​20 Weeks – Chapter 6 (Part 1)

​20 Weeks – Chapter 6 (Part 1)
 
 
“How can I protect a baby when I can’t even protect myself?” Bijuu asked the computer screen, as she stared at the search results for ‘What are the odds for a teenage mother?’
 
“You can’t,” her ghost replied from the corner.
 
“How can I support a baby, when I can’t even support myself?”
 
“You can’t.”
 
“I just killed my boss.”
 
“I know.”
 
“I have to get an abortion.”
 
“You can’t.”
 
“I know.”
 
“I’ve been drinking, smoking pot, taking my anti-psychotic meds…”
 
But her ghost remained silent, even after Bijuu looked up at her floating there, in the corner by the door.
 
“Google says most kids born to mothers on drugs go through at least three foster homes before finding their forever home.”
 
“Google’s not always right.”
 
“There are hundreds of thousands of kids waiting right now for a home… so who’s gonna want some rapist’s kid, that’s been on drugs its whole life?”
 
Nyx blinked her translucent eyes but otherwise remained silent.
 
“And they’ll go on, as if nothing ever happened?”
 
“Maybe Brad Pitt will ride in and save the day.”
 
Bijuu looked up to her ghost, and then over to the poster she’d put up just a year before.
 
And then she snorted in derision.
 
“No… he’s the whole reason I’m in this mess.  Him and men like him, who've made evil men seem normal.  Men who  keep justifying their dirty hands, and we all just keep letting them.  No… he’s no different than those assholes downstairs.  All of them.  Especially all those silent witnesses who never said a thing…”
 
Bijuu had a look in her eyes now, a look Nyx had never seen before.
 
And then she got up and began ripping down all of the movie posters from her walls.
 
“No more.  No more getting away with destroying our lives for their entertainment.  No more getting rich off of our suffering!”
 
“Ummm Bijuu,” her ghost said.
 
“What?” Bijuu snapped, as she spun around with half of Pitt’s overly groomed head in her hand.
 
“Cory is just about to knock on your door.”
 
 
 
 
© Raena Exe 2021
ISBN   978-1-7332979-8-1
 
*All characters, places, and events are completely fictional.
*All rights reserved.

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