To all intents and purposes, it looked like a melon patch except, no melons ever grew amongst the mass of intertwining tendrils and the occasional appearance of a flower head that was weirdly huge. Over half the sizable back garden was given over to this so called 'melon patch', the rest of it being left as lawn. Not being much of a gardener Daisy, since she had moved in to her new house a year ago, had done her level best to ignore the patch which was now very overgrown with thick, ugly looking tendrils. What was worse was that, now that it was summer, Daisy often sunbathed on the lawn and the last few times she had done so she had been suddenly splattered with copious amounts of thick, creamy fluid, which brought an abrupt and unpleasant end to her sunning herself.
The horrid stuff smelled quite disgusting and, on one occasion when, after propping herself up on her elbows, she looked down on the thick, stinky goo sitting on her flat belly, she was almost sure that it seemed to have a life all of it's own. As she circumspectly eyed the horrid, intruding stuff, it spread out, in a suspiciously uneven manner, apparently moving directly towards the waistband of her bikini bottoms. The idea that it possessed an independent life of it's own was so disturbing that she shuddered before she gingerly but, in a half frenzy, rapidly wiped the putrid stuff off. Alas, Daisy was never quick enough to see where the stuff had come from, she was convinced though, that it came from one of the plants in the patch.
And so it was that, one day when she came back from an early evening drinks party, she was determined to get rid of all the plants in the patch as, earlier in the afternoon her sunbathing had been rudely brought to an end once again, by another, rather suspiciously well aimed, even thicker, splattering of the gooey, oddly warm substance, landing with a resounding slap on her flat stomach.
Looking very fetching and pretty in her flower printed, white summer dress that she had worn to the drinks party, she had tied her blonde hair into pig-tails as the only temporary concession to the work she intended to do. The slim hipped Daisy strode straight to the garden shed. a look of determination in her blue eyes. She came out a carrying a well honed hand axe. Nervously entering the patch, she made her way to the middle where a particularly hideous central stalk supported a huge and weird looking, three-petalled flower which was the only flower in the whole patch. Without delay she raised her axe and brought it down on one of the tree-sized, exposed roots below.
To Daisy's annoyed surprise, she missed the root completely, the head of the axe sinking ineffectually into the dry soil at one side. Staring down at the root with puzzlement, she was almost sure that she had seen it move out of the way just at the last moment but, putting this idea aside as a silly fancy she raised her axe once again.
Swinging her axe for the second time with all her might, she struck the earth once again, missing her intended target and this time she was more convinced that she had seen the root move out of the path of the axe. Bending over to look at the root more closely with a quizzical expression on her pretty face, she stared with disbelief at the gnarled and loathsome object that seemed so tightly embedded in the earth, and wondered, how could that move?
Just at that instant, a singular, huge, nearby flower head leapt forward with lightening speed before her face. Before she knew what was happening, it had instantly wrapped its large petals round each side of her head and over the top, gripping it tightly and completely trapping it inside the flower.
Utterly taken by surprise, and before the shocked Daisy could make any latent attempt to extract her head from the flower, it's stalk rapidly retracted within the main body of the plant, pulling her head down low, obliging Daisy to drop to her knees and, as she way pulled even lower, she released the axe from her fingers so that she could put out her hands and arms to protect herself from falling headlong to the ground and her svelte body inflicted with resultant bruises.