Precious Pearl

Prologue

Valentine house (conjoining house is the neighbour)

5 years ago (3rd person p.o.v) –

The valentines were sat at the large dinning hall, Mateo valentine at the head of the table his adoring wife on his right, his eldest daughters to his left and his youngest sat next to his wife. His second eldest Ivory was subtly throwing peas at Pearl, the youngest, Opal was talking to her father about her grades with a large smile and Lily Valentine looked around the table with love in her heart. Her family was the only thing she would ever need.

The valentines were a normal and happy family so, when they smelt smoke, they just thought it was from outside and continued to enjoy the meal. When they finished the meal and the smell of smoke was more potent. Mateo and Lily went to check it out. Opal and Ivory looked at each other worriedly after a few minutes passed. They were seventeen years old when the fire occurred, and pearl was only twelve. So, when their mothers scream ran out pearls immediate instinct was to go to the kitchen. When the youngest Valentine entered the kitchen, she saw the kitchen engulfed in flames her parents body laid on the floor, pools of blood surrounding them.  Pearl didn't notice the hooded figure in the corner of the room her eyes were glued onto her parents body's slowly being devoured by the flames. She didn't realise her sisters were behind her. She didn't realise the cold metal against her forehead. She didn't hear her sister's cries. She only heard the sizzling of her parents and she only saw flames.

Opal Valentine heard and saw it all. She witnessed her parents being burnt, she saw her baby sister with a gun to her head. She heard Ivory's sobs and felt tears roll down her own cheeks. She acted on instinct and her self-defence classes became quite useful so when the seventeen-year-old girl approached the large man that held her delicate sister she kicked him hard in his chest he fell back not expecting the power of the small teen, but taking pearl into the climbing flames behind them.

Ivory watched frozen in fear as her sister kicked the intruder and watched as he dragged her little sister into the flames. She saw the look of horror on Opals face and ran forward towards the flame towards pearls cries and grabbed onto her flailing leg and dragged her out of the flames. Pearl had burns all over her, her outfit was melted, and she was unconscious. Opal picked up pearl and grabbed Ivory's hand she heard the approaching sirens and saw the flashing lights. The fire surrounded the wooden doorway, but opal dragged ivory out as the flames licked at there skin. She ran out the door and fire fighters caught the three young girls. Pearl was carried onto an ambulance and opal and ivory followed.

That was the night everything changed for the Valentines.