Chapter 1

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Chapter 1:

You know all those books and movies where they show you the perfect and stereotypical American families where there is the mom and the dad, happily married with the three perfect kids and the dog? Well, I grew up in a family like that, or at least I thought so, I was the smallest, with my big sister and my older brother, my parents were always happy and we used to go to camping trips and visit cool new places, we were happy, before that day.

it happened when I was 13 years old, we were on a camping trip to a paper town, it was located in New York State, in a very pretty small place called "Agloe" at first I didn't know it existed, but my father found it in the map and we decided to go for the weekend,, and we were going to celebrate my 13th birthday. We were staying there and the day of my birthday we were just climbing trees and eating something I don't remember quite well, then, out of nowhere, a crazy man with a gun entered the place and shot everywhere..... I was really scared, I heard my dad tell us to go hide somewhere.

"Daddy I'm scared! What's happening?" I said

"Nothing sweetie, just go hide in the barn, take my cellphone and call 911" he said

I went and did what I was told, I was crying in the corner of the barn hearing screams and the sound of gunshots. I was crying, on my birthday, because of a crazy man with a gun.

"911, what's your emergency?"

"Hi, my name is Casey and I'm In "Agloe" the paper town in New York State, a crazy man just walked inside and started shooting all over the place"

"Yes, I understand, we will be there in no time, just stay calm and wait"

I just waited in the barn until I heard the gunshots stopped, it had been half an hour since the man had entered and I went out of the barn, when I got out, the first thing I saw was my brother coming to me, he hugged me and started crying, I had never seen him cry and I wasn't stupid, so I knew something really bad had happened, and of course.... A crazy man had just entered and started shooting all over the place. He told me not to go any further because he didn't want me to see what had happened... so we just went to the barn and waited until 911 got there, which was five minutes later. Then we went out. I saw my sister laying in the ground, her face very pale and her white crop top full of blood. The paramedic lady took my mother and father before I could see them. I was very worried and sad.

What a horrible birthday it was.

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