14: Millie

Her cupped her hands around a cup and that touch went through her flesh all into her blood and bone. Millie was with Maureen French, Millie was wearing a long sleeve shirt colored the same as a flowers due. Her black shorts where a little uncomfortable, and her hair was pulled back in a short of little girl sort of style. Maureen was wearing a long green dress with little yellowish white dots here and there. Her breasts hung in a sort of goreish sense that made Millie stay a little farther away from her then was normal, like she was staring her own fate right in her face. The noises outside where loud, inside Maureen's house was muggy so she decided to open up all the windows in the kitchen and only the kitchen, and the sounds of nature flowed in like a singing choir of dramatics and action. She, Millie, could hear singing birds of all shapes and sizes, The American robin, Downy woodpecker, the goldfinch, the house sparrow, the nuthatch and of course the crow. Then there where the bugs, bees ants and mosquito of course but there where many more that are and will forever remain unheard. And humans noises or human made noises like cars mowers air conditioners and such like, even the occasional sound of someone chit chatting or a child screaming out in joy (or just screaming) "I'm very happy for you." Maureen said in a kind of dull tone looking out the window and probably listening more to the sounds coming into the room then actually to her quest. "Thank you!" "When are you going to move?" Maureen asked ideally. "Ah, We're probably not going to move, at least not till after the baby is born and THAT will be a while as you know." the old woman's face scrunched up like she just heard the weirdest thing in her life. "Your not moving? Why ever not isn't so horrible?" "Just not the right time." "Then maybe you better go back to where you came from." Millie scooted back, she glanced away taking a sip from her drink and really wondered why she was here all of the sudden. She had Grey drop her off there this morning before he went to work and he wasn't going to pick her up until hours later. She thought she's stick around here and do some cleaning and chatting with Maureen since she had nothing better to do with her time beyond read and clean crevasses of her own weird home. She kept forgetting to tell Grey about the door in the ceiling but if she remembered she would tell him tonight. If she hadn't just found out she was pregnant, she'd look for work for herself just to spend up her time a little more, she had a lot of work to do at home even more so with the baby inside her, and she wanted more of that done before he or she was born or she got too pregnant to clean anymore, but something about that house... "What if I like it in my house?" "Then your wrong." Maureen said gravely looking away from the window and too the young woman. "Some of us here wanted to burn that old shack down before you two came, we where just going to do it, now I wish we done it sooner." "Why?" Millie leaned her head in, eyes furrowing. "People have gone missing there. Surely drowned, but people-mostly children, don't just drown in one spot for nothing Millie. I don't know how old Doug could have lived out there by himself but he did, and I don't think you could do the same." "How could Grey's father live out there for decades but we couldn't? Unless your just worried about the baby?" "That man was a animal himself, I don't mean rude or just plain uncivilized, I mean he had that sort of nature too him. A big animal too that's what he was." She looked down at her old winkled hands. "He was one of two big fish, in a little pond." "Two? What was the other one?" Millie asking finishing up her drink as the old woman spoke. "Whatever force lived there, a demon I assume." "What would make a man choice to live with a demon for years and years on end?!" "Whatever made the demon stay there for Lord knows how long, sometimes unknown things just pull people into places, situations, lives, without reason. I don't know. But I'm telling you right now around here, we look out for each other, that's why no one lives out there, and I just can't stand by and watch you two put yourselves in danger for no good reason. You can live in my home, I have a spare bedroom, then when you get enough money or what you want you can move in somewhere nice nearby, or move away but please- Please don't stay out there. I don't want anymore stories, we haven't had one in a very long time." Millie sort of stood up from her chair and sat down her empty cup. "I think we'll be just fine. I have to go to the bathroom hold on a second." Maureen nodded and Millie walked out of the room and started up the stairs. The house was a little stuffed up with random things Maureen owned, borderline hoarder's house if it wasn't for the fact you could walk in every room and the kitchen was almost fully clean. She stepped into the bathroom, shutting the door behind her and locking it, she didn't actually need to use the bathroom she just needed a moment to think to herself away from all the strangeness and the noise. Then she known her and Grey where staying there.