Alien Romance: Step Alien (Sci-Fi Paranormal Romance) (SciFi Invasion Short Stories) (4 page)

Chapter 6: A Secret Revealed

I’m sure the expression on my face said it all but I managed to croak out my question, “You’re a what?”

“An alien.” Blake repeated patiently.

I stared at him incredulously for a few moments before I burst into a loud hoot of laughter.

Blake looked perplexed at my reaction
.
“Why are you laughing?”

“I’m not lying, I really am an alien, from the planet Rexillan.”

“Uh huh,” I said playing along, “And what do you do there alien Blake?” I asked him in between my bouts of laughter. The serious tone of his voice and the look on his face was hilarious. Who knew Blake had such a killer sense of humor?

“I’m the heir to my father’s kingdom.” He answered in reply to my question.

At the word kingdom I started laughing harder
.
“You don’t say! So Dad is an alien too?”

“No, not this Dad,” he said slowly like one would speak to a child, “my real father from planet Rexillan, he’s the king.”

“A king! Fancy! So that would make you the crown prince then wouldn’t it?”

Uncurling my legs from beneath me, I got to my feet and curtsied deeply holding on to an imaginary ball gown.
“How do you do your majesty? Will you be beheading anyone today?”

At that point Blake must have realized I wasn’t taking his claims seriously and was in fact poking fun at him. He stopped speaking and his face took on a thoughtful, darker look.

I stopped my silly antics sensing something significant was about to occur. He stared hard at the solid wall behind the couch, I looked on curiously wondering what he was staring at but could see nothing on the smooth, grey wall. When I looked back at Blake he was holding himself in a tense way, his shoulders hunched slightly, the veins on his neck went rigid and stood out like dark threads running down his golden skin. His eyes narrowed as he focused all his attention on the purple wall. As I watched. the wall glowed a bright red and a tiny hole appeared out of nowhere.

Startled I shook my head
.
“Huh?! How did you do that?”

Sure it was nothing more than a magic trick I walked up to the wall. The air smelt faintly of smoke and it looked like the hole had been burned into the wall. I put a finger inside the hole and felt the soft insulation within.

I turned to look at Blake
.
“Holy shit! There’s a hole in the wall.” I was stating the obvious.

“I know. That was the point.”

“How did you do that?”

“It was easy, I can do lots of things like that.”

“Teach me how.” I demanded.

“I can’t teach you Karen, I can do it because I’m an alien.”

“Oh lord, we’re still on that?”

“Yes! Because it’s the truth, I just proved it to you! How else would I have burned a hole in the wall without lifting a finger?”

I shrugged, “Some kind of magic trick maybe.”

“Argh!” he groaned out in frustration and then stalked out of the living room and into the kitchen. He returned shortly holding one of Mom’s sharpest knives in one hand.

“Here, take this.” He said holding it out to me.

I took the knife feeling concerned and held it gingerly between my fingers.

“Now stab me.”

“What!? Are you crazy?”

“Come on! Do it!”

“Blake, you’re out of your mind, I’m not going to stab you.”

“Do you trust me?”

I looked into his eyes, eyes I knew better than my own and slowly nodded my head.

“Then stab me.”

“Please Blake, don’t make me do this, I can’t hurt you.”

“You won’t be hurting me! Just do it please, trust me.” He pleaded.

“Where?” I finally asked in a strangled whisper.

“Anywhere you want.”

“But you’ll be hurt.” I protested again.

“Just do it.” He commanded. I knew from the tone of his voice his patience was running thin.

Closing my eyes, I counted to three before I swiped the knife across his arm. The blade cut through his soft skin and split it open. I shrieked in terror and dropped the knife because a thick, blue goo oozed out and trickled across over the wound. I watched amazed as within seconds the skin closed up. His arm was completely healed with not even a scar.

I knew then he spoke the truth. My adoptive brother Blake really was an alien.
“Are you really a prince?”

He nodded.

“What are you doing on Earth. Shouldn’t you be…well not on Earth?”

“Came for a visit, I needed to see you. I’ve been thinking about you non stop.”

Another truth dawned on me
.
“You were never really kidnapped were yo
u?
”

“No,” he admitted, “I mean I was kind off but not by bad people. It was my own people who took me away.”

I thought back to the months and years of pain and anguish we had suffered, all because of him. A fierce anger spread through my body and I unleashed it on him
.

“Do you know how long we looked for you? How devastated we all were when you disappeared? And this whole time you were fine! You were okay! And you didn’t bother to even say goodbye.” I spat out at him, foaming at the mouth.

“I know, I know Karen. And I’m so sorry but I didn’t have time to say anything, I didn’t even know they were going to take me away the day they did. They made sure to not tell me because they knew I could never have left without saying something to you.”

“Who is they Blake? Why did they take you away?”

“They took me away because my time was up.”

“I don’t understand.” I said, waiting for him to clarify but he didn’t. A few moments passed in silent and then I asked him
,
“Blake why are you really back? And please don’t tell me it’s because you suddenly got your memory back and you wanted to visit us. Because we both know that’s not it.”

He looked startled at my abrupt question and I thought he would ignore my question entirely but he surprised me by answering truthfully.

“Because I need to procreate.”

Out of all the possible reasons – taking over earth being high on my list of possible reasons – procreation was completely unexpected.

“You what?” I asked again not sure if I had heard him correctly.

“I need to procreate.” He repeated, “You know breed, have childre
n
and there’s only one woman…”

“Ah, one woman huh?” I interrupted, “So who’s the lucky girl?” I couldn’t help the fierce stab of jealousy shoot through me as I imagined him making love to another girl.

He looked perplexed by my question so I clarified,
“Blake, maybe aliens work in a different way but here on a earth, you need to be with a woman in order to procreate and have children.”

The roll of his eyes made it clear he didn’t find my clarification amusing.

“Yes, Karen, I know that. It’s the same with aliens by the way. But I thought you understood…the person I’m talking about is you…”

The shock of hearing this startling and somewhat degrading revelation was like someone had thrown a glass of cold water on my face.

“Breeding?! Me!? I’m NINETEEN Blake, I can’t breed, what the hell is wrong…” I had to stop talking because I was starting to sound shrill and because Blake put his hand on my mouth muffling my words.

“Shhhh…will you let me finish? It’s not just about breeding!”

“You just said it was!”

“You didn’t let me finish. I’m at that age where I need to breed yes but it’s more about having my sexual needs met and the only person I’ve wanted to be with sexually is you.”

For one quick second, I wanted to slap him, did he not realize how insulting his comments were? Flattering yes, what girl didn’t like being told she was hot? But the romantic in me wanted to hear about love and intimacy. I wanted to be held and kissed lovingly not just fucked. But I knew I could never say any of those things to Blake, through the course of the last few months as we rekindled our old friendship and became even closer, I had begun to hope he cared for me in that way because I was starting to fall head over heels. And now here he was telling me all he wanted from me was my body. I carefully schooled my features into a mask of indifference and shrugged my shoulders.

But he was oblivious to my indifference because he was too busy staring deep into my eyes. His hand went up and cupped my face.

“You are so beautiful.” He whispered.

“Why can’t you trust me Blake? Why can’t you explain more to me? I don’t understand any of this.” I whispered back, hoping he would shed more light on what he was doing on earth and why I was such an important part of it all. But of course he didn’t, instead he replied cryptically,

“One day you will.” And refused to say anything more about it.

As Blake and I continued to grow closer, we struggled not to act on our raging hormones but it was a losing battle. In my head, the minute I found out he was really an alien he stopped being my brother in any sense of the word. He became this really hot guy I could have sex with, guilt free.

But I knew despite what had almost happened that night, Blake was still caught in a struggle between what he saw as a betrayal towards Mom and Dad, two people who loved him deeply and had cared for him and his uncontrollable lust and desire for me. It gave me great pleasure to torment him in subtle ways by wearing skimpier clothes around him or accidentally showing him parts of my body. I knew it was only a matter of time before we had sex because his lust for me kept growing every day.