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One day, we learned that we were not alone in the universe. Within hours, the RrrRr had conquered us. We killed a handful of them with nukes and large aerosol bombs and such (along with a lot of our own people), but by the next day, an occupying force of 1.6 million or so RrrRr were in charge of the 7 billion or so remaining humans. They laughed at us when we argued it wasn't worth it to travel between the stars. Subjective time is very swift traveling between stars, a matter of a few months. Certainly, years pass in still time, but still time doesn't matter to a mobile force intent on conquering the universe.
The RrrRr were large and mammalian with lots of fur, very much like nine foot tall stocky big cats. I'll leave out the part of the story about how they humiliated and subjugated us humans, killing approximately 20% of us in the process. Suffice it to say that living under the RrrRr was not fun. Rick and I were trying to have a child before the invasion, but we stopped. We have no interest in bearing a slave for the RrrRr. They took away everybody's birth control, but Rick began pulling out.
Rick's career continued to advance, and he was offered a position in the occupying government, the kind of offer that can't be refused. It meant that he had to work long hours. But, he was saving human lives and making people's lives more bearable, so it was worth it.
One day, an alien crustacean showed up at my door. I was aware there were aliens other than the RrrRr wandering around performing various functions on Earth. This crustacean, or maybe it was a bug, of course it wasn't related to any Earth creature really. It was about three feet long or tall, and it generally walked on four of its eight legs. It looked like it had an exoskeleton. It's carapace was an iridescent rainbow color, just magnificent, especially in the sunlight. "You must be Jenny-Jennifer. I'm Cacatata. I'm here to clean," it said simply, and in perfect English, with a kind of Irish accent.
I quickly found out, and Rick called me, that we'd been assigned this critter to assist me with chores considering he was working so hard, kind of a goodwill gesture and gesture of prestige from the government. The critter would live with us, which was not really a problem. We had a couple of empty bedrooms in our house that would now never have kids in them. I found out Cacatata was basically a vegan. Vitamin supplements would be mailed to the house that would round out Cacatata's diet.
Cacatata was super efficient at housework and gardening and all that, and I didn't want to sit around, so I helped a lot too. Most days we would be done with everything only a couple of hours after Rick left for work unless we had a gardening project we wanted to do. I soon taught Cacatata how to drink wine (which got her tipsy) and play backgammon (which she was tremendously good at, but I still won sometimes) and take naps (which she loved).
I decided she was a girl after a while because of a conversation where she said she had eggs. Her sex things were obviously different from Earth animals, though.
One afternoon several weeks into our friendship, Rick had been gone on business for over a week, and I was going crazy. After sharing a bottle of wine, we had a fairly candid conversation about sex. She started the conversation by saying, "I understand everything about your sex," leaning back and taking a sip of her wine, "It's just like the Masters. A hole. Penetration. Yowling. You've got some eggs up there. Ricky-Rick's stuff is supposed to fertilize some of them. You have a litter. Correct?"
"Well, I suppose," I replied. "Why do you say yowling?"
"Well, I've heard you and Rick," she confided, "You yowl especially. His sound, when he makes one, is more of a grunt."
"Is that what it sounds like? Sorry," I said, blushing.
"I have very good hearing compared to humans, so I can't help it. I like your sounds. I feel happy when I hear them that two nice people are feeling so good," she said, "But I have a confession to make. I got very curious listening to your sounds. I must admit in this candid moment between us that..." she stopped here to wave her antennae and make a little peeping noise, "I peeked at you and Rick while you were mating once."
"You spied on us??"
"I was curious! The sounds were happy. I was a little sad. I got too curious. And you two were very distracted, of course. And I thought, what was the harm? But I've wanted to tell you I peeked," she said.
"What did you think?" I smiled, "Was it hot?"
"Knowing the two of you as I do, yes it was. It was sweet and hot," she admitted, "Watching you, I put an egg in myself."
"Is that, uh, sexy for you?"
"Yes, it's the way we play with ourselves sexually. We have climaxes much like humans do."
"Wow, yeah, okay," I said. I really didn't know what to say. We were so drunk and she was so cute about her explanation. Finally I said, "Okay, but you owe me, girl."