I sat on the shuttavox next to my girlfriend, Acsedorra. When we first arrived to board, I thought she was joking when she showed me one of the two public shuttavox in the galaxy. It was a bright red and made out of a substance I couldn't identify and Ace didn't really know either. I just hoped it wasn't reida. While it was a good substance for houses, I didn't want to be in the air relying on it to defy gravity.

The ride was entertaining. We had established a comfortable rhythm of talking and laughing with each other and my dad's occasional inserts of gifting us a knowing glance.

After about half an hour the couple across from Ace and I looked at us.

"Pro jix, bu ji hull VIRA ju accenta, ro hia ju vo?" a woman with pale red hair and blue eyes who looked to be in her mid-twenties asked. [Excuse us, but I just LOVE your accent, where are you from?]

I smiled and responded, "Eearthling." Even though my American accent had begun to dissipate and replace itself with a more Sapphieran way of speech

We spent the rest of the plane ride to Aq'circa talking to the lady, Emali, and her boyfriend, Akivio. We learned they were from the capital of Sapphire and moving to Aq'circa for Akivio's new teaching job.

Emali was really interested in Earth and had Ace and I teach her and her boyfriend a few English phrases.

We stopped at Aq'circa and waved goodbye to our new friends. At this point it was just Ace, my dad, and I. When we landed on Earth I nearly hugged the airport's concrete floor.

Ace looked ready to run away when she saw the ground was such a dark shade of grey.

"Explica mia talo vo intoxi? Cacu Intoxi ceme rom, aleak ju espial ji nok?"[Explain the color of death? Is this a cemetery, like you told me about?]

I know I probably shouldn't have reacted as I did. But, I burst out laughing. Ace blinked and then caught the laughter bug. By the time we were ready to catch a cab to our house Ace and I had laughed so hard tears were streaming down our cheeks. Those are the moments worth remembering.

When we got to the house Ace barely waited for the car to stop before she jumped out. And by barely I mean she was out of the car before my dad had even out his foot near the brakes.

"Ace!" I shouted out the window she had kept rolled down the entire ride. She said this was so she could smell everything we passed. I was half worried and half amused. But, I knew she had every right to be excited and curious. This was an entirely new place for her. And I was prepared for the interrogation the entire time she was on Earth.

The three of us grabbed our luggage and went inside. Ace looked around the living room.

"Acsedorra, ta yack kasi aleaf ro vo li tomeago, jala vo mia ghanuka," my dad told her. {Acsedorra, no one has lived here for a while, sorry for the mess.}

I had a feeling that Ace and I would have our accents noticed when we started school. This was proved further when she tried to tell me we need to go to the grocery store in English.

"Ryan. We need to go to the grocery store." Let's be honest if I wasn't familiar with her accent I would not have understood her since it came out more like: REEAN. Way need to go to te groc-ay-ry storray.

But in all fairness she had been speaking rather fast in a foreign language. Even my dad slipped up every so often with his Sapphieran since he hadn't used it in so long. Ace was glad to correct the both of us and wanted us to do the same for her when she was speaking English.

I nodded and asked my dad for the keys. He laughed and told me no way was I driving around a place I hadn't been in a year alone. I tried arguing Ace would be with me but you kinda have to have a sense of direction and be familiar to navigate. So my dad drove and all three of us went into the grocery store.

"Tome vo ji ti jedeki ji nexxa accenta ti Eearth," I joked to Ace. She looked at me like I was being weird then laughed. (Time for me to show my new accent to Earth.)

Ace kept pointing at things and asking me what they were. Eventually she got tired of saying the entire sentence: Tao ko tao zunet ro? (What is that over there?) And began just shouting some weird one-worded idiom that meant "explain."

Though it literally translated to "silence not there." I don't why she didn't just say the word explain.

"JAKPAYTARO!" Ace shouted and pointed at the meats inside the deli glass. I blinked. How in hell was I supposed to explain to my lovely, albeit naïve, Sapphieran girlfriend that on Earth people enjoyed eating dead animals?

I blinked again. "Cacu meat. Ent Eearthling hominax zax intoxï animalliax."(It is meat. On Earth people eat dead animals.)

I scratched the back of my head as I said this. Half hoping Ace might forget the exactly how much our strange practice went against her home planet's culture. I had no such luck. I had also hoped Ace would take the news calmly, she did not.

She glared. Then shouted out in a scary strand of Sapphieran mixed with English: "Ju ka WHAT! Ji ka ta nia sa ju nia tao ko sanni ti ka! Ka ju ta dek vo bi li gauna hominax?" People began to stare at us at this point.

"Ju villax! Ju Kiabachx! Gaman, explica. Jakpaytaro, NOW."(You do WHAT! I don't understand how you think that is okay to do! Have you not heard of being a good person? You bastards! GAH, explain. Explain, NOW!)

She heaved in a breath of air then glared at me for a second. I knew she wasn't mad at me but it still hurt. Ace was angry and her small rant hadn't been enough. She walked over to the aquarium filled with lobsters, or they might have been crabs, whichever one people eat: I've forgotten after living in a vegetarian galaxy for so long. Looked into the glass and went to find a worker.

She brought one over to the glass container. His nametag read "Seafood, Hi my name's Jon, let me help you!" with the stores logo watermarked onto it.

"It is your job to help me and my boyfriend, I am correct?" Ace was boiling mad and I was afraid to see what she had up her sleeve. The worker nodded though he looked tempted to comment on her accent and dialect. "Good. How would you like it if you kept in a small ummmm a ummm small vas vo aqua."

Jon stared at Ace for a second. Ace glanced at me wanting the word. "Aquarium," I offered.

"Yeah! How would you like it if you kept in a small aquarium just to be dead?"

I coughed and muttered "Were kept. killed."

Jon understood me and Ace didn't seem to notice. He blinked,

"Ma'am, I'm sorry, but I've got no clue what you're on about!"

It took me a moment to understand him.

"On? On what?"

I blinked and looked at Ace. Her face of confusion was my cue to interpret in less slangy terms: "Hi ka ta nia tao ju hia varo nok."(He does not know what you are upset about.)

Ace nodded then turned back toward Jon. "The animals in the aquarium. How would you like kept in a small aquarium just to be dead? And for what, humans to eat you? It is wrong! Wrong wrong wrong!"

He nodded. "I'm sorry, ma'am but this is not in my job description. Just tell me what you want done, and I will get it done."

I really wished he hadn't extended that offer.

"No, it's not needed!" I tried to talk him down from his offer. I didn't have any such luck.

"I insist."

I instinctively replaced his fancy English word with, "Ji rekïm ju hano ko." Or I beg you take it.

Ace understood. She hadn't refused his offer to begin with.

"I want you take the animals out of the aquairium and let them out. No eating!"

"She wants you to release them," I translated when Jon went to ask what she meant.

"Ma'am, that I can't do for you."

"Fine. I will do it! Help me, Ryan!"

I blinked. Then nodded. It was really just helping out animals. I grabbed the tank and had Ace grab the other end. Somehow we made it out of the store without anyone stopping us and then we walked right into a police officer. "O ghan."(Oh filth.)

A/N: Here you go for the one person I know is still reading this series! Would you guys prefer more or less Sapphieran language? And what did you think of my portrayal of Ace's English. Too many grammar mistakes? Not enough? As always recideka, please!