The alien in my head.
The last two days I have had a headache. A peircing, short pain that comes and goes. I get these every once in a while, in this certain spot in my head. Above that spot is a weird lumpy boney thing, which is commonly called "Mandy's Horn."

It's always been there, at least as long as I can remember. Sometimes I feel as though it moves a little bit, you know, shifts to a slightly different position. In high school, I kept getting the headaches and convinced my mom to have my head x-rayed. The doctor couldn't find anything wrong, and said that misshapen heads are normal.

I have a theory about where the lump came from. When I was very little, probably 3 or 4, I fell out of my parents' truck. We were on the highway, probably going about 40 mph or so. I didn't break anything, but I did get a huge bump on the head. Mom took me to the doctor's office to make sure I was ok, and they gave me a human-shaped ice pack to put on my bump. I thought the ice pack was really cool. It was melted by the time we got home. My dad made a valiant attempt to refill it with ice cubes and tape it back up. It didn't work very well, but it was a nice gesture.

Anyway, because I'm in a country where I really don't trust the medical system, I'm sure that this time the headache is really a brain tumor or aneurysm or something equally horrible. Either that, or the lump was an alien all along, and it's ready to be born by breaking out of my head.