Chapter 313 Rebellious Mother-in-law
"My name is Helen Grace."

The girl who looked like Gwen greeted Wanda, "Maybe you got the wrong person."

She looked towards Peter as she spoke.

After seeing the cloak behind Peter and his outfit that was not in line with the trend of the times, his eyebrows moved and he immediately became very interested in him.

Helen Grace, who has always been curious, wondered if Peter was a middle school student who liked to dress himself up as a wizard or some kind of wizard.

"But if you don't mind, I can buy you a drink."

She said generously to Peter and Wanda.

"Uh"

Wanda looked at Peter for help, she didn't know what to do.

Since the girl in front of me is not Gwen, why do they look so similar?
After Peter compared the other person's appearance with Gwen again, he asked her, "Do you know George Stacy?"

"George? You mean George? Of course, he is my classmate, a somewhat old-fashioned and serious classmate, so are you George's friend?"

"No, we're not."

Peter is now certain that the woman in front of him is his future mother-in-law, Helen Stacy.

He thought the cloak could help him find Gwen, but he didn't expect that the cloak would cause a mistake and help him find Gwen's mother.

Even though they are all Stacy, they are still a family.

Peter shook his head and glanced at the cloak behind him.

As if sensing Peter's contempt, the cloak shrank back.

"We are looking for a girl named Gwen Stacy. Sorry, we made a mistake because you two look so much alike."

Peter explained the reason to her.

"We look alike?"

Helen Grace pointed at herself in surprise.

"Yes, you are like twins."

Wanda interrupted.

"Maybe if there is a chance, we can meet."

Helen Grace picked up her glass and asked, "Can I ask you something?"

She pointed at Peter's attire and asked, "Where are you from?"

Without waiting for Peter to answer, Wanda said, "A very far place. Anyway, it's far away from here."

She looked around the bar and found an old record player in the bar.

Wanda, who had never seen such a thing before, immediately became interested in it and started circling around the record player.

"Wanda, we have to go."

Peter shouted to Wanda: "We have wasted a lot of time."

"But we just got here, we are not familiar with anything, maybe we can find a place to get familiar with it first."

Hearing Wanda say that she was not familiar with this place, Helen Grace immediately stepped forward and said, "Maybe I can help you. I am more familiar with this place."

She felt that Peter's outfit might really be that of an alien from some alien planet.

She has been interested in these alien and mysterious cultures since she was a child, and has begun to think of Peter and Wanda as aliens.

Peter thought about it and felt that he might be able to find Gwen with his future mother-in-law, so he agreed to the other party's proposal.

If Gwen realizes she has traveled back in time, there is a good chance she will come to see her family.

Helen Grace took Peter and Wanda out of the bar, and it started to drizzle outside.

"Sorry, I have to make a phone call."

She smiled at Peter and walked quickly towards the phone booth.

Raindrops fell on the telephone booth.

Helen Grace put the telephone receiver to her ear and felt a slight coolness on her chin.

Then there is waiting for the sound to stop.

Although she made the call, she didn't want anyone to answer it.

"Go to the answering machine."

Helen Grace seemed to be praying and chanting a spell.

"Go to the answering machine, go to the answering machine, go to the answering machine."

The words echoed in the empty space above her head.

Click.

"Helen?"

The voice of Helen Grace's mother rang out.

"It's me, Helen, mother."

"I know I know."

"Mother--"

"Where are you?"

"I may not go back today. I met a friend and maybe I will sleep at her house for two days."

Helen Grace said with a hoarse throat.

Every part of her body felt like a tooth broken in half, nerve endings exposed.

It didn't feel good to lie, but she didn't want to go home.

She doesn't like her stepfather who always has a stern face.

"Are you sure? Helen, don't lie to me!"

"Of course, I'm not like that man who would lie to you."

"Don't say that. Come home to your mother."

"I have some problems right now, and I'm a little busy."

Helen Grace felt as if she was losing her mind.

"Just tell me where you are and I'll come over, Helen."

"I'm leaving."

"Come on, Helen, you're a good girl."

"Believe me, Mom, I'm fine, wait until I get back..."

She wanted to tell her mother that she was just a bitter pill, a mean little rodent, but she couldn't form the words.

She wanted to yell and complain that her mother shouldn't have married that man, but she felt that she was too childish.

She hung up the phone and leaned against the wall in the phone booth.

Looking at Peter and Wanda in the distance, she calmed herself down and rushed towards them.

"I can take you to find a place to stay. My friend is traveling, and you can stay there temporarily. I think she won't mind. As long as you pay a little money."

Helen Grace said she had found a place for the two of them.

"Thank you, but we should have enough money to find a hotel."

Peter declined the other party's offer to help him find a place to live.

"Yeah, that's fine, but most of the hotels here are not very hygienic. I have to recommend you one with a very good reputation."

Helen Grace said to the two of them, "But before that, I have to go back to school to get something. Do you mind?"

Through indirect inquiries, she had already learned from Wanda about the record player, a more beautiful and compact player.

There are also many more things that have not been seen.

So she became even more certain that Peter and Wanda had extraordinary origins.

Soon Helen Grace brought the two of them to school.

Each spike on the top of the school's iron gate was decorated with irises, like a hungry black dog with its mouth open and its metal canines exposed. A few people entered the school, and the winding road extended into a forest at the corner.

Behind the woods is a row of iron gates, the guard's sentry post, and the brass plaque on the pale brick wall, forming a special landscape.

On the plaque, in dazzlingly circling calligraphy, was written the words Caldecott School.

"The days are getting shorter, the mornings are getting darker, and the night is like a stalker that always sneaks up on your window. I don't like school in the winter."

Helen Grace said as she brought the two people in.

What she didn't tell the two was that she had skipped school for two days.

She has always been a good girl, but now she wants to try being a bad girl.

For example, the rascal Jack, who had been harassing her before but was ignored by her, now she pays attention to him.

Jack also said he had something exciting for her to experience.

She was now more and more curious about what it was.

After picking up some things from school, she took Peter and Wanda to the best hotel nearby.

Although she had never been to the hotel, she was quite familiar with the area.

"Teacher, you said she is Gwen's mother?!"

In the hotel, Wanda asked Peter in shock.

"Yes, we went back to New York in the 1990s, when Gwen's mother had not yet married George Stacy."

Peter said calmly, "So she won't know who Gwen is."

Wanda stuck out her tongue, "I actually met Gwen's mother! It's amazing!"

Peter didn't say anything. He looked out the window at the dark night, with a black exoskeleton covering his body.

Doctor Strange's cloak seemed to be frightened by this change, and it flew off from behind Peter and in front of him.

"I'm going to take a look around the city, Wanda, don't go out, wait for me to come back."

After giving Wanda an order, Peter grabbed his cloak and jumped out of the hotel building.

at the same time.

Helen Grace was in some serious trouble.

The door closed behind her with a mechanical whine.

"This is not good!"

Helen Grace, who punched Jack, ran away as fast as she could.

She didn't expect that the exciting thing the other party said he would show her was actually a drug!
But she never touches that kind of thing, and she hates this kind of harmful thing the most.

She stopped a taxi and asked the driver to move forward quickly.

"Where else are you going? There is only one road here, and it can only lead to one place, or maybe you could say one location."

The driver said to her helplessly.

Seeing the driver driving the car to a deserted remote place, Helen Grace had no choice but to get out of the car quickly.

The road is neatly paved, without any potholes, smooth and flat like the back of a beetle.

There were tall trees on both sides of the road. These trees were not like the short-leaved pines in some parts of the city. They were tall relic oaks wrapped in dark and damp bark, each one like a silent and solemn sentinel, or a judge.

Soon, she heard the gurgling sound of the river.

The river appeared before Helen Grace's eyes soon after.

Five minutes later, the towering trees disappeared, replaced by a rugged river bank covered with green grass.

Above it the Susquehanna River sometimes rolls and sometimes calms, the water gurgling and rushing forward.

"Oh my god! How did I end up in such a remote place?"

She couldn't help but complain.

This is near the girls' school where I attend.

Looking back, she had to keep running forward to avoid Jack and his group.

The center of the school is a manor that looks ancient, three stories high, with solemn Gothic windows and ornate trimmings.

Each roof is red, like a child's four-wheeled car.

The walls were a bit grey and green, clay-stained and bland compared to the red of the house.

While complaining that her girls' school was like a prison, Helen Grace ran into the school.

The banner of Caldecott's crest - an eagle, books, a knight's helmet, and other gaudy things - fluttered in the wind at night.

The flagpole rises from a Volkswagen Beetle-sized pile of anthracite that is placed in the center of the circular drive.

The school at night looked silent and lifeless. There was no movement, no students, no teachers, and she didn't even notice a pair of ugly pigeons.

Helen looked back and saw a car rushing towards her.

Knowing it was Jack's car, she continued running forward.

In the pitch-black night, it seemed as if at any moment a large tentacle could burst out of the front door, wrap around her, and drag her into the abyss.

"I must be a fool. I have such bad luck on my first try at being a bad girl. If I had known, I would have begged Peter and Wanda to take me in."

As she ran forward, she sped up.

Jack's car also stopped outside, and then she saw several people rushing into the school.

She didn't have time to escape and hid outside the principal's office.

Her heart was beating "boom boom".

There is a toilet next to the principal's office.

Helen Grace thought about her experience in the bathroom during the day.

Many female students like to dye their hair in this bathroom.

There is also a bathroom in the toilet.

While she was in the bathroom during the day, several older girls came into the bathroom and shared a few cigarettes with each other.

One of the girls, a red-haired girl with a freckled nose, folded her arms smugly across her chest in a fitted navy jacket.

You could faintly smell cigarettes on the girl, a different brand from the ones the other girls smoked.

She had a deep impression of this girl because she had had an argument with her.

The other party said that the leaves she drew looked like a dog's butt.

That's roughly what it says.

So I told her that there are a lot of things in the world that look like dog's butts, but that doesn't mean you should go around spreading the word.

But the other party said that this is how she treats life.

She hated the red-haired girl and she hated high school life here.

Everything looks terrible!

Taking a deep breath, Helen Grace threw the events of the day out of her mind and turned her thoughts to the present.

The most important thing now is to avoid being discovered by Jack and his gang of bastards.

After all, I almost broke that guy's penis with my kick!

Outside the principal's office, there is a wall with wooden wainscot.

Normally, she found this wall very monotonous and boring.

But now she hopes that this wall can help her and block those guys outside.

Just when she was feeling uneasy, she suddenly saw a scene that shocked her.

Just as Jack and the others were walking into the campus cursing, suddenly countless tentacles stretched out from the night and swept them away in an instant.

The tentacles of the monster emerged from the night, wrapped around the screaming people, and dragged them directly into the dark and unknown night.

The screams echoed throughout the campus, it was extremely creepy!

Helen Grace covered her mouth in fear.

(End of this chapter)