Jessica's POV
11 years before...
"...eight....nine...TEN!! READY OR NOT HERE I COME!!!" I yelled out to my brother Ryan. We have been playing hide-n-seek for the past hour and he is currently hiding from me. I turn around and walk out of his room where I was counting from. When I reached the staircase of the second floor, I heard a giggle coming from below the staircase. I knew it was Ryan hiding from me, he always hides at the bottom of the staircase.
"Oh Ryan! Where are you?" I called out to him mockingly. Another giggle sounded from him and I began to run down the stairs to tag him. As I ran down the staircase, I heard a gun shot fire from the outside. I froze at the sound.
Followed by the gun shot I heared a loud and powerful growl rip through the night. My heart skipped a beat of how scared I was.
"JESS! RYAN!" I hear my mother screamed. I snap out of my frozen pose and ran to her. She was holding Ryan's hand as I got to the bottom of the stairs. "Mom whats going on?" Ryan asked our mother. But she didn't answer. She grabbed my hand and started tugging me and ryan to the weapons room. I have always been told to stay far away from there but know as I enetered the room, I can see why I was always told to. Every inch of the four walls were covered with fire arms.
"Mommy, Where are we going?" I asked her as she started to open a door I didn't know exist. Our mother turned around and pushed me and my brother inside. " Mommy! answer me! whats going on?" I yelled at her. She seemed to snap out of what she was doing and looked at me and my brother in the eye.
"I don't have time to explain everything to you darlings, but I want both you to know that me and your father love you both so much.." I looked at her now watery eyes as she started to take off her neclace and pull out another necklace from her back pocket. She continued to talk. "Jess. Ryan. me and your father want to hand you both our family crest necklaces. Its been in our family for many years now and someday both of you will learn what our family does for a living, but both of you are to young to understand right now."
I looked at my mother with with hot tears running down my cheeks. I looked at my brother to see a sadden look on his face as he tried to fight back the tears that are threating to come out. I took his hand in mine as I turned around to look at my mother. She had tears running down her face as she again continued to push us into some sort of safe.
"Jess. Ryan. I want you both to stay in this safe no matter what happens or no matter what you hear. Can you both promi-" My brother cut her off. " Mom. whats going on? Why are you crying?" She looked at him and then back at me as if debating on what to say. She took in a deep breath and continued to talk. "Both of you promise me to stay in here until I come back for you both...No matter what you hear outside, promise me you won't leave..." I look at her with pleading eyes to say STAY. PLEASE STAY.
I knew Ryan also did the same because she began to cry even more.
"Mom... me and Jess promise not to leave the safe. Right Jess?" Ryan asked me.
I nodded my head at him. I turned my head and gave my mother a sad smile. She returned the sad smile to Ryan and I as she placed her necklace on me and turned to Ryan and placed the necklace she had in her pocket on him. "The neclace you have around your neck is mine, Jess. It was your grandmother's and she handed it down to me and now its yours. " My mother said to me with a bitter sweet expression. She then turned to Ryan and said " The necklace you have around your neck is your father's. It was his father's and now its yours..... Oh Ryan, I want you to promise me something else."
Ryan nodded in response.
"Promise me you'll keep Jess safe no matter what." my mother said to him.
"I will. I promise."
"Good boy. Okay now remember stay in here no matter what, Okay?"
Ryan and I nodded once again
"Me and your father love you both so much! Don't ever forget that"
With that my mother gave both of us a kiss on the forehead and gave us one last glance before closing the safe's door. It was pitch black. I took hold of Ryan's hand in both of my hands as I continued to hear shots being fired, howls and vicious growls from the outside.
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"AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" I heared my mother's scream. My heart stopped at the scream of pain that came out of her. I knew it was my mother's scream. I just knew it. I shut my eyes and covered my ears. I couldn't bare to hear anymore.
My brother wrapped his arms around me and started rocking me back and forth as he whispered sweet nothings in my ear. At some point I fell asleep. But not before I had finally realized that I might not ever see my parents ever again.
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"...Jess, Jess wake up... Jess come on get up." Ryan whispered in my ear
"ughhh.... what happened?" I asked Ryan. Not remembering where we were.
"In the safe...remember?"
Flashbacks of last night started flooding back into my mind. The last thing I remembered was the fighting that was happening outside and then the painful scream of my mother.
"Come on Jess we need to get out of here." my brother got up and held out a hand to help me up.
As Ryan turned the door handle, I reached for his hand and pulled it back.
"Ryan mom said not to go outside until she came back to get us, remember?"
"Jess we've been in here for almost 2days. she's not coming.."
"But mom sai-"
"She's not coming back!" Ryan yelled at me.
I whimpered and turned around not wanting him to see me cry anymore.
"Jess... look im sorry I yelled at you. I didn't mean to..."
I didn't turn around. He grabbed my hand to turn me around. I looked at him. Sadness clear in his eyes. I cleaned the tears on my face and hugged him.
"Its okay Ryan I forgive you." I smiled at him
"Okay. Come on."
Ryan took my hand in his and lead me out of the safe and weapons room.
......
BLOOD.
Thats all I saw. It was everywhere we turned. Every wall. Every inch of the floor. Everywhere.
I started shaking uncontrolably. I hold in my breath not wanting to breathe in the slaty rusty smell that filled the air. Bodies after bodies were lying everywhere. Dead.
Tears started to form in my eyes once again. These weren't just any bodies, They were mosty all my family. Just lying there, dead.
But there where other bodies along that laid dead with my family. They were naked. I never seen them before in my life. Ryan started to point out two bodies in the middle of the room. I followed his finger and saw my mother and father side by side. Dead.
My parents are DEAD.
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