Chapter 1
My name, Fred E. Grinch. Ya, guess you could say the original family of Grinch's. Did we come from Whoville? No we came from Grinchville, at least that is how it started.
People traveling through the scenic Alps village would make strange remarks about it and would laugh. They would say things like 'What ville, Who's ville, Huh? ville Say again ville' then laugh. Especially in the other towns.
How it got to be Grinchville in the first place was, we were a large and prolific family so to speak. We grew and we grew.
The trips to the towns around became a bit of a chore to get the supplies and mail a large family needs. We weren't all family in population, we had friends that had moved in the valley and slopes too. So Great Grand Father, Grand Father and Father, and so on. They decide they needed to have stores, where family and people could get them readily. That was the basic reason for the building of Grinchville. That and getting mail and things delivered.
Now there was a railroad that ran through our valley. It went to a secluded picturesque valley north of us. Hid Away Valley, a noted Ski resort in winter and a noted nature get away in the summers. It was the wealthy that traveled to that valley. Now sometimes they, the wealthy, would need something and would venture in to our village.
For some reason they, got the idea we were all grinchy and kind of mean and beneath them. Some wouldn't even come to the village if there life actually depended on it.
There had been some run-ins with a few of those people. They came in to our village acting all uppity and such. My Great Grandfather who was a bit intimidating, would explain to them the facts of life. He would explain that their wealthy asses, ate, crapped, and dressed like all the other people did in the world. That money wealth could be a very fleeting thing, to which some of them found out. I guess his towering stature helped a little, looking up to what looks like a very large bear.
Now with what other towns and villages were telling us of what people said and the laughter with it, the elders decided a name change was in need. They decided Whoville was the best, personally I think they could have done better. That is a bit of the story about Grinchville that had been told to me.
Chapter 2
Now back to Fred E. Grinch. I lived in the suburbs now near a large city. Nice place to live actually quiet and peaceful, like Whoville. I actually went back to Whoville once, had to with my name being what it is and the stories. The village has just about disappeared now, with new roads and progress edging in, but it is still a quiet picturesque place. Most of the younger generations have moved away from the rural life to the more modern city life
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I went to college and got my degrees and met a lovely little thing attending the college also. Blonde hair, sky blue eyes, ample bosom, firm butt, slim build. She was just six inches shorter than I am, at six foot one inch
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Eloise was a very intelligent woman, with a quick wit and a business mind that was sharp. She was an eloquent dresser, and very alluring dresser when she wanted to be.
When we attended parties we tended to draw attention. Especially when she was being alluring and sexy in dresses slit up to a few inches below her lady parts. Another reason is because we towered over almost everyone. Being six foot seven and six foot one I guess you could say we stuck out.
I was a bit loud sometimes also, at two hundred and sixty pounds and tall as I am, I just had a big deep voice. Ell would tell me many times to use my quieter sexy voice at parties. I would just laugh, which wasn't quiet, and tell her 'Yes dear'.
We became exclusive to each other pretty much for the obvious reasons. Ell seem to intimidate the young men and I was afraid of breaking young tiny things. We actually matched very well on all things, physically and intellectually, and on visions of our lives, so we got engaged. We married after we got our degrees and began working.
We had a wonderful wedding. Ell was going overboard on many things for the wedding. I had to remind her a couple of times, our dream house or a one day wedding. The mothers stepped in and Ell got what she wanted and they saved the dream of the house.
The wedding reception went wonderfully, Ell got many young men to dance with her and I had many young ladies to dance with. One in particular was an itty bitty maybe five foot brunette. We tried a little waltz but it wasn't working to well. I being a bit of smart ass just picked her up to my level and waltzed her around in my arms. Her cute little ass resting on my arm, I don't think she weighed a hundred pounds.
The waltz ended when a felt a tap on my shoulder and there stood Ell.
"No, your not taking that little dolly home with you." Ell said sternly.
I began to chuckle and Amy, I think her name was, reached out to Ell with both hands saying, as I wrapped the other arm around and squeezed an couple times.
"Momma, Momma."
Ell got to laughing and so did Amy and I. Ell looked at her and said.
"Oh, now that was precious Amy. I wish I had a recording of this." I found out later there was a recording.
I sat Amy down and she immediately hugged Ell and told her to get me to the bedroom before some, other, vamp tries to steal her husband.
We said our goodbyes to the party and headed out for our honey moon. We went to Jamaica's Sandals Resort. Which was fabulous, what we saw of it anyway.
Our week long honeymoon went splendidly. We lounged around the beaches and toured the towns. We danced at the resort's nightclub, but we entertained I ourselves mostly in the our room.
We came back from the honeymoon and we were back to work. We were enjoying our apartment life in the city for about a year. Then we bought our home in the suburbs. It was a custom built type on the inside, with counters being a bit tall and baths being a bit larger and such things.
The home was on a culdesac and on raised hill right in the center of the culdesac. We also purchased the two smaller lots on either side of our house at a large discount. The reason being the developer said they were unusable for building. So that left the back open for a nice pool.
I our home was the first built on that street, but it wasn't long before we had neighbors. The way the homes were built ours seem to tower over them kind of like a king's castle over his domain with the extra yard space on either side, that made Ell and I chuckle.
One day, one of our smart ass neighbors came over for a backyard party. There were seven couples some with children at the backyard get together.
It was a nice summer day and Ell and I were bringing out some food and snacks. Ryan, the smart ass neighbor, opened the door for us calling out to everyone at the party.
"I present King and Queen Grinch. Hail to the King and Queen."
That is the way our little group of seven couples acted around one another. Some times trying to out do each other on things.
Ell liked to decorate for the fall holidays. Decorating the yard and house up for Halloween and Thanks Giving and Christmas. I liked to also, but Ell, that was her thing.
Our minions, as I liked to call them, would invite us to their homes. We would in turn invite them to ours through the holidays. We would have festive times and compliment each other on the decorations and things. We just seemed to to have festive times pretty much year round.
The neighborhood grew and our street filled with houses. Four couples of our group moved due to work changes and things, so we dwindled down to three couples. We did invite other new couples in to the group. Some joined in for awhile, some just on rare occasions.
We tried to keep the gatherings together but life, family, and children seemed to dampen things. Ell and I watched has the others had their children, dreaming some day we would have one of our own. We still managed to get together on one, maybe, two season holidays now. Christmas seemed to be the best time and most joyous.
Chapter 3
Ell and I were into our early thirties, when Ell told me one night she was going out with girls to a bachelorette party for awhile. That wasn't unusual she went out with girls on occasions. She told me she would be back at 11 o'clock. She didn't come back on time, I gave her till midnight and was getting ready to start calling out of concern.
There was a knock on the door. I opened it and saw a patrol officer standing there. He looked up at me and spoke. He asked my name and acknowledged it.
"Mr. Grinch I am Officer Jackson and I need to inform you your wife, Eloise
