She talked different
That was what was odd to John when he stayed at his friend's Mike's house. Mikes mom talked different to Mike's Dad.
It was a simply Friday night evening and the two friends were staying in Mike's basement playing videogames. The game of choice that evening was the standard children's racing game that they had grown up playing. Shells, balloons, and bombs. Lightening power-ups were the worst, unless John got to use it on Mike. The basement was mostly one large room with three small room shot offs that want to other rooms. The one nearest to the stairs opened to a storage room where the family kept their large amount of food storage and washing and drying machines. The storage room also connected to a laundry chute. This chute went all the way up to the top floor of the house and sometimes Mike and John would play a game where they would try to race the laundry down to the basement from the top floor. They never would win, but it was fun, except for the injuries that was caused by the running into the walls as they would race down the stairs. There were a few times where these games ended with holes in the walls. Like last week when Mike's elbow rammed into the wall after descending the first set of stairs. Mike's was fine, the wall needed stitches and some French plaster.
That had been one on of the times that Mike's mom, her name might have might have been Mary, John didn't know her name because she had always been Mis Jillion. Anyway, that had been, the elbow in wall, had been one of the times that Mike's mom yelled like a demon. That was Mick described it, and later how John described it to his older sister. The thing is, she did have a point, Mike's arm could have been broken and the wall cost money and time to be fixed. However, the thing is, the screaming and yelling was not the odd thing. It was the sudden switch that she did when she went from yelling at Mike and John, to the sweet childish high-pitched way that she asked how Mike's Dad's day at work was.
The yelling this time was because John, Mike, and Mike's younger sister, Sarah, thought it would be cool to see if Sarah's New China teapot would really bounce after falling from the laundry chute. It didn't. It smashed, and now Sarah was crying. Thus, Mike's mom was yelling.
It was during second lunch that the yelling was taking place when Mike's Dad came into the kitchen while Mike's mom was both yelling at Mike and trying to calm Sarah down. Mr. Jillion said "Hello beauty", kissed her on the cheek and then opened the fridge to grab a beer.
"Hello handsome", she said in the high pitched voice. "How was your day?
"Good", he mumbled before opening a can of beer and draining it. He then grabbed two more cans from the fridge before shutting it. "I will back in after the game", he said before walking away towards his "man-cave".
Later, when John was talking with his sister, she mentioned that she knew exactly what he was talking about. Miss. Jillion was speaking with her Fundie Baby Voice when she spoke to her husband, and then was using her regular voice when she was talking/yelling at Mike and John. She paused her computer game to look at John. "It really is a thing, look it up. It something that weak men like and something that some women in power use to appear non-threatening. I use it sometimes when I want some guy to do something for me,"