Little Footsteps

The Apple tree:

In recent days, the Parker family home has filled with uniformed people. Police guarded the house day and night looking for those who caused the fire. The head of the town fire station had been surprised when he saw the evidence of the burned chair, but when he heard the rumor that the house was haunted; he believed that it had all been caused by a group of teenagers with the intention of summoning spirits. Since then, those who bothered Parkers were the police. However, that chaos did not last long because Mr. Parker only endured the presence of the officers for four days, despite the fact that he had called them, he kicked everyone out of his house and this offended the officers who decided not to patrol near the house.

Paula had regretted her decision to tell her aunt and uncle that she had caused the rumor. She saw Uncle Parker yell at men taller and wider than him, so she decided to say nothing about the rumor that the house was haunted.

The Parkers were very angry when they heard that there was a rumor in the town that her house was haunted, although they didn't know that it had been because Paula spoke to the nun about the presence that bothered her.

Daiana knew what had happened at her friend's house, so she went to visit her. Unfortunately she had arrived when the police were there, so they could not talk comfortably, she could only tell her what Paula already knew: in town people were talking about the house.

They were in the front yard, a little apart from a police officer.

"I can't believe what's going on, Daiana. I don't know what to do! Someone tried to burn the house last night," Paula whispered.

"Yes, I heard that in town," Daiana then told her what had happened in the church when she went to visit the nun.

This relieved Paula because she thought that if no one believed in that nun, so then no one would know either that it was she (Paula) who had told her about the spirits.

"It's better that way," the girl said and then added: "Last night I got lost in the forest."

Daiana was surprised to hear Paula's adventures. She couldn't believe that her friend had been running in the woods alone at night. But when Paula told her about the cemetery in the middle of the forest, she was even more surprised.

"A cemetery in the middle of the forest! I never heard of it."

"I thought maybe you would have heard about it. There was a candle there," Paula said in a tremulous voice.

"Surely Mrs. Pierre's children put it there," Daiana exclaimed. "The other day I heard them talk about spiritism sessions and those weird things. I thought it was boyish nonsense."

Paula silenced her with a gesture because Mrs. Parker had left the house to speak to one of the officers. Fortunately she did not see the women

"How does he endure all this?" Daiana said looking at the man.

"I don't know but he will not endure it for much longer," Paula replied.

Mr. Parker called Paula to ask her to explain to the useless police officers that last night they (Paula and Mr Parker) had listened to intruders in the forest. Unfortunately, Mr. Parker got fed up with the presence of the policemen who came and went from his house, so he fought with them.

Cops stopped going to visit them and a few days later everything returned to normal.

"Thank God today we won't have to bear those screams!" Mrs. Parker said as she put the dirty clothes in a basket.

"Nor will we have to endure the sirens of police cars. They make a horrible noise," Paula said. She was upset because unlike Mr. and Mrs. Parker she had felt safer with the cops inside the house.