The Creature

“You’re pregnant, Mrs. Ross.” Dr. Venezuela said.

Lisa’s heart dropped.

“It’s actually Miss, I’m not married.”

“My apologies, Ms. Ross. But as I was saying, the urine test came back and told me that you have been pregnant for six months now. Congratulations.” Dr. Venezuela said.

Lisa got up from the examination table and walked around the room in circles.

“But that’s impossible! I’ve never had sexual intercourse before. How could I have known? I don’t even have a pregnant belly.”

Dr. Venezuela pulled out the urine test results, to show her that it said she was pregnant.

“You must have me mixed up with someone else. Dr. Venezuela. I am not pregnant.” Lisa said as she tried to walk away.

“Lie down Ms. Ross. Let’s do an ultrasound.”

They quickly began and ultrasound only to discover Dr. Venezuela was right. There was a little baby inside of Lisa and she didn’t even know this whole time. It’s been six months and someone is just now telling her she is pregnant.

“Maybe your system is broken. Or maybe this is a joke. April Fools! You got me.” Lisa laughed before realizing this was actually serious.

“Listen, I don’t know what to tell you, Ms. Ross. The test says you’re pregnant. Now, I have to go to a meeting, I’ll see you next time.” Dr. Venezuela replied.

Lisa walked out of the doctors room confused.

“How could I be pregnant? This is impossible. I’m a virgin. I have never had a boyfriend before. I never even kissed a guy before. This is crazy. I can’t believe this. This must be a dream. Maybe I should take a pregnancy test. It should come back negative because, I mean, I never had sex.” Lisa thought as she got into her car and drove straight to her mother’s house.

“Mom! Where are you?” She yelled as she walked into the door.

“In the kitchen. What’s wrong?” Her mom asked.

Lisa took a deep breath.

“Mom what am I going to do? How could I have not known?”

“You need to calm down. Maybe this is all just a misunderstanding. Or maybe you did do something and don’t remember? It’s okay to admit it honey, you don’t have to be shy.” said mom as she tried to calm her daughter down.

Lisa walked away.

“ I can’t believe it. My own mother doesn’t believe me… Oh My God. She should have extra pregnancy tests lying around somewhere. I need to find them, take it and prove to Dr. Venezuela and my mother that I am not pregnant.”

Lisa walked into the bathroom, focused on looking for a pregnancy test. She looked inside the closet. After moving everything around, she found one. But, the only problem is she doesn’t know how to use it and the instructions aren’t in the box. She grabbed her phone and looked up how to use a pregnancy test.

“Ok, so all I have to do is put a drop of pee in this area and wait a few minutes for it to say negative. Got it.”

As she was waiting for the result to come back, it occurred to her that this strange thing has happened to her about four months ago. She remembers being at the Lollapalooza Festival, in line to get a chilli cheese dog. As she finished eating, a strange woman walked up to her and asked Lisa for her name. She told the lady her name and remembered giving her a handshake. There was something strange about her. She had four fingers on each hand, as well as kind of long arms. She also remembered the lady not saying anything else, but giving her a long hug. As they hugged Lisa felt a slight pain in her stomach. But she thought it was the aftermath of the chili cheese dog.

“That’s gotta be it. That lady. That strange lady from the Lollapalooza Festival must have done this. That pain that I felt, it wasn’t from the chilli cheese dog, it was from her. She must have been transforming some evil baby inside of me. But how am I going to explain to my mother as well as Dr. Venezuela that this is what really happened. They won’t believe me. I’m screwed.”

Forgetting about the pregnancy test, she walked away from the bathroom and walked to her room. She laid in her bed, staring at the ceiling and thought of ways on how to tell her mother what happened. She knows her mother wouldn’t believe an alien-like woman got her pregnant just from a hug. As she laid there thinking, she started to feel nauseous. She closed her eyes, hoping it would go away but instead she started coughing. She ran to the bathroom to throw up. Instead of throwing up the breakfast she ate this morning, she threw up bloody hair balls.

“This is strange. Really strange. What is going on? What is happening? I need some help. But no one will believe me, no one would help me. What am I going to do?”

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.

“Lisa, are you okay in there? You’ve been in there for quite a long time now.”

“Mom come in, you are not going to believe what just happened.” Lisa said as she pointed at the toilet.

“What am I looking at Lisa?” mom asked.

“I threw up bloody hair balls mom, do you not see them in the toilet? It’s disgusting mom.”

“Lisa stop playing games with me, I don’t see anything. Now I need to shower and get ready for work. Will you be okay on your own?”

Instead of answering her mother, Lisa walked out of the bathroom completely shocked. She shook her head and went back into her room to lay down.

“I can’t believe it. How could it just disappear like that. It was there in the toilet, and then it just vanished. Disappeared like it was never there. Something is going on. Something is wrong. This is strange. Why is this happening to me? This has got to be a joke, a dream, something. I’m not pregnant and I know I’m not because it’s impossible. I’m a virgin. Never had sex, never kissed a guy, never went on a date. But that lady, oh man. I can’t. My mind is everywhere right now. I think I need a nap.”

---1 hour later---

“Owwwww! Mother! Help me!” Lisa woke up from her sleep, crying out for help only to remember her mother was at work.

Despite the pain she was in, Lisa got up from bed. She grabbed her phone and her keys and walked out of the house. She needed to go to the hospital. She got into her car a drove off. When she arrived at the hospital, she cried out that she was having a baby and was rushed into the Delivery Room.

“No no no no no no, not right now. It’s only been six months, I thought babies were supposed to be carried for nine months, I don’t understand what’s going on. First Dr. Venezuela tells me i’m pregnant, then the bloody hair balls I threw up, and now i’m in the hospital ready to deliver the baby. This all just happened today. My life is great, super great. I’m not even prepared to take care of this baby. I don’t have anything, no crib, no carrier, no bottles, milk, none of that. How am I going to be a mother?”

“Can someone please call my mother? I can’t do this alone, I don’t know how to be a mother. Someone please call her and tell her I’m here before the baby comes out. Please. Thank you.” Lisa yelled as she entered the delivery room.

“What’s your name?” asked the nurse

“My name is Lisa Ross, did you call my mother?” she asked

“Yes, she’s on her way. But as of right now I need to take of all your clothes, put this gown on and lay in the bed. Turns out you were just having major contractions. I’ll be back to check up on you when your mother arrives.” the nurse said as she left.

---Ten minutes later---

“Lisa, Lisa, Lisa, are you okay? What’s going on? I got a call saying you were giving birth?” mom asked with concern.

“Turns out, I really am pregnant and could be giving birth today. Mom, i’m scared.” Lisa replied while tearing up.

“Everything going to be okay baby, I promise. She relax.” mom said as she held onto her daughter's hand.

Just as her mother said that, she began to feel the contractions again. But way worse. It was like the baby was eating her insides, forcing itself to come out. She started to scream and yell, as her mother called for the doctors and nurses. As they came running in, something strange was happening. Lisa’s eyes turned white, and her body started to shake. But no one could see it. This was not a regular baby, This was some kind of creature that only Lisa could see. The creature started to pounce on Lisa’s stomach, trying to force itself out. It was ready to be born. The nurses and doctor didn’t know exactly what to do. But since she couldn’t have a normal birth due to the fact that she was a virgin, they decided to give her a c-section. They quickly rushed her body to the operating room. They quickly laid her on the bed, and began the c-section. Lisa was already passed out so they didn’t have to wait. They began cutting her stomach open, but at first her skin was too rough to cut through. So they grabbed a heated rag, hoping it would somehow make her sweat and soften her skin. After her skin became soft enough, they started to finally cut through. They needed this to be done as soon as possible before the creature ate Lisa inside out. But that was what Lisa thought, everyone else thought it had to be done as soon as possible so that they wouldn’t have to wait any longer and that the baby was ready to be born.

“Come on baby. You got this.” her mom cried as she held her daughter's hand tightly.

The baby was born and Lisa was all stitched up.

“It’s a boy!” the doctor yelled.

Lisa woke up. Afraid, she starts to scream.

“Where am I? Why am I here? What’s going on?”

“Baby, calm down, you gave birth to a baby boy.” said her mom.

“That is not a baby mom. It tried to eat my insides, I am not crazy mom. You have to believe me. That thing is not a human being, It’s a creature.” Lisa said.

“Honey, don’t say that to your child. He is adorable and is not a creature. Her hold him.” mom said as she tried to hand Lisa her child.

“No! Don’t let that evil thing near me mother. Get me out of here.” she said as she tried to get up.

“Honey you cannot leave. The doctors have to move you to the other room. You have to stay here for a couple of days. They need to take care of you, you are not looking so well after this birth.” her mom said.

Lisa couldn’t stand being near that baby, or that creature. It’s like she was the only one who could see that this wasn’t a normal birth, it isn’t a normal baby.

“What is seriously going on? Why can’t anyone see what i’m seeing? First the bloody hair balls I threw up disappeared, then the creature pouncing on my stomach forcing itself out, nearly eating me inside out, and now they can’t see the creature I just gave birth to. Instead they see this cute adorable baby boy. Someone needs to wake me up from this dream. I don’t want this thing, I don’t want to be reminded of it, I don’t want it near me and I don’t want to take care of it.”

“Excuse me, but there is some sort of mistake here, some sort of misunderstanding. But, this is not my child.” said Lisa

“Ms. Ross. Being an eighteen year old mother must be hard to believe, but this is your child. You just gave birth to him dear.” said the doctor before walking out to give Lisa some rest.

A few moments later she heard a knock at the door. She figured it was just her mother coming back from the bathroom so she called for her to come in. There was a deep silence and Lisa knew there was something wrong. She opened her eyes, only to discover the strange lady from the Lollapalooza Festival. Lisa laid there, closing her eyes and reopening them to make sure she wasn’t seeing things.

“I’m here to take my baby” the lady said

“Where are you taking it?”

“Back to the other world.” the lady replied

“So you’re telling me that I was put through this horrendous birth, just so you wouldn’t have to? You made me give birth to a creature that could have eaten me alive. Why me?” Lisa yelled

“Because I read you. You were a virgin, never had kids before, never did anything and I felt like this was the perfect opportunity. I needed you. My master told me I needed the baby to be birth by a pure person, or else the baby would turn out to be insane. He told me that if the baby turned out insane he would leave me.” the lady said

“This is ridiculous. This unidentified lady is going to stand there and tell me that all of this was just so her master wouldn’t leave her and just so her creature baby wouldn’t turn out to be insane even though he is already insane. It’s not like I was the only virgin female at the festival. Oh my goodness, or was I?” Lisa thought

“Listen, Lisa i’m sorry. But there was no other pure female at that festival, I had to use you. But now that it is over, i’m here to take the baby and leave you alone for good. I will erase your memory, so you won’t remember any of this. When you wake up, everything would be back to normal as if this was all just a dream.” said the lady before she disappeared

The next morning Lisa woke up in her own bed. It was just as the lady said. Her memory of the baby was gone. Lisa woke up with major stomach pain. She looked down at her stomach and realized she had a long scar on it. Lisa called out for her mother confused.

“MOM! Come here, right now.”

“What?” said her mom

“What is this?” she asked while pointing at her scar

Her mom looked at her in shock. Lisa has never given birth before, so it was weird to see her daughter having a c-section scar.

“Honey, that’s a c-section scar..”

Both Lisa and her mom were confused. They figured the quickest way to figure out how Lisa got the scar was to go to the hospital. They got into the car and drove to the hospital. Waiting, Lisa couldn’t stop looking at her scar. It was as long as her foot, and she wears a size 6 ½. As she touched her scar she began to think.

“What is this? Why is it here? Why does it feel like this? It’s squishy and long. What happened last night? I honestly don’t remember anything. I remember eating dinner, laying in bed and not feeling well and all of a sudden I had this sharp pain in my stomach and I ran to the bathroom.”

“I had a dream..” said Lisa

“What dream?” asked her mom

“There was this lady who came and told me she wanted her baby.”

“I don’t think I came to the hospital last night to check on my stomach pain. I never had surgery before. Maybe this is from the ultrasound from yesterday? Hopefully this scar will go away.”

“Ross family?” asked Dr. Venezuela

“Uh yes, we’re here.” Lisa and her mom said as they walked towards the room

“So I woke up with this scar” she said while lifting up her shirt

“And I wanted to know where I got it from. Could it have been from the ultrasound yesterday?”

“No. You had a baby boy. Remember? Said the doctor

Lisa and her mom looked at each other in confusion. Little did Lisa and her mother know, Dr. Venezuela was actually the strange lady from the Lollapalooza Festival, the lady who impregnated Lisa and left her to give birth to a creature. But since she erased Lisa’s memory she didn’t realize who it was. The lady lied. She said she’d leave Lisa alone after the situation, but instead she wanted her to continue to go through this alone. After six months, Lisa was still a virgin and told she was pregnant.  She threw up blood hair balls, and had another c-section. Again and again, she had to get a new scar. The strange lady wanted to torture Lisa so she would eventually kill herself and be just like her.