The Possibility of Evil

"Has anyone seen Miss. Strangeworth lately?" asked Mr.Lewis as he was checking out Mrs. Harper at the counter. "Who cares? She's the one who's been sending us all these letters and ruining our lives! I only hope her life is ruined too." Mr.Lewis gave Mrs.Harper her things and looked down at the counter, "Well, of course she did, but to as far as that, maybe she had a reason, or maybe she is just sick; I mean she is a old lady and only stays in this one town, maybe she needs to get out more or see a doctor." "Why are you defending her?" asked Mrs.Harper, "Because I knew her a long time, there's no way she wouldn't do something like that without any reason or motive." Mrs.Harper snorted as she walked off mumbling that her motive was to ruin their lives and break up families. No one has seen Miss. Strangeworth since the day, they got rid of her roses, which was 3 weeks ago, and people where still talking about yesterday's news. Linda and Harris were treated as the town's heros for finding out the evil deeds Miss. Strangeworth was doing at the post office every night. Don Crane was now the head of the town, taking Miss.Strangeworth's title.
Linda and the Harris boy were walking down pass Miss.Strangeworth's house for a evening stroll; they stopped right in front of the house staring at it. The windows were fogged up, the curtains' color faded, the garden was in no point of return, and the house was molded and cracked. "You don't really think she locked herself up in her house do you?" Linda asked looking up at Harris, "No, I think she goes out to get what she needs when everyone is gone or asleep; beside even if she did lock herself up in that house, she's probably out of food by now there's no way she'll survive." "Maybe we should check on her." Harris pondered that thought for a moment and figured even though she was being rude to the town and it's people the least they can do is make sure she's okay, after all she is the only Strangeworth left in this world, and all her families have lived her; as much as he hated to admit it, she was still the town's living breathing historic mark. "First thing tomorrow, everyone will check on Miss.Strangeworth." "Everyone? How are you going to get everyone to do that?" Linda had asked eyebrows raising in a question. "Well, I'm pretty sure there are people who are worried as much as us" Linda and Harris strolled back to their homes, kissed each other goodnight, and waited for morning to come.
Harris manged to get: Linda, Mr.Lewis, and Don and Helene Crane to come see if she was alright. They all sorta felt bad for what they did, yet what she did was always not right as well,; they planned on rebuilding her garden and making her promise not to do those things anymore. Mr.Lewis knocked on her door. "Miss.Strangeworth?" Mr.Lewis repeated himself two more times, before he realized that the door was unlocked and walked inside with the rest following him. "Ack!" Linda covered her nose. "What's this smell, it's horrible!" Helene started looking pale and Don told her to wait outside. "Miss.Strangeworth!" Harris shouted, the house looked he same as it always did, expect for the fact that everything was collecting dust. "Maybe she's in her bedroom." Don metioned as he walked upstaris. He knocked on her door and with no answer he walked in and came to a halt. "What is it?" Linda pushed by in the crowd. There were several colored notes saying "The world is evil" and withered rose petals scattered around the room and around the body of Miss.Strangeworth in the process of decaying. "Oh my god.." Linda rushed outside to join Helene and Harris, Don, and Mr.Lewis were frozen in place until Don broke the silence. "Someone call 911." He motioned one of them to do as he knelt down to the body. "It seems she just died of stravation." "Or she could have commited suicide." Mr.Lewis suggested. "So she died cause the world was evil or because we were 'evil'?" Harris asked after coming in from calling the police. "Who knows...who knows." Don answered and they all waited for the police to arrive to collect the body of Miss.Strangeworth.