THE INFANT 2

Victoria froze.

It suddenly seemed like there was no air in the room.

All she could hear was the distant ticking of the living room clock.

Was she seeing things?she thought.

Tick-Tock-Tick-Tock

She came down the stairs....slowly.

The sound of her footsteps echoing in the still house.

"Didn't I just put you in the car?" Victoria whispered as She approached the infant.

She remembered the feel of the baby's skin on her cheek as she'd carried it to the car.

She remembered placing the child in the backseat of her car.

She was SURE she'd put it in the back seat....or had she?

The Infant's eyes followed her every move as she approached it.

Tick-Tock-Tick-Tock.

Weren't they supposed to blink?she thought to herself as she stood over the couch.

The child's stare didn't falter.

She suddenly felt a Presence in the room.

The hairs on the back of her neck stood on end as she spun around.

But all she saw was an empty still room.

Tick-Tock-Tick-Tock.

For a fleeting moment,She was certain she'd heard whispers in her head.

But they were silent almost as soon as she'd heard them.

I'm freaking out.She concluded as she tried to calm herself.

She took one last look at the baby,then turned around.

"I am soooo Tweeting this!"She whispered to herself as she ran up the stairs.

Uncle T always said she was an insanely absent-minded person.Maybe she was.She thought.

Or maybe her sexy brother in law just  didn't like her very much.

Okay,stop that.She warned herself.
As she tried shoving erotic images of him from her mind.

She always thought he was hot.....like sinfully hot.She'd caught herself fantasizing about him more than once before.

There were times she could've sworn she'd felt his eyes on her body.

Gloria was the lucky one.She thought.

She'd always had fantastic taste in guys.

Victoria frowned when she thought of the trolls she'd been with in her life.It actually made her skin crawl.But she  just couldn't help herself."No" was the  hardest word in her dictionary.And she hated herself for it.

"Stop fantasizing about your brother-law "She told herself as she pushed her door open.
The room was just as she'd left it.....Upside down.

"A woman can't afford to be disorganized."Gloria often told her.But between her Two Thousand or so friends online and her Five or so boyfriends,where was the time to get organized.

She frowned at the state of her room,but decided she couldn't do anything about it now.

"Now,where is that phone?"she said as she checked underneath panties,and blouses strewn all over the floor.

Then she remembered.

She'd taken some selfies in the bathroom that morning.

She rushed into the rest room.There it was on the sink.

"Victoria,I swear one day,you'll forget yourself somewhere"She said as she grabbed the phone.

She heard something behind her.It was a scratching sound.

A Rat??

Her heart leapt.

Please let it not be a Rat!She thought to herself,as she slowly turned around and stared into her room.

The Instant cold terror she  felt in her chest wasn't because the infant she'd left downstairs was suddenly in her room.....

It  wasn't even because the child was stark naked.....

....It was because .......the Baby was STANDING on it's tiny feet with a  smile on it's face.

The eyes that stared back at her were not the eyes of a child.

They were the eyes....of something else.
Victoria could feel her own heart  beating inside her breast as her whole body began to tremble.

She watched transfixed as it slowly....extended an arm,pointing a tiny finger at her.

"....Vic-to-ria....!!!" Came a nightmarish voice from it's mouth.

She fainted.


Rain again.

It was night time when they got home.

Gloria didn't like being driven.

Maybe it was the control freak in her or just the fact that Tunde drove in slow motion.

She just hated being driven....especially by her husband.He was an extremely careful
driver.Which she found super annoying.
Her car had refused to start when she'd left the office.

She'd just sat there behind the wheel raining abuses on a her mechanic for lying to her that the car was fine.

She'd been so furious that evening.The damn thing had only been serviced a week ago.She thought.

She'd just sat there weighing her options.

a)Get a cab

Or

b)call Tunde.

The truth was cabs terrified her.Only last week,a friend of hers was almost raped by a Taxi driver.

The thought of being in a car with a total stranger chilled her to the bone.

It was a terrible phobia she had.

Victoria had always been the daring one.The one who could take chances like that.It was one of the few things she envied in her younger sister.

The girl seemed fearless.

Why wasn't she picking her calls?Gloria wondered as they entered the drive way.

It wasn't like Victoria (however distracted she might be)not to answer her phones.

She had four of them four Christ sakes.Gloria frowned.

"I'm sure she's probably asleep"Tunde said softly as he parked the car.

"Yeah..."Gloria replied staring at the starless heavens.

"....maybe she is"

Tunde hadn't been able to get the Infant's eyes out of his mind.

It had haunted him all day.There was just something about them he thought.Something.....unusual.

He sighed.

Well,at least Victoria would've dropped the little monster with the authorities by now.He thought.

How strange the world was.He pondered.

That someone could leave a child on the doorstep of total strangers on a stormy night.

They felt a light drizzle on their bodies as they got out of the car.

Fierce flashes of lightening announced the coming of a storm.

Odd.Tunde thought.

The front door was open.

"Is Victoria Mad??"Gloria spat
"How could she leave the door  like that?....If a rat has entered this house eh?"she declared with anger as they walked towards the house.

"The lights are off"Tunde whispered.
Gloria paused.

"....and her car door is open"He said with a hint of dread in his voice.

It dawned on her that in her annoyance she'd overlooked those  details.

Mild sounds of thunder.

Now Gloria was a little worried.The car was Victoria's prized possession.It was the one thing(next to her phones)she cherished more than anything else.

Something was wrong.She thought.

Wild flash of lightening.

"Stay behind me"Tunde said as he gently pulled her.

 Cautiously....they  entered the  house.

The interior was dark....and still.

"Vicky!!!"Gloria called out.

"Shhhh!!!"Tunde gestured.

He flipped the light switch by the door.

The sound seemed to echo in the lifeless house.

The darkness remained.

His heart sank.

Calm down!He thought to himself.The last thing he wanted was to scare Gloria any more than she already was.

Flash of lightening.

What the hell was going on?He thought.

He heard his wife gulp behind him.

".....T-Tunde....l-lo-look..."Gloria whispered with a frightful quiver in her voice.

The sound sent a shiver through him.

His eyes went to the living room.

There was a single lit candle on the stool by the couch.

At first he couldn't make out the figures he was seeing seated there.

Then In another flash of lightening....he saw her.

He felt an icy trickle of panic run down his spine.

Victoria was naked with the infant cradled in her arms.....she was breast feeding the Infant.

....to be continued

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SO CHOOSE WISELY
ENOUGH SAID