Lost

Chapter 1: The night before Halloween

It's the night before Halloween, Im Octavia Ward, I'm six years old and my little sister name is Lina, she's only three years old but she swear she's the boss. We're the only ones excited for trick-or-treating tomorrow night, Lina wanted us to be princesses for halloween so princesses it will be. We went to our rooms and started playing, then we hear our mom in the other room with her boyfriend arguing. "Do you hear that?" said Lina. "Yeah, stay right here I'm about to go see what's wrong." I said. They've been arguing lately and it's been getting intense, I just wish my dad was here, Im still confused on why my dad and mom wasn't together anymore they looked so happy together, then next thing you know my dad moved to West Virginia and my mother has a new boyfriend. I've never liked my mother's boyfriend, he tried to act like my father but I wasn't in need of a father I already have one so he was wasting his time. Suddenly the arguing had gotten louder, the ruckus was coming from our moms bedroom, they were bumping into the wall and yelling. The fighting traveled towards the bathroom, I poked my head out of the room door and looked around they were in the bathroom behind the door, I couldn't see anything but all I can hear is my mother screaming for help. I ran back to the room to check on Lina and locked the door behind me, Lina was sitting on the bed frightened and crying because of all the commotion. " Stay here Lina and I'm not playing!" I said while opening the door and running to the kitchen. Im looking all over the place to find something to help my mom with, I'm starting to get scared that I'm taking to long so I grabbed the first thing i saw.. a broom. As soon as I was turning around Lina was right behind me with a dustpan. What was she thinking, a dustpan would not hurt him. "Didn't I tell to stay in the room?" I said and before Lina could answer me our mother cried out for help again but this time it sounded serious. We ran towards them not knowing what was about to happen, then suddenly I stopped running and saw him on top of her. "What are you doing!" Lina screamed. I could no believe what I was seeing right now, he had his arms around her neck and was choking her. "Get off of my mommy!" I screamed while holding Lina's hand, he wouldn't let her go. He was still choking her, "Shes not breathing, get off my mommy!" I screamed again. He finally let her go, she was just laying there not moving at all. So many thing are rushing through my mind right now, Im a little girl what am I supposed to do about this. "Mommy, mommy wake up!" said Lina while looking confused. She didn't move not one bit, I kept telling her boyfriend that she wasn't waking up or moving. He started to panic because she really wasn't moving or breathing anymore. I could see it in his eyes that he's very scared, he left and never came back. He left a mother of two to die right in front of them, we tried to wake her up for about twenty minutes. While our mother is still lifeless on the floor, I finally called the police myself. "9-1-1 what's your emergency?" said the operator. I nervously say "It's my mm-mommy, shes not moving and she won't answer me." The lady on the phone kept asking me what happened, I couldn't wrap my head around it, I couldn't answer her because I dont know what in the world to say or what is going on. I finally said "He was choking her, now she won't get up I don't know what to do!" I said while I was historically crying, the operator told me "baby calm down, help is on the way..