HE IS ALL YOURS

 As the ugliest baby in the orphanage home, I was the least of the nun's favourites. They cleaned my soiled pants once a day, feed me last, and never sing me a lullaby as they usually do with other babies. And this made me the saddest baby inside the Calvary orphanage home.

Since I hardly smile and never laugh, other babies avoid me like plague, and I learnt to be my companion in a few days of my existence. 

"Who will bathe Ugly-face? He had been making that horrible sound since morning!" Alice who seemed to be the only nun who is indifferent towards me asked when I didn't stop crying because of my soiled pant. 

Alicia who hated me and never hide the fact answered back, "I have chills whenever I stepped near him, please attend to him yourself."

"Come and attend to ugly-face, Betty."

Alice called another open enemy of mine to attend to me, but she shakes her head and mumbled, "I can't, Alice. I always have nightmares whenever I touch him."

Alice seemed to be angry when the other two nuns refuses to attend to me, and when I cried louder, folded my two fists and screeched at the top of my voice, she had no choice but to stand from her seating position and marched towards me.

"Both of you had never touched Ugly-face since he was brought here three months ago," Alice said as she walked towards me, picked me up from my couch with her left hand, and carried me like a piece of rag into the washroom. 

"He is all yours, Alice. You were the one that agreed to accept him when we all refuse," Betty answered back. 

"What did you want me to do?.. Reject him?-. This place is owned by the state, financed by the state, and we don't have any reason to reject any baby, regardless of his or her physical challenge," Alice answered back as she removed the pampers on my buttocks, placed me inside a bowl and began to scrub the dirt off my body.

"We can reject him because he is not a baby but a monster. Have you ever seen any baby as ugly as that?" Alicia let out.

"I wish I know his mother. She needs to explain how she ends with an awful-looking baby like this," Betty added, and both ladies giggled after. 

After thorough washing by Alice, I was fed with nutritional baby food, tucked into my cot, and was left to brood alone when something like a holographic image suddenly appeared in my front. 

'What the fuck is this?'

"Host found... System activated." An automated voiceover sounded in a whisper beside me.

'Host!.. Am I infected?'

'No.

"What am I supposed to do?"

"To stay alive and unlock your next strength, you must kiss the three nuns before you are a year older."

"What!" I frown my face and as look as uglier as I can, and my impossible mission made me throw my two arms in a fitful rage. "How am I supposed to kiss the three hateful nuns?"

"Maybe your profile will help, " the automated voiceover answered back, and the holographic display of my profile appeared in front of me.

'Strength: smiling, giggling and crying.

Weakness: awful-looking.

Target to remain alive and unlock more strength; kiss the three nuns.'

"How the hell is smiling, giggling and crying part of my strength?"  I asked after reading my unbelievable profile. 

"A baby is not supposed to say profanity words," the system answered back. 

"What will happen if I failed my missions?" I asked.

"You will be sent back to the judgement room, and then proceed to hell. You won't dare fail, will you?"

"I don't know how on earth I'm supposed to kiss the three nuns who hate me with passion."

"I will appear to you when you accomplish your mission, or when the time-lapse. But I think the latter won't be the best for you."

As soon as silence returned to my vicinity, the thought of how to accomplish my task flowed into my head.

During my previous life as a beautiful woman, kissing the opposite sex is one of the easiest things for me, and I kissed two to three different men daily. But now, I am reborn as a male. Worse of all, I am ugly and not pleasant to the eyes. 

'How will I kiss  before I reach a year?' I asked myself, turned towards Alice as she walked closer to my cot, and offered a smile at her sight. 

"Oh my gosh! He is smiling!" Alice exclaimed when she see my horrible smile.

Though I felt shameful at her exclamation, the remembrance of my task made me smile like a moron until the other two nuns arrived at my cot and gawked at me.

"He looks uglier with that smile!" Betty exclaimed. 

"No. He looks a little handsome. I won't hate him with passion if he keeps smiling like this."

"Alice is right, " Alicia said, giggling and letting out, "he looks less horrible when he smiled, and I prefer it to his awful cry."

"One of you should pick me up and kiss me," I mumbled.

"What is Ugly-face babbling about?" Alicia asked as she make a face at me, pinch my left cheek and said, "you can smile as long as you like. I am not a fan of yours, and your smile can't change my mind."

"Let's go and play with other children. His bizarre smiling is giving me chills," Betty announced, hissed and walked off.

"Will you play with him for a while?" Alice asked Alicia. 

"No chance, buddy. I can't touch that thing with a six-foot-long pole," Alicia answered back, peeked at my face and let out, "babies' smiles are supposed to make someone feel relaxed, but your smiling is giving us chills."

Alicia left, and I was left alone with Alice who keeps smiling back at me.

"Give me your hand, sweetheart," I mumbled as I stretched my right hand towards her.

"Poor baby... He is lonely and wants me to carry him."

"Yes, Babe. Carry me up and plant a wet kiss on my lips."

Alice picked me up and nestle me in her chest, and then began to sing a lullaby to put me to sleep. Using that opportunity, I pulled her long and silky hair and tried to kiss her. 

"I don't want to sleep, Alice. I want to be kissed by you," I yelled when she keeps pulling me away from her face. 

"Not that face again," Alice mumbled, sighed and quickly placed me back into my cot.