Inside The Darkness

I'm not weird. I'm not the strange kid in every ones life. I'm just Jasmine. The 17 year old girl who is afraid of the dark. I have a very sensible reason, though. When i was 10 years old we moved into this creepy old house that we still live in today. 6701 Oak wood Avenue. Bonnie,my 4 year old sister, and my mom were upstairs in Bonnie's room getting her ready for bed. I so hate myself for not running up there the second I heard them scream. Bonnie was my baby. I took her everywhere. We played, we laughed, and we didn't fight like most sisters do. We never fought. I heard it and I will admit to this day that I heard them both scream my name. I was just to shocked to move. I was shocked at the words that came out of my momma's mouth that day at 8:59 p.m. on April 9, 2009. My mother said, " Jasmine, honey. I want you to know that I love you, and so does Bonnie."  I will never forget that day. In my memories, it will be called the worst day of my life. Only because I lost my only mother and my only sister, and now it is just me and dad. Dad doesn't like to talk about it much anymore. I'm afraid to talk to him about it because I don't want to make him cry. I only have Kaitlin. She lost her mom and sister the same way on the same day. She knows exactly what I am talking about. She knows exactly how I feel.  I never feel ashamed to talk to Kaitlin about anything because we are best friends and I know that she won't laugh or make fun of  me. Then  in 2011, dad got a girlfriend. He didn't care what she thought, but he kept pictures of him and mom up all over the house and if she didn't like it, she can leave. Well one day while daddy was at work, Leona, dad's girlfriend, took them all down and burned them in the fire place. She searched all  over the house, even in my room. The only picture I have in my room is my Mom and I. Then she took it and threw it in the fire. " No! Leona, please don't! That is the only picture I have left of my mom!"  She looked at me like I was crazy. " Does it look like I care? Jasmine, I have a big secret. If you make me mad, I will do the same thing to you as I did to some other people I know."   What on Earth was she talking about? " What had you done to other people?" " I'm the one who killed Bonnie, and if you dare tell anyone, I will crush your bones, smash your brain, and explode your skull. You won't have a clue how fast you would die if I did that stuff to you." I will tell you the truth. I was very very scared. Leona had done that? Why? She told me that only to scare me. The people that check the bodies to see what caused them to die, said that Bonnie was abused and my mom, well she was punched. I broke 3 different bones in her nose, 7 bones in her rib cage, and then she was shot at with a 22 Pistol. It went straight through her heart. Left a hole about 2 feet wide and 11 inches tall. Whitney had done that stuff. I believed her because she is a butt hole. A murderer that had come straight to this family because she had liked my dad in high school. My mom beat her to him. Then  they started fighting all the time and my dad chose my mom. Whitney was very furious. I mean hot from head to toe. I guess she held a grudge. I ran for the door, and didn't stop until I got to my dad's work. He asked me if Whitney  had brought me there and I said,

" No! I will never ever say her name, and if you stay with her Brian Leroy  Terrace, I'm leaving. Daddy, she burnt all the pictures in the house that had mom in it. Daddy, she killed Bonnie. She abused her, and punched mom in so many places that she broke a total of 10 bones and still shot her with that 22 Pistol straight through her heart. Take your pick Dad. Me or her?"  He looked at me with an angry expression on his face. " Listen here, Jasmine. I am your father and I will stay with her if I want to, and you are not leaving this house unless you are going to school. I am the boss of you and if  you want to see the legal papers, I will be more  than happy to show them to you. "  I was just fuming mad at him and could not believe that he had actually said that straight to my face like that. " Daddy, I am  very sorry but I don't like her. She doesn't like me, either. Dad, I am being dead serious right now. Stay with her, and I leave."  I didn't have anything else to say to him at the moment, so I , trying to be the bigger person, and  walked away.  He started hollering after me, but I didn't listen to him. " Jasmine Halley Terrace, you get back here right this minute! If you don't you are grounded." " Sure, Dad. Ground me so I can never come home, and I'm not coming home anyway!" I havn't seen my dad sense. And it's been what, 2 years. No it is 3 today actually. I hope that him and her with her booty blisters are still married and that they fight all the time. Yup.  I don't care how mean that sounds. She got my mom and my sister, and those are really the only people that I have that I really don't have with me.