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Who's Helena Monologue

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It was a cool September evening and my mom was driving me from Los Angeles all the way to Johannesville. As we drove on quiet, deserted roads I stared out the passenger’s window and saw nothing but hills with tall, dry, golden-brown grasses. It certainly wasn’t anything like what you’d see in pictures of beautiful landscapes but it wasn’t too bad either, I actually kind of liked it. Looking at those golden hills rush past my window somehow relaxed me and sent me into a staring trance, my mind traveled to other-worldly places where I could let my imagination run wild. “Annie? Annie!” “Huh? What is it?” I was suddenly jerked back to reality when I heard my name being called from my left. It was my mom who, apparently, had been calling my name over and over. “Don’t fall asleep honey, we’re almost there." my …show more content…

“What?!”, my mom asked with a surprised tone in her voice. “How can you not know of Helena? Even I know of her and I didn’t live here very long.” “Just tell me who she is already!”, I said a bit annoyed as I sat down on my bed. My mom did the same, sitting down next to me. “No. Not is, was. I’ve heard that there’s a ghost girl, named Helena, in this town. They say she’s been haunting this place for hundreds of years now, almost a millennium. She belonged to a very rich family. They used to own most, if not all, of the land that Johannesville was built on.” “Why has she been haunting this place?”, I asked. The story about this ghost was beginning to sound pretty interesting. “I really don’t know”, my mom said, frowning a little. I watched as her expression changed from her normal carefree look to a serious one, one that I rarely saw on her. “Now I’m not sure if this is why, or if it’s even true, but it is said that a brutal murder took place in her family’s mansion. Then I also heard something about a curse...but that sounds a little too

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