Dressed in
a tight, silk blue pencil skirt dress, Dana found it to be a challenge zipping
up the back of her dress while holding the phone in the other, her mother’s
chatty voice on the other end. It was a conversation that Dana wanted to cut
short since she was running as late as it was for her date – which happened to
be the topic of their prolonged discussion.
“Yes, Mom,
he’s a really nice guy and I do feel like
he’s the right one, if that’s what you’re wondering.” She listened to her
mother’s response through the receiver; there was a question that Dana could
hardly believe her mother had asked. “MOM! It’s a bit soon to be thinking about
that!” She waited and listened to the reasoning for her prodding question. “If
it’ll put you at ease, Mom, then…yes…yes, I feel like he’s someone I can settle
down with – maybe even have a child with.” She gave a deep sigh after saying
this, hearing how jubilant her mother verbally expressed herself over the
phone. “Whoa, Mom! Whoa! Let’s just take things one at a—” She was cut off upon
hearing another surprising question from her mother. “You want me to name the
baby what? Mom, that’s not too common
of a name these days – it’s the name of a hot
dog!”
Lost in the
conversation, Dana reminded herself of why she was having it when she glanced
at the clock. “Seven-thirty! Dammit!” She momentarily forgot that she still had
her mother on the line when she blurted out the expletive, which her mother was
none too pleased about. “Sorry, Mom. I just…I just really have to go. I’m running late.” In her hurry, she listened to
one more question that her mother managed to get in. “Peter Venkman?” Dana gave
a despondent sigh. “I… I don’t
know about him, Mom. I haven’t seen very much of him lately. I suppose his job
is more important to him than I am.” Her mother gave some words of encouragement
that brought a hopeful smile to Dana’s face. “Well, thank you, Mom. Really got
to go now. O.K. Bye. Give my love to Dad.”
After
finally hanging up the phone, Dana tilted her head back, slowly inhaling and
exhaling until all the stress left her body and she was relaxed once again. Those yoga exercises really do the job at
times like this, Dana thought. Setting the phone down, Dana made the last
preparations for her date and put on her diamond earrings, which hung in all
their sparkling radiance from her ears. She was all set to leave for her date,
until a flash of lightning came up from the corner of her right eye, followed
by a loud
electrical pop. Dana instinctively looked out of the living room window,
believing there to be a storm approaching at first; but she only saw the clear
evening sky, which baffled her. Did a
transformer blow up or something?
As Dana
continued searching the skies for where the lightning flash came from, she
suddenly caught sight of something much
more unsettling and even horrifying, forcing her to back away from the window.
There, in the dark skies, was a winged creature soaring like a bat out of hell
(almost literally in this case) and moving directly towards her apartment. The
large, winged creature – which resembled a cross between a vampire bat and a
werewolf with large horns protruding from atop its head, long brown hair that
clashed with its dark blue fur, red eyes, razor sharp teeth, a long snout, long
claws, and a feminine figure – crashed violently into Dana’s apartment through
the living room window, spreading shattered glass and broken bricks and mortar everywhere.
At a towering height of seven feet,
five inches, the creature stood menacingly within the room, which was too
cramped for her (her horns scratched against the ceiling whenever she moved).
She was donned in a shredded Ghostbuster flight suit that was stained with
blood and had a loose nametag that read “Rousselot.” Dana was too terrified to realize
how she was dressed. All she could do was shriek in horror as this enormous
creature lunged directly at her.The final three chapters go online, starting next month! Check out the previous chapters here!
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