Chapter two
The history...
30 years earlier...
I would name her Gemini Lisa says, still staring at the child while holding the baby, mother and child still connected by the umbilical cord. She holds her child, beautiful silver hair, beautiful brown silver eyes, beautiful brows, and lips shaped like a bow; my beautiful daughter.
Still sweating from the labor, alone inside the Bush Lisa tries to sever the ties between her and her child using a knife she got from her backpack, she covers the child with a cloth that she could pick while hurriedly leaving the house, she hears a ruffle and quickly hides behind a huge tree and covers the mouth of her baby, she peeks out and sees the people chasing her run past.
In that pain, Lisa gets up carries her child, and runs in the direction of her grandfather's shed all the while praying that the old pickup van her father used to love still works properly.
Picking Gem up strapping her behind her, Lisa picked up her backpack and gets up with great difficulty, bleeding profusely and staggers towards her grandfather's hidden shed, her hair plastered on her face with sweat and a pained grimace on her face, she quietly makes her way to the shrubs hiding the shed, "oh how her father used to brag from North Philly and back about coming here and spending time with gramps."
On getting there she stands in front of a 6ft tall shrubs hiding the shed, parting it lovingly she is met with the sight of the old "95 pick up truck looking very rusty, she makes her way with blood trailing her wake to the hidden place papa used to say gramps kept the keys, under a flower bed beside the left tire of the truck, she feels around for the key, careful not to startle the child, and she almost danced in jubilation when she found the key and limped to the car...
Lisa catches sight of some rainwater, she quickly removes her baby from behind her, loosens the cloth to reveal little gem fast asleep, she bends down with a loud groan and starts pouring water on the blood streaks and startles gem awake with a loud ear-piercing cry, Lisa laughs bitterly still looking at the baby "my Gem, what a loud voice you have, wanna be a singer?".
Gem stops crying immediately and laughs splashing water on Lisa while staring deeply into Lisa's eyes and right there Lisa saw silver brown eyes looking deeply into her soul "it's you and me now Gem, you and me" Gem raises her hand as she heard her, that gesture brought tears to Lisa's eyes.
"Come on Gem, you just came out of my vagina a couple of minutes ago, why are you acting like an old lady?". Oh now, so am talking to a baby I just pushed out of my vagina, way to go, Lisa, she quickly raps Gem up, and takes her to the truck, opens the driver's door, and limps into the truck holding Gem with one hand, closes the door, inserts the key into the ignition and then "oh whoever is listening, I know I don't go to church or anything, but I promise to bring you some money if you help me," with her palms together she prays, then tries to perform the sign of the cross, I mean if you take running her index finger confusedly from one shoulder to the next sign of the cross then yes, she did do the sign and then she turns the key and there is a cough from the truck and it sputters on.
Lisa quickly puts the car on the reverse and comes out of a hidden path that leads to the oackland express and drives off with her lids threatening to close down.
Lisa manages to hit the express and runs far away from the people after her child and herself, the same people she called her own… after driving the whole night in which she packed a few minutes to breastfeed Gem, she came to a road sign that read Brooksville and she turned into the road and stopped at the first self-service station she could find.
And flat out faints on the steering with Gem staring quietly at her mother.
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Meanwhile back at oackland Jeremy and the others rounded Their way back after searching the whole night for Lisa, and that dog she is carrying in her womb, but no such luck befell them for they could not find them.
They head home downcast and tired, to the mayor's place, Senior Donovan who happens to be the uncle of Lisa and father of Abigail Lisa's best friend sat outside awaiting the news of the death of that brat, so that he and his daughter can have peace.
Maxwell john Donovan the mayor of oackland is not impressed with the news of the escape of his niece but had to swallow the whole incident because he did not want the people to see an evil motive in his rule to chase Lisa and that bastard in her womb, he dismisses the guys and goes into the living room, walks straight to his bar and picks a bottle of scotch and pours a little in a glass and gulps it at a go.
Hearing the door open he turns to find Abigail his good-for-nothing daughter, crybaby personified, if only she was as beautiful as Lisa and half as smart maybe she would have snagged herself a husband by now.
Abigail walks seductively to her dad and holds him from behind while licking his left ear "daddy did they catch that bitch?" She coos softly, he turns fully into her embrace and kisses her fully on the lips "no pumpkin but I will find her okay" and then he carries her to the bedroom all the while very glad that his fat wife Glen has gone to get groceries.
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In Brooksville, the crusty B has been open since 9 am, and Billy the owner has been feeling a type of way that she left her 3days old baby at the back of the shop, "well I had to do what I had to do, nobody would have taken her for me, I got me no husband just stupid old matt who ran away after finding am with child, well it be my cross, I will carry it".
She notices a truck pull over and waits a while after 20minutes she decides to go tell the idiot in the truck that she has a baby that needs tending to, so he'd better get out, make his order so she can go feed liby.
Billy has been known to be a giant with about 6ft10inch of strong and muscled build, she looks like a thug, black hair cascading down her neck, blue eyes, and a crooked nose to match.
But underneath all that imposing gaith and looks, she is soft and calm.. she matches down to the car but nothing prepared her for what she saw…
A lady soaked in blood, the hand holding the steering soaked in blood the face of a said lady buried in the steering circle, a little bit of what looked like umbilical cord poorly cut dangling from her slightly engorged stomach.
Billy's hand goes to her mouth in shock and then she runs her eyes to the other side and starred into the most unsettling and unusual silver brown eyes of a baby wrapped in a bloody cloth.
*Jesus H christ, hello can you hear me?* Billy stands rooted just starring and almost like she got snapped out of her shocked state into action, she runs inside the BnB and gets her phone, with shaky hand she dialed 911 and calls an ambulance, she drops her phone and runs back to the car, opens the passenger seat and picks up the baby….
She just keeps staring at Billy without crying, just staring, that's very unusual says billy, she tries rocking the baby while waiting for the ambulance to show up.
In the grid hospital, nurses are in utter shock at what they found out, a few minutes ago a woman and her supposed newborn baby were brought into the hospital in a stretcher with big billy trailing them.
Doc beneth comes out from the room where the lady and her child were brought still in a daze.
That lady put to bed by herself, cut the cord by herself, and traveled over 100km with a bloody baby and an even more bloody visage of herself, but that's not the shocking part, both mother and child are perfectly fine, the child seems too fine if you ask me.
Walking quietly down the hospital hallway, and watching other nurses hurdled up probably discussing exactly what she is thinking,
She gets to her office and sits back still in shock remembering everything fresh.....