Why hello everyone! I apologize for not uploading in a bit. But the last two weeks have been pretty busy with my job and also since my 23rd birthday was this past Wednesday so… yeah it was pretty easy to get caught up. Haha. But, here is the latest installment of the Tala arc! :D It may not seem like much but I hope you all enjoy it regardless! This chapter takes a bit of a jump into the future by about a year. :)
(Kala's POV)
I was setting up the bucket on top of the door, looking back at Tony who had the biggest smile on his face and giving me a thumbs up.
Even though I still wasn't totally clued in on what was happening, but I was so down since I missed today last year because my parents made me stay home for no reason at all.
But, whatever. I finally get to take part in Tony's favorite Earth holiday, well at least his favorite next to Halloween.
April Fool's Day.
At first I had no idea what Tony was talking about or why anyone would want to celebrate since the word 'fool' seems like a total straight up insult. Actually that's one of the insult words of choice on my Planet, especially by my parents.
But then Tony filled me in on it and how it was a day that celebrated practical jokes/pranks… and I was so in.
And especially after Tony's brothers got us pretty good earlier with giving us this orange colored fruit drink called orange juice here, but when we drank the glass… let's just say we found out it wasn't. They actually put the cheese powder from a macaroni and cheese box into water… ugh, it was rank!
We both spat it out, it was that gross.
But also, I'm actually kind of impressed myself by how much I know about Earth foods now.
Anyway, so Tony started showing me the ropes on some Earth pranks and also to do this one prank he likes to try on his brothers every year.
I had no idea what was gonna go down… but I'm totally down for whatever it is!
I propped the bucket on top of the door and then I heard Tommy and Benji coming back and saw Tony frantically waving me back over to come hide behind the wall. I practically jumped behind the wall with Tony, really wanting to see what was going to happen. But, I could tell Tony was already there since he was smiling like no other and already trying to choke back laughs.
I mean, for as long as I've known Tony at this point, he's usually a happy person that smiles almost all the time, but I have never seen him like this.
Almost like the anticipation was literally killing him… but honestly same here.
This is my first real Earth prank and I really want to see what's going to happen and if we were gonna pull it off.
Sure we have pranks on Neutrino, but I've never seen a prank like this. Tony 'shushed' both of us as we hide a little more behind the wall but still left enough room for us to see.
The door started opening and just like that the bucket fell. We couldn't see it at first but we heard both of Tony's brothers yell for a split second before coming out from behind the door.
Both of them were covered in the mixture of ice water and plastic confetti as Tommy yelled, "Aw, dude! Seriously?! What the heck?!"
I couldn't stop myself from laughing but Tony was almost rolling around on the floor cracking up. I couldn't hide the satisfaction as I said, well practically yelled as I kept laughing, "Oh! We got you guys so good!"
I felt Tony put an arm around my shoulders, still dying laughing as he managed to get out, "Yeah, we did! You guys should see the looks on your faces!"
Honestly, I was barely even laughing at the prank anymore, I was laughing just because Tony was cracking and he just has the most contagious laugh ever that it's hard not to laugh when he is.
Benji and Tommy were looking at us with their mouths open before Tommy just looked at Tony and said, looking kinda annoyed, "Dude, why do you do this every year?! Sometimes twice?! I mean, we knew the payback was coming after we got you guys, but bro you can do so much more crazy stuff than this! I've seen you rig up desks in a classroom to make it look like they're floating. So, why do you always go with that stupid bucket thing on us?!"
I looked at Tony who was practically crying from laughing so hard as he said, "Because… you guys fall for it every time! It's hilarious!"
Then Tony just burst out laughing again, almost insanely… but still I was just getting sucked back into the vortex and started laughing again.
But I just saw Benji and Tommy just roll their eyes before smiling a little as Benji just walked by and said, "Well, played… but it's not over yet guys. Just you wait."
Then both of them have me a pat on the back out respect before going up the stairs.
I knew it wasn't over either but honestly, I was liking this holiday so far.
4 hours later
(Tony's POV)
"Okay, the more I see your action flicks here, the more I don't get it." Kala said straight out as the credits rolled on screen.
We just finished up an old Chris Bradford movie on the TV in the basement as I gave her a confused look and said, "Don't get what? It's Chris Bradford beating up bad guys. Honestly, there's not really a lot to it."
"But that's what I'm not totally getting at here. Why is he able to just easily beat up all 50 of those guys by himself with his bare hands? Like even for fiction that seems kind of bogus to me." She said, taking another hand full of popcorn from the bowl on the table table.
Even though thinking about it now, I can totally get where she's coming from, I shrugged and said, "Well speaking as a film junkie here, that's what people like. Action movies are just supposed to be insane, crazy, and totally unrealistic with fighting odds. People like crazy stuff and that's what makes them like action movies."
Kala gave me this look with a smile while pointing toward me, and me telling that she totally got my point as she replied, "Honestly... I can kinda get that."
We both laughed as she settled back in next to me on the couch.
It's so weird that me and Kala have been together almost a year a half… but dude it's still so awesome!
Seriously if you had the luck I had with girls, I thought dating girls here was impossible. And that's why it's so crazy to me that not only have I had a long-term girlfriend, but my girlfriend is not even from my own planet!
As much as people say relationships are complicated… dude they have literally no idea.
I seriously doubt anyone has ever had a relationship like mine, at least here on Earth. Some people date people from other cities, states, or even totally different countries and need a long distance relationship.
But Kala is literally an alien from another planet and I see her all the time!
I think the longest I've gone not seeing her was 4 straight days since we started dating officially.
And again… she doesn't even live on my planet! I mean, not that I care. Even before we started dating I never really looked at her and saw her as different.
To me she was always just… her. If that makes any sense? Sometimes I go back to when Kala broke into my room and freaked me out the first day we met and told me she was an alien to now, and dude I almost can't believe where we're at.
Even just looking at me, I'm 18, I'm gonna graduate high school in a month, I'm going to college to get a media arts degree to become a radio DJ, I've still got my awesome group of friends that I have house parties with, and… c'mon, I've got a really awesome girlfriend.
Alien or not, Kala is literally the coolest person I know and it's just so crazy to have someone that just gets me. Not that my friends don't, but… its just cool having a girlfriend that does.
I glanced back at Kala and saw her flick on wrestling.
She looked back and said, "Hey, it's Friday, remember? I need my fix wrestling. I keep trying to get Dask and Zak in on this but they're still not interested in any of it at all. Then again I don't think anyone likes Earth stuff more than me. Their loss though. Besides the tag titles are on the line and I seriously need to see what's up."
We both laughed as she leaned over to put down the remote before settling back in next to me again. And I knew I was smiling like crazy as I settled in too.
Dude, my life can seriously not get anymore awesome.
But as great as things are now, that's not even the half of it.
2 weeks later
After making sure everyone was gone for the thousandth time and kind of thinking of how creepy it is to have the house this empty and quiet since its never been this empty or dead quiet, like ever.
I just went back up stairs into the attic to quadruple check I had everything.
I was about to sit down when I immediately ran to my computer and started the playlist I made for tonight, not believing I almost forgot about it since I've been putting it together for the past couple of months.
Sure most people don't do this, but dude one, me and Kala aren't necessarily most people and two… well, I wanted to do this to make this special and in my own way.
When I found out that out about my parents taking Tommy on a trip to a college he's been looking at and then the rest of my family going in on it to double as a weekend long family vacation and me needing to stay home for my final school drama stuff and also to take care of Klunk… I knew it was now or never.
For the past year, me and Kala have really wanted this to happen but never really got the opportunity to get around to making it happen.
We were ready to take the next step with each other.
Really ready if I'm being real here.
But, when one of us comes from a family of 6 people that almost never go anywhere and the other one is from a completely different planet… saying it's hard to find enough private time to take this next step together is a total understatement.
But, we both really wanted this and we both wanted this to just be about us and not have to rush through it, me especially.
I mean yeah, this is new to both of us, but I just really want this to be something more than just either of us losing our virginity to each other.
I just wanted everything to be chilled out and unique, kinda like us together. Besides after what I accidentally walked in on my parents as a kid and my dad almost walking in on me and Kala making out that one time… yeah, dude, I just want to make sure this whole thing is only about us.
I was still sitting on my bed, my leg nervously bouncing up and down since I was still slightly on the verge of totally flipping out and ripping my hair out over what was going to happen once Kala got here.
Even though I shouldn't be that nervous about it.
I mean, its not like neither of us have seen each other naked before or… I stopped thinking and went back to the first time me and Kala saw each other like that about a year into our relationship.
Again, I never think of Kala as an alien here. But… man, I'm just such a scifi nerd that I was still just wondering how physically similar she was to us like that.
I mean, not that I've ever seen any other girls on Earth naked in person since I'm about as much a virgin as you can get. But... man, I haven't passed out since I was in middle school after I kissed Hannah, but I was so close to after I saw her like that for the first time.
Not because I was shocked or grossed out since that's totally NOT it at all. I was just… blown away.
Seriously, Kala's ear shape is the only thing that keeps her from looking like us here. Well, you know, an earthling. I keep trying to remember that's what they call people from Earth.
But… dude, she looked… incredible.
And all I could think about the whole time was being so awkward and self conscious about what she was thinking looking at me like that, and that's coming from a guy who almost never cares what anyone thinks of him like ever. But, she was just looking at me the same way I was looking at her.
Then once the awkwardness was out and we just made out a little and just getting a feel for each other… it was nice, totally easy.
And as totally corny as it sounds… it just felt right. Ya know?
And I'm just hoping that's what tonight was going to be for us. Nothing holding us back, nothing butting in on us.
Just us.
I laid back on my bed and put my arms behind my head and closed my eyes, taking in the beat of the music and tapping my foot to the rhythm.
While some people need meditation or medicine to calm down, music is always my answer to everything.
So when Kala and I finally decided to do this, I wanted to make the most amazing slow song playlist I've ever put together.
But, it was at least working for me.
I took a breath in and let it out as I finally heard the slight squeak of the hatch in my room, knowing she was gonna get in my room that way as I heard, "Hey."
I sat up and saw Kala finishing up climbing into my room and giving me her usual calm, cool smile and I just smiled back and joked, "Still not gonna use the front door of the house?"
"Nope." She said, making us both laugh.
I sat there on my bed, suddenly feeling that awkwardness creeping back up on me as we kept looking at each other.
Sure there's something really cool to me about it being a first time for both of us, but at the same time it's the first time for both of us and neither of us have any idea what the heck we're supposed to do right now.
So, I decided to go for plan B.
I stood up and walked over to her and held out my hand, just smiling. She smiled back at me as she put her right hand on my shoulder and her left hand into my right that I was holding out to her. I just put my left hand around her back as we slowly swayed and stepped to the song playing.
Hey, to me, nothing breaks up an awkward situation like some good music and dancing.
Also to me it just seemed like the right thing to do. Actually it took music and us dancing together at Alex's party to get me and Kala to make a move with each other. I seriously have never even forgotten about that for a second.
But dude, how could I not?!
That whole thing at that party was what lead to us going out for real. Honestly it's kinda crazy through thinking back to it. Not that it matters too much now that I'm thinking about where we're at right now.
All of a sudden I could start feeling myself sweating as I started getting nervous again, especially feeling Kala rest her head against my chest also was kinda working me up a little.
I mean, it's nice, but my heart literally feels like it's going to break through my chest right now like that one temple priest guy did to his victims from that Montana Jackson movie.
But, we just kept swaying together until I gulped a little, trying to just not totally freak out or have a panic attack as I ducked my head down to go next to her left ear as I asked, "Hey, you okay?"
"Yeah… are you cool though?" She asked, pulling back to look at me. I just kept looking at her, feeling like I was gonna hurl any second.
I mean, I didn't...but I panicked, "We don't need to do this… ya know… if you don't want to." Kala, looking at me like my brain exploded out of my head, said totally confused, "And why would I not want to? Why do you not want…?" "No!" I yelled out in just total blind panic, just wanting to make myself shut up.
But, I just tried to chill and say, "No, really, I want to do this. It's just… I'm just kinda freaking out a little here. I've never done this before so I'm nervous, I'm sweating, and I feel like I'm either gonna pass out or hurl and…"
Dude, Tony, c'mon! JUST STOP TALKING!
Luckily Kala cut me off as I was going off in one of my dramatic monologues, even though there's no reason to other than me being totally weird, and not weird in a good way.
I just felt Kala put a hand on the side of my face as she said, "Hey, Tony, it's alright. Also, in case you forgot, I really have no idea what I'm doing right now either. You don't think there's a part of me that feels like freaking out a little?"
That got both of us laughing a little again.
"But, it's cool. I wouldn't be here if I wasn't up for this, Tony. Because I do want this. I want to do this with you." I just felt my eyes go wide for a second as I saw Kala reach up and take off my glasses before setting them down on the desk next to us.
Even though my vision was so beyond blurry, I could still see her smiling at me and also seeing her reach down to take off her appearance modifier bracelet.
I smiled back at her as I pulled her close against me and couldn't stop myself from kissing her right there. I have no idea what to expect, but like Kala said… neither of us do.
But hey, it'll be totally okay, right?
I just gotta chill out and go with the flow. Just like we usually do.
Like I said, this chapter may not seem like much compared to what I usually do, but just like the Kaya arc, this was only a set up for something more and maybe what a lot you have either been hoping will happen for a while now. But, like with most things I do, it's not going to be clear cut and you all now how much I love to throw some curveballs at you. Haha. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed Kala partaking in some Earth pranks with Tony and his brothers, and also just some nice Tala fluff at the end two segments. To be continued!
Stay Classy!
Dexter1995
***Also, to those of you who noticed my parody of a certain famous movie adventurer... congrats! :D
