Day 306

She shouldn't have taken it home, she should have ran.
It looked so weird that she couldn't help but want to bring it to the museum
Her nine year old self reckoned the people there would be able to tell her what it was.

It sort of looked human, it at least had the head of an old man with big flat teeth.
The rest of its body was this kind of tail - like a slug but wrinkly and stretchy when grabbed.
That's how she put it into the bucket, it had wrapped around her arm so tightly.

It seemed calmer in the bucket than it had on the floor by the river.
Wasn't thrashing about and gnashing its large teeth any more, it just curled its tail around its head.
Stared at her through a gap in its coiled limb, eyes wide like golf balls.

She went home with her discovery first, the museum was too far for her to walk.
Leaving the bucket just inside the back door she went to find her parents.
Her father was in the kitchen reading the newspaper, he'd take her to the museum for sure.

She had no idea how to describe the creature to him so she went to get the bucket as proof.
If he saw how amazing it was, he'd have no choice but to take her to whatever scientist would know.
When she got to the bucket however, it was empty and on its side.

There was no trail to help her find her creature, not a trace of it anywhere outside or by the door.
She should have put a book on top of it to keep it safely inside.
Defeated for now she headed back to her father as a loud, wet crash filled the air.

Running into the kitchen she was just in time to see her discovery bury itself in her father's torso.
There was blood everywhere and his head was completely gone.
She stood frozen in shock as the sound of chewing grew louder and louder.

With a sickening pop the creature re-emerged from the dead man, face coated in his blood.
It looked a lot bigger, less wrinkly and much fatter than it had been when she found it.
A shriek to her left meant her mother had arrived and the accompanying thud meant she'd fainted.

The little girl was still frozen as her discovery crawled over to her mother and tore out her jugular.
Its distended slug-like body seemed to grow by the minute, it looked more snake-ish now.
How could something that was so small eat so much and grow so fast?

Her legs collapsed underneath her which drew the creature's attention from her mother's corpse.
It began to writhe towards her, its head now the size of her torso and still expanding.
The last thing she saw was it coiling up, eyes like golf balls fixed on hers.