Baby and Me

Chapter 2: The Beginning

Fifteen year old Emma Wheeler screamed as loud as she could. She wanted to move but her arms were strapped down. She tried to kick but her legs were spread open as if getting a pap smear and they were held down too so all she could do was scream.

Emma could hear them talking, well sort of. It sounded like the teacher from Charlie Brown but it wasn't really that at all. It was some kind of language she could not understand.

"Get away from me!" Emma said with a scream. "Stop it!"

The beings or whatever it was that was doing this to her were not listening. She could only watch as a wire came down from the ceiling. It spread open like the claw in one of those stupid games, kept getting lower and at the center was another, thinner, metal wire. It went inside her vagina and Emma screamed even louder. As this was happening she could feel something move inside of her, crawling even from one side to the next. It lasted for an hour as if they were trying to find the right spot like a doctor would in trying to find a vein only this was different for the claw held open the walls of her vagina while the center wire worked it's way inside. It finally stopped as it found the right position and more of the crawlers made their way. Then it suddenly stopped. The main wire was pulled out and the claws retreated.

She could hear the beings speak to themselves again. She wanted desperately to know what it was they were saying but it was all a jumble to her. They came towards her though she couldn't get a good look. A mask was placed over her head and she drifted off into a deep slumber.

*****

With a jolt Emma sat up in her bed and was breathing and sweating hard. She felt her arms and looked for any markings of the restraints but their were none. She looked down to her legs and checked but nothing was there either. She then felt the place that she often did not enjoy touching. She had not had her first pap smear yet but she couldn't help but wonder if that's what had happened. There was nothing, no pain or anything else.

Emma took a deep breath. "It was only a dream."

*****

"Hey," her friend Rachel said to Emma as she walked over to their group.

"Hi," Troy said. He placed a kiss on top of her head.

Troy Sawyer and Emma had pretty much been dating since they were in diapers. Their mom's along with Rachel's had been best friends growing up and had their babies pretty much around the same time, Troy's mom getting pregnant with him a year before.

"You okay," Troy asked. "You look like you've seen a ghost," he said using the same line that many had before.

"Yeah I'm fine."

"You sure," asked their other friend Mike.

"Yeah," said Jeff, another friend of theirs.

"Yeah no I'm good. Just didn't get any sleep last night." Emma tried not to think about last night, she managed to keep a straight face around her friends but in her head that was all she could think about. "I have to get to class," she said as she walked away.

She could hear her friends behind her.

"That was weird," said Jeff.

"Ya think," Rachel replied.

*****

At lunch Rachel walked over and sat beside Emma.

"Hey," she whispered. "You okay?"

"I'm fine why?" Emma answered.

"Well it's just that you're not sitting with us and you're looking at that fork like it's going to attack you or something. Not to mention you not wanting to dissect that frog in class."

"Not all people can handle looking at an animal pinned down with it's body parts open okay, Rachel," Emma said getting defensive.

"Okay, okay," she said with her hands up. "I'll back off. We're just worried about you."

"You don't have to be. Can't I just be alone for a little while?"

Rachel looked at the group behind her and then back at Emma, "Yeah sure. You know we're here if you need us right?"

Emma nodded, "Sure."

Once Rachel was gone Emma raised her left sleeve. The mark that hadn't been there before had been there now.

All day she couldn't help but think that what had happened last night wasn't some kind of nightmare at all and that scared her.