Before he could finish the statement, he heard his mom call out, "Mikey!"
With a start, he turned around. "MOM!" he shouted.
"You watch that tone, young man," his mother told him, "or I'll..."
Whatever she would have done went unsaid, as a scream cut through the air. Mikey realized that it had come from the area where Karyn had been walking. He quickly turned around, to see the girl with her arms wrapped around her belly. She had a look of horror on her face. As he watched, the girl seemed to be trying to hold something against herself, but was obviously losing the fight. And then, he realized what it was.
It was her belly. It was growing bigger. It looked like a balloon expanding.
Karyn t-shirt stretched over her growing abdomen, and Mikey could see her navel where the shirt was pushed up. If he didn't know better, he would have thought that Karyn was pregnant. But that wasn't possible. Just a second ago, she was the same girl she'd always been.
For a moment, he wondered if he had done something to her, but he knew that couldn't be it. His mom had interrupted him before he had said what he had wanted Karyn to become. He had just said, "Be a...", and then...
And just like that, he knew what had happened. He was responsible for Karyn condition. He had said it. Plain as day. "Be a...MOM!" And now, that what she was. He had made Karyn pregnant.
