She Came From Beyond! by Nadine Darling

Author:Nadine Darling [DARLING, NADINE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC019000; FIC044000; FIC016000
ISBN: e9781468312881
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Published: 2015-10-13T04:00:00+00:00

12.

WHEN WE FOUND OUT THAT JOAN HAD HERSELF COMMITTED WE were at the gynecologist, where I was getting an ultrasound. It was also the day when we found out the sex of the twins, a boy and a girl. The girl was smaller but she moved a lot more, like a woman in an office who is constantly shaking her knee up and down to burn calories. I knew that they whaled on each other a lot, the babies, but it was interesting to see them doing it. They reminded me of the brothers from the band Oasis, just constantly staggering around and falling into each other and punching blindly in any direction. They were growing well and they had all their stuff, the technician told us. Their little hearts blinked on the screen like cursors.

Somewhere in there, Harrison’s phone rang, and he squinted at the number and excused himself to a darker corner of the room. The girl baby fell asleep and still she punched her brother; he was good at blocking, for a fetus. I could hear Harrison trying to be quiet and doing a fine job at first but then letting it get away from him.

“Oh, Jesus,” he was saying a lot of things like that. Then he asked the technician for a pen and a scrap of paper and we both started watching Harrison more than we were watching the babies cramped into my body. It was a wonder to me that twins could ever be alone after being born, that they didn’t have to keep wearing another person constantly like a fur coat.

“Is everything okay?” I asked, and he shrugged and shook his head at the same time.

To the technician he asked, “Do you know this area? How would you get to Two North Hospital from here?”

“Kill a guy, I guess,” said the technician, whose front tooth was broken on the diagonal in a very cute and jaunty way, as though she’d intended it that way. She reminded me of Pippi Longstocking with that tooth. “No, seriously,” she said, “just get on the highway.”

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