Glancing behind herself quickly Morgan followed Poppy inside.

Poppy shut the door as soon as Morgan was inside.

Morgan found herself in a small hallway, obviously everything had been decorated in a hurry, and cheaply, she commented to herself as she viewed a set of stairs made of wood various different colours and styles.

Morgan liked the house already though.  It had the definite feel of a homey place.

Looking down the hallway she saw a door at the bottom opening to a neat kitchen.  There was a door on the right that was closed.  Probably the living/dining room Morgan thought to herself.

She looked back at Poppy to find herself the centre of her observations.  She realised slowly that Poppy didn't know her name and that she must seem really rude for saying nothing earlier.

  "Sorry, my name is Morgan."

  "Hi Morgan, welcome to me home.  Not much at the moment I'm afraid we just moved in."

Poppy started to walk down the hallway towards the kitchen and Morgan followed, avoiding as many random boxes on the floor as she could.

  "Err, we?"  Morgan asked tentatively suddenly fearing she had gotten caught by one of the people she was trying to avoid, because really, she thought suddenly, this girl is a bit like those others.  It was the way she moved Morgan realised, deadly quite.

Morgan stopped dead.  Poppy turned.

  "Oh, please don't worry.  I saved you from people a hell of a lot worse than we are.  When I say we, I mean my boyfriend and me.  James is his name.  He is out getting food 'cause obviously we have none, after just moving in and all.  I was on my way to meet his actually when I say you being chased by those Nig…." She stopped talking all of a sudden.  Morgan had the feeling Poppy had stopped herself from revealing something important yet restricted.   "Anyway, we should be safe here and when, oh!  James!  Excuse me for a moment, I have to ring him!"  Poppy reached behind Morgan, she turned and found a phone on the wall

  "Oh, sorry," mumbled Morgan, moving away so Poppy could have proper access.

  "S'OK" said Poppy picking up the phone.

While Poppy dialled the number to reach her boyfriend, Morgan had another look around.  The kitchen was small, the units for working on were on one side of the room and a small table on the opposite side with two chairs either side of that.

It looked very clean for a kitchen, unused almost.

"Hi, Jamie, it's me!"

Morgan turned to watch Poppy on the phone.

"Err, well I met someone of route to you today.  She was in big trouble being chased down by….

"Yes."

"I know"

"Could you get a few things extra for our lovely cupboards, so our visitor can eat?"

"Pizza?"

"Err, hang on a sec, I'll ask her!"

Poppy turned to the watching Morgan

"Hi, you wanna eat pizza tonight?"

"Erm, sure"

"Great, any flavours you love?  Hmm, cheese and tomato are my favourite, that OK for you?"

"Yeah," Morgan said quietly, wondering when she would, or rather, if she would get the chance to tell her mum where she was.  She didn't know what time it was, but all that running Morgan had done, not only killed the calories, but killed time as well, she must have been running for quite a while as well….

"Jamie?  She said yes, so cheese and tomato, if you please, that would be great!"

"Half and hour?  Ok, see you then.  Bye bye, love you!"

Poppy replaced the handset.

"He'll be half and hour, let's watch TV until he gets home, that at least we have.  Geez, who would have thought setting up a house of your own would be sooooo troublesome."  The grin she added to the comment took all of the sting out of the words. 

"OK, but would it be OK if I first rung up my mum?  You see she might get worried and…."

"Say no more!" exclaimed Poppy, brandishing the phone to Morgan "here, I'll be in the living room (first room on the left through the door) for when you are finished!"

With that Poppy left Morgan with the phone in her hand and a shocked look on her face, trying to wonder when she would be home, because Morgan had this sudden feeling, almost a precognition, that it would be quite a while till she went home again.  Sighing, she dialled her home number and gave her pitiful excuse to her mother.  After which she went to watch TV with the stranger she barely knew, but trusted like a sister.  She waited until 'Jamie' whoever he was, would come home.