A Girl They Called YOLANDA

the begining of the end

                  Chapter one

     It began the same way it started, the wind blowing echoing in the distance, music playing softly in the background as my sister and i enjoy each others company, playing a hand in a card game. A moment that would have been surrounded by laughter would soon be interrupted by drama her boyfriend would caused.It was the night of August 16ths and the year of 2006, around 5:30pm. Surprised by how oddly warm the evening was in the town of Plymouth Massachusetts,

  "Hello 911 operater what is the name of your emergency?"
  "hello my name is-" as I begin to tell the operator my name I was interrupted by a strange muffled sound with an eerie feeling in the pit of my tummy they begin repeat the monolog "911 what is the name of your emergency, Hello? this is 911 operator, How may I help you?" I tried to talk but I was quiet, it was like I was gasping for air, choking. Maybe it was because I was struggling for air as I was being strangled by my sisters boyfriend. 

"Hello 911 ma'am are You still there?" The operator had asked hearing her loud and clear, but the bigger question was could she hear me,
"Stop!" I yelled!
"Please stop it!" I cried!
"Hello? please Can nobody hear me?"
"Help me!" I softly say as I started to cry. I shouted I thought I did but I realized  it was not out loud, but only in my head

*(Static electricity)- *beep *beep *beep *

"you have reached the-" yet Compared to many I Almost feel automated myself "if this is a medical emergency Press 1 or stay on the line," annoyed i was as i thought Is this rhetorical, this is a fucking joke i thought. do I have a choice? Almost in a repeating cycle i hear it again "Hi my name is. How may I help you"

Useless I felt, like every penny anyone had ever thrown out or dropped. The horrific sounds of static electricity had been puslating through my head, stuck ringing in my ears like a broken doll with it's batteries draining. A noise I knew I would never get out of my head.

  Almost to a point of being brain washed in many ways, hypnotized or tricked. (Heads or tails) I muttered almost in an unsettling way, unsure how to feel at that moment truth was I felt like a fool, I thought quietly to myself, it all just happened in a blink of an eye, a split second "hello ma'am are you still there?" The operator had asked once more

   I truly had forgotten that she was still on the phone, I softly whisper "Ye-yes I'm still here" feeling hopeless, not knowing if my sister and I would make it out alive , and there it was again the corrupting sounds of static electricity and the operator proceeds again with the "911 my name is. How may I help you"

   I dropped the phone and screamed this time a noise came out of my mouth, finally unknown if I was heard or not. By now It was around 630 pm when my sister and i ended up at one of our neighbors house as we sit there on one of his lawn chairs, as my sister embraced the pure look of exhaustion and panic mixed with some high rating fear,  upon her face. Catching her breath 

   while she stares back over at me and then back to the grassy area all shocked liked. She knew real well she would be in deep shit for all this because she may have had instigated or prolonged a irrational situation her boyfriend started, but that was just how she was,  she would always feed into his manipulative "ACT"

     By now I could hear the police cars racing down the street and ambulance sirens echoing in the distance getting louder by the second as they sped down sandwich street almost monitoring the distance between them and us. As discussed I looked at my sister and told her to be quiet she nodded in agreement. 

 When the officer walked up she had asked us "what happened here? Which one of you two did this?" we both just sat there silently, first looking at each other then down at our feet not knowing what she was talking about, I wanted to ask what was she referring to because we were the ones who called 911 but instead we remained silent for a few minutes

      Then the officer proceeded to ask again but this time with a slight attitude as she huffed she said "don't make me ask again I'll take you both down to the station, now which one of you two did this" I look over at my sister as she began to cry I told her I loved her and not to worry it will be okay and I stood up and said "I DID- I DID IT" scared and frightened after the fact as she cuffed my hands behind my back