Cemetery Island

Prologue Part 1

"Mommy! When are we leaving, to go to the book store?" I ask.

I hear a sigh, from the other side of the kitchen door, & my mom walks out of the kitchen with a towel, & she is drying her hands, so I can tell that she just finished, washing the dishes "When do you want to leave?" My mom asks me.

"Can we leave now? Please!" I squeal in excitment, over getting some new books.

"Fine. But only because it's my baby girl's twelfth birthday, and she's a big girl now." She says with a huge smile, on her face.

"YES!" I scream & run up the stairs to my room, to put on my new skateboarding shoes that my dad bought me, for my birthday. My shoes are guy high tops, which my dad knows are my favourite, they are black with gray, orange, & blue lightning bolts on them, & have neon yellow shoe laces.

I run back down the stairs, just as my mom is putting the key, in the lock ready to lock the door, & leave the house. I run past her, & to the truck, & jump into the passenger seat, now that today is my birthday & I'm twelve, I can finally sit beside my mom in the front, instead of sitting in one of the cramped back seats, behind her.

I giggle like a little girl, as my mom starts the truck & it purrs to life, I can feel the vibrations from the engine as we cruise down the streets of Kingston.

All I can think about is that I'm happy, happy that my mom is taking me shopping for books & not my dad, my dad doesn't really understand my love & passion, for the books that I read, but my mom is a writer, so she always knows the right kind of books, that I would like to read.

I look out the passenger window, & think of how beautiful today is, & that I should go skateboarding, when I get back from the books store, with my mom.

Then I hear the screetch of brakes, & I black out for a moment, & then when everything becomes clear again, I notice that I'm under rubble.

"Mommy? Mommy! MOMMY?! Please call out to me! I need you! I'm hurt!" I scream as I try to wriggle from under everything that's crushing me, but then slowly black starts to cover the edges of my vision & I begin to feel numb everywhere.

Then I feel nothing at all & the darkness consumes me intirely.

Ever since that terrible day nothings been the same.