 Okay, y'all here it is for part two. I'm gonna make this stretch just someone out to 20 minutes. Okay part two Landon opens up his eyes and at first it's a little confused and then he remember what happened him and his cousins were walking in the Woods they dared him to knock on the door of this woman's house He didn't do it and when he turned around he saw this woman and blacked out So he feels like he's laying on some type of couch and he slowly gets up and there he sees the old woman sitting on on a sofa next to him and She that's when she spoke to him She says it looks like you took kind of a spell there a little man And he just shook his head because he didn't know what to say so in front of him There was an end table and there was tea there She said you know I went ahead and made some tea some peppermint tea Why don't you go ahead and have you a sip? Landon knew he wasn't supposed to take any, you know candy or anything from strangers, but he didn't know what to do So he picked up the little saucer And drunk a little bit He started to cough some because it was a little strong and then oh woman kind of lashes and I take your time, baby And that's when he took a little a little sip He also took the time to look around the house and the inside didn't look as bad as the outside the inside was You know antique looking furniture and then in the front of him He saw three mannequins with all of these beautiful dresses on elaborate dresses And Landon didn't wasn't sure, you know, but it looked like they were dresses from an older time. So He took his time and then he set the saucer down. He said thank you. I think I I need to go He starts to get up and the old woman said well now hold on now now you I'm not sure if you hurt yourself Now he's gonna know I'm fine. She's up. Well, hold on baby Let me make sure that you're okay That's when landing kind of broke away from the old woman the living room. The door was right there. He went out the Their front door jump the stairs shout started running through the woods But then he turns around he wasn't sure where he was at because they had left the way So he starts running straight running straight And then he notices Lights up ahead and it looks like there were lights from the park So he starts running towards the directions of the lights and sure enough once he exit the woods He's in the playground area of the apartment complex. So he walks towards his aunt Denise apartment and they're standing out in the front Doorway just hanging out in the front or his cousins. That's when Porsche turned around she and said I'm so sorry Landon I wanted to come back for you, but red was too scary to go He was too chicken and red just kind of looked down at his shoes And so Landon said it's okay. It's so Porsche says so what did she say? Did she do something that she put a spell on you Red kind of rolled his eyes at that. He said no, no, no, no, he didn't do that She didn't really say anything. She went to wait and make sure I was okay, but She didn't say anything or anything. She gave me some tea and that's when Porsche looked at him some tea He said she said you didn't drink it. Did you he said yeah, I did. I didn't know what to do So Porsche's like, oh my god. Yeah, you you've you've had a heck She's she put something on you and put something in that tea and that's when red said no She didn't he said, are you okay? This is red talking to lady. He asked he said, oh, you okay? He said, yeah, I'm okay She's I wasn't sure what was gonna happen. So I just ran to it until I saw the street lights. So They went inside the apartment complex and you know shortly after that they went home Now Landon didn't tell his mama what happened, but he was a little shooken up about that. Okay? So like I said every other weekend they go over to their cousin's house and hang out They have you know food. They have cookouts, you know just having a good time getting to know his His cousin so about three weeks into it Landon's mother comes into the bedroom and says I'm Landon I asked me to share with you and he's like, yeah mama So she said Looks like we're gonna be staying in Alabama a little bit longer. He's like what I why and so she goes on to explain That they're getting a divorce Her and the stepfather are divorcing and she lets him know she's a baby. None of this is your fault And none of it is little John John's fall. It's just sometimes people fall out of love and that's just what happens and so Landon tried really hard to fight back tears and so he said well, what about my friends and so His mother explained that they will be going back home the following week to pack up and that's when he'll have the Opportunities to say bye to his friends. So that's what they do in the following week they go back to Ohio Cincinnati by the way they go back to Cincinnati and They pack up or the movers pack up and Landon gets his stuff so they could take back in the rental car And he says bye to his little two or three friends that he had there in the town and their city And they make you know, Alabama their permanent home So traveling back to Alabama That ended up staying, you know Renting out that place that they originally was staying and that was their place. She had no intentions of moving anywhere else That was it. She just didn't want to tell the children then So when they go over to Denise house the following weekend, that's when Landon said he's a well It looks like we're gonna be staying here and that's when red say yeah We already knew that and Landon look kind of confused. He said, what do you mean? He said, yeah Your mama told our mama like the first week y'all came here and so Landon felt a little sad He doesn't know why his mama wouldn't have told him that you know early on but sometimes adults just you know Hot stuff from kids because they don't want to hurt them so Now it had been about two weeks since that little incident with the lady in the woods But Portia is just feisty. She can't let nothing go child. So then Portia was like Y'all want to see something scary? Oh Yeah, I'm so I'm so dramatic Portia's like do y'all want to see something scary That's when Landon looked at her. He's like, I don't know. I don't know if I want to go back in there Well, she's like, well, we won't be going that direction where the old lady lives that there's another Pack I want to show y'all so they finally all agree. Okay. We're gonna go back into these woods and see what she's talking about so Portia lived the way because they weren't they didn't know where they were going. So they walk about about half a mile into the woods and then they come into An area where It's cleared, but there's trees and trees surrounding one area. And so Portia's looking through they can't see what she sees, right? And so finally she's like, do y'all see it? And so red is trying to look around. He's like, oh, I don't see nothing girl And so Portia's like, no, you got to look harder. Do you see it? Do you see it Landon? And that's when Landon saw it. There were headstones And so Landon then says, is that a graveyard and she smiles. Miss Chibi said, yeah Y'all want to go play hide-and-seek in the graveyard? Landon was like Portia's like, don't be chicken Landon Let's see. Yeah. Now. Now's who's the chicken. So they all agree Portia poor Landon They all agree to go into the the graveyard and play hide-and-go-seek so Portia said, well since Landon the scary one, Landon, you have to count first and we'll go hide and you come find it So Landon finds an old oak tree to lean on and he starts counting to ten and at the end He says, ready or not here I come. He finds Portia pretty easy because she was trying to hide behind a What do you call y'all a headstone but her pink tinny she was sticking out so they found her so she whispered him Okay, Landon. We can go find red together. So they go, you know searching for red They search everywhere child. They really couldn't find him and finally red shot it at I mean And finally Portia's out and shot at red. We can't find you. Go ahead and come out That's when red jumped out from behind an oak tree. He had been hiding the same area where Landon had started counting from So they make their way out of the graveyard and then that's when they heard a Crack sounding like someone had stepped on a stick and that's when Landon said, did y'all hear that? Portia said, yeah, I did it came from over there And so they looked over then they heard another crack and then red so we got to get out of here Well, there's somebody following us So I heard another crack. It was getting quiet. It was getting louder and louder and louder and soon They let me they started walking away, but they could hear it so and then suddenly they heard a voice behind them say you children should be playing in these woods this late and That's when Portia said, is that who y'all think it is and they turned around and sure enough It was the old one with the long silver gray hair Portia said, what did you say? Portia said, what did you say? She said you heard me child. Y'all should be playing out here at night It's getting too dark. Y'all don't know what's in these woods And so that's when they said yes ma'am so red says so are you really that lady that lives in that old house? She said, yeah, that's that's me. I live in the old house And so then she also saying y'all really shouldn't be playing in the old graveyards like that. That's that's very dangerous. And so Red red then chime in Portia here I always want to do some stuff that's bad that we shouldn't be doing she always getting in trouble Portia turned around and said, I don't make you do nothing red So the old woman kind of smile after that. She said what doesn't matter now at this point Y'all go ahead and head home and don't be playing in these woods late at night So Portia and red all of them three of them shook their head and they went on home So Emily egg is it out of the woods Portia turned around this and said did y'all see the old woman red said we ain't blind. Yes We saw and we saw just how crazy she is too And poor she said I don't think she's I don't think passion you child She's a poor show of passion And that's when she said I don't think she's it's crazy. She doesn't seem like she's crazy Landon said I don't think she's crazy either. She's just you know She's probably just lonely being stuck in that house all these years. So Landon asked he said how long has she been living in there and they shook their head They said we don't know longer than we've been alive. So they headed on home and They had it on home and of course Landon and the parents they went home too later on so One evening and Landon woke up to his to you know dishes and stuff going on And he saw his mama was cleaning the kitchen and she had been cooking all night She had made macaroni and cheese fried but I'm a chicken mashed potatoes collard greens shall I knew and everything I want to eat right now. I'm sweet potato pie everything so Landon was excited He was a mama what you cook all this food for and well your grandma's coming over tonight And so Landon was a little shocked and surprised He rarely seen his grandmother and she always sends him gifts on his birthday and Christmas, but he's only seen his grandmother Once or twice. He knows that his mother his own mother is not too close to her He doesn't he's not sure why so his mama had been cooking and cleaning all night to prepare for her mother to come Right and I shouldn't have the grandmother comes and she has a beautiful summer dress on Her makeup is done Landon thought it was a little too done, but he wasn't sure and her hair was in these pretty pretty loose curls And when she saw Landon she's like look at you Landy He's gotten on top. Why don't you give your grandmother a hug? So he gives her a hug and that's when he smelled she smelled like flowers So he figured that must have been her perfume So they sit down to have dinner and that's when the grandmother started critiquing the mom's food and Basically, you know making comments how if she would have listened to her She wouldn't be going through a divorce and Landon could tell that his mother was very frustrated So when the grandmother was getting ready to leave she turned around and said, um, you know and Landon You should come over one day and help me in my garden Landon looked at his grandma. He said you have a garden. So yes I planted all these beautiful flowers and roses and you should come over one day And so that's when um, you know Landon's mom said well Yeah, Landy Landon and little John John can come over but the grandma kind of looked at you know Little John John. She said well little John John's a little too young but land in here. Yeah, he can come over Child favoritism. So sure enough the next weekend Landon Landon went over to his grandmother's house And he helped her in a garden. She showed him all about garden and some stuff He didn't even care to know but he listened just to be nice and finally about 15 or 20 minutes into it He said grandma I'm I need to go to the bathroom. She said it's okay sugar You go up the hallway the first door on your left So he goes to use the bathroom as he comes out He turns to this right and he sees what looks like an old library So he goes in cuz Landon loves to read books, right? He goes in some of the books he've never heard heard before None of them had pictures in it. So he really wasn't interested in on another wall He saw a bunch of pictures and it looked like old pictures of his grandma of his mama and on Denise And there's some older pictures of grandmother when she was a child. Then he saw one picture of With a woman he didn't recognize then he looked at her really closely and looked at her eyes And he said no way. That's what he says to himself. No way He's like, is that the that's when Landon recognized the woman in the picture It was the old woman who lives in the woods and that in the house in the woods So and then he heard his grandmother behind behind him and she speaks up and she's like, oh So I see you found all the pictures and Landon turned around still holding in the picture of The grandmother with the old woman in the woods and he should she he should he said he said yeah. Yeah, it's so The grandmother is kind of narcissistic girl kind of she is so the grandmother comes over and starts going over all the pictures on the Display in everything, you know everything that she's done. And so that's when Linda said I'm a grandma this woman in the picture That's when I'm the grandmother. So she said, oh, yeah, that's my sister kitty. He said kitty Oh, yeah, kitty. We nicknamed her kitty cuz she loved cat. She probably would have married one So it's not Landon looked down at the picture I can see that they were both dressed really really nice very very graceful looking And so Landon said but grandma isn't this the lady that also lives out in those woods next to aunt Denise and The grandmother kind of looked down and I'm here and so she said oh, so you seen her He should kids they say yeah, we went out there and we saw her like a couple of times now And so that's when The grandmother said said then we just need to stay away from her You know, she not right She went crazy a couple of years ago Y'all need to stay out those woods and stay away from kitty because she's just not right in the head So Landon just dropped the subject he put the picture back and helped his grandmother with the um, the The garden but he could not wait to get back to aunt Denise house to let red and pass You know what he knew right so as soon as he saw him them the next weekend He went up to them and say you guys y'all won't believe what I found out and they said what look I was over grooming this house a couple of days ago And she had a picture of herself and the whole woman in the woods. That's when we said nah, uh Let me say no seriously. I saw it. She told me that that was her sister. They call her kitty But I just said kitty say yeah kitty because she apparently she likes cat more like killing cats Yeah, I know just horrible. There's a kid. So so That was like wow. I can't believe we're related to that crazy lady in the old woods. So How did we get to that backstory? so Landon decided he was gonna tell his mama what he knew because he doesn't like to keep secrets away from his mother so He mustered up enough strength a couple of days later and he said my mom have something to tell you sick. Okay, baby Go ahead So he said you know how I mean the twins we've been going out in the woods She said yes, I know and I told y'all you should be going in those woods And he said yeah, everyone's been telling us but look we went in the woods and the first time we went in the woods We crammed across the old lady. He we came across a woman that lives in One of the houses and apparently she's grandma's sister His mother looked down. She said I know she's a he's like you knew she said yeah, I knew he said But why does she live out there? Why don't she live in the house with grandma that big house? I mean she has enough room and that's when the mother looked down She's like I think you're old enough to know some things. So that's when Landon's mother Tells him this crazy story. I'm about 40 years ago. Yeah, I know I love I love a good flashback child about 40 years ago Kitty and Francine Francine is the grandma's name, right? So they of course they lived in this house is big beautiful house the same house that Francine lives in now So Francine is the younger sister Kitty is older than her about three years And so Kitty was and still is a fashion designer She would design all these beautiful dresses and Francine would model them. They started off locally, you know Kitty would design and sew the dresses and then Francine would model them and people will love them They even started selling to all types of people even white people, which was very uncommon back in the 50s and 60s So they got an opportunity to finally go to Paris. Well doing that time Kitty had met a young man and which was very uncommon common because Francine being the the prettier when you say prettier She was a lot more confident thing than kitty and confidence can get you a long way, right? So Francine was the one always getting the boyfriend's but this time kitty had found herself a boyfriend And eventually he had proposed to her Well, they finally got this opportunity to actually go to Paris France And so Francine was like I can't believe this kitty We can finally go to Paris Paris of all places to show our dresses and that's when kitty told her She said look Jeff Jeff was her fiance Jeff proposed marriage to me Francine, and I don't think I can do this anymore Well Francine was upset. She's like well think about all the money we can make all you know everything all the opportunities You will be missing out. Do you want to be stuck here in Alabama? Kitty didn't seem to be wrong with standing in Alabama She's like I'm happy here. I'm happy. I met someone. That's what friends and said, you know, that's your problem That's your problem right there So one evening Francine called up kitty's fiance Jeff and basically lied and came up with this story that Kitty does not love you. She actually met another man and that's who she's really gonna marry So Jeff was upset he hung up and he decided to go find kitty and talk to her and I just lived in another Jeff lived in another small town so he jumped into his vehicle and Wraped down to their city just try to you know talk to her and reason with her because he loved her He wanted to keep her hold on baby. Hold on. He loved her and he wanted to keep her right but on the way there It was raining and he accidentally Flipped his car and it went into a ravine and he died So that happened and of course kitty was devastated the love of her life died Francine Started to feel guilty She finally mustered up the strength to confront her sister two or three days at the event after the incident And it was like, you know kitty. I have something to tell you So the night that Jeff had his accident I called him up and told him that you had met someone else and you were gonna marry them instead Kitty turned around and said you did what she said look I did it for us You know you were falling head in love with this man. No one he would probably break your heart That's when kitty cut her off. She said I can't believe you did this all these years everything we've been through Finally, I'm happy the one time. I'm happy and you take this away from me Kitty was done. They hadn't spoken. They stopped speaking at all. She moved out. She took all her stuff She fell into a depression She you know stopped talking to everyone and she moved into this little quaint house out in the woods at the time It was a cute house. This was like 30 40 years ago She moved in this little tiny quiet house out in the woods because she was done with everyone and she That's how she became the crazy old cat lady in the woods y'all that's part two