The Womb

What else do you need to know? This girl tricked my friend. She didn’t trick me. He had known her for fourteen days and had basically been fucking her constantly and had some puppy dog hang up on her.

I thought she was ok. She was funny to talk to and funny to look at. She was odd to start off with. Just her whole demeanour was slightly off kilter. She had written letters to everyone in the house for example explaining her situation with my house mate. We didn’t need the details. He thought it was quirky. We thought it was weird.

Then on the fifteenth day she rang and told my housemate she was four months pregnant. The father was a forty year old scientologist who wanted nothing to do with her. My housemate took her in like some pregnant stray which is whimpering in the rain. I wasn’t happy but you can’t upset a friend and anyway, he’s twenty five and he knew my viewpoint on the situation. She was against abortion because she had already had one. I sarcastically said does she use it as a form of contraception and that joke went down as well as I do. She spends the night and in the morning my friend and I head off to work. Leaving her in the house. I was uneasy about the situation to say the least.

We came home. Everything was gone. Everything. Our house had been gutted. I nearly broke my neck stepping through the door to find there were no floorboards. The house was as empty as that bitch’s womb.