Stellar Proportions (Cosmic Soul Mates)

by Jeanette Lynn

  “Perv,” I said pertly.

  “Mmm, but you like it,” he growled in my ear.

  Jaye, who was not privy to our whispered private conversation, said, “Molilah, please tell me he’s wrong? Tell me you didn’t do that..” he pointed at Nona, who was ‘shakin’ her groove maker’. “.. to Nona? Please? I thought you loved me woman!?” He put his head in his hands and groaned dramatically.

  I didn’t say anything and Jaye groaned again. “You are just cruel, Mol. He’s corrupted you!” he said pointing at Neyenn.

  Neyenn let out a loud bark of laughter and kissed the top of my head.

  “Well, Your Uncle Horven seems to be enjoying himself,” Darlah said as she grinned and adjusted her glasses on her nose.

  “Who do you think helped me spike Nona’s punch?” I said and Neyenn busted up laughing. That full belly laugh I loved to hear. He turned me in his arms and kissed me. It started to get a little ‘R rated’ so we pulled back a little, remembering we were in a room full of people.

  “You are evil my love! I love it.” A smug proud smile graced his face, a smile that said ‘yeah see! my woman did that!’. “She’s going to get you back when she figures out that it was you, you know that though, right?” Neyenn asked.

  “No, she won’t,” I said confidently and continued, “Not unless she wants that video uploaded onto the internet.”

  Darlah gave me an appreciative glance and smirked, “I like the way you think Mol, I’m glad we’re friends. Ha! Ha! I never wanna be on your bad side.” I slung my arm around her shoulder and gave her a one armed hug.

  “Glad I met you too Dar, you’re pretty awesome yourself….for a nerd. Ha! Ha! just kidding!” Darlah laughed and flung my arm off, pretending to be offended for a minute and then couldn’t help it and laughed along with me again. Darlah is the daughter of Joseph, the pilot who picked us up when we were stranded on the Planet of Natural Forestry. Turns out ‘Ol’ Joe’ is a pretty cool dude. We had asked him out for dinner with the whole family a few weeks after we got home, to say ‘thank you’. He brought Darlah along and the rest is history. ‘Dar’ is one pretty awesome chick a dee, she fit right into our tight knit group, seamlessly. She has a quick wit and a quirky sense of humor.

  “Nice skirt Jaye? You switch teams or something?” Darlah asked Jaye.

  Jaye gave a sulky glare and cleared his throat. “It’s a kilt, Darlah Mae,” Jaye said putting emphasis on Dar’s full first name, because he knew it would bother her.

  She looked at him, unruffled, and smiled sweetly, “Oh, of course…Jayevellan…How silly of me.”

  He glared at her and turned around to stomp off. It looked more like a twirl in his kilt and I giggled at the picture he presented. He looked like a ‘scott sicle’ with all that blue skin and full Scottish regalia.

  “I told him he shouldn’t have taken a bet with you..” I sighed and looked at Neyenn, I smiled and patted his cheek, “but he just wouldn’t listen.” Neyenn chuckled and then gave me one last kiss before he walked off to find Ponne. Something about a project they were working on together for their client.

  They design the protective shields for planets that are being terra formed for us, relatively, regular air breathers. Most planets, in the furthest sections, like our quadrant, typically have indigenous predators on the unclaimed regions of a planet. They can exist in their atmosphere as is, so the shields protect us lowly regular air suckers from becoming prey, without interrupting their progress.

  Don’t worry for those predators though, there are rules and regulations that have to be followed in order to protect the indigenous creatures of any planet. It’s saved millions of species from becoming extinct, like most of the mammals from ‘Old Earth’ did.

  “So,” Dar whispered conspiratorially, “What did you put in her drink?”

  “Rellian fire liquor,” I said and she grinned.

  “How positively evil Mol. I love it. Done in by her own method of madness.”

  I bowed dramatically. “Thank you. Thank you.”

  Whoa baby

  Neyenn

  “Did you have anything to do with that?” Ponne asked as he glanced at the dance floor, a frown wrinkling his brow. I shook my head ‘no’ and smirked. “Good cause it’s almost disturbing…you’re Uncle is really uh… enjoying himself.”

  I snorted, “Don’t begrudge him his happiness. Poor guy is usually spending all his time trying to reign in Nona. Let him have his moment in the sun,” I said and laughed. Ponne laughed too. Molilah came walking up to us and handed me a drink. I looked at her questioningly, sniffed it and took a teeny tiny sip. She smirked and elbowed me.

  “I don’t need to liquor you up to have my wicked way with you, ‘Neanderthal’. You’re already a ‘horny toad’, thank you,” she said all full of sass and winked.

  Ponne stood still for a moment and started sniffing the air. He looked like Pudge trying to ‘sniff ’ something out. Cardanians can be a little odd sometimes, but who am I to judge, to each their own I say. Ponne stopped scenting the air, or whatever he was doing, and held his hand out to me.

  “Congratulations my friend,” he said grinning.

  “Uh thanks,” I said confused and shook his hand. “On what though?”

  “The baby,” Ponne said and pointed at Mol’s stomach.

  “Whaaaa..?” Mol and I said loudly, dumbstruck.

  “A baby!” Mama gasped from behind me. “OH! Oh my god! Yes, yes, yes! I’m gonna be a Grandma!” she crowed, doing some strange victory dance. Now I know where Jaye gets his ‘moves’ from. “Oh, my goodness, I need to call Mary Sue! And Bill! They need to know! Kenvey!” she said shouting for my dad, “Get me the com, quick! We’re gonnna be grandparents!”

  “Shouldn’t we be telling my parents?” Mol whispered smiling at me. I could hear the laughter in her voice as she asked and I knew she didn’t mind my mother telling her parents the good news. Her cheeks were flushed and her eyes sparkled with happiness and excitement.

  A baby, I thought as I pulled her close and kissed her possessively. Mine, I thought and grinned. Mine for forever.

  Epilogue

  Darlah

  “The baby’s coming,” Neyenn said as he paced the birthing center’s waiting room. “She’s in pain! And those bastards won’t let me in there!” he snarled and I backed up a step. Neyenn is one scary guy. He’s Huge and I plan to never get on his bad side or in his way when he’s pacing. He would probably squash me like a bug.

  “It will be okay hun,” Mary Sue said calmly from her perch on the couch. She didn’t even pause in her complicated knitting when she said it. The woman is a true multitasker.

  “They just brought her back there Neye, give them a minute to get her settled and then you can go back,” Muna said as she walked in, carrying Molilah’s purse and suitcase. Neyenn had forgotten it in his rush to get Molilah to the birthing center.

  “I don’t want to wait! She needs me! This is BULL SHIiiii……umph,” his eyes rolled back in his head as he slumped to the floor.

  “Your welcome,” Jaye said smugly and stepped over Neyenn’s prone form, a cast iron skillet in his hands. He was swinging it like he was practicing his tennis swing and I frowned at him.

  “Jayevellan Harvick! Give me that!” Muna said as she grabbed the skillet from his hands, glaring at him.

  “What?” he said defensively. “He was being hysterical. They would have kicked him out if he’d kept up his fussin’ and then he’d miss the birth. I helped him,” he chuckled, “He’ll thank me later.”

  Nona walked in and stopped in her tracks. She looked from Neyenn on the floor, who was now groaning, to Muna holding a skillet, to Jaye laughing like a hyena and raised an eyebrow at her. Muna looked at the direction Nona’s inspection had taken and shoved the skillet behind her back, as if that would hide the evidence.

  “Do I even want to know?” Nona asked and then laughed, “Of course I do. Do tell ?” she said looking at me watching from my corner. I smiled and o
ffered her a share of the candy I had been munching on while I enjoyed the show.

  I love this family, I thought as I smiled to myself and relayed all that had just transpired.

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  Jeanette Lynn lives in California with her "Incredible Hunk", two young children, and slightly eccentric terrier mix, "Mag Pie".

  She enjoys Caffeine free soda and a good happy ending.

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