I almost threw up my breakfast right there on the stairs. The poor little baby was a purplish color and covered in a blanket of crimson blood. I could barely make out the face of the infant. It looked all contorted. Oh my god! There was still the imbilical cord hanging from the middle of the purple stomach. That poor baby was just born.

The thought really had me sick to my stomach. But I had to tell someone. I ran into the kitchen where my parents still were. Not only were they there, but so were Chaz and Leigh. Through gasps of air I told them what I had just seen.

“Oh lord! That poor baby!” my mother screeched as we ran into the hotel lobby.

At the bottom of the staircase they stopped and stared. I knew that the scene would make them speechless. Then Chaz spoke,”Where’s the baby?”

What was he talking about? It was right there in front of their faces. I pushed through my parents so I could show them.

“What the…” I can’t believe it. On the landing, there was absolutely nothing. There was no baby. I ran up the stairs to stand where the baby was sprawled. The blood that was speckled on the walls and stairs were gone too. “I’m telling you! There was a baby right here! And there was blood. Everywhere!”

My mother climbed the stairs and put her arm around my shoulder, “Sweetheart, there’s nothing here. Maybe your not feeling well and you’re just seeing things.” Leave it to my mom to try to make a bad situation seem like nothing.

“It’s more like she’s making shit up so we don’t have to stay here. You’re really sinking low Dezi.” I was about to fly at Chaz and gauge his eyeballs out. That is how mad he made me. How dare he say something like that?

Instead I gave him the nastiest look I could manage even though I was on the verge of tears. Nobody believed me. “I can’t believe you would say that. I have always told the truth, unlike you!” I would have said more, but I couldn’t stop the tears from falling,

I ran up the stairs, hurt and embarrassed. I had forgotten I was in my bikini and Leigh had seen it. He should have seen me in it under different circumstances. Not one that will show me as a crazy person in his eyes. But before I turned to run up the stairs, the look on Leigh’s face didn’t show mockery. It looked more like he believed me.

But right now I had more to worry about then Leigh. I really need to talk to someone else who I know will believe me.