My Alien Girlfriend (Chapter 3)

I sat, watching her sleep on my bed. After that kiss, or knowledge transference thing she did, she had worn herself out completely. I had to help her onto my bed and now she was snoozing peacefully. Her body was filthy from being outside, and now my bed was covered in mud and water…but that was the least of my concerns at this point. The greatest concern I had now was what she had just learned from her.
Everything she had told him was true. There really was a planet far beyond the Milky Way that she called home, and she was lost and afraid. It was like that movie, E.T…although this alien was nothing like E.T. She was lovely to look at…stunning even. Despite her tail, her animal like legs, and her pointed ears, there was an exotic beauty to her…something that was so human and yet so otherworldly. Her face, though sleeping, was caught in a mixture of pain and fear…and yet she seemed so delicate. She was like a flower of some kind.
“What am I going to do with you?” I asked her. She slept on, oblivious to my question. Though I knew she could not answer, the question troubled me all the same. In reality, I couldn’t think of what I would do with her. I wanted to help her get back to her home planet, but I didn’t have the means to do that, and I didn’t know anyone who did. The best I could do was maybe give her a place to stay for now…but then what happens when my house mates come home at the end of the week? What do I tell them? How do I explain her? Could I hide her if necessary? “You’re turning out to be quite bit of trouble.” I whispered.

She suddenly bolted up a few moments later, looking around like a dog suddenly woken from slumber by a loud noise. She glanced around and then her eyes fell on me. I was seated at my desk, watching her every move.
“What happened?” She asked.
“You kissed me…and then you passed out.” I answered, blushing a little.
“Kissed? What is…a kiss?”
“Um…sorry, I meant ‘knowledge transference.’” I corrected.
“Oh. Yes…that is sometimes a side effect.” She admitted, turning to sit up in the bed. “What is this place?”
“It’s  house…where I live.”
“So it is your pul?” She offered.
“My…what?” I stared in confusion.
“The structure in which you live.” She explained.
“Well, we call it a house.” I couldn’t help but smile at the language difference between us. She spoke with an accent, but her english was clear for the most part. It astounded me just how much she had picked up from that one kiss…er…knowledge transference. However, it was clear she was still not very fluent as she was missing certain words and phrases I spoke.
“Oh…yes, I forget I am…not on my own planet.” She looked away sadly and her eyes fell upon the bed she was sitting on. I felt my heart ache for her.
“I guess you’re homesick?”
“Yes…I am.” She admitted. I wanted to say something comforting, but I had no words of comfort to offer. I didn’t know what to say to her.

“I believe you.” It was all I could say…all that I could admit to. She turned to face me and she forced a small grin.
“It is a start. Thank you, Adam.” She said with a bow. I stared in shock.
“How do you know my name?”
“I took more than your language from you in that knowledge transfer…I now know your name as well…and you know mine.”
“Yes…Yumitoral. I remember…but that’s a really long name.”
“And what would you call me, Adam?” She asked.
“How about just Yumi? Or Tora if you prefer.”
“Yumi is fine.” Yumi replied. She stood up and her tail swayed behind her. I could now take in her full appearance. Her tail swayed in the air, easily under her control. Her legs were digigrade and slender, but they looked powerful. She was only a little sorter than I was, and the more I stared at her, the more entranced I was. However, my trance was ended suddenly when I realized that she wasn’t wearing any clothes, and she still had anatomy similar to a human woman. Her body was completely exposed. I turned away quickly.

“Maybe you should put some clothes on?”
“Clothes?”
“Something to cover yourself!” I said quickly.
“You mean like the odd cloth you are fashioning? I thought they were some form of bandage from when we struggled in the rain outside.”
“N-no…um…we humans wear clothing over our bodies so that we don’t stand around naked!” I said, blushing.
“Why would you do this?” She asked in confusion. I suddenly realized a startling fact. In my Sunday School classes as a kid, I had learned that Adam and Eve were naked at first too, until they had sinned and then realized they were naked and covered themselves! Was it possible that this only applied to humans?
“So you don’t wear clothes!?”
“I am as I was the day I was born.” She said proudly. I groaned and scratched my head. I was dealing with the equivalent of a stubborn child. I could see a lot of difficulty on this issue in the roads ahead.
“Okay, enough about that for now…you need to get cleaned up. There’s a shower down th-”
“Shower?” She asked.
“It’s a…” I paused and I just stood speechless. Words failed me. I wasn’t used to talking to anyone like this. I took her hand and I lead her out of the room to the bathroom. I showed her the tub and then I pointed to the shower head. “Look, you turn this nob here and water comes out.” I turned the nob and instantly the familiar hiss of the water pouring out filled my ears. However, Yumi seemed less understanding and more…terrified.
“BAI-TAK!!! YOU COMMAND RAIN!?” She cried, falling backwards.
“No!” I said quickly, trying to calm her down. “It’s water pressure!”
“What!?”
“Look, it’s a system where water is pushed through that head and it cleans you!”
“It…it is safe?”
“Yes! Look.” I held out my hand under the water and let it fall all over me. She watched, and seeing that the water was not harming me, she seemed to settle down a little.
“So…I just…stand under it?” She asked.
“Yeah,” I grabbed the soap and a washcloth, “and then you use these to clean yourself off. Like being in the rain almost.”
“How does a white rock and a rag clean me? And how would I get clean in the rain?” She asked, curiosity etched across her face. I growled under my breathe.
“You’re hopeless, aren’t you?” I asked. I turned to the shower and set it to fill the bathtub instead. If she couldn’t shower, maybe a bath would be easier to understand.

“Okay, let’s try this…how do you clean yourself where you come from?”
“We swim in the Natuv-luyak.”
“I’m assuming that’s a body of water?”
“It is.” She giggled. “Did you pick up any of my language when I transferred knowledge?”
“Naw, just a lucky guess.” I sighed. “Okay, if you can’t shower then you can take a bath…it’s the same idea. You fill this tub up with water and you sit in it.” This time she did not back away in fear, but seemed interested in the water filling the tub.
“So I am to sit in this…tub?” She asked.
“Yeah, try it.” I offered. She hesitantly put her foot in and pulled it out quickly.
“TAK! FRIAT!” She cried.
“What’s wrong?”
“It is cold!” She complained. I stuck my hand in and raised an eyebrow. The water was lukewarm.
“Um…how hot is this…luyak thing?”
“Natuv-luyak.” She corrected. “It means, in your tongue, ‘bubbling lake.’” My eyes widened at this.
“Your lake is a hot spring!? It boils?”
“Yes!” She answered. I groaned and shook my head. No wonder this water was too cold.
“Gimme a minute, I’ll fix it.”

After about 20 minutes, I had drained the water in the tub and I was refilling it with scalding water. It was so hot, I could barely touch it without recoiling my hand. This had to be hot enough for her. While she waited, she merely wandered around the bathroom, staring at herself in the mirror and playing with her reflection like it was a new sight to her. I began to slowly piece together a few facts about her. It was clear that her species was much more adept to hotter temperatures than humans were if anything below boiling water was considered cold. I also realized that her race might not be as advanced as the aliens I’d heard of in movies. She was fascinated by mundaine things like mirrors, clothes, and bathtubs. I had to know more, but I didn’t want to have her kiss me again for the information. She had mentioned something about there being consequences for extended use…and I wasn’t interested in taking the chance. The room filled with steam from the bathwater and I finally stepped back for her to try it. She dipped her tail in and then sighed happily.
“Oh, this is much better!” She quickly stepped into the water and slowly eased herself into it. I couldn’t believe how well she was handling it. I could barely even touch that water! She let her tail hang over the side and she lay her head back against the side of the tub. She smiled and breathed slowly. I watched her for a moment and then shook my head, remembering that she was still a girl and needed privacy.
“Well, when you’re done just dry off and come find me in the living room…I’ll try to get you something to wear for a while. Here’s the soap.” I placed the soap and cloth on the side of the tub and stood to walk out.
“Wait, Adam! Ay mumtid” She cried. I stopped and turned to look at her.
“What?”
“How do I use these?” She asked, holding up the soap and cloth.
“Well, you rub the…um ‘rock’ into the rag and you rub the rag on your body.”
“Will you show me?” She asked. I didn’t move a muscle. Was Yumi asking me what I thought she was? Was she asking me to scrub her!?
“N-no I can’t!”
“Why?”
“Because you’re a girl and I’m a guy! Can’t you do it yourself?” I asked, blushing.
“I do not know what to do. Par? Please? Just this one time?” I looked at her innocent eyes and I saw no lust or shame behind them. To her, this was no different from asking me to get the mail for her. She saw no problems with this. I however was doing my best to keep my heart rate under control. I finally walked to her and took the soap and rag.

“Alright…just this once.” I agreed. I dipped the cloth in the water and began to lather it with the soap. “You lather it into the cloth like this until the cloth is all soapy, see?”
“How does a rock produce such bubbles and…”
“It’s a magic rock.” I said rolling my eyes.
“Really?”
“Just pay attention, please?” I snapped.
“Right, sorry.” She said, giggling a little. I tsked and leaned close to her.
“Next you…take the rag like this and you…well you scrub your body with it.” I took her arm and I began to rub the rag on her skin. Her skin was so smooth, it was shocking. Was this really what girls skin felt like…or was this just what her alien skin was like? Aside from what was on her head, I didn’t see any hair on her. She squealed and looked at the soap which was now on her arm.
“Bai, vil kur! It has moved to my arm now! Is that normal?!”
“It is. You want it on your body.” I continued to scrub her back and I even scrubbed her tail. I then handed it to her. “Now you do the rest.” She obeyed and ran the cloth all over her, making sure that no part of her body was left un lathered. When she was done she put the cloth down and sat still.
“What do I do next?” She asked.
“Rinse it off…get wet.”
“But I do not understand…” she muttered. “Why would you put that ‘soap’ on your body just to have it taken off later?” I buried my face in my hand and I groaned loudly.
“Just do it, please?” She shrugged her shoulders and slipped beneath the water, the soap washing off of her body, along with all the mud and scum that she had collected. When she resurfaced she looked at her skin in awe.
“The dirt…it is gone!” She picked up the soap and stared at it like she was holding a diamond. “Bai-tak…it truly is a magical cleaning stone.”
“Yeah…sure.” I smiled. I didn’t want to ruin her delusion, and I was too exhausted to explain it all to her. I pulled down a towel and held it out. “Here, dry yourself off with this. Simply rub it on the wet parts of your body…and DON’T ask me to show you. You can figure it out pretty quickly.” She stood up and stepped out of the water and began investigating the towel before rubbing it on her soaked body. I pulled the plug and watched the dirty water swirl away into the drain. As Yumi dried off, I stepped around her and out of the bathroom. I breathed a sigh of relief and appreciated the cool air on my body. I didn’t realize just how humid and hot it had been in that bathroom. A few moments later, Yumi walked out with the towel. She was no dry…well, dryer than she had been. She stared at me with a sweet smile.

“I feel…clean.” She said. “Forgive me for doubting your…bath, was it?”
“It’s alright.” I said. I tried my best to ignore her naked body and looked to the window as the rain continued to pound on the window. It was safe to assume no one was coming tonight, and no one could peek in and see her now. “So, what’s your plan, Yumi?”
“I wish to return home.” Yumi said, a serious look upon her face. I felt my upbeat spirit fall almost immediately. There was no way I could avoid this. She had to know the truth.
“Yumi, I…I don’t know how else to say this but…I can’t help you get home. No one can. Other than me, no one here even knows you and your home exist. Also, even if they did, we don’t have the technology to get you there. I’m sorry.” Yumi looked at me and smiled.
“It is fine, Adam…I was not going to ask you to take me home.”
“You weren’t?” I asked, shocked. She giggled and shook her head.
“No…my family will come to take me home to Tromad…I just do not know when they are coming.”