i was sitting down on the dinning room table playing and making things with my mom i giggled when i made a funny mask i had turned 8 5 months ago and i was enjoying every bit of being 8i was till playing when i heard a car pull upi heard a gun fire i yelped my mom went pale she picked me and told me to hide in the closet it was dark but i stayed brave. i hear the fonrt dorr open i hear my step dads voice he was drunk again i thought my mom began yelling at him i heard another gun shot my mom voice could no longer be heard she was not speaking she had been silenced forevr i heard my door open i moved myself farther in the closet i heard another gun shot i poked my head out my step dad was dead i walked out and my mother is dead i went to the phone and called the cops they came and sent me too te orpanage i was adopted quickly but 6 years later 14 i ranaway not knowing what is ahead of me