Squirting Pentecostal Pussy
It took a lot just to pull up to the curb in front of the Mission on Monday morning. I was a little early, almost ten minutes according to my new smartphone, and I just sat there in my uniform, gripping the wheel and staring at the front door through the passenger side window of my car.
It reminded me of the first day I'd pulled up to this curb, staring at this ramshackle building with way more doubts than certainty. This being a workday, I was only very lightly buzzed, possibly not even over the legal limit for driving, yet even this condition couldn't quell the apprehension that I was feeling just then.
How would I ever continue to work in this place?
Then the life was scared out of me when the passenger door abruptly opened. Moments later, Donna was sitting in the seat beside me, having slammed the door against the heat that my air conditioned car could keep at bay.
"Hey, sweetie pie," she greeted, her eyes curiously looking me over. "How's your scrumptious little self this morning?"
"Not, um... not too well," I admitted, still curious and cautious of her in addition to my feelings about the Mission.
She nodded, commiserating with, "I don't like basements either. Finished basements aren't so bad, but... still."
"What is it?" I quietly asked, looking at the side of her face while silently asking myself the same question regarding her. "What's down there?"
"I'm not entirely sure."
"Well... what do you know about it?"
" ... I've had some indirect dealings with it before. A long time ago."
"What do you mean?" I asked, still watching her profile as she gazed through the windshield, down the street as though she could see her past down at the corner of Rae and Fifth. Recollection had turned her mood a bit somber as she heaved a sigh before replying.
"It's never bothered me personally, but it's destroyed others who were very important to me."
"So, it's dangerous," I assumed from this. "It can hurt me."
"Yes, it can, but it won't. I won't let it. Not this time. As long as you trust me and do as I tell you, it won't hurt you and, before long, it won't be able to even reach you. Not ever again."
"Why?"
She smiled a little, her melancholy evaporating somewhat as she turned to face me, changing the subject, or so I'd thought, with, "Do you trust me, Tara?"
" ... Yes. Yes, I do," I truthfully replied.
"And part of the reason you trust me is that you've learned through getting to know me that you can. If I'd have simply told you that you could trust me when we first met, the morning when I first knocked on that door three weeks ago, that would've meant nothing to you, in fact, understandably, that probably would have made you
dis
trust me, if anything. Right?"
I nodded.
"So instead, you learned for yourself over these past weeks that you
can
trust me. In much the same way, if I'd simply told you that first morning there on the doorstep that I could influence people's minds, their actions and words, you would never have believed me. Understandably, you probably would have thought I was a delusional retard. Right?"
I nodded again.
"On the other hand, If I'd taken control of someone right in front of you on that first day, and in such a way that it would be impossible for you to be mistaken about what was happening, well that wouldn't go over very well either, would it?"
"No," I replied.
"Of course not. You wouldn't have been able to handle it. You would've run screaming, or tried to exorcise me, or whatever. Instead, I allowed you to see and experience just enough to arouse your suspicions, just enough to make you pay attention and to slowly determine for yourself what was going on, while at the same time coming to love and trust me just the same."
"You... yes," I affirmed with a nod, understanding now what she was putting across. "You wanted me to know from the beginning, but you had to carefully control how I got the information."
"Precisely. And now you see why it was necessary, why I had to lead you to it through your own suspicions, don't you?"
"Yes, I do."
"Well, in the same way, it wouldn't be wise for me to simply go ahead and start belching out all the answers that you'd like to have when you'd like to have them. I hadn't planned on telling you any of this right now, but things have changed because I didn't plan on you actually following me from the goddamned restaurant either, so I'm sort of forced to tell you what I have to at this point because of it. As for the rest, I'm asking you to go on trusting me and to have some patience with me."
After a moment's pause, I nodded my agreement with this now obvious wisdom, but I didn't like it.
"I know," she said as though reading my mind, lifting her hand to rest gently, affectionately along the edge of my jaw, "It's hard to let all your questions go without answers. But I promise you that I will answer them at a more appropriate time."
"Can you please tell me just one thing now?" I asked. "It's important. Important to me that I know."
After a pause, she allowed her hand to fall from my face, resting at the top of my thigh, fingers excitingly close to my crotch as her soft expression silently allowed me to at least ask.
"My real mother," I began. "You called her a wack job. What did you mean? Was that why she couldn't keep me, why she had to put me up for adoption?"
Another pause went by, during which time I could tell she was very carefully constructing her reply before speaking.
"Yes. Your real mother was as crazy as mine was, just in different ways," she replied, thoughtfully adding, "And both of them named Marie. Kind of a coincidence, huh?"
"Did you know her?"
"Yes, and no. Let's just say that I knew her from reputation. She wasn't anyone I wanted to get that close to but, for those who had, to know her was to loathe her."
"She really was crazy?"
"Sweetie pie... you were born in a psychiatric hospital. Your father was probably some orderly, or maybe a visitor to some other patient for all I know. I have no idea and, as far as I know, nobody else does either. No offense, but it's not important anyway."
Somewhat shocked at this revelation, I managed, "How do you know this?"
"Because we're related."
" ... What? How?"
"Sweetie pie, I've told you too much as it is and I'm not telling you any more. You'll know everything soon enough. Just not too soon, and for reasons that I think I've already made clear. Reality can often be a lot stranger than what people think, and it's generally best that they're acclimatized in increments."
Once again, I could only nod, as frustrating as it was. I was still trying to process her claim that we were related and all of the implications that came with it as she went on.
"As for the haunt in the basement... it's not exactly a haunt," she explained. "I know it likes dark, damp holes in the ground, like vermin does. I don't know why. It's linked with our family, speaking to some of us, but not others. It spoke to your mother, and she spoke back. In time, it came out of her basement and stayed with her."
"And you don't know what it is?"
"No. I only know that it's dangerous. Don't ever talk to it again. You don't need it. You only need me."
"It said that you love me."