Free Farron'S Rebellious Mate (English Edition) (Lords of Arr'Carthian 2.5) by Cathy McAllister Page B

by the arm. “Are you alright?”
    “Yes … yes, I’m al… alright. I only have to … go to the toilette. – Excuse me!”
    “We all meet in the little bar on deck D tonight after dinner. You’re coming, right?” Susan wanted to know.
    “I … I’m not sure. M-maybe,” Jenny replied, her mind still full of the encounter with a very irritating Alien, who had kissed her so boldly.
    She started to sweat, nervous that her friend could see how upset she was.
    “You’re sure, you are okay?” Susan looked at her concerned. “Maybe you should pay the medicine ward a visit. You look flushed and disorientated – maybe you’ve caught some virus.”
    “I … I’m fine. Really. I must pee. See you later,” Jenny said and hurried along. She could still feel Susan’s gaze on her back, as she rushed down the corridor.
    ”Open!” She shouted when she finally arrived at her room. The automatic door opened. These doors were a blessing. Jenny was sure; she would not bee able to open a normal door with a key. Not with her shaking hands.
    “Thank god for small blessings,” she murmured and sighed with relief, when the door closed behind her. She was glad that Mia, her roommate, wasn’t there. Mia was a nice girl, but much to nosy and chatty. She would have detected Jenny’s condition and asked a thousand questions. She wasn’t so easily to get rid off.
    The digital clock at the wall showed 14:24. A day after the alien time was made of twenty-five hours. One hour was fifty minutes. Dinner would be served at 18:00 and was the main meal of the day. The Carthian ate several small snacks during the day, but dinner was a serious thing. Jenny still worried over the food here on board, where all dishes were generated in the food generator. Jenny wasn’t too sure if that would not cause a lack of nutrients. Even if Lory and Charly didn’t show any signs of malnutrition, and after all, they lived off this food for months. At least, after the trip to earth, the food generators had been updated with earthly foods, like Burgers, Pizza and other goodies. Even coke and coffee was now available.
    Jenny went to her own little food generator, that came as basic equipment in all cabins, and typed in the code for a café latte. With the hot drink in her hand, she strolled over to the sofa and sat down with a sigh. Until today she always enjoyed her touring round the spacecraft, and she wasn’t willing to stop with her little investigations only because a certain alien made her loose her composure.
    All she had to do was, avoid the lower deck. There still was a lot to discover here. Soon they would reach their destination and then she would have no more opportunity to investigate all those interesting things here.
    She had learned from Charly that Karrx7, the home planet of the Carthian, was looking rather medieval. There were no skyscrapers or visible futuristic technic. Though there were a lot of advanced technics, it was more subtle and not to see on first sight. So this ship seemed to be much more interesting to Jenny.
    The door opened and Mia entered the room.
    “Hi!” She said in a cheery voice.
    Jenny was glad that she had calmed a little by now. With a little luck she could avoid Mia’s probing questions.
    “Hi,” she replied and sipped on her café latte, to hide her trembling lips.
    “I think, I am in love,” Mia sighed and fell down on one chair opposite Jenny.
    “Wow! Really? That was fast,” Jenny remarked. “Spill!”
    She was happy, that Mia was so lost in her enthusiasm for a guy, that she didn’t seemed to notice what was going on with Jenny.
    “He is one of the officers who works on the bridge. He is responsible for navigation,” Mia explained proudly.
    “And … how did you meet him?”
    “He approached me over lunch and offered to give me a tour of the bridge. Of course I said yes. So he showed me everything. I wasn’t really paying attention to what he explained me – to much boring technical stuff