The Alien's name was 'Groz'. At least that's what James and Hana called him. And there's the first problem; 'he' or 'him' wasn't actually anatomically correct because Groz didn't display any gender specific body parts or functions at all. Groz wasn't both genders. He was neither! Groz did display a personality, as well as an incredible intellect and an affinity to human emotions, so to call Groz an 'it' would be very unkind and downright rude from a human viewpoint. 'He' would just have to do.
James and Hana met Groz in very unusual circumstances, which will be explained shortly. It was a meeting which would change each of their lives dramatically.
Including that of Groz.
James
James was 32. He had a job in a local welding shop which paid the bills and allowed for a small amount of entertainment, usually in the form of weekend clubbing and Sunday afternoon drink sessions. This lifestyle was not exactly magnetic stuff for female company which would lead to any long-term relationships, or prospective family futures. James did enjoy occasional encounters with females, but any real naked intimacy was restricted to the few times a year when he could afford a local escort. These were always advertised in the local papers and they were usually Asian of some sort. Fortunately for James, Asian women were part of his sexual fascinations.
He enjoyed the sex he had with them immensely. Their smooth ivory skin, longish dark hair and petite bodies with smallish tits were almost perfect. He fixated on their tits. They were mostly a c-cup, but perky, ending in large dark areola which supported stiff large dark nipples. He loved staring at, fondling, tweaking, gently pinching and pulling them. Most of all though, he loved licking and sucking them. From the responses he usually got from the ladies, he could say with some confidence that he was an expert at manipulating breasts to such an extent that he could almost make any escort orgasm just from that alone. This was no easy feat, and he eventually got a name for himself among the return girls. 'Odayaka Gigalo', they called him; the gentle gigolo. Unfortunately for James, the term 'gigolo' was not really correct. He always paid the girls. They never paid him, even though they received as much pleasure from the sex as he did.
Obviously, there weren't many Asian women in the small mid-western town where James lived. He just wasn't attracted to any of the local available women. Sure, they were easy to talk to, and his demeanour around them was always confident and polite. He just couldn't see himself forming a long-term commitment with someone he wasn't sexually attracted to.
Consequently, James was desperately lonely.
He often found himself asking the same old question, albeit after a bout of heavy drinking while sitting on a park bench in the middle of the forest which surrounded his town. "What will become of me and my life?" He always came up with terrific insightful answers while in this state, but for the life of him, he could never remember them the next day, probably because he was too busy nursing a hangover!
It was during one of these 'D and M' soul searching reflections, aided by a half-empty bottle of bourbon, on the usual park bench, in the usual forest that the rest of his life really started. Up until that point, he was really only marking time.
The falling light that James saw through the trees seemed very close and not like any of the usual meteorite atmospheric burn-ins that he had seen before. He was actually quite surprised that his alcohol-blurred eyes allowed him to spot where it seemed to land. Near him... just at the edge of the forest. But no sound of impact or any damage to the trees and ground at all. At first, he just stayed glued to the seat, staring at the round object, about the size of a large motorhome. The silver shield around it glimmered and wavered as if it was alive. It didn't look solid. Eventually James's mouth, mind and eyes networked and he said aloud, "What the fuck!"
His legs also eventually untangled themselves from alcohol-related paralysis and he ambled towards the weird object. "Run away, idiot!" his rational brain cells screamed, but they too were silenced by the power of bourbon. He was only dimly aware that he had ventured right up to the object and was reaching out to touch the liquid-like surface. No heat, no burning sensation, just a slight vibrating sensation, almost magnetic to his fingers. James had experienced a small electric shock before and this sensation reminded him of that, but to a lesser extent. "Shit. Is this thing going to fry me? Why do I feel so compelled to touch it?" he mused.