Silenced

"It's okay, it's going to be okay."

                      Ivy's pov
              — Spring of 2013 —

I'm 9 years old. My dad and my older brother Carl are fighting, and I don't know why, but all I know is the glass is being shattered, and I'm hearing the sentence "KILL ME!" being yelled over and over by my older brother. me and my cousin Kaylie hid my younger sister Ray in the downstairs bathroom and locked the door so she'd be safe. As we walk upstairs walked them fighting on top of a bunch of glass, but then we look up to see my older sister. She starts to panic and brings us downstairs, and then she forces us inside the bathroom putting us in the corner and says "lock this door" and then leaves us after that we all started crying trying our hardest to stay quiet.

                Ray's pov
              — Spring of 2013 —

I remember being shoved into the corner of the bathroom while hearing the sounds of glass shattering and screaming outside the bathroom door. I remember crying while hearing my parents outside the bathroom door arguing and yelling about how they were going to get a divorce. I remember my aunt Beth calling the police, but they never showed up. My older sister Ivy was holding the door shut and my cousin Kaylie was covering my entire body if anybody came in. After a little bit, my cousin opened the bathroom door and went outside on her own to check if it was safe because it was completely quiet.

                                 Kaylie's pov
                 — Spring of 2013 —

As I held my younger cousin tightly in my arms, whispering as quietly as possible, "It's okay, it's going to be okay." I notice it went silent. I don't want to, but I know I have to go outside and see if everything is okay. I walk outside of the bathroom and peek around the corners. I see them getting up off of the floor, smiling and laughing as if it were some kind of joke. They then notice me, "Come tell the other girls to get out here and clean this up!" Frank yells to me.