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Prequel: Enough
Enough was enough, Nora Clark found her emotions were boiling over. She had to do something. What she was planning would end up poking an already angry bear, but sometimes change requires a furious bear.
The young redhead positioned her small webcam, pointed it at her face. She hadn't told anyone what she was planning to do, well everyone but her Atrian. She couldn't hide herself in front of the camera, she didn't want anyone else to take the heat for it. Nora's Atrian, as she likes to think of him as, was the only one she told of the blog she intended to begin. He was not happy with the idea at first, but after her very persistent agreements, he began to realize just how much this meant to her. Not to mention, he knew that he would not be able to talk the girl out of her insane idea. All he could do was try to protect her from the extremists': the Red Hawks.
Nora took a deep breath, nervous was an understatement, her hands were shaking so bad. With her first statement, her world was going to change, it had already changed the day she met the Atrians', but this was bigger, different. She knew there would be no going back from this, though there was never going back the moment she met him. "My name is Nora Clark, and I come from a small town, filled with very judgment people. So I know, at least to some extent on how my next statement will affect you." She closed her eyes, again her emotions getting the better of her. It took her a minute for her to trust her voice wouldn't crack or the tears were not going to spill over. "I'm pregnant. Big deal, right? I thought it was scary at first, then fantastic. I was so excited to meet my son or daughter, I loved the father and I wanted so badly to start this journey with him. And I still am, but I also see that I was being delusional when I thought this would be normal. Everyone having to voice their opinions on my life, my choices. Some were also… almost violent, maybe that isn't the right word. I found myself crying a lot in bathrooms, never wanting to show the racists…assholes…" again, with her pregnancy hormones, Nora was having a hard time controlling her emotions talking about her experiences. "You see, I fell in love with one of the Atrians' last year. I just want to tell you my story.
I had always felt like an outsider growing up in that small town. They would say that you had to go to church every Sunday, I wondered why? They said it to obey God's the Ten Commandments, and I would wonder who really wrote them. They would say it was wrong to believe in any other god, any other religion because the Bible said so, and I'd wonder 'But doesn't their religion say the same thing? Whose religion is correct?' They would tell me it was a sin to be gay, to love and have an intimate relationship with someone of the same sex as you. I did understand, wasn't love supposed to be pure and beautiful, wasn't that what we were always taught growing up. Why did it matter that the person you loved was the same sex, or of a different background than you? I had felt I was more open-minded than the people I lived around. I rebelled in high school, daring to love another females; but always feeling to scared to be out in the open. I practiced a different religion, again being to afraid to come clean.
Then I moved out in college and met an amazing, strong, protective man that I feel in love with. And again, people are telling me it's wrong. That I should 'stick to your own kind'. To you I say, it's my life. I am rebelling again. Mind your own business."
Nora quickly hit the stop button and uploaded the first video to her simple blog with the title, "Enough is Enough" and a short description of the video "I may or may not be the first, but I am the first to document a human/Atrian pregnancy."
Then as she yawned, Nora climbed into bed and snugged up to the very angry Atrian beside her. His arms crossed over his chest, his muscles bulging from how tight he was holding his arms together. His jaw was clearly clenched, making the woman laugh at the big, strong Atrian. "Drake, please." He softened at her plea and laid down under the covers with her for the night. Not that he was planning to go anyway after she had publicly announced to the world that she was having an alien's baby on the internet. No he was not going to leave her side…ever.