Wait till Helen Comes : a ghost story
By: Mary Hahn

This story is called Wait Till Helen Comes. It's setting is a church, a graveyard, and a ruin of a house. The time is about the year 2000. The characters are: Michael, Molly, Heather, Dave, and Mom(Molly & Michael's mom). Dave's wife died in a fire when Heather was three. Dave then married Mom. But Dave's little girl, Heather, wants Dave to split up with Mom. The worst part is that Dave believes all of Heather's lies about how horrible Molly and Michael are to her. At first, they lived in a townhouse not peacefully, not horribly, but somewhere in-between. But then Mom & Dave decided to move out into the country. They buy an old church. Molly and Michael are sad and mad because they had already made plans for the summer. But at the church, things get worse. Heather is becoming very strange. She keeps making visits to the graveyard behind their house because she is fascinated by a grave labeled with her own initials. After a while, she starts talking about a ghost named Helen who haunts the graveyard. She visits the old Harper House which is a house that looks like it is about to fall over. Last, she starts saying things like "You wait till Helen comes!". When Heather, Mom, and Dave are out, and Molly & Michael are by the graveyard, Helen comes. She utterly destroys Mom, Molly, and Michael's stuff. Soon, Molly discovers a terrible secret: Heather accidentally set her old home on fire, so killing her mom, and Helen did the same. When Helen traps Molly & Heather, Molly finds Helen's mother's bones. Helen's mother forgives Helen, Dave forgives Heather, and Molly & Heather become great sisters.

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