My apologies up front. This story may seem more horror than sci-fi/fantasy, but sometimes reality refuses to fit neatly into arbitrarily delimited categories. The following is one of those examples. Related by Mary-Jane Tillman, Class of 2005 Valedictorian, Jefferson High School.
*
I'm amazed I had no clue that something about my parent's home had spun out of the ordinary. I should have tumbled to it, though, after Daddy got sick and could no longer work. It's strange to contemplate now: Our standard of living actually went up instead of down after he got sick, and it wasn't because of a timely inheritance or something like that.
But how often does a typical public school coed think about things like that, so long as she has the newest electronic gizmo, a closet filled with latest
distressed
designer jeans, and anticipation of attending a prestige college long enough to snag some handsome stud-husband with lots of money?
Well, I began my road to discovery the second week after graduation, two months after my eighteenth birthday.
Momma called me into her bedroom that Monday evening long after supper. Her eyes had been red before and reddened worse during supper, so when she summoned me, I assumed whatever she had to say, she'd be telling me more bad news about Daddy. She seemed more clingy than usual, and that reinforced my presumption about her bad news.
I wanted to ask, "What's the matter, Momma?" because obviously she was more distraught than the worst she normally got at times like these. She sat me on the edge of her bed, the one next to the hospital bed where Daddy lived when he wasn't in his wheelchair, within which we wheeled him to the livingroom and back.
"Mary-Jane, Honey?" she said, new tears forming in her eyes.
I looked up, expecting the worst.
"You can't go off to Smith-Western College this fall like you planned," she said as she shook her head slowly.
I'm sure my expression said,
Oh?
We didn't seem to be hurting in the financial department, and Smith-Western wasn't that expensive
"You're going to start summer school tomorrow instead, and when that's over, you'll stay there for more training and finally, your career."
Career? Hell, I didn't know what I wanted to do for the rest of my life, not yet—unless it was marry some rich guy, attend a never-ending schedule of garden parties and charity functions, and dedicate my life to shopping and playing bridge like Mom had before Daddy's illness struck.
"Where, Momma?" God, I hoped there were lots of guys with big dicks, wherever this was! Last place I wanted was somewhere the guys all liked each other better than blondes with over-sized,
after-market
breasts like mine. Sex and money. That's what I wanted in a man. Even if he might be ten or fifteen years older than me, I'd take him—specially if he had money with a capital
M
.
"A place you never heard of." She sniffled, and I assumed she foresaw several months of my absence and only vacations and holidays to visit home thereafter.
"But why not Smith-Western?"
"This is best for everybody, all the way around. Believe me, Honey, you'll learn to like it." Her tone added,
or else
, but I didn't pick up on that because I was just short of pissed-off that Smith-Western with its successful men's sports program was suddenly no longer in my future. Molly, a year-ahead friend of mine, started there last fall, and came home Christmas and spring-break bubbling that Smith-Western must recruit its male teams based on the size of their dicks.
"Now here, Mary-Jane," Momma said. "Try not to be too disappointed. Take this sleeping medicine and go to bed early so you'll be ready for your big trip tomorrow."
So I did, and never saw Mommy, Daddy, our home, Jefferson High, or my friends for the next eight years.
**2**
When I awoke, I felt light headed—and strapped down to whatever I lay on. I tried to move my head, but no dice. Couldn't move it at all, in fact, like my arms and legs. I could move my eyes, though, and this room—or whatever it was—looked more like a lab or hospital room. One color, no decorations, and within the world of my vision, everything stainless steel, shiny clean, with some sort of lighting that glared down and made my eyes hurt.
A door—at least it sounded like a door—opened somewhere I couldn't see. My stereo hearing sense said it was behind my head. Then I heard hard shoes on a hard floor and the swish I put to be a lab coat.
The woman who came into my sight wore no coat, only a long dress-like thing that waisted up under her huge breasts, empire style. From there up she was naked, except for a wrap or two of polished steel chain glistening around her neck and sagging into her immense cleavage. I say immense because her breasts would shame a basketball, or maybe even one of those cheap, Chinese beach balls I'd seen in the 18" rack at Well-Sell Mart.
"Oh! I see you are awake. You must have gotten a slight overdose of your sleeping med. You been out six hours longer than you should have. How do you feel?"
"How come I'm strapped down? I can't move. I can't move anything except my eyes."
"Your young Oochie is moving into you this morning. Then, once you understand things here, I'll get its permission to release you so you two can get acquainted. He's a cute little guy. Well, not really a guy, because Oochies are asexual."
Asexual? That didn't sound good!
"But, I'll tell you what. I'll release your head so you can look around more and watch as he's moving in. That way you'll know what's inside you, and I can explain it to you more easily. Okay?"
What the hell was I supposed to say to that? Inside me? What about my virginity? What the fuck!
Her huge breasts moved out of my sight, but soon I felt the clamps against my skull ease and shake loose.
"There, feel better?"
I nodded.
"So now, move your head and look around. What do you see?"
"Your huge breasts."
"Yes, aren't they. I just love them. I'm bigger than those that gal on Earth's Internet claims are the world's biggest—by almost half again, by weight, anyway. And I'm proud of them, too. Mine are real; they make as much milk as tits that size should."
"Don't they hurt, being so big—when they're full?"
"Oh, not much. See, the Oochies figured out a way to make them part of your chest and body, so they just are. Like your legs and feet
just are
."
"Oh."
"Now, let me show you something else." She stepped back so my vision reached below her breasts. The bulge below them exceeded their size.
"You're pregnant? With a kid?"
"No, Honey. I'm
with Oochie
, like you will be in an hour or so. Of course yours is young, so your belly will be lots smaller to begin with. But you'll have one, just the same. And it will grow bigger than mine over the next year or so."
"Inside me?"
"Yes. In a year your belly'll be way bigger than mine. Oochies are developing their race to increase its stature—size, you know. The infant you're getting will grow to at least twice as big as mine."
"I don't want to be pregnant!"
"Your
want
to has nothing to do with it. Your breasts will grow to twice as large, too, so you can make enough milk to feed your Oochie once it grows to adulthood. Adult Oochies take lots of milk. It's all they eat if they have a choice."
"I want to go home, please? I don't want to be here."
"Sorry, Honey. Your family needed a lot of money to provide your father's very expensive medical care, and you were part of the deal. Your mother was the other part."
"Momma?"
"Yes. Didn't you notice her breasts got big, and her belly, too? Rather quickly?"
I thought a moment, then nodded. "I thought she just got fat." If she had a belly, that explained why Momma's style had changed to empire waists, like this woman with me now wore.
"So, other questions?"
"What's your name?" I didn't say,
so I can have you prosecuted for kidnaping and whatever else once I get out of here,
but I was certainly thinking it.
"Della Wainwright."
"How long you been here?"
"Fifteen Earth years—about."
"Earth years? What's that mean? Aren't we on Earth?"
"Keep dreaming, silly little girl!"
"Where, then?"
"You wouldn't know it if I told you. Takes six light-months to get here."