One Love

Prologue

"Mom!" She screamed. This couldn't be happening. I was staring at my eleven year old self screaming out to my mother to save her. They whipped my mom over and over again. "Mom!" My eleven year old self screamed once again, but they only tightened the ropes that held her around her wrists. My mom screeched in pain when they slashed her arm with the large knife they hold.
I couldn't stand it anymore.
I ran as fast as I could over to my mother and tried to undo the ropes that held her. But my hands went straight through her.
No! No, no, no, no! Please just let me untie her!
But nothing happened. My hands just went straight through her. There was a scream from behind me. I turned to find they and slashed my eleven year old self on the cheek. It only made me reach up and touch the scar that lingered on my cheek. "Don't touch her!" My mother screamed. But that only earned a whip to the arm at her.
By this point of time I had tears running down my face as I tried to untie them both. The man that was holding my other self just let out a huff of laughter. "Kill the older woman." He said in Italian.
"No!" I screamed as loud as I could, but no one could hear me. I tried ramming my fists into the man that was coming towards my mother, but nothing worked. He just walked straight through me.
My other self was screaming, trying to rip free of the forceful hold they had on her. They only tightened the hold. She gave up then. Looked at the ground while one by one tear fell onto the cold concrete.
My mother looked up at my other self and smiled a sad smile. "I love you, Alli. Never forget that." She said quietly in Italian. With tears glistening her eyes, the man held the giant knife in the air. He let his hands fall and buried the knife in my mothers chest.