Chapter 2: The Truth
(The next afternoon. In Dr. Kimble's office. Jennifer is laying down on a couch and Dr. Kimble is sitting in her easy chair with a pad and a pen)
Dr. Kimble: Why don't we start with you telling me a bit about yourself , Jennifer.
Jennifer: Well, my name is Jennifer Ann Baker. I'm 16. I go to Willoughby High. I'm a loner really although, that's not by choice. I do have a friend her name is Angela. She's the one that gave me your card and suggested I make an appointment. I live with my mother and sisters. I do everything they ask. EVERYTHING!
Dr. Kimble:Everything? That doesn't sound quite right. You don't do anything for your father?
Jennifer: I don't have one. He left us when I was a born.
Dr. Kimble: I'm so sorry. Now, why don't you tell me a little bit about why we're here.
Jennifer: Well, Doctor, I've been having these nightmares. They almost feel like memories.
Dr. Kimble: Memories?
Jennifer: Well yes, but not mine. Someone else's.
Dr. Kimble: You think you are seeing someone else's memories? Tell me more about these dreams.
Jennifer: Well in one I'm hosting an elegant dinner party and I give birth to a baby girl who I seem to be resentful of. Then the dream skips to sometime later. I'm about to make love to this man who I assumed was my husband. He comes into the room and gets closer and closer to me. Suddenly, my jaw unhinges like I'm a python and I swallow him whole.
Dr. Kimble: And the man in the dream. You've never seen him before?
Jennifer: No. Never. In another dream I'm preparing something in the kitchen when these three little girls come in. They ask me what I'm doing and I tell them I'm making dinner. And then I show them a pan with a sleep baby in it that I marinated in BBQ sauce and honey.
Dr. Kimble: You were cooking a baby?
Jennifer: Yes and I had never seen the children or the baby before either. Usually, it's just those two dreams but last night I had a new one that makes me wonder if these are dreams at all. I'm starting to think they are warnings from the beyond. In this last one I was at the town pageant with my date. Everything was normal at first but then my date wanted to worship the contestants. He went towards the stage as did all the other men. The contestants themselves who all looked like supermodels each grabbed a man and then ripped out his heart and ate it. My date was the only one whose heart wasn't ripped out so I went up and ripped it out and ate it too. That's when I called you. I think I'm losing my mind. Something else happened… not in the dreams in real life.
Dr. Kimble: What happened?
Jennifer: My mother dropped a key on the floor a few nights ago and instead of giving it back to her I went to the closet and I searched til I found an old jewelry box. I used the key to open it and inside was a heart. And it was alive.I think someone in my family ripped out someone else's heart and is keeping it in a box.
Dr. Kimble: Now, Jennifer you know that can't be possible. I think it was just one of your dreams and I think these dreams are rooted in the fact that your father left and you have felt abandoned ever since. So, killing is your mind's way of showing you how lonely you truly are. What you need to realize is that you are not alone you have friends who love you. I'm going to advise you join an extracurruliar activity. Do something with a group. Go to the pageant. I'm sure after you do these dreams will stop.
Jennifer: Thank you, Doctor.
(Jennifer exits the office)
Maybe Dr. Kimble is right maybe the dreams are just dreams. They just seemed so real.
(Jennifer comes home and sees her mother sitting on the couch)
Natasha: And where have you been?
Jennifer: I went to talk to a psychologist; I thought I should get to the root of these nightmares.
Natasha: What did you tell this psychologist?
Jennifer: Just told her about the dreams and asked her if she thought they were anything serious. She suggested I go somewhere where there would be lots of people and the dreams would go away. She suggested the pageant tonight. If it's ok with you, mother.
Natasha: Well,I suppose if it will stop you from screaming every other night.
Jennifer: Thank you,mother.
Natasha: Now, this place is a horrid mess. Clean it up.
Jennifer: Yes,mother.
(Jennifer was finishing up her chores that night and had just put on her new outfit. As she entered she heard a door slam and ran out to catch up to her family but they drove away. She went back inside to call Wybie when she saw the note forbidding her to inside her told her to check the closet. So, she searches and find a piece of wood sticking out of the wall. She pulls it and the floor disappears and she falls down a chute into a futuristic room filled with tiny filing cabinets filled labeled with the names of every man in town and a sign saying heart cabinet.)
Jennifer: Heart cabinet? Holy shit! What is going on here?
(She sees a table with a book on it " Venusian Invader Log". She opens it and starts to read)
May 26th 2013. The plan to rid the Earth town of Cliffordville of all it's men by sacrificing them in honor of Queen Aquarius's birthday and in preparation for the invasion will commence at midnight earth time tonight. My youngest offspring the Changeling that we refer to as Jennifer will also be sacrificed at a later date. Although, it is becoming clear that she is coming closer to the truth but because she is half Venusian sacrificing her with the human men does not seem proper. … Holy Shit! The Pageant! I have to get down there!