Chapter 29
As they drove down to the woods where they normally hunted, Mark suddenly had an epiphany. “Hey Kelly! I was just thinking. I don’t think that dollhouse is cursed. Or haunted, or whatever is wrong with it. I think, I think it was a blessing to come into our house.” Mark said, with a big grin. “Besides! Don’t you remember we are having a baby?”
Beth was the first child to say something, “a baby?” She said, utterly shocked. Kelly gave him a dirty angry look, they were definitely not planning on telling the children right away. He just grinned at her.
But Coralina exploded. Her fury dripping from a million different directions at once., “A baby! You can barely feed us as it is. You two are shit parents. What the fuck are you thinking! Do you not understand how babies are made?” Their tiny little child glared with such hateful intensity, that Beth curled away from her sister.
Kelly’s mouth dropped open as she turned and stared at her furious little girl. She had never even heard Carolina use a swear word before, much less be able to throw them out with such venomous perfection. Kelly couldn’t think of anything to say to her angry child. The hair on the back of her neck was rising, and she knew… She knew that it would come in like a hurricane. This curse. Coralina had just entered fury, and Kelly wondered how long until her husband was trying to kill them.
If they couldn’t resist it then they were dead.
“You are right!” Said Mark, with a big grin. “We are no good at birth control. That’s why we have a new one! Won’t it be fun? I think it sure will be! I’m sorry you’re not feeling super happy about it, but you shouldn’t be mad! This is a beautiful time of life. And I am sure that your mama is going to get another job so we can have food, or she will stay home and raise the baby. Either way, it’s a beautiful thing.” He said, practically giggling with excitement with every word. The mood in the car was an unwanted rollercoaster. Glorious delight pouring out of Mark, while fury brewed in the backseat. Kelly was mute with terror. Her little family was spinning out of control.
Beth was cowering in the back seat staring frantically at her father and then her sister, then again at her father and then her sister. She looked at her mom, with big frightened eyes and Kelly knew, that her youngest might crack. Beth understood that something horrible was happening to their family.
But Coralina was not done yet, “You bitch. Don’t you know how to close your legs!” She said and she reached forwards and grabbed a handful of Kelly’s hair with her unbroken left arm, and yanked it with all her might.
Kelly let out a scream, both of shock, terror, and pain! How could her own child be saying these things to her? She turned and slapped Caroline across the face. And then there was shock on her own face as she realized what she had done. She had never slapped her child before. Kelly instantly had tears running down her face.
“Fuck you.” Coralina said, and then opened the car door and jumped out while it was still moving.
