Only 6...

Chapter 2: Red Rum

"There's blood.. there's blood everywhere..." I'm whispering this to myself, afraid to look up, afraid to see who was shot. My eyes are shut tight! Something told me though, to open my eyes, help my mom and brother. I reach up to feel the ropes and a hand grabs me! I opened my eyes quick, while trying to pull away. It was my mom, "Symone it's okay! It's me, it's your mom, we're okay!" I see blood on my moms clothes, on Nicolas body (he only had on a diaper), but no bullet wounds, no leaking blood, I look down at my legs and there was blood leaking near me... but it wasn't coming from me. Slowly turning my head to the left... I see my dad laying there, dead ... on the floor in a puddle of blood. So I scream again, "DADDY NO! WHY DADDY, WAKE UP, PLEASE!" The pain I felt in my heart at that point... I felt numb. I questioned everything, why did he do this, what went wrong with our family. We're all in the room just crying & screaming away. My mom tells me to go grab the sharp scissors out the drawer, but I'm still in shock, and grief and I don't want to move, I couldn't move, I was stuck. So she yells at me, "SYMONE GO GET THE SCISSORS OUT THE BATHROOM DRAWER NOW!" I'm running to the bathroom and I grab the scissors, I cut her and Nicolas loose. "We have to go baby, we have to go now, go grab your things" as she's still crying and panicking my mom moved me out the way to go grab her things as well. While I'm still stuck and hurt as to why my dad did this.. to himself.

I got down next to him, holding him, sobbing. I looked at him "why did you do this daddy, why did you leave us like this." I knew he wasn't going to answer, but I'm 6 remember, my mind is all shaken up at this point, never had I ever witnessed anything even close to this, not even on TV or something. A few minutes go by as I'm still laying there next to him, I don't know what to do anymore... so I grabbed the gun..

BOOM! The police kicked our door in "ITS THE POLICE! I NEED EVERYONE STANDING STILL RIGHT NOW!" They haven't made it to the back room yet so I lay the gun right in front of me, wasn't thinking at all where that would have got me. They see my mom with Nicolas in the master room crying and scared, they escort them out safely, but she told them that I was still in the house. They kept walking towards the back of the house slowly, and my hands are still in the air just waiting. I have blood on all my clothes, my hands, and the gun is just sitting there right in front of me, but I couldn't move. The police walk in and next thing I know, I'm in handcuffs. I couldn't even speak to ask what did I do wrong. My mom seen me come out the house in cuffs, she's yelling "WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY BABY!?" and the police tell her... "ma'am your daughter is being arrested for first degree murder" ...