"The Grandfather" told by JLt...

One time there was a little girl whose grandfather had just died
She has loved her grandfather very much and she missed him a great deal
He was buried in the cemetery just a few hundred yards from her house
and she could see his grave every evening at sunset when she looked from her bedroom window
One night her parents were going out and the babysitter hadn't arrived yet
They knew she was a very reliable babysitter who would probably arrive just a few minutes later, so they kissed the girl good-bye and drive off.
Hours passed and the babysitter had not yet come. The girl began to be afraid
A storm was brewing outside and thunder and lightning moved closer and closer to the house.
Suddenly there was a bright flash of lightning without any sound and the power in the house went off.
The wind blew the trees around and branches broke off,
crashing against the house and falling to the yard
Alone in the dark, the girl became very scared
Then the phone rang
The girl went to the phone, hoping it was her parents
She said hello, and waited. The line seemed dead
Then, sounding far, far away, a voice came over the phone
It was her grandfather's voice
"Don't be afraid, honey. There's nothing to fear.
You'll be safe in the house. The storm will pass over."
Then the phone was silent and dead
The girl went to bed, calm and happy. She slept well in spite of the storm
The parents came home and found their daughter asleep, and, unwilling to wake her,
they left their questions until the morning.
They were horrified when the babysitter called the next morning to explain that she had been in a wreck at the leading edge of the storm.
She was unhurt, but what had their daughter done alone in the house?
When they woke her, she told them what had happened
And when they didn't believe her, she smiled and pointed out her window to what she had seen the night before
The phone line from the house was intact out to the first pole
but then it was broken by fallen limbs, and the cable drooped into the cemetery
The end of the broken line lay across her grandfather's grave
*the end*