When Pregnancy Never Ends: A Forgotten Wells Horror

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Hello, hello, hello, hello. Hi, hi. How you doing?
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Welcome back to Laugh While You Scream. With me, your wonderful,
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beautiful, amazing host, Robin Bakayoko.
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What's that sound? That's the sound of silence.
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That's the sound of me, not myself. Okay, so we are now reading short scary
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stories from Reddit, as per usual.
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And today's OP is Forgotten Wells.
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Okay, the twins of terror. We've had stories from them tons of time.
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We're very familiar with their writing style and how good they are at writing stories.
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Okay, I love a Forgotten Wells story.
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Very good, very good. okay?
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And today's story is called, How Long Are Pregnancies Supposed to Last? Now, let me say this.
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Before we continue, I forgot to ask a question in yesterday's episode.
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I've been tripping. So the question for yesterday's episode was,
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if your partner was being held at gunpoint, let's say they're being held at gunpoint,
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would you ask to swap places with them or would you sit there and watch them die?
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Wait, wait, it's a yes or no question. So would you ask to swap places with
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them? Yes or no? All right.
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I'm not going to answer that question. Okay, let's continue.
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So today, like I said, the story is how long are pregnancies supposed to last,
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okay? Sounds like a good title.
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Are we ready to get into it? Y'all ready? Okay, great. Let's begin.
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I was drafting a breakup message when Abby, my girlfriend, texted me first. I'm pregnant.
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How can two words so dramatically change the trajectory of your life?
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Well, I'm not a piece of shit. I'm going to do the right thing.
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I will ignore the aching feeling that I just don't like Abby,
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that I don't like being around her, that I find her boring, immature.
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None of that matters anymore. I have to be there for my son.
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And I just know it's going to be a boy.
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We got married at the county register of deeds.
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No rufty-toofty wedding.
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We couldn't afford, despite Abby deeply wanting one. It felt businesslike, as it should.
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Those first eight months were brutal. I found her mule in the mans,
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infuriating. Foot massages.
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Oh, quick run to the store to get me those pickles I like. Why are you acting so distant?
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I want to put my head through a wall. I didn't. I had to be strong for my son.
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I had the due date marked on the calendar, counted down the fucking hours till
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I would see my son, knew my life would change infinitely the instant I saw him.
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Nine months came and went. She didn't give birth. Abby had been pregnant for
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10 months when I begged her to see a doctor.
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Nothing's wrong, she insisted. Yes, something very much is wrong.
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Glenn, trust me, nothing is wrong. he'll come out when he's ready.
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Trust her? How the hell could I?
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11 months of pregnancy. 12 months.
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I contemplated crude methods of sedating her, knocking her out,
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and getting her to a doctor to receive the c-section she flat out refused to get.
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She kept saying those words over and over again.
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He'll come out when he's ready.
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Every week that passed brewed more fury in me.
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At 16 months pregnant, I began to believe she was doing this on purpose.
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This was some otherworldly scheme to spite me.
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I was losing the ability to keep my calm.
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Abby, it's time. I don't think so. Yes, it is. it's time. He'll come out when he's ready.
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Don't say that. Don't ever say that again.
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Maybe, she said, you're just not ready to be a father.
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Maybe that's why I couldn't help but yell, I'm ready to be a father. I would kill for my son.
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Oh, please, kill for him?
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Nobody's asking you to kill for anything. Would you care for him?
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Love him no matter what? She pauses, and I see.
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Insubordination in her eyes. Would you love his mother?
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You'll never know what it's like to feel so strongly for your child you'd kill for him.
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That is my burden. Now this has to stop. See a doctor. Give me my son. I'm not asking.
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Our fights grew more frequent. Two years of pregnancy. I can't leave.
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Not while she has my son.
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I find myself in medical websites researching emergency home cesareans.
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My eyes shaping my kitchen knives I don't think will be sharp enough.
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I can see my son under her skin. He has grown large, strong,
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and healthy. At least I hope.
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The shape of his face is almost discernible, and I can see my nose on him. I swear I can see it.
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Three years of pregnancy, and I can no longer hold on my rage.
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I have put so many holes in the drywall.
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How can she be so stubborn?
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Four years have passed. Five. Five years of pregnancy.
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Abby insists everything is fine. That is our unnamed son.
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That our unnamed son will be ready to enter this world when I'm ready to be a loving father.
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That bitch she's the size of a whale she can barely walk our son is so big inside
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her stretching her skin swelling her joints i must admit i have a mental breakdown and i run flee escape.
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No child is worth the torture she has put me through.
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My son will have to be broken, young man, be a broken young man,
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fatherless, lost and afraid.
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It has been seven years since I received that fateful, I'm pregnant message.
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I've spent the last two years couch surfing, as I'm ashamed to admit,
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sleeping in my car, odd jobs, miserable nights, drinking everything I can steal,
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trying to forget, failing.
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And perhaps only because it is Christmas, I find myself driving to Abby's house,
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out of body, as if I can't control what I'm doing, being drawn to her.
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I pop across the street, can see right in through her grand the living room window.
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Under a Christmas tree, Abby sits in her pajamas across from my son.
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He opens presents, and I smile, lights up on my face.
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He hugs her. They laugh, laugh like they've known each other their whole lives.
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I see red, not from any Christmas lights, but from what was stolen from me.
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I run to her front door, but of course it's locked.
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So I go to that living room window and start punching.
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I'm going to take my son back.
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As the glass breaks, I feel the shards shred through my jacket and wrist.
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Abby is not frightened at all, like my son is.
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She grabs him and carries him away into a different room, all in a flash. I have made.
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Mincemeat out of the glass and my skin.
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I have one leg through a window sill
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when Abby returns with a sleek little handgun, willing to kill for him.
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The end. She said, I'm also willing to kill for him. The end.
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Okay, so we know that that story right there is crazy because she has been pregnant
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for several years and that could never happen.
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Once a baby passed that 40-week mark, that nine month mark, that's when you
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absolutely positively, maybe after three or five days, have to get a c-section
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because that baby has to come out of you.
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It can't survive past that time.
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It's not healthy. It's not okay, okay?
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So we know the story is just fake and crazy all in one.
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But either way, it was a very, very good story.
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They're very good and viewed, very well written, as always. Forgotten well,
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always do a very, very good job.
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They always write very good stories that are very well written, very interesting.
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So that's exactly what this story is, okay?
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As far as opinions go about it, like I said, I wish we could go back and forth.
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We could go back and forth and I could just, you know, toe to toe, we could talk about it.
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But when I don't talk to myself, so that y'all can call the police, I refuse.
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I refuse to look crazy for you people, okay? okay
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so um go ahead
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and let me know how you feel if you want to let me know how you feel about it
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spotify is the best way to reply directly to an episode so do that if you feel
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if you feel like you should do that all right now my question based on this story would be.
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If your partner, and I'm talking to the man out there, if your partner gets
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pregnant, even though you wanted to leave them, would you stay because they're pregnant? Yes or no?
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Okay, that's mainly for the man. You know what I'm saying?
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Women can chime in and say what they feel about that situation,
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but a child should never be the reason for you to try to hold on to a man.
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If a man does not want you, he's not going to want you even after you have a
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child for him, okay? He's going to care for the child because that is his offspring.
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That is his flesh and blood. It feeds a real man.
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But he is still going to feel the same way he feels about you.
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And he's still going to be resentful towards you.
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You can't try to trap a man into staying with you because of a child,
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okay? I'm being serious. I'm being real.
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I'm being real. so y'all know what's up if he
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didn't want to marry you before the child he won't want to marry you after the
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child and if he marries you it's gonna be a horrible marriage because he did
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not want to be in this marriage he was forced to be in this marriage okay all
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right you want a man who's willing to marry you because he loves you.
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Wholeheartedly, okay? Now, thank you guys once again for stopping by,
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like I've said time and time again, because I really, really appreciate you
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guys coming by when it's just a little old me, just a little old me by myself.
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So I really appreciate it. And therefore, please go ahead, if you just like
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me reading these stories to you guys until I get somebody that I can banter
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with and you just want to hear a story,
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you just want to hear a scary story, I'm here for that at this time, okay?
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time. I'm not going to say tomorrow for sure, because I'm going to try my best
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to come back every single day.
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But sometimes, since it's just little old me, I have to, you know,
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miss maybe a day, okay? A day or two.
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You guys are so awesome. You're so amazing.
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Give yourself a hug. Give yourself a hug. And hopefully you guys are preparing
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for Passover tomorrow, you know, Easter Sunday and are getting the kids ready
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to go out there and, you know, Easter headhunt and do all that good stuff.
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And, you know, our Jamaicans, you get ready to eat your butter and cheese,
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you know what I'm saying?
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So yeah, have a good time and we'll see you guys probably then.
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Okay. Probably that. We'll probably see you then.
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Okay. Thank you guys so much for stopping by and have a great day. Bye-bye now.