May

Your mum texted you saying a young woman is staying in the spareroom and try to be nice because May has had a really hard time. The message finishes with mum telling you she has gone to visit her sick brother and not sure when she will be back. When you arrive home you can hear music coming from the spareroom but leave her alone to settle. At night you hear her sobbing until nearly 2 a.m. when the house goes silent. Next morning when you enter the kitchen May is sat at the counter drinking a glass of water. She says hello and May watches you making pancakes. As the smell fills the kitchen you hear her tummy grumble loudly and you both chuckle. She looks at you...