Anira Part 3

“Emmy, Emmy, Emmyllia!” I call her name to bring her back to us.
“Hi! Sorry, I’m just having a hard time processing this.”
“He's named Auror, he's a férnus, nearly eight feet tall, and he’s been listening to everything we’ve been saying here behind the door.”
“How do you know?” She continues blinking rapidly.
“Let’s go inside, Emmy. You’ll see for yourself and then I’ll explain everything.”
“Okay.”
We walk inside hand in hand. As we cross the threshold, Auror guides us to the living room. When I open the door, he’s by the window. Emmy freezes beside me and whispers, “Holy crap.”
“This can’t be real.”
“I’m right here, Emmy, holding your hand.”
“Nice to meet you, Miss Bouchard.” Auror extends his hand towards her as he approaches, and she takes it.
“I hope the pleasure is mine,” she responds, shaking his hand. “I need to sit down,” she says, still looking at Auror in disbelief.
I glance at Auror, who is wearing just a pair of pants. The fabric hugs his legs and fits perfectly on his large, muscular frame.
“I believe it’s time to reveal the full truth and explain why I’m disclosing this to you,” Auror states politely.
It’s time to tell Emmy everything. My friend is silent, and she needs to know all I’ve discovered since arriving in Forty Mile.


***


Emmy is the sweetest and most concerned person I know, and seeing her frightened like this worries me.
“Emmy, do you trust me?” I call her attention, making her focus on me.
“Of course, with my life, it will always be us against the world,” she responds with our phrase.
“What happened with Adrian? Since you arrived, you haven’t mentioned him, and you don’t even seem like someone who would have a long-distance relationship.”
“That traitor couldn’t stand seeing Dean single and went to be with him.”
“How?”
“What you heard, Ann. To hell with those two.” She stands up, looking distressed.
“Okay.”
“Hey, you, start talking,” she points at Auror. “Do you really think I’m going to fall for this big leader strong and powerful act? I want to know what your real intentions are with my friend.”
“Aren’t you scared to be in front of a talking animal?” Auror’s question somewhat shifts her stance.
“Well, there’s that too, but I’m much more concerned about my friend’s heart than the kind of guy she’s involved with.” I raise my eyebrows, trying to follow the thread of this conversation.
“Emmy, you must be in shock.”
“I’m in shock? Who’s in shock? No one is in shock here. On the contrary, I’m convinced there are hallucinogens in the water. Ann, I swear Arow’s eyes are silver, silver! Can you believe that?” She says it all in whispers, as if afraid someone else might hear. I look at Auror, who seems as incredulous as I am.
“Emmy, you need to calm down.”
“I’M CALM, ANN!” She quickly stands up, and with a blink of an eye, she faints. She would have fallen to the ground if Auror hadn’t quickly caught her in his arms.
“That went better than I imagined,” I say, wiping sweat from my forehead.
“What did you imagine, Ann?”
“That she would run away screaming while dragging me out.”
“I think we need to get her to bed.”
“Yes, you’re right.”
We carry her to the guest room, where Auror lays her on the bed, and I cover her after removing her shoes.
“I think you two need to have this conversation alone,” he says as he approaches me and kisses my forehead.
“She’s all my family, Auror.”
“Everything will be okay. If she’s your family, then she’s part of the Northern clan.”
“I love you.”
“I feel the same.” I’m enveloped in his arms.
We soon left, leaving Emmy to rest. I headed to the kitchen to make a bowl of popcorn, grab some sodas, and chocolates. My conversation with Emmy would be long, and nothing keeps her calmer than food.

***

I’m sitting beside her on the bed, eating popcorn when she wakes up.
“Nothing changes in this life,” I smile, seeing that she never stays still if there’s food around.
“This smell is divine,” she says, sitting up next to me and grabbing the bowl of popcorn from my hands.
“I’m what they call an angelic here, which is why my hair is white and now it shines. Yes, it always shines when I’m near Auror, and by the heavens, it can light up a city if I get excited.”
“Holy shit! This isn’t real!” Emmy seems disbelieving, staring at my hair and reaching out to touch it. “Girl, you could save the world from an energy crisis.” She bumps her shoulders against mine.
We laugh at her comment as I start to explain everything, from the very beginning. Emmy doesn’t say anything as she listens intently. For nearly two hours, I tell her about Auror, the ferne, and everything else.
“Well, that’s a summary of everything.”
“Twenty-two hours of mating?” Her eyes are wide.
“Is that all you noticed? I told you about a whole clan of ferne males and females, and all you focused on was the peak of the rut?” I’m shocked by her.
“Girl, twenty-two hours is a world record. That should go in the Guinness Book, and multiple orgasms, Ann? Who has multiple orgasms for twenty-two hours? My God, where can I find someone like that? Tell me there’s a single one who’s destined for me.”
I burst out laughing while she fans herself.
“This isn’t normal, Emmy, you’re not normal,” I point out. “You should be freaking out about discovering a talking species.”
“Ann, if anything’s abnormal here, it’s you. Twenty-two hours of sex with multiple orgasms with a guy who has a respectable member, and I’m the one who’s not normal? You’re crazy! I’m the most perfect one here. Maybe Dr. Beilly is normal too.”
“Emmyllia, please, have a meltdown or something. Say we’re in danger, that we need to get out of here, that this is wrong, I don’t know.”
“I’m not! Do you realize we’ve fulfilled our dream, Ann? It’s a miracle, we discovered a new species, dream accomplished, next! All I want now is to lose my virginity with one of these marathon sex runners.”
“What?” I’m shocked.
How can she still be a virgin?
“What do you mean?”
“You and Adrian didn’t have sex?”
“Well, technically, yes.”
“Emmy, how do you technically have sex?”
“Anal sex. He kind of had a thing for it, and I wanted to stay a virgin until marriage.”
“Hahahaha!”
“Don’t laugh at me,” she says, pulling my hair.
“Very saintly of you, giving it up in the back to keep the hymen intact.” I laugh so hard, only Emmy could do something like this.
“Stop it, Anira. I actually enjoyed it, okay?”
“I don’t doubt that. I’m just laughing at your cheekiness wanting to marry a virgin.” Now she’s laughing along with me.
We stay like this for a while until she hugs me. Emmy is my favorite person in the world, my safe place where I can always be myself, and knowing that she knows everything about me and Auror is essential.
“I think I need to meet my brother-in-law,” she says as we pull away. “But first, are they all ferne here? Like, every man I see is one of them?”
“Not all. There are humans who have no idea they exist.”
“Jacob, Lannur, Kynai, and Arow?”
“Yes.”
“So, if they’re over 1.90 meters tall, with muscles carved like wood and a smile that melts panties, they’re all ferne?”
“Yes.”
“Praise be! Thank you, God, for bringing me to paradise.”
“Emmy!” I scold her.
“What? Do you think you’re the only one who can enjoy a guy like that?”
“Emmy, there are rules and everything I’ve told you about. Ferne aren’t as jealous as humans; they have sex purely to satisfy their physiological needs.”
“I’m not looking for a husband.”
“Not?”
“Okay, maybe I am. I hope one of them is mine, just like Auror is yours.”
“Stay in line, Emmyllia!”
“I will stay in line, but that doesn’t mean I can’t drool around.” I smile because she’s just like that. “Now let’s go.”
We leave the room and head to the living room where Auror is.