The Girl That Never Went To Heaven It was the year 1982 when in a red and white two-story house with a large white door, bay windows, and a tree next to it in Virginia. A 16 years old teenager called his girlfriend to come over to his house. When she entered to the house the boy friend took her from the back, and killed her, and buried her body under ground at the basement. As this happened a little 5-year-old boy was passing by, and saw what was happening. The little boy got frightened and run off, but not before the teenager saw him. The 16-year boy finished what he was doing, and rapidly he stand up, and started running to catch the little one. After running half a mile he reached, and grabbed the kid, and tried to kill him. A man from a nearby house saw what he was doing, and called the police, and ran out to help the small boy. The police arrived at the scene, and arrested the teenager. At court the little boy was so scared he did not confess the murder he had seen, so the teenagers secret wasn't discovered. The judge sentenced the teenager 9 years and 10 months in prison for trying to kill an inoffensive kid. The mother of the little kid thought that they lived in a dangerous place so she decided to move to another city. After a long while the kid started playing, and forgot what had happened. Nine years and ten months later In the year 1991 on October 30 a family was discussing about moving or not to Virginia. Sarah a 24 years old girl didn't want to move because her friends live in the town where they are. "Why should we move, if we are okay here," Said Sarah. " It is a hard decision, but we should move," Sarah's father told her. " But I don't want too, I want to stayed," Sarah said to his father trying to convince him. "Like it or not we are going to move, so get prepared that in a week will go to Virginia," said Sarah's father. A week had passed, and they were ready to go. They went by car, so it took them two days and a night to reach Virginia. When they finally arrived it was November 8. Sarah's father had already bought a house before moving there. It was a two-story red and white house. It had a large white door, but it looked very old, and beside it there were to big windows where. They were so big that even a five-year-old kid could peek trough into the house. Also beside the house there was an orange tree. Sarah's father entered her to the university. One day before starting studying Sarah looked out the window, and saw a man 24 or 25 years old going out the house on front of hers. The following day she started going to the University. It wasn't far, and most of the people that went there lived near by. She noticed that the man who lived across the street that left 10 minutes before her was in the same class that she was studying. A few days later in class the man sat near Sarah, and he begun speaking to her. The man was about 25 years old. His name was Steve, and he had recently move to Virginia. He was from Virginia, but he had left some years before to study in another school. He mentioned also he lived by his self. His parents had gone to live to another state after an accident that happened 9 years before. He never spoke about it because he said it was a private matter. Steve invited Sarah to a party, and there she met new friends, with whom she became very close. She began to reconstruct her life again, and started leading a normal life. She felt she had a better life and was happier in her new home. A week after the party Everything was fine until one day at Johana's house, a 24-year-old girl that Sarah met at the party, told her the story of the attempted murder of the little boy. "Do you know what happen almost 10 years in the house where you live?" asked Johana. "No what happened? ", responded Sarah curiously. Johana told Sarah the story about the five-year-old boy and the teenager that tried to murder him. Johana related a gruesome story. Johana's best friend, Jamey, was dating the teenager that turn out to be the criminal. Also that he lived in Sarah's new house. Jamey had mentioned to Johana that they fought all the time. The boyfriend was very lonely, and Jamey always wanted to keep him company to alleviate his loneliness, but it never happened. Then one day Jamey broke up with him, the lonely teenager. He got very angry, so he called her after to apologize. Jamey called Johana to talk about the apology, and that she had decided to go to his house. That was the last time Johana spoke to Jamey, because on that same day she disappeared. It was strange to Johana why on that same day Jamey's boy friend tried to kill the boy. Police looked all over the city for her. At the time they were thought was suspicious Jamey's boy friend, but there wasn't enough evidence to arrest him. Another thing Johana told Sarah was that although he was not sent to jail for Jamey's disappearing, he was sentenced to 9 years and 10 months for the attempted murder, that meant that the time have passed and he was in the streets again. His parents had moved away after this accident, and had gone to live in another place. Sarah asked about his looks, but Johana had never met him, so she didn't know what he looks like. That night before going to sleep Sarah couldn't believe what had happened in that same house, that same place, same room. She began thinking about what could have happened to Jamey. When she finally fell as sleep she had a weird dream. The images and voices in her dream were soon calling for her to help. Sarah couldn't distinguish the voices that were calling out to her. Next morning when she woke up she thought it had only a dream, but she was wrong. When she went sleep that night she heard the voice calling for help again. That happened for the rest of the week. Sarah was getting worried because of it, so she told her mother, but her mother said," that happens time, until one day it stops." Sarah's dreams didn't stop. After two weeks of recurrent dreams she decided to tell Johana. Johana couldn't believe it. Then Sarah told her that maybe Jamey had been killed in the same house where she now lived. Since Johana trusted her friend she was convinced. As Sarah told Johana, Steve who had been standing behind Johana, became nervous "What do you think Steve?" said Sarah. "No! I don't think she died in that house, why did she have to be killed in that place, and also if she was killed, who did it?" answered Steve. "Maybe her boy friend" repeated Johana. "But why, and if he killed her where is the evidence" respond Steve. "You are right," both Sarah and Johana told him. Steve was calmer. "How are your classes going?" Steve said trying to change topic. Then that night, in her dream, the same voice asked for help, but this time it said something else. She could hear, "help me please down here". As the voice said that she woke up, and thought for a minute. "What if she is buried under ground?" The following morning she went to her friends, Johana and Steve, and told them what had happened this time. She explained her theory of what had happened 10 years earlier. Steve face turned pale. He began talking about school, but they did not pay attention to him, they were interested in the dreams. Steve got up saying he had to go. Sarah and Johana looked at each other and continue discussing what could happen. Then Sarah mention her if she could remember when she had begun talking about it Steve seemed very nervous, and he had tried to change the subject. Then Johana realized what was happening, and she had started thinking back what happened almost 10 years before. Later that day when Sarah returned to her house Steve called her and told her to meet her at the shopping mall to talk over some things. Sarah got ready, and went. As Sarah left the house Steve was watching her from his house. As soon as she left he ran across the street with an old copy of Sarah's key. He knew the house would be empty because Sarah's parents weren't going to their not later the afternoon. He had a shovel with him, and he ran into the house, and down to the basement where he started to dig. Two hours had gone by, and he still wasn't finished, but he knew Sarah would be coming back soon, so he got a rug, and covered the hole, and went home. When he arrived Sarah called him asking why he wasn't at the mall, and he said he looked for her every where, but he couldn't find her, so he had gone back home. The next day Steve didn't go to classes, so he wasn't aware of the information Johana had found about the teenager who tried to kill the little boy. One of the pieces of information was that the teenager would be about 25 year old just like Steve. Also the criminal was released on October, this coincided with Steve's arrival in town. They shared another interesting fact. Both teenagers had been separated from their parents due to an accident. Steve was very similar to the killer. On that same day during Sarah's talk with Johana at college Steve enter Sarah's house again. He started digging again until he reached the bones. Then he took them out of the ground, and put them in a black bag. The remains were of a young girl. What he didn't know was that Johana and Sarah were returning to the house earlier because they wanted to talk with Steve about the coincidences. Then when Steve heard the door he ran with the black bag to the back door, and escaped. Then Sarah called Steve's house to ask why his life was similar to the criminal. Steve was surprised of what they knew, so he responds," we can't be related, or there is a problem if we had a similar life." Then he adds to what he had been saying, " why a murder will want to come back to a place where the police knows him", and concluding his conversation he told her, "wouldn't my photo would be in the newspaper" thinking that the news had never took him a photo. Next day Sarah went with Johana to the library to look for more information about the case, to see if they could fine a picture of Steve. They still thought that he was involved in the case. They found a black and white photo of the killer, and they printed it out. Johana started looking at it closely because that face looked familiar. Then they took some colors out, and started coloring the picture with Steve's eyes, hair, and skin color. When they finished they had found that the teenager was Steve. They had found who was the real killer, only that by finding who was Steve they still doesn't knew about what happened to Jamey. So they returned to Sarah's house. They went down to the basement to get something. They were walking down step by step until they came to the bottom. Sarah was looking for the switch to turn on the light. In that same moment Johana fell into a hole. Sarah found the switch and turned the lights on to see what had happened. She had fallen in a hole that some one had dug. They immediately called the police thinking that someone had broken into the house and stolen something. The police came, and found Jamey's ring in the whole. Then Sarah told him what they had found out about Steve, so they decided to go to Steve's house. At Steve's house everything looked normal. He was acting like if he was sick to excuse why he hadn't went to classes. They Sarah and Johana started talking, but the police still couldn't find evidence. Before the policeman went out of the house Johana was a thirsty, so without asking she went to the freezer to take something to drink, but when she opened the door a bag of bones fell down. Among the bones there was necklace. The necklace that Johana had given to Jamey as a friendship gift. In that moment Steve knew that everyone had discovered his secret. He stood up, and started running pushing the policeman, but before he got out from the house Sarah putting her feet when he was passing by her making him fell letting the policeman stand up again a caught him. Steve was sent again to jail for the rest of his life. Johana knew what happened to her best friend, and considered Sarah like her new best friend. Finally Sarah could sleep calmly without worrying about her dreams, and Jamey at last her spirit went to heaven. Then their lifes continue normally.
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