She's My Alien Bride [ChaerLia]

CH. 9: The Talk

"Jisu what emotion are you feeling? Your face looks different," Chaeryeong asked as she kept up with me effortlessly down the hallway. The two other aliens, Yeji and Ryujin were a few feet behind us. Probably to give us privacy. Ha! I wish.

"Jisu," Chaeryeong repeated when I didn't reply.

I continued walking without glancing at her. How dare she do that to me? Not only did she openly declare that she had a lesbian crush on me, everyone would also think that I was fooling Soobin behind his back. Now I'd come off as a freak and a player. Damn you alien girl.

Chaeryeong glanced behind her shoulder to the two. "Do you girls know why Jisu is being...Difficult?" she asked.

"Oh yes holiness," Ryujin said earnestly. "It said in the books that when girls are difficult in this planet, they are menopausal. The first sign is the body warmth. Then, they will be unpredictable and are prone to outburst."

"I'm not menopausal," I snapped, halting. Facing Chaeryeong for the first time since the lunchtime bell rang, I said, "I'm not even done being a teenager. How can I already be menopausal?"

"You were right about the outburst." Yeji snickered beside Ryujin.

Chaeryeong raised a hand. "Silence." The snickers from Yeji stopped. Chaeryeong tried reaching out to me, but I took a step back. "Jisu, did I do something wrong?" She had this puzzled look on her face. The orange in her eyes were beginning to show to me. At the back of my mind, I wondered if I was the only one who could see it.

The thought couldn't keep my irritation away though. "Chaeryeong " I said in a low voice. The alien could hear me anyway. "Do you realize what you have done?"

"Yes," she said with a nod. "In the books I read, what I have done is called a confession. It should have been accompanied with chocolates and other things, but since I didn't have the opportunity, I was empty handed. Also..." she trailed. "They said that when you confess to a person, you should get an immediate reply. What is your reply Jisu?"

"Don't be cute with me. This is not funny at all." I huffed.

Chaeryeong's brows furrowed. Her eyes went to the two aliens. "What is cute?"

Yeji immediately grabbed a smartphone from her pocket and typed something. Where did the alien get that? "Cute," she said after ten seconds. "According to the human dictionary, they classify it as endearing." I face palmed myself, making the four boys passing by stare at as curiously. Great! Just great! Before senior year was over, I'd be the subject of total humiliation.

"And is cute good?" Chaeryeong asked.

Yeji nodded, her eyes fixed on the phone. "Yes. It signifies sexual attraction." Yeji pushed the sleep button on her mobile and tucked it safely back to her pocket. "In human terms, Jisu has the hots for you."

Chaeryeong faced me. "Oh. Well I have the hots for you too."

"Wait," I said before things got out of control again, though the moment she said she had the hots for me, I couldn't help but blush. What was happening to me? "What I meant by don't be cute with me was don't be an ass."

"Ass?" Ryujin spoke up. I nearly forgot that she was there. "You mean that area where?"

"Stop! Just stop okay?" If I wasn't sure that I was blushing before, it was totally confirmed now, though I was a bit embarrassed at the moment. "You're probably going to say that it's where you know what. Ugh! Never mind. It's disgusting."

Ryujin raised an eyebrow. "I was going to say that it's where you slap or pinch people you like. It said so in the book I read."

I closed my eyes momentarily. It appears as if the alien read something kinky. Shaking my head, I got back to the topic at hand. "Whatever, we need to eat." I glanced at Chaeryeong. "You and I need to talk later okay?"