Chapter Nine: POV Carla

It was the Monday after the Masquerade Ball when I sat up and pushed my light pink, silk sheet off of me. "Morning, Carla." I looked up to see the blue tomcat tall, muscular and...nude. I looked at him, leaning his naked hip against the door frame. It was then that I realized my height and my nudity. "Happy, what happened last night?" I asked as I began shrinking. "Well Carla, We have come home from the ball Saturday evening and slept till about four-thirty Sunday afternoon." The blue tomcat spoke as he shrank and walked over to me. "Carla, last night. It was our first night together." He said using finger quotes around together.

I sat there for a moment stunned. "Happy, do you feel like your body is going to erupt in flames?" I asked pulling the sheet up rather than what I wanted. "Yea." He said wiggling his eyebrows suggestively at me. I was shocked that I was not instantly insulted with his actions, our actions and his suggesting it again. His paw caressed my cheek and with his touch my mind filled with images. I could not help it. I inhaled sharply as they flew through my head. The images that I was able to see were passionate, intimate, crazy, hot, and erotic. Most of the time when images flashed through my mind I knew that they were visions, but with these there was no real reason for them to be a vision. I could not tell if they were my body's wants and needs or if they were in fact a vision. I was hoping not a vision, for what I saw at the end shocked me more than anything else in the world.

My vision cleared and Happy was sitting on the bed looking at me, concern filled his black eyes. "Are you okay, Carla?" He asked filled with concern. "Was it another vision of violence? You look scared." It was then that I realized I was awake and in my bed. I shook my head, that I was fine. "I don't think that was just pictures of my fantasies. Though that is my hope." I thought to myself as I walked to the bathroom to shower. "Carla, should I call Wendy? Or Shagotte?" He asked holding his phone in his paw. I nodded twice with a small break in between. There was something wrong. I could not trust myself to speak to him. I turned the shower on to freezing and got in. Being as hot as I already was I didn't want or need a hot shower. I stood in the shower. Listening. Listening to the water. To him speaking in concern to the two other women in my life who meant everything to me. My shaking paw grabbed the homemade soap from my home world. My loofah was hanging on the outside of the shower. His loofah on the other hand, was in paw's reach. I shook my head and grabbed mine from outside the shower. "This is to much. I can't do this. Too much temptation." I thought as I got my pink loofah all soapy. Something inside me seemed to burst as I leaned against the wall of the shower, I could not tell if it was all water or if I had begun to cry.

"Carla?" Wendy began as she knocked on the shower door. "Come on in." I tried to sound calm as I cut the water off and pulled my towel around me. Wendy, the Sky Sorceress and Shagotte, my mother came in and closed the door behind them. My mother had taken four years to find all of the Exceed children sent to Earthland, before she told me that I was her daughter. At first I was shocked when I found out, but deep inside my heart I already knew. "Carla, baby, are you alright?" My mother asked as she wrapped her arms around me, embracing me. When I wrapped my arms around her I lost control of my tear ducts and began to cry again. "Mother, I – I don't un – understand." My voice trembled as I spoke to her. "Shh. Shhh." Her voice was sweet, and soothing as she began trying to calm me down. "What are you not understanding, sweetie?" Shagotte asked softly. Wendy sat behind me rubbing my back. It felt wonderful to know that there are people out there who care so much for me. I always thought that people didn't care at all. "The heat. The fire. Passion. Need." My voice made me sound like I might break at any moment. At my back I could feel Wendy tense as my mother released me from the safety of her arms.

"Carla, you have to understand. There are a lot of things happening to you right now. A lot of things that aren't going to make any sense." My mother's brown eyes held understanding and concern. "Mother, I do not understand. What is happening to me?" I looked down at my paws and saw them shaking slightly. "Carla, it is going to be okay. Your mother and I are here for you." Wendy spoke in the sweet voice she always used. It was the one voice that people could be told anything in and believe what she was saying. Her hand took my paw in hers and smiled at me. My fear seemed to fade away and I returned her smile with one of my own. "Thank you. Wendy, Mother, thank you." I smiled at both of them. My mother's eyes seemed to brighten just a little bit knowing that I was becoming stable with my emotions again. "Now Carla, I know that this is going to be difficult and I thought that you had already been through this, but I suppose not." Shagotte, my mother sat down and swept her knees behind her. She had been Queen for so long that she still could not sit without looking like a Queen. "When an Exceed becomes of age they begin to feel a lot of things. Like with Wendy, you remember when her period first came. In a lot of ways this is the same thing." Wendy blushed at the thought of her period, it had only been two years ago when it had surprised us for the first time. "With humans it is monthly, but with an Exceed. Well, it is every three to four months." My mother sounded calm. The way her voice came across it seemed like she was just giving another lecture. "Every three to four months?" My brown eyes widened at the thought. "How will I make it through this?" She sighed at me softly as Wendy sat next to me on her knees. "Sweetie, you don't make it through unless you are prepared and have people to explain this to you as well as help you." My mother began with a small hint of determination.

"You and Happy had your first night together last night. That is not a bad thing. It is completely normal for an Exceed your age to go through this. You and Happy are at the age where this will become a regular obstacle." Wendy hugged me tightly. "Carla. You remember when we went to the doctor for the first time and they asked a lot of these questions about female issues and all." She said pushing her blue hair behind her ears. I nodded remembering all of these questions. "Sweetie, a lot of it is the same. This will happen several times a year. You just have to work through it." My mother said through her kind words.

We sat there for an hour before we were able to leave with confidence. I put on my little lavender colored dress and took off to my car so that I could get away. I drove off into the still high rising sun. I heard the calls of my loved ones from behind me, but I never looked back. My foot pressed down on the pedal and I just rode until I got to the next town. There was something about what was going on that got to me. I sat in my car and pondered what I was going to do. My paws went to the keys in the ignition and cranked the car. I drove over to the hotel and paid them so that I could stay there for a week.

~Two Weeks~

After two weeks of online homework and classwork at the hotel. I began feeling sick and thought it best to go to the doctor and get myself looked at. "Carla, the doctor is ready for you." I walked into the back of the doctor's office and sat on the examination table. The doctor came in with a smile. Tall, red hair and green eyes was the doctor that entered my exam room. "Carla, I looked over your vitals and when your last period, this information has me concerned. I want to do a blood test and see. I think that you might be pregnant." Dr. Martin said with a little concern.

After an hour of waiting for the results to come back and Dr. Martin to enter my exam room once more. "Carla, you are a very unique breed and so it took some time to get the results, but you are pregnant."