They lay like that together, naked and entwined in the afterglow of their first lesbian experiance. Lisa worried in silence that she was doomed to become a dyke now that her first time had been with another woman. She felt the desperate need to pray for forgiveness, but naked and reeking of sex was hardly the right moment to talk to God, and she couldn’t bring herself to disrupt this perfect moment. Eventually their perfect little silence was broken when Margaret asked “So what the hell is going on?” Those seven little words shattered the bubble that they’d been sharing and brought her back to the real world.
Lisa sat up on one elbow so she could look her lover in the eyes, and after resisting the need to kiss her friend again in one last attempt to try to ignore the horror story that had become their life, Lisa told her everything she knew. It poured out of her, and once she started talking, she just couldn’t make herself stop. For the next half hour they just lay there while she told her about Chad, the aliens and all the details she knew. She told her about how dangerous the pheromones were and how quickly the eggs seemed to mature inside their hosts. She told what had happened to her mom and their friends, and when there were no more words they just cried together with the fear and the loss of it all.