The House A Short Story

Chapter III

One spring day in May, Robert had been gone for over a month when his wife started to get worried. I would get worried to if I was eight months pregnant. But Robert would come home and apologize for being gone for so long. One month later a beautiful baby boy was born that they would name him Walter. The family was very happy they would go on with life with no problems. Then in November of 1881 they added on to their already loving family by having a baby daughter that they named Sera.

Life was just great and wonderful when tragedy hit in April of 1895. When Robert was attacked and killed by black bear. Angie, Walter and Sera where extremely sad about the passing of their dad and husband. I was also very sad to bad I couldn't show it. 6 months later they read Roberts will and boy was the family surprised to hear what was in it. They all found out that Robert had left $2 million dollars to Angie. He also left an explanation on how he got all this money. In 1879 I was trapping like always when it started to rain. So I went a hid in a near by cave. that is where I found a pile of gold nuggets. So all these years when you guys thought I was trapping I was searching the cave for more gold.

When they heard this they had mixed feelings they where happy, sad and angry. I started to think "oh great they are going to leave now." That is when Angie stood up and said "we are not going to let this money change us. We lived all these years not knowing about the money lets stay the same way we are not changing." This made me very happy my family was not going to move away. So they went on living the way they always had.

Ten years would go by and life had been going great Walter got married and had a baby boy they named Walter Jr.  He was born ten years after the death of his grandpa. But then tragedy hit one night while everyone was a sleep a group of bandits broke in and killed everyone in the house, So I thought.

So for twenty years I was left vacant. But it was not walk in the park, I was used as a hideout and there wasn't anything I could do. Around the summer of 1922 the cops came and tried to arrest the gang. But they would have none of that and would start a gunfight that would last 2 days. In the end the gang was arrested and every part of me except the front and right side wall where burnt to the ground.
Then in 1925 a strange looking man came and bought the land I was built on. Little did I know this strange man was Walter Jr. He would again leave and stay away for another year when he would move in. This was the day I found out who he was when he moved in he brought a women with him that looked a lot like Walter Jr's mom, but she died in the robbery.