Indigo

By Jason Gabriel Kondrath

Indigo

 

A beautiful young woman, Rae becomes a nanny for a socially inept scientist who studies alien life. Losing his wife during childbirth, his troubled daughter Zara survived. Soon Rae discovers a horrible secret about Zara, who wants a new mommy and won't take "No" for an answer.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Independent
• Release date: Jan 17, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224729067

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Chapter One: The Babysitter

My name is Rae, and I was a babysitter for a twelve-year-old girl whose mother had recently died. I was nineteen and completing my associate degree at the junior college. My major was psychology.

I did not know these people from the neighborhood. I found them while looking for a job in our college newspaper. When I called, I talked to Trevor Soames, the father, and he explained that he needed a girl who would watch his daughter because he was a single parent who sometimes worked late.

I agreed we settled on a price, and he gave me the directions to his home. When I met him, he was just what I expected—a typical middle-aged man who worked as a consultant for an unnamed firm.

He said that he had a twelve years old daughter, who was very mature for her age but was having trouble adjusting to the tragedy of losing her mother to cancer. I was sympathetic and told him she would be in good hands.

He told me she could stay up late because it was Friday, and she did not have school the next day. Then he said something odd, I didn’t think about it then, but I remembered it later. She wears special glasses because her eyes are ultra-sensitive to light.

And I should avoid making eye contact with her for long periods of time because sometimes she gets self-conscious.

No problem, I replied.

Are you ready to meet her? he asked.

Yes, I am, And then I smiled.

Then he called her down. Zara's appearance was striking. She was beautiful, but her skin was so pale she could have been an albino.

She had thin wispy, platinum-colored hair. When she moved, she seemed mechanical, but when she stood still, she looked like a mannequin!

Looking at me, she seemed more like a robot than a child. The glasses she wore gave her a strange look.

Hi, my name is Zara, she said.

Hi, Zara, my name is Rae.

It’s nice to meet you.

Her