The Zero Years Page #3

Not yet, I'm just asking,

from where?

Come help!

- Where to?

- The couch!

- Easy!

- Wait! Wait.

Now.

Stay with her.

I'll be right back.

Easy now! Easy! Easy...

So, you didn't make it...

Tight! Here!

You promised to take me

shopping later!

Let me finish my smoke

first, okay?

Where are you going?

To bring a sponge

for the blood.

Don't we always?

Stop paying so much

attention to them.

The more you do, the more they

influence your life. Our life.

And in the end, you're

wasting it on them.

So instead of them stalking you

they got you stalking them.

That's the trap.

I don't think they care about

us. No one does.

Look at the cameras...

We told them they broke

three years ago...

and nobody came to fix them.

They no longer care.

Got us where they wanted.

They tore out our wombs and

implanted fear.

Now we are of no interest

to them.

A loss of time, you see...

Mice in the walls, slowly

nibbling everything away.

And black roaches

under our pillows.

Empty cocoons inflated with

polluted air. That's all we are.

Dirty water...

Lashing, f***ing... Injections.

Nausea...

The children are here again.

Get her up!

Help, help me.

- Don't move.

- But she's...

The children are here again.

See what you did? They're mad

that you got in the way.

- What happened?

- They left.

Wait. They're still here.

How can you tell?

Do you see them?

Their smell is still here.

They stink like that?

But you don't see them...

Huh?

Now they left.

They're gone.

Yes, but they always

come back.

I can't take any more.

We have to get rid of her...

- She heard you...

- Hear that? They want me out.

Once upon a time,

in a tiny town,

in a mill near the river,

lived a miller.

He had a son, who worked

in the town bakery and...

baked warm and tiny bread bits.

Bite size.

Crunchy, smothered with

sesame seeds...

- And walnuts.

- And anise! Very crunchy...

- Where's the princess?

- What are you talking about?

Over the mill,

on the top of the hill, was...

the palace.

Look what I got. That's not

for a boy. It's pink.

It's for a girl.

You're just jealous.

Not at all, but boys wear blue.

Girls wear pink.

- Right?

- Right, like the kiddies.

Wearing little black coats

in winter, white in summer.

Are you gonna help me or not?

I have to practice changing

his diapers.

Look, you wore her out

shopping.

Okay now?

- What's all this?

- My baby clothes.

No smoking now.

What's this?

I bought it to rehearse

my diaper changing.

- It's missing a foot.

- That's why I paid half price.

Nice.

So, we have diapers

and undershirts.

But first we need

the plastic panties! Right?

Look! I got this for

when I breastfeed.

Great! Let's start.

First we place it on its back.

I want a cigarette.

So, let's say we washed

it now.

"We washed it now"...

Now we fold them on.

Safety pins, right?

We have to pin them on.

- Now I want a cigarette.

- Pins.

- You don't smoke.

- I'll start now.

Look what the idiot is doing.

Hold on. Forget the pins

and find her shirt.

His shirt!! His! It's a boy!

- Yes, but this is a girl.

- This is all I found!!

It's gonna catch a cold.

The baby boy.

The shirt... I found it.

Good. First we find the neck

and open it using both hands.

- The baby's?

- The shirt's. Watch.

The head goes through first.

Then one little hand,

through the sleeve.

Then the other little hand.

So my baby won't catch

a cold.

So he won't catch a cold.

- Now find the thick diaper.

- The what?

Thick, thick...

- This?

- Good.

- Not near the baby!

- Sorry...

Pin?

Baby is... ready.

You'll break his neck

that way.

Hold it here, so

it won't go back.

Like this?

Later... when you're breast-

feeding, hold him like that...

and pat his back

so he can burp.

When I'm breastfeeding...

Pat pat... on his back.

Pat pat on his back

so he can burp.

You don't have to say it.

Just do it.

Without saying... pat pat.

Where did you learn all this?

They got us where

they wanted.

Mice in the walls slowly

nibbling everything away.

I hear them chewing

at night.

Black roaches

under our pillows.

She has a razor but she'll

never do it.

She's afraid, you see.

I'm not afraid of them.

I'm here as a shield...

so they won't harm any

of you.

That's why they send the

children after me.

In our...

In our minds, we pretend to be

something we will never be.

I wanted a baby,

even a disabled one.

But I take too much medication,

so it won't be...

It won't be, you know...

normal.

Customer...

I think it's your turn to go.

Take me with you, okay?

Hold still, punk!

What are you doing here?

I told you to stay

at the window.

- They're not here yet.

- But when they come...

- You.

- Me...

- Yes you!

- Yeah...

I'm leaving in a few days.

I don't need a shot.

I'm out of here...

My instructions say otherwise.

Go.

Told you to stay

at the window.

Move!

Are you finished?

Let's go to the sea.

Now.

- I found you.

- We're going to the sea.

Where?

Take our hands.

- Where?

- You'll see. Close your eyes.

Come on, close them.

We're still here.

We're almost there.

Come along.

Alright. I'll come along.

Since we're almost there...

Piti-piti-piti-piti.

Mommy has food for you.

Why don't you drink

your water?

A man is made of 75% water

and you aren't drinking.

Do you realize I don't drink

my water so you can?

Come close so I can feed you.

This is a hygiene problem.

You're my boyfriend now,

so you must...

wash your face a bit.

You stink.

Piti-piti-piti.

Your girl brought you

nice food.

You must eat it all,

become strong...

and make me a baby.

Come closer now.

Don't dare yell.

No one can hear you

down here.

Piti-piti-piti.

It's got veggies and vitamins.

Piti-piti-piti.

Good boy.

Your mouth is numb.

It's falling out.

Now you're gonna ask me

who I am.

And why I wear a mask.

Well, if you escape and

go to the police...

You won't know who I am.

- Why always me?

- What have we said?

No tits. No nudity.

- And what "popped" out?

- My tit.

- Why did you let it?

- I was turned on.

I'm turned on now

and disgusted too.

And what does that mean

for us?

No work, but you'll see.

It won't happen again.

- The water's coming!

- So what?

The water's here.

Oh no, egg!

They make you do things

you don't want to.

Horrible things...

like killing.

Falling on moving cars,

or banging your head

on the wall.

As a child I was always dizzy

and had headaches.

But I got away.

And because... they can't

control me, they stalk me.

But I stand as an obstacle and

won't let them hurt any of you.

That's why they send the...

- And... the kiddies?

- The kiddies?

Yeah, they smell...

Why do they smell?

Somebody in here pulled a fast

one and I smell trouble.

- Such as?

- A customer is lost.

- What do you mean lost?

- He came here, then disappeared.

Get the other one and

come to the office.

I don't understand.

Nothing like this has ever

happened before.

We just throw them out, half

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