Prelude: Spring
Jenna was heavily pregnant at 16. Her eyes were full of light. Hope for something beautiful that was living and growing inside of her. She wished for a warm summer for her daughter to be born in. She wanted so much.
But was given hell.
The call came at 6 A.M. Her father after battling lung cancer for 5 years , had passed. She was speechless and emotionless. The doctors had said he was getting better. That the Chemotherapy was working. She should have seen the lies flowing but was blinded by her wishing and hope.
Jenna was alone in the world. Her father was 58, she was a late child. Her grandparents were dead. She didn’t have a uncle or aunt. No brothers or sisters ether. She had no idea were her mother was. She had never even seen her mother. Her father never brought her up. He had said she was not really worth mentioning and he didn’t want to make her cry. She took this as meaning her mother hadn’t wanted her or him.
She was glad at least her father’s boss had taken her in at her house for a time. His boss was a older woman named Cara. She was sweet and kind. Her father had been a chief at a small family owned restaurant.But she knew something big was coming. She could feel it in her bones.
She wasn’t going to be living in her small hometown of Hansburg for much longer. She felt it aching in her bones.
The morning the call came jenna sat quietly in the living room until Cara woke up. Cara finally came out to the living room to see jenna sitting in the overstuffed recliner with her hands resting on her swollen belly. They were shaking softly which made cara run over to her and feel her forehead.
“Papa is dead.” Jenna said softly then burst into tears. Her whole body trembling. Her baby girl moving and shifting inside of her.
She cried all the way to his hospital room.
She cried all the way to his funeral.
She was barely able to keep from screaming at night.
She could feel the aching of something coming throught out her.
Suffocating her entire being with panic.
Her eyes turning dark and then her mind reaching a place she couldn’t understand.
The demons were running to her. Down her hall to her room to rip her womb open and steal her child.
Then she opened her eyes to find herself at a doorstep to a grungy apartment room.
