The Days After
Chapter Three — A Narrow Escape
Julie got into bed after returning from the hospital. Her twin Jackie was already asleep in the bed next to hers… or so Julie thought.
Jackie coughed awake as she heard Julie get into bed.
“Did you see Harry tonight?” she yawned.
“You know I did” Julie grinned
“Did he fuck you in the ass?”
“How did you know that?” Julie asked.
Jackie sat up grinning a mischievous grin. “You remember you invited him over on New Year’s?”
“Yes…?” Julie said
“And you remember being annoyed he didn’t turn up…?”
“Yes…?”
“Well he did. Turn up, that is” Jackie grinned “…Only he thought I was you!”
“You didn’t…”
“I wanted to know what he was like!” Jackie giggled.
“You bitch!” Julie snarled, throwing her pillow at her sister.
“Hey!” Jackie cried… “But he never took my virginity” she protested
“And what do you think of my boyfriend?”
“He’s a pain in the ass!” Jackie laughed. She slid out of bed and into bed with her sister. A gentle finger against her sister’s slit soon had Julie relaxed. They kissed; light petting. They had done this so many years that they didn’t even consider it lesbianism.
It must have been no more than an hour later when they heard a number of cars pull up. Julie was now alone in bed, playing with herself. Jackie was in her bed asleep.
Julie heard a group of women talking.
She got up and went out into the hallway and saw her dad.
Dave went to the door. Dave stopped to see Julie out of bed, standing there looking from the top of the stairs.
“Dad?” she asked “What is it?”
“Go back to bed” Dave said.
He opened the door.
The crack of gunfire sent Dave tumbling backwards, clutching his chest. Julie started to come down the stairs when three ladies stepped in, brandishing weapons.
She turned and ran back thinking that they were going to shoot her.
She cried in horror
Claire Holt, junior school teacher stopped mid-way stepping over Dave. She pointed a pistol at him. He raised his hand in a futile attempt to protect himself. The last thing he saw was hate in her eyes.
She pulled the trigger again.
“Upstairs!” Chris said coming in next as she stepped over the ruin of her husband, as she clutched her swollen impregnated stomach.
Julie ran to Brad’s room. He was not there. He wouldn’t be back for a while. She ran to his cupboard. She knew he had a secret compartment built where he hid his illegal plants.
“Julie! Jackie!” Chris called out, “Please babies, I need your help.”
“Momma?” Jackie called out half asleep.
“No don’t!” Julie thought, she wanted to scream it, but she was too afraid.
“Honey?” Chris called motherly.
Julie heard her bedroom door being kicked in.
“Momma!?!” Jackie cried out in fear.
“Get her!” someone yelled.
“Momma!” Jackie cried again “What’s happening?”
“It’s alright” Chris cooed, “It will all be over in a second.”
“What is that? Jackie screamed in horror. Then she was silent for a moment
“Oh my…” Jackie cried out. Jackie’s voice was suddenly muffled.
Julie wanted to help but fear held her back.
Julie could hear struggling and then it stopped just as suddenly
Her first thought was that they’d killed her sister.
“It is done” Jackie said
“Welcome my sister” Chris said to her daughter
“You were right, Momma” Jackie could be heard to say calmly.
“You are okay?”
“I am host now”
“We are all host”
“Julie’s here in the house” Jackie gleefully betrayed her sister
“Where is your sister?” someone else asked her
“She’s still here” Jackie said “Somewhere”
“Search the other rooms!” a woman was heard yelling.
Julie retreated even further back into the compartment almost having to sit on a marijuana plant.
She heard a number of voices as they moved throughout the hose.
“Julie!” Chris called out sound as pathetically helpless as she could “Please, come help mommy!”
“Julie!” Jackie called, “Please…you will want to join us”
Then a voice was in Brad’s room. “Check under the bed” someone said.
Then they checked the cupboards.
“Well?” Chris asked.
“She’s not here!” someone said
Julie stayed where she was for ages after the voices had gone. She shivered with fear.