• tab I have lived in fear. It all started when I was 2 years old. I had the worst parents. They had beat me and yelled at me and each other everyday. I just hid every time they got into a fight because then it would end up about me. Then I would be yelled at. Once I was 5, I knew what everything was. When they yelled at me, I just cried. When they beat me, I would scream in terror. Everything was horrible. Until that one day that I ran away. I have never seen my original parents again.
    tab Once I got to the foster home. They took me and put me in a room. Then that day the couple came in. I thought I wouldn't get picked because everyone else didn't want me. Then they walked up to me and said that they wanted me. I was so excited and jumpy I couldn't think straight! So I packed up my stuff and then went with my new family.
    tab My new family was awesome! Everyday was a new adventure! When I went to church on that Sunday morning. I didn't know who that guy was up on the cross. Then the church people told me who he was. He was our savior. When we went back to the house. We saw that the window was broken and the door was wide open. Then that is when it all started. Three guys came out in all black and ran out. I didn't know who they were. Nobody did. So that is when I got taught about the bad people called burglars.
    tab I went to sleep and then right before I fell asleep. I heard my mom scream and then two gun shots. One was louder than the other and after that I heard four loud thumbs on the ground. When I went to the stairs to see downstairs, I saw blood on the ground and my mom on the ground right next to it. And beside that was a person in all black, like we saw earlier today.
    tab My dad seen me on the stairs. He ran up to me and hugged me. He said that mommy needed to go to the hospital. So we called 911 and an ambulance came and everyone was up. I was sad and my dad was sad. The doctors said that there was a rare chance she would survive. Then me and dad went outside the room and cried.
    tab A week past and my mom died. So during that week we had the funeral. When that happened we all nearly lost it. Then when I got home. I saw a note on my bed. It said 'I am watching your every step. Don't think you can lose us that easily.' That scared me a lot and it scared my dad too. So my dad and I went and drove off to a different state and lived there for a while. I got into school and met new friends. Then that one day, right before I graduated the 5th grade. The same guys covered in black came. But there was only two of them. And they ran up to me and kidnapped me in front of everyone. Everyone was shocked and once they got me to there van, I recognized the voices.
    tab It was my old mom and dad that I ran off from. And then no one saw me for a long time. A really long time. Then one day I finally broke out and then ran off to find help. Then they found me again and knocked me out and blind folded me. Then I woke up to me tied up to a chair with duct tape and rope. I couldn't get out of it. I was still blind folded and my mouth was duct taped. I tried to scream, but I knew no one could hear me. Then I heard the front door get knocked down. Then gunshots. The I saw a bright light.

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