I began to feel slightly dizzy as it all got so intense. But Allecra was worse. She seemed to be tormented by the mounting guilt and shame. It was heartbreaking to see her like this.
"And what happened after that?" I tried to sound understanding. It wasn't exactly how she intended to do.
"My brother and sister had known this would happen, but they wanted me to go with it all the way," Allecra said. "After a while, Nattia forgave me, but she wasn't able to conceive a child either and we tried many times after that but nothing. Then Xenon decided it was time to move on. It was part of the plan all along. Once I reached puberty, we would go in search of my potential match. I didn't want to, but I had no choice except to leave Nattia behind."
CHAPTER 22
“If it troubles you so much, you can stop," I said as my hand was carding through her unkempt blonde lock. Before I knew it, I was holding Allecra's hunched form in my arms. She stayed quiet in my embrace for a while before she gently wrapped her arms around me.
"You must be disgusted by what I had done," she said in a grave voice. I shook my head.
"It's not entirely your fault. Yes, you have done a terrible thing, but I know you, you're not terrible. You deserve forgiveness," I said. Allecra pulled back and stared at me in discontent. She almost looked angry.
"Would you excuse all rapists in the world the same way?"
"They did it on purpose, but you didn't! It was under different influences."
"That doesn't justify my wrong doings, Nina," she retorted coldly. "I told you I'm no good."
"Your action has a cause of its own," I defended. "I don't know, but something tells me you're not the same like those subhumans. It's just not who you are."
Allecra stared at me for the longest moment. All the twists and turns of the conversation took their tolls. She looked confused, stunned, and hesitant as if she didn't know how to accept what I had said. Had the guilt always been taunting her conscience all these years? I bet it had.
The wind shifted through leaves and flower bushes around us. Allecra lowered her eyes to the ground. A frown still marred her perfect face.
"This is so strange," she said at last. "Speaking to you like this gave me an odd kind of relief. You didn't scream or became hysterical about any of it. I wonder if you're even human."
There was a thin smile on her lips, which relaxed me.
"You keep it all inside for too long," I said. Allecra stayed silent and then she looked up at me again. Her deep greenish blue eyes sparkled.
"Thank you, Nina," she said. "You are like a black hole absorbing all the torments and unease from me."
"You kind of did the same for me," I told her.
I didn't remember who started it, but the next thing we knew, our lips found each other. It was a soft slow kiss. It wasn't even inspired by heated passions but something more innocent.
When our mouths disconnected, I looked into her dazzling eyes. There was a slow spark of brightness in her irises. I could see the gold flecks spreading around the rings much clearer as they shone with gratitude.
"Thank you for bearing with me, Nina," she whispered.
"I want to tell you everything — all my dark, dirty secrets and past mistakes. Will you be alright to listen?" Allecra said.
"I have no objection if it frees both of us from the shadow of a doubt," I told her resolutely. "I was the one who asked you."
"Alright then," Allecra said with a solemn nod.
It took the whole evening for her to tell me about her sexual odyssey with the seven potentials. Even as a summary, it was still a long tale with many detours.
After they left Africa, Allecra and her two siblings traveled to the Middle East. They traveled through most part of Asia, Europe, Latin America and finally North America. The latter was where they were staying now.
Since the experience with Nattia, Allecra learned to distance herself. As her body matured, her desire and untamed need to mate began to take its course. At times, Allecra felt disgusted with her own body. She needed to release that pressure building inside of her. It was more difficult to stay celibate for a long period of time because the dull throb would only worsen.
That was how her 'sister' came to fix it. Xenon was brought up in Arzuria. She was given a task to assist Allecra in finding her Earthling match. But she was also there to take care of Allecra. Allecra was constantly in pain and refusing to have sex with random humans as suggested.
She told her sister she would only sleep with the one that would be the mother of her child. Of course, Allecra had attracted many daring humans, women and men alike. Yet it seemed she was only able to detect and feel attracted to female potentials.
"That's probably what my people had in mind when they created me," she said. "They were not confident that I could be the carrier of a human child so they turned it the other way around."
In this sense, we both agreed that Allecra was still a virgin with her femininity. And she was still unaccustomed to her new member. It had reached a point where she could hardly control it. That one time, Xenon decided to take the matter into her own hands, quite literally.
Allecra remembered how her sister pried her hands away. Regardless of the protest, Allecra was soon locked in a fascinating horror as her sister cradled her 'secret' gently in her hand, the way a doctor took a pulse. With Xenon's soft hand touching her, it felt like there was hot lava surging and springing up inside her body.
"You have to let me help you," her sister said. "Your body was genetically engineered to do this. It's no use fighting it. Let me, Allecra."
At that time, Allecra was crying. She was still an awkward teenager and part of her was still an embarrassed innocent girl. She watched her sister take her in her mouth. It was a strange thing to do, but it sure felt exceedingly incredible.
She despised the wicked yet delicious sensation for it rendered her speechless and vulnerable. But it quickly overrode every thought she harbored in her mind, and Allecra simply let go.
After that day, it had become a convenience to do it with Xenon whenever the need struck hard. Besides, she figured it was her sister and not a random stranger who would come to her with a hint of a sexual invitation. It was just a form of sisterly care, that was all there was to their sexual interactions.
Allecra also studied humans, especially woman anatomy and their behaviors. She discovered the amazing metamorphosis of breeding and the complexity of female psychology. She found out that her potential girls needed security, comfort, and trust. They often had trouble accepting her. Sometimes, the potentials were straight girls. They were unable to accept the fact that Allecra was also a girl. Yet it didn't take long for their hesitation to vanish. I guessed no straight girls who had seen Allecra would still continue being straight. She was born to awaken their sexuality. Her whole existence was made to intrigue them. It was encoded in her DNA.
Allecra had mastered her confident stare, the elegant grace, and all the qualities that women were instinctively attracted to. It melted their resistance and unleashed their hidden desire.
"Once a potential meets me, it's like two magnets drawing towards each other," Allecra told me. "But with you, it's different. You seemed to repel from me instead. Xenon had to plays her part in that."
"What does it have to do with her?" I asked.
"She would mentally prepare you to subconsciously adjust to my presence," she said. "You were an odd one, Nina. That's why Xenon got curious."
Then it was the story of the seven. Allecra met the second one in the Middle East. Her name was Samira.
"We disguised as tourists. I saw her for the first time in the lobby of a high-class hotel. Samira wasn't wrapped in an immaculate all-black robe and a veil like most women there. When her intense silver eyes lanced at me, it was like a lightning of passion. In that moment, the sexual energy instantly emanated between us. Soon Samira had developed a growing interest in me, although we did not speak a word to each other for a whole week."
One day
when the fate shoved them into the same elevator, Samira and the blond were mindful of each other. Then just out of the blue she gestured to Allecra's tattoos and asked in a sweet voice, ‘I touch?’ Allecra nodded and rolled up her sleeve higher. Samira ran her nimble fingers over the inked skin. Then all their desire was swept up as if by a sand storm. All resolve came undone and the dam broke.
"With just the slight gleam in her eyes, I understood that she wanted me," Allecra said.
She had made sure that this time; it was completely consensual between the two of them. But in the heat of passion, neither minded nor cared. No doubt, Allecra's secret was a shock, but nothing could hold the girl back anymore.
"She was quite amazed by her discovery of me," Allecra said almost coyly. "But she had no hesitation."
Samira was the first to introduce Allecra to contraception. For a while, they had sex with cautious protection.
"But Xenon insisted that we didn't have much time," she said. "So one night, I purposely forgot to bring a condom with me. Samira was irritated by it, but she was on the prowl for sex, and so we decided to do it anyway."
Allecra could feel the burst coming up, as the girl wanted her to pull out. Samira started begging the blonde not to release inside her, but it was too late. Allecra drew all of it so deep that even it wasn't what Samira wanted, the girl moaned loudly with pleasure and held the blonde tighter.
"I remember staring at her in hopeful fascination," Allecra said. "I thought it would work this time but sadly, it didn't."
~*~
Samira could not conceive even after their unprotected sex. But something else had evolved in their short-lived relationship. The potential girl grew more obsessive. In a way, it was the girl who seduced Allecra into having more sex.
"Not that she ever said or did anything overly seductive," Allecra tried to defend. "But by then she had understood my intention, yet she wasn't against the idea and even seemed eager to try, 'I would do everything for you, Allecra, I don't care anymore. Whatever it takes. We could go somewhere else far away and raise our children together,' Samira said to me while we were lying in bed. As much as I wanted it to happen, I just knew it was no fruition in the end."
So even the girl had opened her golden door and agreed to bear an heir for Allecra, it was pointless. Samira was finally forced to forget everything just like Nattia.
"I had to take away her memory of me," Allecra said with a sigh. "It was horrible for both of us, but that's the only way I can settle things with each of my unsuccessful Earthling match."
They left the Middle East and went to South East Asia. Allecra had come to realize that women behave differently from place to place. No wonder, she still felt confused. One thing she didn't understand very well was how women concealed their sexual desire. Theoretically, they surely must have the urges in them— that much she could tell. But when it came to how this desire manifested itself and what it was like, she was at a loss. In Asia, Allecra found the third potential human. The two met during their camping trip in the mountain.
Allecra had just turned fifteen when she found her. She was delighted to have found her. She had almost lost hope in finding any match after leaving Samira. The discovery of the new potential was like a blessing that filled her heart with warmth again.
"Her name is Rami," Allecra said in a nostalgic voice. "She was a tour guide on the mountain. She was the shyest girl I've ever met, but we instantly felt the bond. It was a December day in the southern part of a country called Cambodia. The mountain air was foggy and cold, but the sun would shine through the thin layer of clouds. Rami came to us like a blossomed flower. We camped out in the forest over the green hills. The girl took us to a pristine lake, which used to be the mouth of a dead volcano a long time ago. It looked like a bowl filled up with water. There were plenty of beautiful wildflowers I'd never seen and all kinds of orchids. Rami told me that flowers blossoming is how the earth smiles."
She introduced Allecra to various plants, trees and flowers, and strange earthly animals she had never seen before. Rami also told Allecra of the endangered species and said all of these might be gone someday.
"Her worries of the global warming and the future of this planet were palpable. She said the forest is the breath of the world. I told her that the same thing might have happened back where I came from. Nature just decided to get rid of all future intelligent life there."
Rami just looked at her strangely but she was too shy to ask anything at that time. But Allecra knew that the girl was drawn to her since the first day they met. Still, Rami wasn't showing any sign of such desire. They stayed on the mountain, watching sunrise and sunset together. They went hiking, bathing in the cold waterfall, and sitting around a bonfire under the stars. But nothing sparked until the last day of their trip that something happened.
That night was different from any other nights; Rami came to Allecra's tent. Allecra recalled the moment vividly.
"She told me she couldn't sleep, but the gleam in her eyes had an unmistakable stir of affection. I invited her inside for it was so cold and windy on the mountain."
The two of them lay there in the quiet night. The Earthling girl started telling her the tales and folklores she had never heard of. Allecra tried to listen while the wind softly rustled the canvas. Outside, a night owl hooted from the distant tree. But her mind was mostly occupied by Rami's sleeping form beside her.
"I do remember a strange tale she had told me," Allecra said. "It was a story of a princess who disguised as a man to follow her husband, who had gone to war. As she traveled through the forest, a Yaksani, an ogress, who saw the princess as a handsome young man, fell in love with her. The ogress abducted her to her cave and took the princess as her husband not knowing her captive was also a woman. They lived together for a while until a hermit took pity on the princess, who could not give the Yaksani any child. The hermit then placed the soul of a tiger into the ogress's womb, and she became pregnant and then gave birth to a very powerful son."
She had known many strange things from her planet, but people on Earth still managed to amaze her. There was more to the story, but the ending was lost in the wind as her body was yearning for something else. She vaguely remembered asking the girl if there were still a hermit guy who could do the same for her. Rami laughed and wondered if Allecra wanted an ogress to mother her child. It made them laugh. After they stopped, the two found themselves wrapped in each other's arms. They kissed and kissed. By then Allecra's body was on the verge of exploding.
Rami whispered to her, "I know what you are and how you want me, Allecra."
Some people were like that, Allecra realized. Their minds were so tolerant to bizarre things.
Slowly Allecra revealed her secret to Rami. The blonde girl braced herself for the scream of shock, but nothing came. There was only the constant wind blowing outside their tent.
"Rami stared at me in fascination for a long moment. Then she gingerly reached over to hold me in her hand, as if to see whether I am real," Allecra said with a slight blush on her cheeks. "I asked her if she was afraid of me, but the girl shook her head and said, 'You had come to me in my dream just like this.'."
That night was the first night they had sex together. Rami was no doubt a virgin. Allecra turned her face up and began to remove Rami's clothes one piece at a time with the gentlest touch she could manage. Then she took off her own. When Allecra held the girl close to her, she felt her trembling. She kissed until Rami regained her calm and the trembling stopped. The shy girl then mustered up the courage to cradle Allecra's stiff erection. And slowly, Allecra guided it inside her.
"Rami was warm, wet and inviting, yet when I went inside her, she tensed with a flinch," said Allecra. "I had gotten into a careless habit with condoms that I forgot about the pain it could have caused her." Allecra's voice seemed to be coming off from a far distance.
Allecra did make up for Rami's pain of losing her virginity though. She knew how to lengthen their climax and how to m
ake it start again. Sex had turned into something akin to an inborn talent for the blonde. She and her potential girl went at it with their wilder craving for each other's flesh.
It wasn't warm enough inside the tent, but after they were done, the two of them clung to each other's nakedness without a sense of cold.
"It was right before I fell asleep that Rami whispered to me, 'I will never do it with anyone else — never for the rest of my life.'"
Allecra let out a sigh.
"But no matter how many times we had joined our bodies, there was no result. Yet Rami was the first girl whom I didn't take away her memory before we left. She just accepted the coming and going of my existence."
They left the country and went straight to Japan.
"Why Japan?" Allecra said. "I was slowly falling into a depression and needed distractions."
She went on with her detailed journey.
She and Triton had the same obsession with cars and racing. There was a world tournament held in Tokyo that year so they decided to go unwind there for a while. Little did she know she would find another special Earthling.
"I saw Eriko in the crowd. She was cheering for her boyfriend. He was one of the top racers in the country."
Allecra was in the dilemma. She didn’t know whether to steal a stranger's girlfriend or leave Japan. The latter choice was strongly objected by the two siblings. Triton had befriended the boyfriend. And to make a long story short, Allecra had easily charmed her way into Eriko's heart after the end of the tournament.
"We had sex for the first time in her apartment," Allecra said with a bit of a sardonic chuckle. "Eriko was straightforward as she was originally straight. She did not beat around the bush. We had just come back from a party her boyfriend threw that night. She told me she wasn't feeling well and asked me to leave with her. Later, I realized her boyfriend had cheated on her with a car pinup model that she worked with. The two of us left together and went up to the rooftop. Tokyo was lit up at night. It was breathtaking to see all the lights that these people used to illuminate each of their little worlds. We sat on plastic chairs, drinking red wine straight from the bottle. Eriko asked me about love. I asked, ‘What is love?’ I was clueless of this. I had heard people talk about it and seen people in love, but it had never concerned me. Eriko explained to me her conception of love. ‘Let's say, I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake and you drop everything you are doing and run out to buy it for me. That is love.’ Allecra told her if that was love, Eriko would get diabetes. Eriko laughed and said, 'Are you even a normal girl, Allecra? There are times in a girl's life when something like that is incredibly important to her.'
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