Visitor (Normila / Laurmani)

Chapter 7

Normani and Lauren jumped out of bed at the sounds of Camila screaming in agony. Normani rushed to Camila's side while Lauren stood back a little to observe what was happening. Camila was balled up on the bed like a fetus, and her skin was clammy. Normani told Lauren to grab a glass of water, and she complied. However, when Lauren came back with the glass, Normani couldn't get Camila to move in a position to drink.

"Camila, tell me what's wrong," Normani demanded.

Camila groaned, then coughed. Just making the effort to speak caused her more pain. "My body aches all over. It feels like something is crushing me," she explained.

"I'm calling 911," Lauren announced. She didn't know anything about Camila's background, and the last thing she wanted was for a stranger to die in her house.

"No!" Camila blurted out. "Take me to my ship, please."

Lauren looked to Normani confused. "Her ship? What is she talking about?"

Normani shook her head at Lauren to let her know it was nonsense, and then turned back to Camila. "Camila, that's crazy talk. We need to take you to the hospital."

"They can't help me at the hospital. Please! Just take me to my ship," Camila begged.

Normani figured all she could do was play along and hope that Camila's condition wasn't such an emergency that she needed immediate medical attention. "Where is your ship?"

"You can't be serious. There's no fucking ship," Lauren interrupted.

Normani turned to Lauren and put her finger over lips to signal to her that she should be quiet. Lauren got the hint that she should just go along.

"I can give you the coordinates to plug into your GPS. Normani, can you grab that thing that looks like a remote control off the dresser?" requested Camila.

Normani honored Camila's request, and she and Lauren worked together to carry Camila out of the bedroom to Lauren's car. Camila gave the coordinates to Lauren to put in her GPS. The location she wanted them to go to was Calaveras Lake, which was about 20 miles south of San Antonio. Considering that they were on the north side of the city, it was going to be a long drive.

"If she starts dying on us, we're going straight to the hospital. I can't believe we're taking this long ass trip for an imaginary ship. What in the hell could be on a boat that could help her?" Lauren asked.

Normani explained, "She's not talking about a ship that sails on water. She's talking about a spaceship."

"The fuck! That's even more ridiculous," Lauren complained.

The green-eyed woman was furious that she was driving all the way across town in the middle of the night because some strange woman claims that she has a spaceship, but she bit her tongue and drove in silence. Normani sat in the backseat with Camila to make sure her health didn't further deteriorate. Camila cried quietly with her head in Normani's lap as Normani stroked her hair in an attempt to comfort her.

About 45 minutes later, they arrived at Calaveras Lake. Lauren got out of the car first and opened the passenger door to help Normani carry Camila out of the backseat. After carefully sitting her down on the bank of the lake, Normani pulled the strange-looking remote control out of her pocket. There were characters on there that looked like nothing she had ever seen. Noticing Normani's confusion, Camila motioned for her to hand her the remote.

Camila looked around the area to see if anyone else was there. After seeing that the coast was clear, she pushed a few buttons on her remote. Slowly, a large vessel rose out of the water. When the whole ship was above the surface, it slowly propelled toward land. Lauren and Normani were complete awestruck at the sight. The craft looked like something they had only seen in sci-fi movies. When the ship stopped in a good spot, Camila pressed another button causing a door to open.