Crystal's Heart

10 Years Ago [Part I]

Crystal Lynn Lun Martinez

Crystal Lynn Lun doesn't know much about the world, but she does know that her family loves her very much.

And that had always been enough for her.

"Mommy," Crystal stares at her mother's large stomach. "Is it true?"

Her mother paused the movie, "What's true?"

Crystal looked around the room suspiciously before she gesture her mother to come closer. She did. "There's a person inside of you," she whispered.

Her mother chuckles softly, "Yes. There is a person inside of me," she imitated Crystal's voice.

Crystal looked around the living room again, then back to her mother, "Did you eat them?"

Crystal's mother wished it was all a joke, but with the seriousness in her daughter's voice, she knows the young girl's question isn't a joking matter.

Footsteps entered the room, "What's going on in here?"

"Daddy," Crystal waved her father over, "Come here."

Her father lifted his brows at her mother before he walked toward them. He leaned against the couch and waited for his daughter to say something.

"Mommy ate someone."

Her father stared at her large brown eyes before he looked at his wife and said: "You ate someone?"

"According to your daughter. Yes, I did." She pats her stomach. When Crystal's mother felt a kick, she smiled briefly before groaning in pain.

"What happened?" Crystal's father asked.

"My stomach," she breathed intensely, "The person is trying to escape!" she shouted.

He rolled his eyes.

"What?!" Crystal shouted. "He's trying to do what?!"

Crystal watched in horror as her mother shrieked intensely while crying for: "Help!" Crystal's mind went blank before the scene of her mother's stomach erupting burst. Inside her undeveloped brain, she can see blood and guts everywhere. Now, the person in front of them is holding a shoe and says: "I'm going to eat you!"

Crystal screamed, "Mom!"

Her dad chuckles, "Crystal, it's a jo-"

Crystal continued to scream in horror as she ran out of the room.

Her dad glared at her mother.

"Sorry."

It took Crystal's father three hours and an ice cream sundae to convince Crystal to get out from under the bed.

It also took four nights of bed wetting for her parents to understand the eating human joke mentally scarred her.

But, after all the talks, Crystal overcome her fear and understand that mother didn't eat a human. She made one.

Now, Crystal aspire to make a unicorn inside her stomach too. After all, if her mom can grow a human, she can grow a unicorn.

Well, Crystal enjoys other things outside of her unicorn obsession.

Things such as going on mini-field trips with her parents. It didn't matter where they went, as long as they were together-her dad on the left and her mom on the right. Right in the middle would be the apple to their eyes - her.

Every day was filled with joy and laughter.

That is until her parents came home with a baby boy.

Crystal remembered meeting Dustin at the hospital where he was first born.