***
Ann had just seen the guy walk out of the rest rooms. OMG, he was gorgeous with a capital G, she thought. She hadn’t seen him go in but hay, it’s a free world right. She told herself grinning. Simply drop dead gorgeous. Amazingly tall and muscular and big, real big, riding that bad boy biker look. He must be a model, she reasoned, worked out a lot but those features, defined and bordered on beautiful in a manly way and that hair, wow, any women would die for it. He carried himself confidently. This guy knew how to live. Maybe he was a model part time and a soldier of some kind with lots of yummy skills, she mused. Ann’s mind was going into overdrive.
“Clare, check this out”. Ann elbowed Clare and nodded in the new guy’s direction. Clare’s mouth dropped open.
“Halloooo” Ann whispered licking her lips. The new guy appeared distracted, he’s attention over at the bar. Ann nudged Clare with a wicked smile.
“Dibs. Let’s go”.
“Hello, can I help you, I’d like to be of help to you” A female had walked right into his path. Tah stopped abruptly and looked around at the voice. He’d only taken a few steps into the bar when halted by two females.
“I’d really like to help myself to you too”. Smiled the second one. Clearly both had been partaking of the alcohol, thought Tah. His attention taken, Tah lost sight of Alex at the bar and addressed the two females before him. With a tight smile he told them honestly,
“I am sorry, I do not know you and it would not be proper to have you help me in any way”. Tah tried to side step them. They moved with him. Both females turned and stared at each other for several moments with their mouths open, then both burst out laughing at him.
Tah felt very confused and his face must have looked it. They laughed again at him.
“O yeah, your coming with us big boy, the parties over here”. A female took an arm each and led a very confused Tah, past Alex who was smiling madly at them, with her thumb in the air. Tah wasn’t sure what that meant but he felt it wasn’t good. He was led over to the group that had been talking about Alex previously.
Ok Tah thought, I’m integrating and could learn much from this, how bad can this be?
***
O it was very bad. Tah lost sight of Alex early on, she had somehow slipped past him and left the building. His warrior instincts taking a hit. He was with several of her staff on what turned out to be a ‘night out on the town’. That consisted of lots of alcohol, very little to eat and lots of males trying to prise the females away with them. Tah was at a loss. The males annoyed him. They were not honourable. They would not take the hint. He was trying very hard not to draw a weapon, but it was getting harder by the hour.
He was practically running back and forth, running interference trying to save the females honour, but they did not seem to understand the danger. They ordered drink after drink. He refused to drink himself and had tried to tell them that they were becoming intoxicated and that it was unsafe. It was clear to Tah the females in the group thought everything he said was amusing, in Earth English ‘funny’, ‘hilarious’, he had had to look them up. That had them falling over themselves in what seemed ‘hysterics’ leading to them exhibiting tears, leaving him very confused for most of the night.
At seeing their tears, he had asked if they were hurt and who should he kill? They only laughed harder. Tah felt he suffered for many hours until they let him go at 3am. They thanked him for being a ‘good sport’. This made no sense to him. They were not playing a ‘sport’ and nothing had been good about the evening. At that point he had been dragged down to their level by his top and received a kiss on the cheek in turn from all the females. That made him even more confused, they bodily touched him and were not related or mated. As they walked away from him, the one called Ann called over her shoulder.
“I’ll tell Alex you were asking after her big guy” and they simply left him. Tah did not know if he should be relieved they were gone or worried. It had been a most confusing night. On his return to his ship Tah realised that not once, did he feel drawn to any of the females, as he had in the bar. This was indeed strange, if Earth women attracted males in this way.
Why did he only feel this earlier on? ……
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