Millie

Chapter One - Nobody said forever started perfectly

Since it was my birthday this week...I'm sticking with tradition and giving you something 😉🥳 Have a taste if you would like, of book six.

One year ago today I was settling down with Kate, my best friend, in an apartment back home in Eugene, and getting to know the Antichrist ( Norman). I had been about to start my first teaching job in a local community college teaching Psychology whilst also working alongside my mother, Professor Dawson, at her university. I was being mentored and moulded to become a Professor myself.

I didn't think the world needed two Professor M Dawsons and so I blew that shit up royally and met and fell in love with a student.

Wren

My heart skipped a beat at the thought of her, and the thought of that day I first saw her.

Red heads everywhere.

And boy that didn't change, because she was from a family of red heads, her Mama, her grandmother, and her great grandmother I had also observed, from the pictures I've seen. All so similar, and all beautiful women.

Today though, Red heads are nowhere! What I wouldn't give to still see them.

As I'm considering how stupid and unfair it all was that our journey had come to such a sudden stop...Normans dramatic wail shakes me from my thoughts.

I spin around on my office chair and set my eyes on him, sat there in the bedroom doorway and glaring at me with displeasure. "What" I ask with zero patience.

His tail manically flicks about behind his green eyed stare and I know exactly what he wants... what he always wants.

A bowl of kibble and the blood of all human men under his nails.

"The vet said you are obese Norman... desist with the whining"

My god, if looks could savage you on the spot. I shake my head at him and spin back round to face my laptop and the email that had just landed in my inbox.

YOU GOT THE JOB - WillaJameson

"Oh shit" I cursed out loud.

I jumped to my feet and paced back and forth in my small space, just like the demented feline who watched me and observed me with intrigue.

"I forgot about that" I groan as I kick the waste paper basket across the room, near missing Norman who squeaked and moved at a pace into the living area.

When Wren and I had been planning our future, and the year ahead, on the west coast, she had got me an interview at her old high school. They needed a counsellor to cover maternity leave, and I needed something short term until I got settled and figured out what I wanted to do.

Willa, her grandmother, had put in a good word for me, she was currently coaching the basketball team there in her last year before retirement, having recently moved from Harpers school. She was so kind. I had loved getting to know both her and Allie.

This family, Wrens family, they were entangled in every which way. I had never known such a large family who were all involved in each others lives with such regularity and intensity before. I didn't know family, mine was so small my entire life, but as I found out, just as messy!

Wrens family was full of women, until you discovered Bastion and his adorable dimples, gah that kid. I missed him. I missed all of them. I had loved meeting them, spending Christmas with them, and New year. I had been booked on the family vacation to Greece too this summer, but I never quite made that trip.

Teddy had been wary of my intentions, and Harper had grilled me a little, but they were sweet enough and good enough people to take the time to get to know me, and accept me, for someone who truly just loved and adored their daughter. I had no bad intentions, and I truly just wanted to love on her for as long as I was permitted to.