The things that call at night

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My heart raced as I hear yelling coming from outside my older brother's now empty room. I could hear my mother screaming at the top of her lungs and I could hear my father's hits even louder. Suddenly I hear a large thud hit the floor. I look around frantically to see if my father was coming for me. I didn't hear anything suddenly an echoing knock erupted on the door. "QUINN! I know you're in there!" My father yells I look around the room for an escape and there wasn't any. "What are you doing here?" I hear my dad talking to someone outside the door. I press my ear to the door and listen. "What did you do?" I could hear my brother's voice. I quickly open the door and see my brother's very concerned eyes then my father holding a gun. I begin to panic I look around the room to see if I could find my mother. There she was with a knife in her stomach and bruises all over her face and exposed skin. I turn to my mother I begin to walk over to her but my father turns quickly and points the gun at me. "Don't move Quinn." he says I look at my mother and I begin to cry. "Dad mom is dying I need to help her." I plead with him but it falls on deaf ears. I look at my brother and he gives me a look to keep talking to my father. "Dad look at me.." he looks at me but his eyes were strange like he wasn't human anymore. "I know you made a mistake and I know you were just so frustrated." I say as he nods. "She made me do it!" he says I nod as my brother charges my father tackling him to the ground. They roll around on the ground with the gun and I run to my mother. I look over her limp body and I can only see the knife injury. "Mom? Mom come on wake up!" I shake her vigorously but she just lays there. BANG! 

I shoot up in bed sweating I look over to the clock and it reads 3 am. I get up out of bed and walk quickly to my front door I check the locks. I place my hand on the knob and test it three times I rest my head against the door. I haven't had that dream in a while. I walk back to my bedroom and turn on the light. If I am not going to sleep I might as well do something productive. I grab out my journal and a pen. I open the notebook to the next empty page. I date it 02/13/15 and write It's back.

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