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After founding that the bookstore was closed, Erin went to the library and she found out two of the five books that Loomis wrote about Michael. To her fortune, the librarian knew her landlady and the process to get the library card was faster. Putting the books in her purse, Erin decided it was a good time to accept Rebecca invitation and to hear the local stories of Michael.
In Rebecca's house everything was quiet, her baby was sleeping and her sons were out with her husband. She was about to take a nap, when the bell rang. Opening the door, she was surprised to see Erin.
"I hope I'm not interrupting anything" Erin said while clutching her purse. She felt like Michael soul was right there by her side, waiting in the books to be released. "Can I have that cup of coffee you offered me earlier?"
"Of course, actually it's a good time, the boys are not home" Smiling she lead the younger woman to the kitchen. The Jones house was really neat and you barely could tell four boys lived in the house, some draws pasted in the fridge and some toys in the living room were the only sign of them in the place.
After being offered a cup of coffee, Erin found herself in the small table at the kitchen.
"Not that I mind having you here, but what brought you here on the same day?" taking a sip of her coffee Rebecca looked at Erin.
Not wanting to tell everything, she decided to lie.
"Tomorrow is my first day at work, and I didn't realize today was my last free day. It just hit me while I was in downtown and I'm nervous"
Smiling softly, she reached to Erin's hand and squeezed her lightly. "I'm not sure where are you going to work, I mean… I'm not going to lie to you; I have heard the gossips about you working with Loomis…" when Erin tried to speak, the older woman made a gesture with her hand and kept talking. "But the thing is, I'm sure whatever your new work is, it´s going to be ok. You'll see"
"I´ll be working with him. And thanks, I really want this to be good. But I'm nervous about working with all the patients… I feel like it's been years since I attended someone" I'm lying for a good reason, she repeated. After not being able to discover what reason was that, she kept drinking coffee.
Turning somehow pale, Rebecca cleared her throat. "So, you are going to be Michael Myers psychiatrist?"
"Yes. Do you know something about him? I heard his names many times this day"
"Everyone in Haddonfield knows who Michael Myer is" looking at her cup of coffee, she tucked her blonde hair behind her ear and after taking a deep breath, she looked at Erin.
"It was a Halloween night. I remember pretty well, I used to live near the Myers house.
A day before Halloween I was walking to my house, distracted, talking to the guy who now is husband" she gave the brunet a little smile and continued "I bumped into him, he was wearing a Kiss t-shirt, his hair falling on his eyes… I said I was sorry and he just stared at me. I remembered that he had blue eyes, but at that moment they were pitch black, I don't know how.
He kept walking and later that day I found my cat dead, behind my house. I always believed he killed my cat… I remembered that day, how he had something red on his hands and jeans. I assumed it was my cat blood, the poor thing used to go to every single house on the street"
It was quiet for a moment before Rebecca kept talking.
"He was ripped from head to tail. His name was Hershey, I cannot look at the chocolates named like that without shuttering, without thinking how his little heart was out; it was over a rock. I screamed so loudly, I could have sworn that the heart was still beating."
The room filled with a heavy silence, Erin imagined the poor cat and suddenly she felt dizzy.
"I'm not trying to scare you. I'm just running my mouth. Sorry…"
"You didn't scare me, don't worry. But what happened on that Halloween night?"
-Curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought him back- still shuddering she waited for her neighbor to continue.
"Well, everyone knew that the Myers family had problems. Ronnie, his step father was an alcoholic. Judith, I think that was his sister name, was a wild girl, and his mother used to work on a strip club. She wasn't a bad woman, you know, she was just trying to provide her family and she made some bad decisions, like being with Ronnie… there was a little girl, I don't remember her name, she was beautiful and the only one that survived that night.
He killed everyone else in the house and Deborah, his mother, committed suicide.
It was all over the newspaper, in the news, on the radio… everywhere!. I used to live so close, that I watched how the police took him away, and how they took the corpses out… It was a bloody mess that Haddonfield wanted to forget."
Taking the last sip of her coffee, Erin decided it was a good time to change the subject.
"Thanks for telling me. I know Dr. Loomis is going to explain Michael situation to me, but it's always good to know more… I guess I'm going to be more cautious"
Smiling the two of them started to talk about Rebecca's wedding, her sons, how New Jersey was and they ended talking about Haddonfield. It was past eight when the other kids arrived with their father and after declining an invitation for dinner, Erin went to her house.
After entering her house, she went directly to bed with one of the books. "The devils eyes" read on the cover. "It´s going to be a long night" Erin said out loud.
