Melissa Stovall was the first to arrive home. Heading to the kitchen she pours herself a glass of fruit punch. Usually she would pour herself a glass of wine. Yet with the possibility of being pregnant, she forgoes the alcohol in favor of high fructose corn syrup. Having a minute to herself she takes stock of her day.
A passionate moment in the shower with Martin. A call from Alyssa; which forced her to seek solace from her friend Frances Twist. Realizing she forgot to take her were-birth control pills since Friday. It caused her to circle back to the shower and the realization that she could be soon with child. Then the school incident involving Julie. “What happened to you Julie? What did we do wrong?” Melissa speaks to no one in particular. Finishing her fruit punch, Melissa starts to get dinner ready when Martin and a sullen and frighten Julie enter.
Julie makes an immediate bee line to her room. Neither Stovall decide to stop her at that moment. Both Stovall’s, choose to hug each other instead. After the embrace Martin take the ankle monitor receiver and plugs it in a wall socket in the kitchen. Several lights starting blinking then an audible beep. “There, Julie is now officially under house arrest. “Martin States. “If this or her bracelet is tampered with, the police will know. Martin sits down looking crestfallen. “She also can’t be more than one hundred feet from the receiver.”
Melissa pours them both some fruit punch. Martin accepts his glass and takes a small sip. Looking at Melissa, “Any chance Frances does house calls for group therapy?” Martin asks.
Melissa recounts her call she received from Frances. With Julie now house bound, Dr. Frances Twist making an appearance would only inflame the situation. “But she did get Samantha to convince Sheriff Cooper to have an officer or two stationed nearby to ensure Julie doesn’t run off.”
Martin cracks a smile. His first since both his and Melissa’s talk while sitting in Principal Andrews office. “Have to hand it to Frances. She is a crafty woman.” Martin gulps down his fruit punch and gets up. He checks the caller I.D on the house phone to see Alyssa Cooper has called several times. Seeing that causes him to groan. “Looks like Alyssa wanted an answer from you Melissa.”
“Why?” Melissa looks up while adding vegetables to the make shift stir fry. “How many times did she call?”
“About a dozen times,” Martin adds. “No messages though. That’s a blessing.” Martin raises and eye brow seeing another number on the list of recent calls. “Your mother called.”
*****
Julie storms into her room and slams the door. Falling onto her bed she screams into her pillow. “I’m going to kill you Eric! I’m going to kill you!” Getting up she heads to her computer and logs onto here social media accounts. What she sees doesn’t shock her per say. Just regurgitated gossip involving her meltdown; and arrest. What shocked her was the dozen or so messages stating that she was unfriended by several of her school mates. Several of her former friends left several unsavory comments.
‘Bitch. Got wat u diserved.’
‘Hope uz iz turned into shark food.’
‘Sushi sounds great. Hope to see you on my plate you bottom feeder.’
Julie closes the site. The comments clearly get nastier as she reads them. Heading back to her bed, Julie pulls out a box under it and extracts a large phallic device. Stripping off her clothes so that she is naked; Save for the ankle monitor. Julie lies back down on her bed. She switches the device on and pushes it in her nethers. Feeling the pulses that the vibrator is emitting she pulls it out and pushes it back in. She repeats the process for several minutes gradually picking up in tempo. Yet no matter how much she pushes the dildo in her, Julie just can’t seem to get off. Frustrated over her lack of release she throws the device on the floor, while it’s still active. Staring at it and realizing that her parents might hear it, she grabs the dildo and turns it off. Placing it back in its box; Julie puts her clothes back on and waits for her parents to ‘talk’ with her.
*****
Melissa and Martin listen to the message for Melissa’s mother. Both roll their eyes in embarrassment after realizing it was nothing more than her often frequent pocket dials. Deleting the message and the recent call list, Martin calls his assistance to have him reschedule several meetings he had for tomorrow. He explains the nature of his emergency and asks his assistance to apologize to the council members that came to see him as he bolted out the door. Finishing the call, He gets up and turns on the kitchen television to watch the five o’clock news.
“Are you ready to talk to Julie, Martin?” Melissa asks.
“No. Let’s just let her stew for a bit.” Martin responds. “Remind me to change the wifi password later. We’ll start her punishment with no internet.” He muses
“Will you be able to arrange it to work from home for a couple days each week?” Mellissa asks, while dishing out the stir fry and handing Martin a plate.”
“I just did,” Martin answers, while accepting the plate of food. “I will be able to say home tomorrow and Thursday. But I have to be back at city hall for a council meeting on Friday.”
“Oh,” Melissa sounds surprised as she fixes a plate for herself and set sets aside a plate for Julie. ”That was fast.”
“Like this morning?” Martin quips with a sly smile.
Melissa turns beet red from that. “That reminds me.” Melissa gets up and heads to her purse. “I picked this up on my way home.” Handing it to martin, He sees it’s a home pregnancy test kit.
“If it’s like when I was pregnant with Julie, I’ll most likely be down with morning sickness. Possibly as early, as tomorrow morning.” Melissa continues, “I’ll take the test then.”
Both Martin and Melissa finish their dinner in silence. All the while, deep inside Melissa’s reproductive organs; the rapidly dividing zygote reaches its destination. Landing on a portion of Melissa’s uterus lining. Receiving the nutrients it needs to develop into a fetus.