Miranda's Prophecy
I woke up snuggled against Shane. Glancing at my clock, I saw it was 3:40. I sat up; trying to figure out what was the nagging feeling in my head. And then I remembered.
I was pregnant.
Another wave of nausea crashed over me and as quietly and quickly i could, I hurried towards the bathroom to puke. It all made sense now I thought as I was throwing up. And I suppose this is morning sickness. I was only really vomiting in the morning, and I was really overemotional and I kept eating eggs. All the symptoms and I didn't see. God I was stupid. I was never really going to fall asleep now, so I went downstairs to make myself some breakfast. But as I went into the dark kitchen, I saw a shadow sitting there. I started to scream, but it was quickly muffled by a cold hand on my mouth gently. "Claire, Claire! It's me, shh!" Michael whispered.
I relaxed and he took his hand away. Sighing in relief I switched on the light. He was standing in front of me, a look of amusement and confusion on his face. "What are you doing up this early?"
"I woke up, and couldn't sleep."
"Really? Because earlier, you were so exhausted, you just passed out on Shane's shoulder. He had to carry you up." So he still didn't know. Well that was a relief. But she would have to tell him sometime, and Eve. And…Shane. "You should have seen the look on his face, he got all freaked out when you fell asleep, eve couldn't stop laughing."
"Yeah, that sounds like Shane" though I daresay the look would have been much more horrified if he knew I was pregnant. With his child. This time I couldn't stop the tears fall from my face.
"Claire?" Michael's amused voice at once turned comforting. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing" I sniffed yeah, like that was going to work.
"Are you thinking about your grandma?"
I nodded, since that was the easiest excuse, and though again I was really sad about her, there were more pressing issues. Like childbirth. And telling Shane. Michael stepped forward and hugged me gently, not forgetting he was much stronger. And like a stupid baby, I cried my eyes out.
Damn, pregnancy was not fun. This was going to be a long day.
It was evening, and, as predicted, I did keep randomly crying. The good thing was that now, when I cried, I could be comforted. Shane, bless him, never left me today, looking after me and reassured me when I cried the million thousand times. And it wasn't until dinner, when it finally went wrong.
"Miranda, honey! What are you doing here? " Eve's voice wrung out from the hallway. Uh oh.
"Oh, eve, I had the worst vision! Come with me, I must read the cards!" and with that, she dragged eve upstairs. Miranda was a bit less skinny than last time, which was good, I thought. Though she still looked like she could snap any moment.
"Who was it? " Shane asked me as I came back to the living room.
"Miranda"
He groaned. "Great. Miranda, the screwed up teen physic. That's exactly what we wanted"
"Shut up! She's really nice you know, and she's only a kid!"
He didn't respond, jut focused back on the TV.
"Guys" I sighed and headed towards the kitchen. Michael was there, with the same expression as Shane, and opened his mouth.
"Don't" I said, stopping him, my voice starting to rise. "I know what you're going to say, and I don't wanna hear it, ok? So she's here, she had another vision, she can't help it. So she's trouble, again, she can't help it. You don't want her here, she might be a danger. She's only 16! So will you get a grip and JUST DEAL WITH IT!" I turned and saw Shane standing there. "AND THAT GOES FOR YOU TOO!" not waiting to hear an answer, I left them there, mouths agape and stormed up the stairs. As I passed eve's bedroom, I heard several murmurings and whispers, so I quietly pushed the door open. Eve saw me and hurriedly motioned me outside. Closing the door behind her, she smiled at me.
"Thanks for sticking up for Mir CB. You were right; the both of them are pathetic."
I smiled back faintly. "Yeah, well, they were really getting on my nerves, so it just kinda slipped out. They do this every time."
Eve sighed. "Yeah, but I'm a bit surprised you did that. I would never expect you to ever just explode like that. I mean, that's something I would do.
I shrugged and we both turned to look as Miranda came out. She was shaking and pale, but upright.
"We need to do a séance"
And in outright horror, remembering what happened the last time, I said "oh crap."
Because this was not going to be good.
Surprisingly, it didn't take much convincing to persuade Shane and Michael to do it. They probably didn't want to set me off again, judging by the looks they kept giving me, and they're constant mouthing of sorry. Sighing I started to apologize.
"Guys, look I'm really sor-"
"BLOOD! I SEE SO MUCH BLOOD!"
We all jumped. It was a serious da ja vu from all those years before. I just hoped that it wouldn't be the same as last time. We waited for her to continue.
"She's in this house." She whispered. "Upstairs. She's bleeding so badly. There's so so much pain, its agony to her. She's screaming, panting crying…"
"Who?" eve whispered.
"She's blurred, but there's someone else to. A young man, he's trying to help her. He thinks, he thinks it's all his fault…he's crying also.. Something else… but there's so much blood, covering the floor, his hands. A child…"
My head snapped up from the table. Did she say a child? I was staring at her, but I felt the familiar nausea starting to overpower me again.
Her voice was getting faster, volume rising as she spoke "yes, the man is the father, delivering his child. But she won't stop bleeding…so much blood…so much pain, agony. It kills her, slowly…her screams are all I can hear…it's getting darker…darker...darker…" Suddenly she fainted, leaving u with our mouths hanging open, either in disbelief or in horror. But mine was just horror and fear.
Was the woman Mir had predicted, the woman with so much blood, having her child…?
Did she mean me?
OMG. I'm so sorry it took so long! But I got dragged off to France and when we came back my laptop was stolen! Omg. So I had to rewrite all of it. Soz.
Ps. I know this is kinda like glass houses but give me a break. It's all I could think of.
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