Into The Shadows

Alone

   Five years ago, thats when I got stuck in the shadows. Before fifth grade my life was normal. A normal family with a few issues, normal friends, and normal school. I had a best friend, summer but then we got to fifth grade. That's when I lost my best friend, when I lost my family, when i lost my innocents.     
  November eight, 12:00 am exactly midnight my family died. I woke up to chills, then I heard my mom scream then my dad, and then my baby brothers cry. I ran to my parents room, but I was too late. I saw shadows holding my parents by their shirts and one was holding my baby brother. The Shadow that was holding my mother had beaming red eyes, she had long black hair, wavy and thick. And she was wearing a long black dress, covered in blood. I was confused for awhile because their body's looked like compacted darkness, but they had features like humans. The one holding my dad looked like a man with blood red eyes, full of anger. He had dirty blond hair messy too. He was wearing black work pants, and a suite, covered with blood. The girl that was holding my baby brother had bright blue eyes long blond hair in a braid. She was wearing a teal blue night dress full of blood too. The little girl looked about my age and she was a shadow person too, but I sensed something diffrent, like she was scared.
  She starts to stare at me, but then my mother screams at me, "honey run, hurry!" But then the women holding her runs a knife through her chest, stabbing her over and over again and I see my mother's face fade. My dad tries to get free to help my mother but the shadowy man smashes my dad's head against the ground till there is blood everywhere and the man is satisfied. My dad's eyes fade to the back of his head. The shadow man drops my dad to the hard cold ground like if he was a rag doll.
My brother screams and starts to cry knowing that our parents are gone. My mind tells me to run over to him, to comfort him, but my legs are glued to the ground. I cant move anything, im stuck, frozen in time replying the same thing over and over again nonstop. The woman that killed my mother turned to me, then turned to the little girl with her beaming red eyes. The girl has a scared face and looks away from the woman as the lady says, "do it Morgan, strangle the little child! DO IT NOW!" The girl opens her mouth to protest and then the woman says, "your mother and father NEVER loved you!" Then all of the sudden the girl named Morgan's eyes started to glow a bright red. One second her eyes are sad and blue the next they are, full of hatred and vengeance. She grabs my baby brother by the neck with her two hands and starts to squeeze and shake him viciously. My brothers head goes back and forth, fast and hard as the girl shakes and squeezes his neck. I finally start to move forward as I see my brother hanging on to his life. But as I take two steps the man steps in front of me. I try to go around him but I can't get past him. I move my head to look for a gap to see my baby brother. I decide to keep trying to get past the shadow but it's too late Morgan drops my baby brother on the ground. No movement, just a still baby with his glassy eyes wide open staring at our mom and dad.
Morgan's eyes change back to her original melancholy blue eyes. Once they change back she looks at my baby brother she just strangled. She quickly stepped back and covered her mouth like she had no idea what just happened but she knew that it was her, she knew she killed my brother. I just stood there looking at my family, gone and their was nothing I could do to stop it. Then the women walks in front of me saying to the man, "move Tom." Then she turns around to me with her bright red eyes and she leans close to my face. I feel her breath on my neck and it sends shivers up my spine. She steps back and walks into the shadows. The man says, "wait Cara!" Running behind her. Then Morgan slowly starts to walk into the shadows like she's being pulled in, against her own will. She looked back at me before she disappeared into the shadows, she looked at me with her depressed looking eyes. Once they're gone, I walk slowly over to my baby brother and pick him up. Then I walk towards my parents. I fall to my knees as I lay my baby brother in between my parents. I Barry my face into my salty hands from sweating so much. The police came and took their Body's away.
My mom's older sister came to take custody of me. I've never really got to know her, probably because mom never really liked her. "She's a pot head" my mom always said. I go to bed, but I don't sleep. How could I sleep, I just watched my family get murdered and now my aunt is getting high on weed downstairs with me choking over the fumes.
 
  It was a Saturday so my best friend summer came over. We went outside and played tag and then we went back inside to get some snacks and lemonade that we made earlier. We played dress up and looked through fashion magazines. Then we talked about school and who we liked. I remember that she was obsessed with hector and I was falling for him too, but I didn't tell her. Instead I told her that I liked Lincoln. Then that's when I saw her. The same blue melancholy eyes as Morgan's. I saw her teal night dress and her shadowy face. She was hiding behind the door way to my room. Then I felt the pressure from the bright red beaming eyes of Cara. My face shifted to calm and happy to something much worse. Summer starts to move her head to turn to where I was looking at. Before she could turn all the way Cara was already right behind her, having her hand on summers shoulder. We both were shocked, I didn't even see Cara move it's like she just appeared from summers shadow. Summer screams as she faces Cara's dark hidden face. Then Cara with one hand throws Summer a crossed the room. Summer flying hitting the lamp and my desk. She hits the wall and falls to the ground. As she tries to get up I see a piece of glass from the lamp piercing into her forehead. Making blood gush down her face onto the carpet of my room. Cara walks over fast and grabs summer by the hair and pulls her up. Cara pins Summer to the wall and starts to jab her knee into Summers stomach. I get up and start to run towards Summer and Cara, I try to shove Cara away with my tiny ten year old body. Even though I knew that Cara is stronger then me. I try to punch her but she doesn't even notice me. When she does notice she stops throwing punches at Summer and grabs my shirt and throws me against the railing of my bed. Cara goes back to punching and kneeing Summer. With every punch more and more blood splatters everywhere.
Once Cara gets tired of punching Summers face she throws summers half dead body a crossed the room again. Summers body smashing against our favorite poster of our favorite band "Lander A Vea". Blood smeared everywhere on the poster. Summers body falls to the ground and Cara stomps over to Summer. Cara starts to kick summer in the legs, in the stomach, in the head, everywhere. Summers fresh blood all over Cara. Summers blood is splattered on Cara's face, on her knuckles, imprinted on her dress. I try to get up but I cant, it's like Cara is putting all of her anger on top of me. With every kick Cara does the more her dress changes from pitch black to blood red. Every punch in Summers stomach the more guts that spew out. With every punch Cara throws I can hear Summers bones crack, crack, crack, over and over till all of her bone are broken. Finally Cara gets up and walks into the shadows leaving Summers body to drown in her own pool of blood. "Come on Morgan!" Cara says in a firm frustrated voice even though I thought she just took out all of her frustration on Summer. once they're both out or at least in the shadows I run up next to Summer. I barley touch her shirt and my fingers get drenched in her blood. I yell out, "Summer! Summer! Please wake up!" I start to cry, tears rolling down my cheeks mixing with Summers blood when it drips on her. I call an ambulance and they take her to the emergency room.
  I go with the police for questioning. After they let me out I pack my things, or at least what was left of my things that weren't destroyed. They told me I had to move. So I'm moving to California in a week.
  The next day I go back to school, I sat alone on the bus and at lunch. Everywhere I went people looked at me and moved as far as they could away from me. I got disconnected everywhere I went for the last week. Then I got on a plain straight to California. My aunt had to come with me, but I wish she didn't. Once we got to the house she got drunk and told everyone about what happened to my parents and summer. When I went to school I made 3 friends. Jake, he has blond hair, tan skin, and emerald green eyes. Payton, she had long thin brown hair. Smooth and straight, she was was a little pail and had a few freckles on the arch of her nose. Nancy, she had big curly Red hair. She had  light peach skin, and freckles all over her face. We hung out for a few weeks laughing and having fun together. Then it all happened again.