Fiction: Expanding

She grabbed his hand and led him from room to room, her fingers loosely coupled around his, tension between thumbs and fingertips falling away with each subsequent step.
She wanted him to follow, unled.
He slowed his pace as she raced through the memories of each doorway and plank, every window a story within a story.
She told them all. Like an accordion, the memories expanded in sound and movement. Her voice reverberating and then barely audible down dark hallways and up carpeted stairs. Her free hand fluttered into the past and reimagined the future the house would hold. She touched her belly round and hard. She touched the soft lines around her eye. She stopped and pulled his shoulder towards her chest, kissed his cheek shyly as if his DNA was not swirling within her belly too.
Every day was new with this thing this alien this person forming just inches from her heart. That was why he had to know the history. In case she swelled so large the house didn't recognize her anymore and erased all the memories (of her) in its walls papered with mahogany smoke and gravelly laughter. She had to do it quickly before the inches betrayed them and he too recognized her no longer.
At least he would have the memories of the house to hold him and remind him of the girl he once knew.