Lorelei's New Beginning

The Past

        I was only 16 when my parents died. I heard my mom crying then the gun go off twice one after the other. By the time I got to the room they were both lying dead on the floor, the gun still lying in my fathers hand. "Your dad was just very sick," The paramedics told me when they put the lifeless bodies of my parents in the bags. The police would question me, "Did your parents ever fight?" "Was your dad abusive?" "Did your mom ever say she wanted to leave your dad?" I would just look at them, but could never answer. My aunt would always come to the rescue, and take me away. 

         I was a zombie for the next 3 months  I wouldn't even leave the house, and at the funeral I just stood there listening to all of my dads old "Friends".  "So disgusting what he did." "I cant believe I was ever friends with him." "What a psychopath." But when they saw me standing there they would instantly change the subject.

        After my 17th birthday my aunt finally had enough. She wanted to go back to her own family, and she wanted me to go with her. "It will be good for you Lorelei, a new beginning," she told me this multiple times before I finally said I would go, but I wanted to do something first. I wanted to change my hair.  I had always had long blonde hair, so I wanted the opposite black short hair. 

        My aunt accepted, knowing I wouldn't have went home with her if she didn't let me do this. So she dyed it for me, and chopped off the hair that id had for years. It fell on the floor, almost like the past was falling onto the floor. Maybe this new town will be good for me.