MEMORIES

BY: MARIA FERNANDA VELASQUEZ.

7:30 A.M “Time to wake up guys!!” said a squeaky voice coming from the door. I opened my eyes immediately and looked around, all was perfect like no one has lived here in years. The pictures in the wall and our names down them caught my attention, suddenly the principal Mrs. Specpol entered in the room, wait a while and whispered “come on bill you have to be ready, they’re about to arrive”. I didn’t have a lot of expectations of my new parents, this family was the third one this year and it ended all the same, with me again here in the orphanage. “Toot toot”, I Heard a car horn no too far away from where I was-“Bill!!!! Don’t be shy, you’re taking too long!!”-. I ran down the stairs as fast as I could and when I saw them I felt like in a slow motion movie; they were just perfect for me. My mom was a middle-aged woman, her short blond hair made her eyes bluer, her tiny body fed perfectly with her pale skin, I really thought snow White was about to adopt me and then dad got down the car, he was totally different to mom, and he had little Brown Chinese eyes, Brown skin and was taller than mom. They were the most perfect couple I have ever seen in my whole life but if I thought they were beautiful then my sister’s beauty was something out of this world. She was just like me, with beautiful long black hair, blue eyes and her skin was a perfect combination of mom and dad’s skin tone.

Soon afterwards they finished with the papers, Mrs. Specpol helped me with my baggage and some toys that didn’t fit into the case. As soon as I got in the car they treated me as one of the family, they told me about my grandma and how her cakes are but unfortunately I started to feel sleepy and my sister needed to go to the bathroom so we had stop in a gas station, that’s all I can remember. “Hey sleepy beauty, we’re home now”- whispered my mom in a very low voice to woke me in a lovely way -“you’re gonna love it and now that you’re home I can show you all my new cheer skills. Hurry!!!!” yelled Clara my sister. My parents took the things down while Clara showed me the house. I have to admit that I got surprise whit the house, 2 flours, 1 basement, a pool, a multiple game field and horses!!! But it was just the beginning, Inside the house they had 5 restrooms, 1 kitchen, 2 TV room, 1 game room, 2 living rooms, 4 bedrooms and the best part of all was that I had my own bedroom. It was more than I was expecting so I relaxed, took a deep breath and convinced myself that from now to on I would live as a king.

December 2nd 2014. It was a rainy day and my parent went to the grocery store living my sister and I alone. They were taking too long so Clara looked for some Money in their room to call for some pizza-“I’m starving Bill! Why don’t you learn to cook?”- Said Clara looking at me like she was waiting for me to answered but when I had my arguments ready the bell rang, she immediately took the money, opened the door, and received the pizza and right before she closed the door I looked at the man… This man had something in the way he look at us that I didn’t like at all, but I remained quiet and wait until The pizza man gave us the change, took his bag and left the property. My sister was tired and I decided to go to bed so she too. “POW!!” “Clack”. This strange noises woke me up, maybe it was a dream, and so I waited a while to see if my mom was watching TV. “No!! GO, MONSTER!!!” And there were the noises again, they came from a woman´s voice asking for help. I ran to where this screaming were coming…my parents room, The door was opened so I entered and the thing that I was seeing was horrifying; My dad’s body was lying down and his blood was running out of bed, the window was broken and my mom’s jewelry wasn’t there -”mom”- I thought in high voice, I didn’t hesitate one minute, I know what I had to do – “I need to take out the girls right now”- I told to myself. When I turned to my back I saw a big man standing there with something in his hands, I was getting closer, the guy looked so familiar-“wait a minute, are you the pizza man?”- yelled at him with an angry voice. The feeling of anger started growing inside me like never before in my life but when I tried to attacked him he just hit me and laughed like if I wasn’t a dangerous thing for him, I got desperate and my tears started going down and when I was about to attack him again a mousy voice said softly –“mom, I heard weird noises and I’m afraid, can I sleep with you? Please mom”-. How more stupid could I be!! It just took me one blink to see the killer taking my sister from her hair, I bite him again and he had the same reaction from a moment ago, with a relaxed attitude he pulled Clara out the room and started going down stair by stair like if he wanted to show me that he won and I couldn’t do anything but I was determined to show him he was wrong so I literally jump the stairs but it was too late, he closed the door behind him and ran away with my sister, I got frozen …. I was available to save her if only my paws allowed me to open doors….

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