Don’t Blame Me I’m A Martian-24

Chapter 24

“I’m here Dylan…I’ll help you ride through this…and things will be better in the morning.”

“Better…”

She snuggles so close to me.

“Yes, better…I promise.”

Those two words were so strong and so true and so…

I start bawling again into Shy’s shoulder.

I have never felt like this.

Sure the stuff’s still processing and I’m likely going to freak out even later but right now.

Right now I’m being held and it it’s by someone who’s just like me and I hadn’t realized just how much that me being just that different had impacted me. I mean even the chimera thing’s pretty rare and it’s not like I could just talk to someone about it. But Cheyenne…

She’s like the just so right missing x-factor to the WTF that’s been my life.

And she’s so strong too. Physically and emotionally she’s just…

Yeah words are failing me right now a whole lot really and it doesn’t take long before Shy’s empathic wrap me up in safety and security and genuine care for me and the way that I feel lulls me to sleep.

And just because I’m me of course when she gives me this nudge to wake me I have that dry mouth and throat from snoring and there’s wet and sticky on the side of my face that was leaning against her. I wipe off my mouth and blush looking at her in this pre-dawn light. “Great, here I am in this really romantic embrace and what do I do? I snore and I drool on you.”

Shy smiles at me and gives me this really sweet tender kiss. Oh I know it’s got some of our in it I can just tell but oh…

Oh…

To get kissed by someone tenderly and sweetly and to Feel the sweet and tender emotions. She want’s me to feel it but she wants me to feel it from her actions and not her powers and this so heart thumpingly sweet gesture of realness takes me to this place or opens up something in me that I’ve never really felt.

I couldn’t feel more sweet or mushy or bubbly inside if I’d been transformed into bubble gum.

Shy breaks the kiss and she nuzzles my face and smiles at me and ow…ow…it’s this just for me smile….literally.

“You can snore all you want and it won’t bother me if mine doesn’t bother you. And it all doesn’t matter Dylan, it’s you and if you honestly felt that secure that all of that happened with me then there’s really not much of a bigger compliment really.”

“You…you mister-girl are way too good to me.” I smile as we’re nuzzling. I love this closeness…and the thing is that the sex stuff isn’t even on my emotional radar right now…I’m just getting everything that I need form us being us…being together.

Cheyenne turns me around in her arms and she wraps us up tighter and hugs me. I can feel something…well besides her small perky little breasts in my back there’s something coming?

“Just a few more minutes, just relax and breathe and listen Dylan…listen with your heart.”

“Okay but what for…”

Oh…

The sun crests the edge of the horizon.

Oh…

Nothing, no sunrise that I’d experienced before has ever felt like this…

Why?

Because as the light starts to spill out over everything I feel it.

I feel the world waking up, I feel the way that the sun is touching everything and waking up the plants and the insects and the birds and everything literally under the sun that…

I feel life stirring all around me with the rising of the sun.

I’m bawling I’m crying so hard that I can’t see but I can see everything because I can feel everything and it’s so amazing.

Oh…it’s like touching God for a second or him just showing me this tiny little glimpse of the everything and…it’s becoming part of me…touching my deepest heart and soul.

And if it was like seeing that whole God experience feeling it shift and change and become this rhythm…as life starts into what life just does it’s also too like I’m getting to here Mother nature herself singing.

I feel Shy hugging me tighter. “I told you it’d all be better in the morning.”

I push back against her. “Yeah…there’s…I don’t even know how to put how this feels into words.”

“You can’t, no one can Dylan it’s why we’re the way that we are…with us some things are perfectly alright to be as they are.”

“It….it certainly changes everything…”

“It does, it sort of grounds you.”

“Grounded? Sort of it’s more like I’m just seeing life for what life can be for the first time.”

“No, this is just remembering.”

“Remembering?”

“All of us, our people, everyone here, even all of the animal life there is feels this way when they are newborns and the world is so new to us and so big and bright and alive that we can’t drown it out with the background noise of living.”

I bite my lips just taking that in and it makes so much sense to me really…and while those feelings of the dawn are still there they sort of feel like they’re doing the background noise thing…like listening to the radio and hearing a really great song and then having to do something that has that still there but you’re not focused on it.

“I’ve got a lot to learn…”

“Yeah, control and nuance is the stuff that you need to know and ethics.”

“Ethics?”

“Heck yeah there’s limits that we should all have when we’re around others. We can push emotions as well as feel them and that’s a dangerous thing it’s a weapon really.”

“Like the hot chocolate?”

“That and a whole lot more. You really mess with someone’s identity when you push emotions on them.”

“Oh…the whole dark side of the force thing.”

“Honestly yes really, really close to that idea.”

“Oh then I’m so Jedi instead of being Sith.”

“Good.” She smiles and kisses me again. And very guy like I feel and hear her stomach rumble.

“Breakfast?”

“I’d love some.” She get’s up and offers me her hands and she pulls me up. It’s such a role reversal but it’s not. I’m sort of the girl by my very nature but not. Actually it’s kind of neat in getting treated with the manners and stuff that a girl would get but being able to appreciate the chivalric nature of it from the male psyche too.

We hold hands as we walk and she’s smiling. “Dylan?”

“Yeah?”

“Concentrate on holding my hand.”

“Okay…”

“Feel it?”

“Uhm yeah…oh…okay…” I close my eyes and just sort of focus in on that and take it all in.

“Okay, let go.”

“Uhm okay…”

Cheyenne moves a few feet away and she slides her hands casually into her pockets and she smiles…

I feel something…?

“What…?”

“Just concentrate on remembering what it just felt like.”

It takes a minute and it’s linked to that thing I was feeling and…and I’m suddenly feeling it…this invisible trail of our energies linked together and it’s the same feelings that I had when we were holding hands…

We’re holding hands from six feet away.

“Oh…oh this is so cool.”

“Very…it’s called synchronicity its safe projection and receiving.”

“Oh…”

“Now I need to show you how to shield yourself from others and them from you.”

“Them from me?”

“Yes, if you’re open and receiving then you’ll get a lot of nasty surprises from people with abuse or trauma or even those people that aren’t the kind of people that you want to see into.”

“Like?”

“Serial Killers…rapists…child molesters…do you really want to feel that stuff on you…those feelings inside of you?”

“No…eeew fuck! Hell no!”

“Okay so I’m going to try and to teach you how to…”

I smile at her.

“You just shielded…how?”

“Shower.”

“Shower?”

“Yeah, okay we all have this sort of sense of privacy right?”

She nods.

“Okay, well it’s like the shower, we all try to respect other’s people’s privacy in the shower and stuff so I just sort of ran with that because I’m sure that there’s lots of stuff beyond the bad stuff that I don’t want to feel from some people just like I’m sure that there’s people that I don’t want to see in the shower.”

Cheyenne burst out laughing. “Oh my gosh that’s so brilliant! I mean I’ve heard that Shuani had a lot more ethereal control but I’ve never seen it.”

“Ethereal control?”

“Oh that’s the whole more mental and spiritual side of what we can do.”

“And Tuani?”

“Yes the ‘I’ make it plural for us. Tuani like me we tend towards the more physical side of stuff.”

“So there’s things that we can do that the other can’t?”

“No we all can do the same things it’s more like these things are easier for us in certain ways because of how our brains are developed.”

“Cool so what do Shuani do or are good at?”

“The Ethereal stuff like I said but that extends to stuff like healing and arts and caring and nurturing.”

“Okay…healing?”

Cheyenne shrugged. “Healing like almost magical stuff but it’s one of the greatest strengths a Shuan can master and it’s extremely hard too. It’s one of those things you really don’t and shouldn’t just try to do and seriously need a master to teach.”

“I can get that, you muff it up and it really wouldn’t be good.”

“Yes for sure.”

“And you tend to the physical stuff right?”

“Right Tuani tend to feel things out in more of how things work and what they are?”

“Like?”

“Like in theory we can read an object someone handled and see their use of it and stuff better than reading people. Or we can put our feelings into an object better than we can project into a person.”

“Really you didn’t seem that bad at it.”

“Well you weren’t aware and you weren’t shielded either so that was pretty easy.”

“This is going to still take a lot to get used to you know being an alien and all.”

“Well sort of alien, biologically we’re human.”

“Huh?”

“We’re from an alternate reality, another dimension.”

“And we came here…”

“Yes, we came here from a union point.”

“Huh?”

“You know what string theory is?”

“I think I know what it is?”

“Okay it’s that theory that for every reaction or action there is a timeline that is spawned because of that action.”

“That sounds like my idea of it.”

“Star Trek?”

“Yep pretty much, that and Stargate.”

She smiled. “I like both of those shows and most are still new to me.”

“Okay but Union points?”

“A Union point is an event that’s so huge that in has happened across a lot of timelines and as all those lines meet at that point it created a new point of origin.”

“Okay I think I get it. And our union point was?”

“According to the records we have home it was the destruction of our homeland, it has happened in every earth apparently.”

“Oh…that so sucks, but how did we bridge the whole thing to get here?”

“I have no idea, the people that opened the gateway for the rest of us all died in doing it.”

“Shit…”

She nods. “It was likely the energy strain from it all that did it. You know how you felt after the hot chocolate right.”

I nod. “Wow…so much to learn. Am I going to go home with you at some point?”

“Maybe there’s no real rush on that.”

I might be shielding but there was something to that.

“Shy….?”

She blushes. “Okay…okay aside from you needing to learn…you’re a Shuan.”

“So…?”

“So I traveled out from home when I felt you.”

“And…”

She just looks at me with that patented female don’t be a thickhead look.

“Oh…so there’s just me?”

“No, we don’t all live in one place. But home, home there’s only three Shuani and they’re all taken.”

“Okay…and that I’m rare then.”

“You’re rare and you’re sought after…all the other Tuani would want to be with you and so would all the women.”

“Really?”

“Yes…and that’s even before they actually got to know you ant see how amazing you really are.”

“Really?”

She looks at me again.

“Okay picture you meeting Angelina Jolie right and not only is she moving next door to you but she’s nice and smart and friendly and someone that you could actually like way deeper than you could lust after.”

“Okay….”

“That’s you.”

“Me?”

“Yes you…”

“Oh…” Okay I’m seriously blushing right now and even covering my face with my hand a bit.

“And I’m so not ready to share you with the rest of the world Dylan.”

Shield or no shield Cheyenne just knows the right time to step up to this boy and passionately kiss him until he’s swooning in the whole depths of feeling like a girl.

And I was shielded.

So she’s kissing me just because she wants to.