Waaaaaaa! Waaaaaaa! I heard my baby sister cry from her bedroom down the hall. Unfortunately, I was the only one home. My mom just got a job since we moved in a few days ago and it was the midnight shift. My mom had been too tired lately to get a babysitter that would watch the baby over night so I’m stuck getting up 5 times a night. Well, I guess it doesn’t matter. I’m up anyway worrying about the new school year. I’m wondering what they will think of me.

I recently moved out of our house and into this house because we couldn’t pay the rent. The weird thing is, we got an old mansion for less than an old piece of wood. I’ve been studying old newspapers and looking over and over the house because I know something happened here that we are unaware of. Something that happened here that was very very frightening, but we were desperate because my mom needed a job. So I got up rocked the baby and tried to go back to bed, but smelled something funny.

FIRE! FIRE! I yelled running down the hall. I grabbed the baby and headed for the phone. I called the diner and asked for Melissa who is my mom. He said he had never heard of a Melissa before. I paused puzzled.

“Never heard of a Melissa here? There must be a Melissa,” I said.

He said, “I’m sorry, miss, but you must have the wrong number or something.”

So I hung up. By now the fire had come down the hall. There was only one thing to do. Call 911.

“911, how may I help you?”

“Hi!” I said, “I have a fire in my house and my mom is not home.”

“Okay,” said the worker. “What is your address?”

“OH NO!” I said, “I just moved here.”

“Well,” said the worker, “Just describe your house.”

I said, “Well it’s the old Potter mansion.”

At that she said, “We’ll have a fire truck over before you can say fire.”

She told me to wait outside until the truck got there. So I did. As I sat there several thoughts went through my head. Is mom lying? What started that fire? Where is mom? Should I research it for myself or ask her what going on? How did that lady know where our house was we are way out in the country? There it goes with what happened years ago and I wonder if it has anything to do with why mom is gone.

Wrrrrrrrrrr! Wrrrrrrr! I heard in the distance and my mind went back to the fire. By now the flames were coming out the windows as the trucks pulled into the driveway. After they had put out the fire, they asked me some questions and I decided to keep quiet about were my mom was. I said that she had the midnight shift and I would walk there. But, I was really going to stay here because I knew she would come back. So I told them they could go back. So they left and I acted like I was walking to the shop until they were out of sight. Then I snuck back through the woods. When I got home, I took blankets to the guest house and put the baby to sleep. I fell into a restless sleep. I awoke to the sound of voices, a gruff man’s voice and a tiny voice that was my mom’s voice. I snuck out of bed and listened. What I got out of this conversation was when my mom moved in she found the man in one of the rooms. It turns out he and my mom have been going out. He has been making my mom find a new hiding place for him because he did a murder here just a year ago. So I decided to wait a while and see what happened. Night after night he came back. So I called the police and asked if they would show up at exactly the same time he comes. So when the man got there and he started to get my mom in the car, the police jumped out and caught him. So we got the reward money enough to buy a new house and I was known as a hero at school.

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