REBECCA'S REVENGE

Rebecca's parents were worried sick. Her mother asked her brother, Ben, the same question again that he had just answered moments earlier. "Ben, where is your sister?" "Mom, I just told you. She ran ahead of my friends and me. I haven't seen her since." "Where would she have gone? Look at the clock. It is after mid-night. She should have been home hours ago." Ben watched his dad stare at the phone, expecting it to ring. His mom paced nervously. She hurried to the window in response to a noise outside. The full moon lit up the neighborhood but revealed nothing more than a quiet lonely night. She looked down the street hoping the illumination would show Rebecca her pathway back home. This was all crazy. Rebecca never stayed out this late. Even on the weekends she was in bed fast asleep by this hour. Finally Ben's dad picked up the phone and dialed the police to report Rebecca as a missing person. This was a nightmare. Ben couldn't stand to hear his dad on the phone with the police or see his mom crying. He felt so helpless, so he raced to his bedroom and grabbed his baseball bat. In frustration he began swinging the bat, demolishing his favorite model cars and everything else he could hit. "Stupid, stupid, stupid!" Tears of fear were streaming down his cheeks. "Where are you, Beckie?" He was yelling at the top of his lungs. "Duh, Ben, I can hear you!" Ben stopped his wailing and looked around. " Rebecca? Beckie? Is that you? Where are you?" "Look up, Benny boy, I'm looking right at you. Can't you see me?" Ben strained his tear filled eyes as he surveyed the ceiling. He spotted a figure that was beginning to materialize like a cluster of lightning bugs coming together in the shape of his sister. "Beckie?" His voice was shaky as the reality sunk into his brain that it was Rebecca's ghost he was talking with and seeing near the ceiling of his bedroom. "Ben, calm down. I'm dead, but I'm not gone. I can tell you where my body is and who killed me. I need your help. That ol' lady in the scary house is a witch. You have to help me get my revenge. Stop crying now, we don't have time for it."