Frozen Love

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

I quickly made my way back to the house and started packing up my belongings, I unpacked my bag from today and repacked it so it fit better with all of my other clothes, I had a few bags filled with clothes and shoes along with the food I had "bought" today at the grocery store I had all of my bags near the door and was about to leave when something fell out of my pocket, I bent over and picked up the smooth green stone Edna gave to me, I began rubbing the soft edges with my fingers and calmed myself down a bit. I shoved the stone in my pocket and grabbed my bags and was about to head out the door when I remembered I forgot about the box of pop tarts I placed in the cupboard earlier, I went to grab the box, opened a package, and bit into one of the strawberry pop tarts, I put the pop tart back into my mouth to hold it while I grabbed my bags I had my hand on the handle about to leave this place for good, before I opened the door I looked back at the house that so many thought was haunted and creepy, well that was their opinion; to me this was home.

I took in each intricate engraving on the stairs, and looked at the dusty chandelier one last time, my gaze fell onto the kitchen where I have been many times before, I looked in the living room and then thought about my bedroom upstairs, sometimes I was even a little creeped out by the old house, (especially in the beginning) that I would sleep on the floor in the living room, because I didn't want to go upstairs, I realized how silly that was afterwards and claimed one of the biggest bedrooms upstairs. I didn't want to change much in the house because I wanted it to still have that creepy, scary, rustic, old vibe but I also wanted it to be a bit more homie, I cleaned a few cobwebs here and there but that was about it, I cleaned out the fridge and cupboards so I was able to use them, and I found some clean bed sheets in a linin closet so I could change the sheets on my bed, other than that I pretty much left the place how I found it, for an abandoned house the bathroom was fairly clean, I didn't have to do anything to it to make it better. I was going to miss this place, this had been my home for the past few years now, I had stayed in empty motels and other old houses but eventually someone either saw me go there or knew where I was, and I couldn't let anybody know where I was, that's why when I found this "haunted house" it was perfect, it was just outside of town so nobody would see me going there and it was haunted so people were afraid of it.

After reminiscing I finally turned the handle and was about to start my new life, I had all my bags and opened the door on a new beginning for me. When I swung the door open I was greeted by an unexpected visitor, I was looking at the ground and noticed a pair of feet, I slowly raised my gaze to see none other than Steve, "going somewhere?" he said cockily "Shit!" I exclaim before trying to run back into the house before I had the chance to mad dash into the house he grabbed my arm and pulled me back on the porch "where are you off to in such a hurry?" he said with a smirk "just let me go ok, I have no idea what you want with me and I don't know anything about that Myra girl, just step off!" I say angrily trying to escape his grasp. he just had a sly smirk on his face, I looked at him confused as to why he was smirking almost evilly at me "thank you for confirming our suspicion" "huh?" I say confused "we never told you the girl in the picture was named Myra" he said proud of himself "Fuck!" I tried escaping one last time, but it was no use Steve had his hand wrapped around my arm in a death grip, I almost thought it was going to break if I struggled anymore. He started pulling me towards a group of people, the same group I had seen earlier the same day "I'm sorry it has to be this way Myra, I would've preferred to do this more peacefully, but you didn't really make that an option" he says "how did you even find me?" I said very annoyed "I put a tracker on your sweater earlier today, and Natasha put one in your bag in case you decided to ditch the sweater" "Fuck!" I muttered to myself Steve just looked down at me and smiled to himself "how did you know it was me to begin with? I changed my appearance" I asked "well Clint bumped into you earlier and said your voice sounded the same but you had changed your appearance, and really fast too, I might add." he said sounding impressed by my ability to change my appearance quickly "I also knew that if you were smart you would hide in a nearby ally and wait for us to say something about you, so I said we were going to do the sneak attack which meant you would've had to run home and pack all your things, doing this would require fast movement, so we stayed outside of your house and saw rushed movement inside so we knew you would try to make a get away, when we used some new high tech thing that allows us to see the body heat of a person, I personally don't understand it at all, and then saw you went near your door, so we moved in and waited for you to leave your house, and now here we are" "Fuck, I should've known better! I should've just changed my clothes, ditched all of my things and then skipped town before any of you even noticed, I shouldn't have even come home for my things!" I say distraught with myself, he looked down at me with some sympathy "if it's any consolation, you didn't make it easy for us to find you, had it not been for the trackers we wouldn't have even thought to check an old house like this" he said with a small polite smile, I just looked at him disappointed in myself.