As Long As You Live

Chapter 2- Dreams

'I sit at the back of the car waiting for my brother to stop mourning.
"Can I not just stay at home and play PlayStation?" Asks my little brother.
"No. It's a birthday party and your cousin Sleet has invited you. Don't you and him get along quite nicely?" Mom asks Isaac.
"No! Their house stinks. I just play with him whenever I'm bored." Explains Isaac.
''Is Aaliyah and Shawn going to be there?"
"Wow! You like Aaliyah!" My elder sister Erica shouts.
"No!" Isaac jumps onto my sister and they both start fighting over a phone. It goes on for a while until I interup the fight and remember that I've forgotten my gift at home. Dad still didn't get out of the driveway so he reversed the car back to the entrance door.
Dad is rich. He's in the army and he's on a special leave. He has always been so truthfull and honest about his work that he posts a postcard from wherever he goes. I'm sometimes jealous about all the places he visits but then I know that, no matter where he goes, danger follows.
I leave the car and hurry to get the gift from my room. I found our front door open, but I don't get into much detail. I see muddy footsteps on the stairs; that's when i realise that something's wrong.
I follow the footsteps- two different ones. As I get on the top I try to stay as quiet as possible; tiptoeing through the rooms. All of the rooms are empty. Tiptoeing, I reach the locker room where all the money is kept. I see that the room has been opened by the swipe card we keep to open both the lockers and the room.
I've never been into this room. Maybe that's why I didn't know the door creaked when opening it.
There's two men, both digging the lockers-they don't see me. I try walking back to the stairs. However, the front door opens and its my Dad, he sees me on top of the stairs but before I could sign him to not talk, he was already talking.
"Sleet broke his leg! We're not going." Dad says to me as I sign him not to talk.
"I guess my wish came true." Isaac says.
Dad knows there's something wrong so he gets his gun out of the emergency box next to the door. It's too late. The men saw me. They wore black masks and one of them pointed a gun at me. My Dad puts his hands up.
"Leave her!" Dad shouts.
"Tell me why they're here." Mom whispers in Dad's ear even though I could hear.
The men start to move downstairs, holding the bags which contain money and my mom's precious jewelry. I move with them too.
At the bottom of the stairs, my dad tries to grab my hand but the men don't let him. I get thrown on the sofas and told not to move. I can see Isaac and Erica in the corner, probably shivering.
Hopefully, I see Erica and Isaac typing on thir phone. Their calling the police. It doesn't take long for the men to know what Erica and Isaac are doing.
That's where it all ended. They shot me. I heard Mom gasp and Dad tried to come near me but they shot me again- this time both of the men at the same time. The same pain drives through my veins just like adrenaline does.
"Don't you dare!" One of the men said.
I blanked out but I was stubborn enough to stay alive. That's when I heard the police siren. I open my eyes to give my family hope but all I see is the men shooting everybody in hurry to get out. All of them fell like leafs fall in Autumn. They went around and made sure I was dead. They shot me but this time it didn't hurt because I knew I was going to be in heaven with my family. The sound of police got quieter as if I was trying to hear from a wall of glass. My eyes were shut but the pain was there, the doubt of my family surviving was there and my hopeless body was now nothing but corpse.'