No Escape

Uninvited Encounters

5 weeks and my belly look like I'm 8 months pregnant. This is just great. I look around the baby's room. How was this able to happen with nanotechnology? The baby bed looked like the eggshell ones we had in our room. The only difference was the clear bars covering around the bed. The little glass dolphins hung over the bed. It was something we took from the mall about 9 weeks back. I'm almost due to have the child. I think I have 3 weeks. No specs of Edwin were anywhere. Where was the son of a bitch? He wasn't seen anywhere and we are hoping that he has given up. I heard Luke waltz in and grab me from behind. I say, "Hey..." I turned around to see Edwin.

"Hello beautiful." He had said.

"What do you want? Where's Luke?"

"Shh Alice. Now tell me why you are pregnant."

"What are you saying?"

"I'm not stupid. I know the difference between fat and pregnant. Don't worry I'll break you out of this prison." Now that sound like a lyric from a song.

"Break me out? No thank you. I am fine right where I am. Can't you see the Pregnant 17 year old right here."

"Join my army, Alice. We are strong. We need each other."

"Army? What the hell are you saying?"

"I've made a zombie army. They do as I say. They fight strong, trust me."

"No! I like it here. Edwin-"

"- I said to never call me that!"

" I don't care! Leave!"

"I will stay till you say, yes." I focused hard on him to make him go. He crouched. His was head hurting. "Stop! Alice stop, please!"

"I will if you go!" I would have stopped before I had started 5 weeks ago, but now? I don't think so he deserves every little yelping, screaming, and pain that he's doing and feeling. I felt a cringe of the pain go to me. God I hope he gives in soon.

"Fine." He started to go then he just evaporated into thin air, literally. How did he that? Can I do that? Can I start my own zombie army? Why would he come back? I sat down on the chair next to me. I put my arms on the arms of the chair. I saw Luke walk in. "Hey, you okay?"

"Did you know Edwin came in?"

"What? He was here? Why didn't you get help?"

"I can handle myself. He just opened the door and walked in. He asked to join his army of the undead. I refused. Then I made his head hurt. He then evaporated into thin air."

"He evaporated?"

"Yes."

"Like poof."

"Yeah..."

"Weird. Anyways, Jake needs to see you."

"Another checkup? Didn't I just get one yesterday?"

"Yeah...you know what's weird?"

"What?"

"The fact he needs and wants to see you more and you're my girlfriend and mother of my child." I just laughed at the comment. Only because it was so true, I laughed.

"Yeah...whatever. Let's go before poor Jake has a hissy fit and goes into an alcoholic coma."

Of course Jake is by the computers researching something stupid that the government was going before they died. I wobble over to the comfortable seat next to him. "How's it look doc."

"It? I can tell you don't care about gender, cutie." His flirting was bland to me at this point. It must have been to Luke too. Either that or he was too tired to say anything.

"I'm fine with anything I get just hurry up with these checkups. I swear you do this to spend time with me."

"And if I do?"

"I don't care" I began looking at my nail. I then shifted my head toward the screen. "What you looking at? Porn, maybe?"

"Ha, ha, very funny, Alice. I've never gotten into that stuff." Jake scoffed. He took out a printed sheet a paper from the printer next to him. It still amazed me that technology worked. "Okay what I was looking at was the chart of your child's health. It will have your powers for sure. Umm, looks healthy so far. I guess you can leave if you really want to."

"Is it weird you still try to flirt with a fat, pregnant girl, Jake?" Luke questioned. It didn't offend me.

"Why would you call your own girlfriend, fat? That is just plain rude."

"I don't care." I responded

"See, no problem." Luke stated calmly.

"Whatever. So how is your lonely life going?" Jake said meaning towards me.

"Oh. You know, boring." I responded.

"Yeah, right. You got a visit from the enemy." Luke commented. I knew he was mad about it. He just sucked it and manned up. That was thing that worried me about Luke. He held his feeling instead of letting them out and that scared me.

"You got a visit from Edwin." Jake had cried out. He sounded mad but worried too. "What happened?" I still wondered if he had brotherly love towards me or still like he had a crush on me. It was hard to tell at times.

"Yes, but nothing happened!" I was yelling as if her were my father and he caught me having sex or kissing my boyfriend.

"Lies!" Luke yelled out loudly.

"You're putting it like I told him to come over. I didn't he just came behind me and talked to me." I crossed my arms and walked away from Luke. He was mad. I really didn't need powers to tell that he was mad.

"I'm sorry. It's just the fact that he asked you join an army." Luke looked at me with remorse. He put his hand over mine. "You don't understand how worried I felt when you told me he was in the baby room. Our child's room! It just makes me sick. The guy makes me sick." He pulled me close to him and he hugged me tightly. "I don't want to see our child hurt and I defiantly didn't want to see you hurt. I will kill the guy just to keep you alive. To keep out relationship alive, I would kill him, For out child and for us." His words were like a speech. His speech had left me hugging him tightly and speechless and the only words that could come out of my mouth were.

"I love you, Luke." His arm grasped around me tighter and he put his head towards mine. He was bending awkwardly.

"I love you too, Alice."

"Yeah, guys I'm right here." I heard Jake say. I knew he was there. I just thought he'd be used to it by now.

"Yes we know." I managed to say.

"And we don't care, Jake, weather you are here or not." Luke said rudely.

"Whatever. I'm done with the checkup. You can leave now." Jake commented. We left the lab with Jake alone in a bright white room. I now wonder w3hat will come next in our little story of ours. Will it be another encounter of Edwin? I hope not. What got me to hate him anyways? That question will be here forever. Wouldn't it?