• Chapter 1


    ~~~It was my 5th birthday and the night before I had this odd idea that something bad was going to happen. That happens sometimes with me…. I can’t tell about the good only the bad and the closer we get to the time when it will happen the stronger the feeling is. And by the morning I had a really bad feeling about something.
    ~~~I went down stairs hoping to wake up to my morning birthday breakfast, but my mom wasn’t up yet. My dad sleeps in the spare room so that he doesn’t wake my mom up when he gets up early. H e was sitting on the couch drinking his coffee and reading the newspaper. When I came down I asked him, “Where’s mom?”
    ~~~ He looked around the said, “I don’t know. She must still be in bed.”
    ~~~I thought that was pretty odd and then it hit me. Something had happened to my mom. I said “Dad, will you go check on her?” He nodded and went up stairs. I herd him open the bed room door, and make some weird noise. He walked in then back out and into the bathroom I herd the water turn on for a moment then back off as he came back down. He handed me my mom’s locket and said that if it is always close to my heart then my mom will guide me. The he said to go to my room.
    ~~~ After I closed the door, I heard my dad dial a three digit number that had to be 911. I heard him mumble a few words then stifle a sob. Then as he hung the phone up he said fairly loudly that they should hurry up. Then I heard him dial another number, and ask for my aunt… he said that she should come over very quickly and to bring her husband, that something bad had happened.
    ~~~ I heard the sirens for the ambulance, by then I had started to cry. Then I ran out because I heard my aunt Lila come in the hose. My dad looked horrified that I came out but said nothing as I ran to my aunt. She went to my dad and said “I decided not to bring Michael (that was her husband’s name). What happened?”
    ~~~He walked away a bit so he thought I couldn’t hear, but he didn’t know how my hearing has improved, and he replied “I went to check on Katrina this morning, but I went in and someone had murdered her. I took her locket and gave it to Gray Flower (that is my name even though people call me Gray)…. I told her to keep it close and Katrina will guard her forever. It's what she would have wanted". Lila looked crestfallen at the news and went over to me to comfort me. And then my dad went to tell the ambulance people what happened.