan came in behind me and rubbed my back and I was so embarrassed from him seeing me squatting naked in his bathroom puking my guts out, not a pretty sight. When I finally lost everything in my stomach he handed me a damp wash cloth to wipe my face off with and then we got into the shower together. It seemed all of my nausea passed as soon as I puked, I thought it was strange but didn't really think about it. I kind of thought it might be a reaction to some Mataisan food I had eaten the night before.
I went through my day normally and made love to Lorchan later that night as always. But the next morning I repeated the process of vomiting but then feeling better. Lorchan was worried about me and wanted me to see a human doctor but I wasn't worried and assumed I had a stomach bug or something. Later that day I went back to my room to do laundry in the human compound. I couldn't remember where I had put my dryer sheets and was searching through bins under my bed when I came across a package of panty liners. And like that it just hit me. What had I been thinking? I had missed a period and hadn't noticed and I was due for another one in a few days. What did I expect to happen when having sex with someone with no protection? I guess I thought that because he was Mataisan I wouldn't get pregnant so easily but it had happened. I sat down of the floor leaning against my bed and just tried to breathe. I was pregnant. I was pregnant with a hybrid baby, the first hybrid baby that I was aware of. What would people say? Would the baby be okay? How was I supposed to finish school? How would Lorchan and I be together when he wasn't allowed in the real world? All of these thoughts and more were spinning through my head as I sat there on the verge of tears.
First things first, I thought to myself. I needed to find out for sure that I was pregnant. Everyone in the compound knew that I was with Lorchan so I didn't really want to tell anyone about my suspicions.
