The Orphan

Chapter 1

Home, a place where your suppose to feel safe, the place where you stay to relax, the place that provides you with shelter. 3114 Sunny Drive is the place you can find me if something goes wrong. There is never a time where I'm not home unless I'm out with family, at school, hanging with my best friend Nova, or at work. Ever since I moved here when I was 9, I can never seem to leave because it's such a great place in my opinion. There's food, water, a comfy place to sleep, and there is all types of entertainment here. What more can you ask for?
            Anyways let me introduce myself. I'm Catherine and I'm 16 years old. I live in California with my two moms, yes two moms guys. They are lesbians and I think it's awesome. Everyday is a new adventure with them and I enjoy it more and more as I get older. Being the only child is fun because you get all the attention on you. I'm not a spoiled brat, but most of the time I do get what I want.
         Today after school I didn't have practice so I went to grab some food and then I went straight home. When I got in the house, it was quiet which was really odd considering that my mom Tabitha stays home all day.
         "Mom? Ma? Anyone home?" I looked all around the house and no one was here at all. Greatttttttttt. Now what am I suppose to do? I sit at the island in the kitchen and I eat my salad while starting my homework. In the midst of doing everything, I find a note right under my books, I guess I didn't see it when I put my stuff down.

             Catherine,
                  I don't know how to explain this to you but I'm not going to be with you and your mom no more. I love you guys so much, but I don't think I can be around much longer. This may be very overwhelming because it's all on a note, but in a week or so I'll let you know when we can meet up and talk about things. I love you princess, stay strong.
           Sincerely,
                 Abigail

       I never read so much foolishness in my entire life. At this point, tears are running down my face and I'm scrambling to find my phone. Once I get ahold of it, I try calling my mom but it's no luck at all. Every time it goes straight to voicemail and I leave messages telling her to come home because I don't understand anything that's going on. After trying my hardest to reach my mother, I call Nova because she's my last bit of hope to calm me down.
        "Catherine you know I have practice is something wrong?" I swear she knows me too well for this.
      "Abigail left a note saying that she's leaving and never coming back and i don't know what to do and I can't find Tabitha and I'm trying not to panic but I can't calm myself down." I say while trying to calm down so I won't catch a panic attack. There was a slight pause and then the sound of tires speeding was the last thing I heard. I guess she's on her way then so I sit on the couch with my phone in my hand and try to relax. How could this be happening? Just this morning everything was fine, we had our normal breakfast, I had my morning debate with Abigail and now look where we are. I guess you can say we are a broken family. No matter how much we went through in the past I never EVER thought it would come down to me saying that.
        The sound of a car turns into my drive way and I hear a car door open and close. I don't even bother to get up because she has been here so many times that she knows how to get in without my help. Out of nowhere, I hear someone scream and I jump out my seat and run outside. When I get outside, I see Nova staring down at who use to be my mother Tabitha. It all makes sense now, Abigail leaving straight out of the blue, leaving notes not telling me where she is. It was all a cover up to distract me from that fact that either she killed my mother or that something did happen to her and she knows about it or possibly....she killed herself.
   How did I possibly miss this? My car is parked right next to Nova's and I did not see that at all. I sit next to the body and hold her hand. I don't cry, I don't even blink. To know that my life is changing in an instant is really getting to me. Who knows if my life will get better. All I want right now is to talk to my mom one last time and get some closure. While staring at her body, I feel someone pick me up and I watch as they put her in the black bag. I can't feel anything or hear anything. For sure I know, that I'm about to be
   An orphan child.