In between Life & Death

CHAPTER I : THE NIGHT

NAME: VICTORIA ROUCHE

AGE: 16 YEARS OLD

LOCATION: EDMONTON, CANADA

HAIR COLOR: BROWN

EYE COLOR: HAZEL

CITIZEN: CANADIAN

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"Happy birthday to you! happy birthday to you! Happy birthday, Happy birthday, Happy birthday to you! Blow your candle sweetie."

As I blow the candles we heard a noise, mom and dad looked at each other and dad gave Zion to me.

"Tori, I'm asking you a favor okay?" dad said, making me worried and confused. "I wanted you to stay there in the closet and when anything gets worse, I'm ordering you to pull the lever inside the closet and run the best you can, okay?" Dad said holding my cheeks and kissed me and Zion on the forehead. "Dad what's going on?" I asked confusedly "They're near." Mom said, Dad pushed me inside the closet, pointed the lever and gave me a sign to be quiet, he hold my hand and I felt something he passed to me and it was a gun, he closed the closet and I saw him pulling something under my bed, it was a brief case and it was full of different kinds of guns.

Mom and Dad were loading all the guns when a man covered in mask burst in wrecking the door, he was fast and shot Mom and Dad, I was in silence but he felt my presence inside the room, he walked to the closet and twisted the knob when...

*Beep* *Beep**Beep**Beep*

I looked at my alarm and slapped my palm against my face and laughed. It was all just some stupid crazy dream.

"Knock, knock" It was mom. "May I come in?" "Yeah mom." As I heard the door open, mom butt out her head "Good morning sweetie." She said, she walked back and I heard "1,2, 3..." Mom and Dad entered my room with baby Zion and "Happy Birthday to you! happy birthday to you! Happy birthday, Happy birthday, Happy birthday to you!" She was holding a big round cake with doodles of flowers made out of icings and 16 candles on top of it and Dad was holding a camera while carrying Zion. "Make a wish sweetie and blow the candles." Mom pushed. I blew 15 candles, while I was blowing my last 16th candle my dream crawled all over my head again like it's haunting me. I felt something, something wrong but after the blow Mom twisted and blew up a confetti messing up my whole room.

"So, where will you and your friends hang out tonight Tori?" Dad asked while reading a newspaper and drinking his coffee. "Kristoff is having a party tonight at the cabin and Jenna always like to go to a cabin, atleast we're not going to clubs, pubs or wherever I can get sexually violated dad. Relax, I always remember your Steps. Would you like me to recite it?" Dad just took a sip of his coffee.

*Sigh*

"Here it goes,

#1 Always bring pepper spray

#2 know were to knock out those perverts

#3 Don't drink to much

#4 Don't do anything stupid that will make police call at our house 12 midnight and last but not least

#5 Don't be stupid."

"It's good that you remember it, but do you remember the last?" Dad asked. "Last? Oh yeah!

#6 Oh please Tori! Tori don't barf on the new carpet."

I mimicked dad the last time I got home drunk and too drunk to run to the bathroom. Mom laughed while cooking pancakes and even though Zion doesn't understand, he laughed. "Oh baby Zion thinks daddy is funny." Mom joked over while dad just laugh a little-that's dad, he's a serious man-and flipped his newspaper again. "Well I better go grab my things and we'll be in Casey preparing." I said going to my room. "Okay be home at 10" "C'mon dad, 11:30?" "10:30" "11 sharp I'll be home, pretty pretty please!" Dad gave a big sign "Okay but on one condition." "What?" he told me to come closer " I want you to bring this." He gave me a gift. "What's this?" "Open it." As soon as I opened the box I saw this thing looks like a razor but it's not. "S-stun gun?!" "Yep." "What Am I going to do with this?" "Since you are 16, perverts are getting more population than a standard human being." Here goes my OPD also know as Over Protective Daddy. To avoid dad's non-stop life lectures I just ran into my room because I can never win against dad.

I've been here in Kristoff's party but my mind was still remembering my dream, I looked at Casey and the others as they dance. What should I do? What should I do? All of them were having a good time and I think no one is planning to go home so I grabbed my bag and ran to my car-actually Dad's car-pulled out in the driveway and drive 180 kmp. It's been a strange whole day and now I'm here driving Dad's Audi R8 in 190 kmp.

I stopped the car about 5 houses away when I saw this white van and a Mercedes Benz F700 was parked at our front yard, a man covered with a black mask walked to the MB F700 and told something, I was terrified, I grabbed my bag and saw my stun gun. I got out of the car and trespassed through our neighbors's backyards. As I got on our backyard, the back door was open so I got in and saw the broken things and then I heard someone. "Come on Silvia, we know you're the one who loves hide and seek, right?" A man with a mask was talking to my tied up parents and he was holding a gun. "Even if you kill me, there's nothing you can get from me. I've thrown the chip years ago and it's been a long time." "If you don't give me that chip, I'll blow your head off." "Bring it, there's no chip on me." "Hahaha, of course I'm not scaring that way." The man pointed the gun on Dad and I felt someone behind me As I was about to look, he uses his palm to cover my mouth and he signed me to be quiet, He stood up and walked to the man, "No one's in the house." "Looks like Vicky is 16 and it's fun to let her join the game." Dad looked at the man "Don't you ever lay your hands on our daughter." The man killed Dad in a one shot. "Nathan!" Mom cried, as she was about to escape the man shoot her. "Come on Girly. There's no fun here." He laughed and was about to walk out but I ran into him and grabbed his gun- even though I don't know how to use a gun- and pointed it at him. "One slight move and I'll shoot you." "C'm-" "Bulls eye!" I was insane and then I heard the sound of sirens, in his face you can read that he was thinking an escape plan and then suddenly he looked at me and smiled. "Have a nice dream Vicky." And everything went black.

-TO BE CONTINUED