My Own Human Page 7

  “Oh.”

  “Yeah, I did.”

  “Hmmm…”

  “What?”

  “I took your pants?”

  “Sorry, sorry. It’s still morning.”

  “I know.”

  “Sorry.”

  I lazily smiled, placing my arms under my head and trying to find a comfortable pose. I closed my eyes to relax, but I could just feel how Heather was staring at me.

  “What?” I asked, not even bothering to open my eyes.

  “Huh? What what?”

  “I know you’re watching me.”

  “I’m not,” she denied.

  “So if I open my eyes I won’t find you looking at me?”

  “I’m not looking at you.”

  “I felt you move in the bed. You were looking at me.”

  “I… Fine. I was looking at you but only because you look funny in the morning.”

  “Funny how?”

  “I don’t know. Almost… Yeah, human-like.”

  “Human-like?!” I exclaimed, pushing myself up and leaning on my elbows.

  “Hey, easy. It’s a compliment, take it,” Heather smiled, also lying back down in the bed.

  “Okay, fine, whatever,” I grinned, turning on my side so I was facing her. Damn, she looked beautiful in the morning light.

  “Now you are staring,” she stated, also with her eyes closed.

  “Yes, I am. You are gorg… Funny,” I said, taking back my compliment. For some reason I didn’t want her to know what I thought about her. Instead I used the same word she had used before.

  “Funny how?”

  “Funny cute.”

  “Funny cute?”

  “Fine, cute. Just cute.”

  “Just cute. I’ll take that one.”

  “Good.”

  She snorted and shook her head in amusement. Yeah, she was definitely cute. I looked at her face and noticed that I really wanted to kiss her. Well, noticed, I always wanted to kiss her, but now it was an urge that I couldn’t control anymore. I leant in and softly placed my lips on hers for just a split moment. I had immediately pulled back but I had felt how she had smiled. It gave me a weird, tingling sensation in the pit of my stomach.

  “Kiss me again,” Heather murmured, her eyes still closed, but now a contented smile on her lips. I took a moment to look at her radiating face, before crashing my lips hard on hers. She immediately moaned in my mouth, opening her lips, giving me entrance. I sought her tongue and hastily wrapped mine around it, not wanting to waste another moment to connect us as fast as possible. She tried to pull me closer, so I complied and brought my body on top of hers, hovering slightly above her. I kept kissing her and then I tangled my hands in her hair. I started to gently massage her scalp while I also tugged on the strands of hair. She again moaned in my mouth, making me almost come in my pants. I pulled out of the kiss, needing air.

  “Hmmm,” she sighed, letting out a deep breath.

  “Yeah, you tell me,” I whispered in her ear, taking her soft lobe between my teeth. She grinned and I felt her hands grab my hips, her nails digging in the soft flesh. I groaned and released her lobe, now focussing on her neck and placing butterfly kisses all the way down to her collarbone.

  “Ade?”

  “Hmm-hmm?”

  “I actually have to pee…’

  “Oh, okay. Sorry. I’ll move.”

  “Thanks.”

  “Sure thing.”

  I propped myself up and removed my body from hers, falling back down on my side of the bed. “Pffffff,” I blew out, waving my hands in the front of my face to cool myself down.

  “Aaaaade?”

  “Whaaaaat?”

  “No toilet paper…!”

  “Yes there is! In the little cupboard!”

  “Where?!” Short silence. “Never mind, found it!”

  I grinned and closed my eyes, enjoying how she suddenly had started to call me Ade. I figured it was because she felt more comfortable and at ease around me. I heard the toilet flush, the running of water and then the door that opened. I kept my eyes shut, but when I felt the bed dip, I knew she was here. What I didn’t expect though, was the sudden rain of water droplets on my skin.

  “Eeeeek, what are you doing?” I shrieked, jumping up and wiping away the drops.

  “The dryer didn’t work,” was Heathers explanation, although I could’ve sworn it did.

  “Whatever,” I snorted, secretly enjoying the coolness from the water. I lazily fell back in the bed and started thinking about how I was going to entertain us today. I didn’t get far, because I felt Heather’s fingers walk up my arm.

  “What are you thinking about?” she whispered, her breath warm on my ear. I chuckled and watched how her fingers kept walking, approaching my shoulder and strolling further up myneck.

  “Just about how I’m going to entertain you today,” I answered truthfully.

  “Ooohh… I had something in mind already.”

  “Oh yeah?”

  “Hmm-hmm.”

  “Like what?”

  “Can’t you guess?”

  “Hmm, no. Why don’t you give me a hint?”

  “A hint? Sure… Let me think.”

  “Take all the time you need.”

  “Well… It involves our mouths.”

  “Oh.” Count me intrigued. “What else?”

  “Our tongues.”

  Breathe. Don’t freak out. “Sounds good.”

  “Yeah?”

  “Yeah. Definitely.”

  “Oh good. I’m glad that you want to teach me your language!”

  “Of cour… I, what?”

  “You offered to teach me, remember.”

  “Errrrr… Sure, sure.”

  “You sound disappointed.”

  Damn her, seeing through me. “No, no… Not at all. Why would I be disappointed?” I lied.

  “Because you were thinking about something else?”

  “I-I… Noooo… I wasn’t?”

  “Yeah, you were. Something else that involves mouths and tongues. Something that involves hands and fingers. Something that involves this bed and no clothes. Something that involves only me and you.”

  I tried to swallow the giant lump that formed in my throat, but that was easier said than done. The way Heather was looking at me, made my stomach tingle in anticipation. I wanted nothing more than to take her right here, right now, but she already slipped out of the bed and was currently putting on my pants.

  “Sooooo… Lessons?” she winked, looking at me with a cheeky grin on her face. She obviously noticed the effect that kind of talk had on me.

  “Ahem. Sure, sure. Ahem,” I coughed, trying to get a grip, but failing miserably.

  “Cool. Now?” she asked, motioning me to follow her. I nodded, following her into the other room. Heather sat down in the couch, her legs chilling comfortably on the low table. I walked towards her and saw how she visibly froze.

  “What?” I asked, cocking my head to the side.

  “Shouldn’t you eehmm… Shouldn’t you put on more clothes?”

  “What?” I asked again, although I heard what she said and meant. She was trying really hard not to stare at me. Trying really hard not to notice how my shirt barely covered my bum. I grinned, enjoying how I was affecting her. Straight girl, my ass.

  “Clothes. You know them? Maybe you should put them on,” she spluttered out, her eyes now staring at an invisible spot right above my head.

  “Hmm… I’m quite comfortable like this,” I teased, stretching and yawning, making my shirt rise above my bellybutton.

  “Aaaaahhh… I mean, oh, okay,” she shrieked, pretending that she didn’t care, but I saw how she had almost covered her eyes to not have to look at me. And it wasn’t out of disgust, oh, definitely not.

  Right now she was staring at my flat stomach, a strange look in her eyes.

  I slyly smiled and walked slowly towards Heather, seductively swaying my hips. I couldn’t contain the wolfish grin spre
ading on my face when she couldn’t take her eyes off of me. In fact, she removed her legs from the coffee table and was now leaning back in the couch, watching my every move. I stepped around her legs and sat down, leaving a small gap between our upper bodies. Heather stared deep into my eyes, a smile on her face. I pushed her chin up with my fingers, slowly bringing my face closer to hers. She closed her eyes and let out a soft sigh. I really wanted to kiss her, but since I was trying to teach her a lesson from before, I blew on her lips, making her slightly part them. I really, really wanted to kiss her, but settled by licking her bottom lip and pulling back. With all the restraint in the world, I forced myself to remove my body from hers.

  She opened her eyes in confusion. “W-What?”

  “We were going to use our mouths and tongues for language, right?” I grinned, trying to come over as confident, mentally kicking myself since my plan had really backfired. I had turned myself back on. Stupid. I groaned and decided to put on some clothes, before I stripped butt naked and forced myself onto her. Well, I don’t think there was going to be much forcing. The lust in her eyes clearly indicated that she wanted me, but I was pretty sure that afterwards she was going to regret it.

  “Thanks,” she smiled, looking relieved I put on some pants and a decent shirt. One that covered more than my bellybutton.

  “What do you want to learn?”

  “Anything you want to teach me.

  “Oh, I’ll teach you something,” I grinned, winking suggestively at her.

  Chapter 9

  The Lab

  “PFFF… I don’t like this anymore… What a difficult language…” Heather moaned, her hand propped under her head and her elbow on the table. To demonstrate how bored she was, she was dramatically drawing little tornado’s on her sheet.

  “You were the one who wanted to learn this? Do you want to stop?”

  “Hmmphhh, yeah. I’m bored.”

  “No kidding!”

  “Sorry, it’s just so much harder than I thought…”

  “Well, what did you expect?”

  “I don’t know… Something similar to our language?”

  “Hmmm… No.”

  “How come you are so fluent in mine?”

  “You think I’m fluent?”

  “Yes. I mean, you've used a couple of expressions wrong, but it’s pretty near perfect.”

  “Thanks!” I grinned, glad that my studies paid off. Of course, I knew that I was good, but I never thought I would have to use it. That was like thinking that one day you’d use Latin… “Wait, what? What did I use wrong?”

  She smiled sweetly at me and nonchalantly waved her hand in front of my face. “Oh you know, just here and there…”

  “Like what?”

  “Just some…”

  “Like what?”

  “Well, I can’t really remember right now, but...”

  “You don’t know any,” I smirked, cutting her off.

  “I do.”

  “Then tell me.”

  “Naaahh…”

  “Fine, then don’t tell me.”

  “I won’t.”

  “Whatever. Let’s just take a break,” I proposed, also growing annoyed. She nodded and I turned the VDR on and we just sat in silence, both aware that she didn’t understand anything. I opened my mouth to translate it, when I heard a thud, followed by polite knocking on the door. I groaned, I wasn’t expecting any company today.

  I stood up to get the door and was greeted with the beaming face of Dad. I should’ve known.

  “Hi honey, how are you?”

  “I’m good. You? What are you doing here, Dad?” I asked, trying to block the door opening so he couldn’t look inside.

  “Sweet. I brought a couple of people from the lab. It’s testing time.”

  “Testing time?”

  “Yeah. The human?”

  “Oh, right. Heather.”

  You completely forgot about her being human. No I didn’t.

  “Where is she?”

  “Huh?”

  “The human… Adrianna, where is your head?”

  “I’m sorry. I’m just… Tired,” I lied, as I glanced over my shoulder at Heather.

  “Hmm… Understandable. I haven’t been sleeping well either. I’m so excited!”

  “Yeahhh, me too!” I lied, stepping aside to welcome Father and his men. I tried not to frown at what he brought with him. Scrawny looking men with giant suitcases they could barely carry.

  “This is Roy and that’s Howard. They work in the lab with me,” he introduced them. The two men nodded coldly and stepped inside my living room. Jeez, polite much?

  “What kind of test are we doing?” I asked, not knowing where we were going with this.

  “All sort of tests. We’re going to start with a couple of physical test.”

  “Here?”

  “No. We are going to take her to the lab.”

  “How?”

  “We’ll sedate her and then carry her there, I suppose,”

  “Sedate her? Why?”

  “Well, we don’t know how strong she is, so what if she escapes?”

  “Oh… I’m pretty sure she isn’t stronger than me.”

  “Why do you think that?”

  Because you’ve had some physical contact with her.

  “Just a thought,” I lied, avoiding eye contact.

  “We are not taking that risk. Roy is going to give her the shot.”

  “No!” I exclaimed, surprising us all. I cleared my throat and continued in a lower voice. “I mean, no, I’ll do it. He might startle her.”

  Dad nodded and the Roy guy handed me the syringe, although he didn’t look too pleased about it. I walked towards the couch where Heather was chilling and didn’t know if I should tell her or not. Probably should instead of randomly stabbing her with a needle.

  “Ummm... Heather?”

  “Hmm-hmm.”

  “My dad is here.”

  “I noticed.”

  “We are going to take you to the lab for some, ummm, tests.”

  “Now?”

  “Yeah.”

  “Okay, let me get my shoes.”

  “Heather, wait.”

  “What?”

  “I-I… We are not walking. I am going to sedate you.”

  “Excuse me?”

  “Father and his men don’t want to take any risk…”

  “You’re kidding, right?”

  “No… It’s just that we don’t know how you’ll react when we get outside.”

  “Adrianna. Don’t you dare sedate me.”

  I sighed and wished that I didn’t have to but Father wouldn’t understand my reservations. “Heather, come on. My dad won’t understand.”

  “Won’t understand what?”

  “Why I don’t want to.”

  “Why don’t you?”

  “I… Come on, I don’t want to force this on you.”

  “Fine. But only if you promise that there won’t be conducted any tests when I’m still out.”

  “I promise.”

  “I’ll kill you if I come home and miss any of my limbs.”

  “I’ll make sure that they won’t harm you.”

  She narrowed her eyes, as if she was trying to figure out if she could trust my word.

  “Fine.”

  I grinned at her. “Come home huh?”

  “Shut up and just give me that stupid shot.”

  I rolled my eyes at her and quickly injected the fluid, probably liking how she called my house “home” a little bit too much. I gently lifted her over my shoulder and returned to Father. “We are good to go.”

  “Good.”

  “I’ll carry her,” the Howard guy offered, but I quickly stepped away from him.

  “I don’t think so,” I snapped, earning another weird look from my father.

  “I mean, I don’t know you and I’m not going to let some stranger carry the human,” I quickly corrected myself. He nodded in understanding, probably deciding tha
t he trusted me more than Howard. We fledded to his lab and I placed Heather softly on the examiner’s table, wondering how long she would be out.

  “Let’s undress her and clean her up,” Roy grinned, already tugging on her shirt.

  “Or let’s not,” I snapped, slapping away his hand.

  “Adrianna! What’s gotten into you?” Father exclaimed, confusedly looking at me.

  “She won’t appreciate us undressing her. Let’s just wait until she comes by and then she can do it herself,” I argued.

  “Or let’s not waste time and just take the clothes off ourselves,” Roy protested, looking at her in a way that he shouldn’t be. I think Dad also caught that look in his eyes because he dismissed him and agreed with me. And so we waited until Heather’s eyes fluttered open and she started waking up.

  “Heather?” I asked, hoping to distract her from the fact that she was seated on a metal table, surrounded by four scientists.

  “Hmmm, yes?”

  “I need you to undress and put on this robe,” I said, handing her a white, sterile robe. She nodded and stared intensely at the three men.

  “Oh. Right. We’ll give you some privacy,” I added, motioning the men to leave the room for a while. Roy and Howard looked hesitantly at Father, who nodded and threw me a strange look. I shrugged and ultimately, he nodded in approval. We exited out into the hallway, while Dad made sure to lock the door demonstratively.

  He grabbed my arm and pulled me aside. “Why are you being so soft?” he hissed, studying my face.

  “I’m not being soft. I’m being smart. We need her to co-operate with us, so the least we can do is make her feel comfortable. Oh, and I don’t like the way Roy is staring at Heather. He is looking at her like she is something to eat,” I hissed back, expressing my disgust for the guy.

  “You saw it too? Good, now I can ask him to leave. It’s disgusting. Why on earth would he think about her in a sexual way. Gross.”

  “Yeah… That’s what, err, what I was thinking too,” I lied, feeling how my cheeks and ears turned red. Now how was I going to tell Father about what happened between Heather and me?

  What about, eehmm. Never tell him?

  I couldn’t keep it a secret forever… Not if this was going to become something.

  Become something? Like what?

  Not sure... Maybe a relationship or…