"Ahhhhh!" I screamed as I looked down at my belly. I ran my hands over it yet I still couldn't believe it. The bulge was huge and I looked like I was pregnant! Suddenly I heard my brother knocking on the door and I ran for the covers.
"Yo sis? You okay in there?" he called out.
I fumbled for an excuse, "Uhmm, yer…Thought I saw a cockroach!" I managed to say.
"You're such a girl!" he yelled back.
"Shut up!" I kept up the farce as I heard him walk away. I flipped the covers back over and gazed in horror at my belly.
Yesterday I was NOT pregnant so perhaps I should back up a little?
Yesterday
The route home from school was not an easy one, I had to pass many dark alleys on my way and so it was in one of these alleys that a man pulled me into. He was tall with brown hair and average clothing; a checked shirt over a white T. He dragged me into the alley and shoved me up against a wall. I struggled to get free but he was surprisingly strong. He looked at me with black eyes (no seriously there was no whites, just black) for a moment before he tried to kiss me. As he did I felt this like powdery stuff go down my throat, it felt really weird. After this he just pulled away and left, only glancing back once to stare at me with those jet black eyes, then he was gone.
Today
So; I put the pieces together. Must have been that guy. He must have been an alien to make me like this with just a kiss and this fast. I took a breath and thought up my next move. I was not getting out of this house without my brother, mother and father all seeing me and it wasn't like I could just hide this. Plus, what if I had to raise this…uhm…whatever. Maybe it might even look human, or it might be some kind of razor sharp thing with teeth. Either way I was going to have to give birth to it, or perhaps it might just chew me to bits. Still, birthing it was (in my head) still an option, so I might as well think up something to say to my family. I settled on the Band-Aid treatment and stood, I got dressed in my loosest clothing and went downstairs.
To cut the whole thing short here's my family's reactions.
MOM: "Oh my lord! What about your A-Levels!" (Mom seriously thinks I have a shot at Uni, yer right!)
DAD: "Honey! Who did this to you?" (Dad's a bit over-protective)
BROTHER: "Sis, wow! Strange. So you got a name for it yet?" (My older brother is so cool.)
It seemed everybody, except my brother, just totally forgot that yesterday my stomach had been flat. Mom was just concerned about my education while my father was preoccupied with plans of how he would punish my boyfriend.
Oh that's right, I have a boyfriend; how the heck is he supposed to take this?
My brother was cool as always; he was also the man with the plan. He called the school and told them I wouldn't be in for the next week. Then we both sat down and he asked, "So how did this happen since yesterday?" I told him my story and at the end of it he just nodded. My brother made a lot of plans that day.
So I was out. It was my brother's idea to get one of those tests; he wondered if being pregnant with an alien baby, would it show up on a test. So I was walking home, down one of those same alleys when again a man popped almost out of nowhere. There was this box which kind of looked like a phone booth but blue. The doors opened and a man stepped out. He was wearing a tan overcoat and a rumpled striped suit which was perhaps a size too large. He smiled at me and reached into his inside jacket pocket, pulling out a business card. He handed it to me and said, "I know your problem, he's got answers." I was stunned.
I looked down at the business card and read, "Torchwood." Below the name was an address in Cardiff.
"Just ask for Jack." The man continued. I looked again at the card then back up but the man was gone and so was the blue box.
Jack.
Who the hell is Jack?