Comfort Zone

April and I have had several long chats these past few days, and I think we are finally getting back to where we were before we started giving each other space.  I suspect there is still part of her that is worried about my alien side.  We have generally spent so much time pointing out how alike we are despite the obvious differences that we have spent very little time discussing how deep our differences run.

This is something we will have to discuss more in depth, but I am content putting that off to a later time for now.  I am just pleased we are comfortable with each other again.

Other People

Sometimes, I do not know what I would do without my little sister Madison.  Sometimes, I wish I could have left her behind on our home world or that she would disappear in some unstable wormhole, but this time, I am glad she is around.

Madison is, as I have said on numerous occasions, an expert on human emotions, particularly female emotions.  I would like to think that if we did ever get back to our home world, she would write quite the career making paper on the subject.  For the time being, I am content with knowing she can help me with my failed understanding of April’s behavior.

Despite my assumptions to the contrary, April was still concerned with the amount of time I have spent with my alien brethren.  I suppose she was somewhat jealous that they could be taking away my affections from her.  My sister did point out that several of our female kind have taken on rather appealing forms.  I was inclined to agree on a purely scientific basis, but that lead to part of the jealousy.

It has also come to my attention that we are getting close to the date when I started discovering that there were more of my people out there, and that made April uneasy.  I still do not understand why, but Earth people place great significance on dates and anniversaries.  Accepting this concept as a truism makes it easier to understand why April would react in this way.

After understanding that and giving her the space that I did not want but I suppose she needed, I finally called April earlier this evening.  We will talk more tomorrow and have some things to straighten out, but it is a first step to reducing this space we have given each other.

Virtual Space

April is still taking my space.  Or is she giving me her space?  Whichever it is, there is a lot of it going on, so it is giving me some extra time.

While I am using most of that extra time to examine the cumulative understanding of knowledge I have compiled on human female behavior, which is to say not much.  Therefore, I am using the rest of that time to take out some aggression in the virtual world of gaming.  I have not seen my old nemesis Morgoth for a while, but I would not mind something to take my mind off April.

Negative Space

I wish that theoretical time machine existed again.

My sister informed me what April meant when she asked if I wanted “space.”  How was I supposed to know that was some veiled human code word for “stay away to let each other pursue separate romantic engagements until we can officially end ours”?

I do not want “space” from April.  I never did.  I thought she was just being helpful in my attempts to assimilate my alien brethren to earth society.  She knows how difficult it has been.  My sister, however, informs me that I am “a putz” and have apparently been ignoring April lately.  It was April’s idea to start the movie nights, but I suppose I never properly thanked or credited her to the concept.  And I have been dragging her along to a lot of those lately.

How am I going to fix this?

Space

April is still mad about my insistence she hurry up when we were late to the movie the other night.  I have attempted to apologize to no avail.  She says she is concerned how much time I am spending with my new “friends.” I assured her that it was important, but for my duties as apparent ambassador for my people to the local government and also to keep in touch with what few of my kind I am in contact with.  April said that it might be a good idea, if this was so important to me, that we should have a little space. 

I am not entirely sure what she means by that, but I suppose I can use this space to focus on the other aliens, and if April wants space I should allow her to have it.