At First Sight

Only Ellie

I took a deep breathe and began the story... March 19, 2000.

I was 6 years old. Me, my mum and my dad lived in Audley. Its about 10 miles away from Holmes Chapel. We lived in a big yellow house with a wrap around porch. The thing remember most about my childhood is we moved around.A lot. My mum was a vocal instructor. She taught me everything i know about music. She always said that music can save us from anything in our lives. She was very little. In height and weight, everything. She had long blonde hair and green eyes. My dad was a police officer. He loved me and my mum more then anything in the world. He was very tall, (Which i always found funny because my mum was so little) he had brown hair and the bluest eyes Ive ever seen. Well that was until that March night...

I was up in my room when i heard my dads car pull up in the drive way. I got excited and ran down stairs. He bolted through the doors and ran to my mother in the kitchen. He started to tell her something, when i came in she was trying to hold back tears. "Daddy! I missed you!" I ran into his legs. My mum scooped me up in her arms and held me close. "You and Ellie go pack. We need to leave as soon as possible." he said. She nodded in agreeance and looked at me. "Boo, we have to go somewhere else for a while ok? I want you to go upstairs and pack everything you want to take." She smiled wearily. I smiled. "Ok, mummy!" I ran half way and sat on the stairs and watched while her and my dad talked. "Patrick, what if he finds us?" she started to let her tears fall. My dad held her face and wipped her tears. "It will be ok. I promise." He kissed her for head and they hugged. That's when the big man with the blue eyes kicked the door down. I screamed and my mothers eyes widened. 

My father turned around and faced the door. The man smiled. "Patrick. I'm so glad i caught you before you could leave." My dads face filled with seriousness. "Eric. Get out of my home." My mum stood there with fear. The big man walked toward them. He had jet black hair and almost the same face as my dads. He had one hand in his jacket pocket and the other holding something i couldn't see. He had blue eyes like my fathers and mine. I sat on the stairs. Watching in fear. "Ellis. Its good to see you. Last time i saw you was what? 6 whole years ago?" He said to my mum. She swallowed and wipped her tears. "Eric." The man stepped even closer. "Don't be so rude, Ellis." My father stepped between Eric and my mum. "Now, Patrick is this anyway to treat your brother?" He smiled smugly. "Where's little Ellie? I haven't seen her in ages. She's 6 now correct? Growing up quite fast. Tell me does she look like more like Ellis? Or does she have the Lighten blue eyes?" They re was a sort of evil in his voice. "Why are you here, Eric." With this Eric's smile faded. He grabbed my dad by his collar and pushed him against the wall. " You know damn well why I'm here! You stole my girl! I told you the day you married Ellis i would kill you! I promised you and myself i would." The smile appeared back on his face. He pulled his hand out of his pocket holding something my daddy carried at work. He pointed it to his chest and i heard a big shoot. He fell to the ground after Eric let go of his collar.

My mum screamed and grabbed the phone and dialed something. I could hear the voice on the other end. "Hello? Whats your emergency?" Eric turned to my mother and she froze. She dropped the phone and grabbed a knife. He laughed. "Oh, Ellis. So feisty. Exactly how you were in high school." He grabbed her wrist holding the knife and she slashed his arm. He winced but tighten his grip on her. She dropped the knife and he smiled. "We could have been so happy together. We could have gotten married. We could have had a baby. But no. You went of with HIM!" He pointed to my fathers lifeless body. Her face harded. "No. I couldn't have. Your cruel. And crazy! I loved Patrick. Not you!" He got mad and threw her across the room. I gasped and he saw  me.  The smile was back on his face.

"Ellie. I don't believe we have met. I'm Eric. Your daddy's brother. Or was your daddy's brother." he smiled bigger. "Why don't you come down here?" He asked. "No." I managed to say.  He looked frustrated but kept his smile and turned back to my mum who was struggling to get up. Her head had hit the counter and she was bleeding. "Ellis, I'm feeling kind today. I'm giving you one more chance to love me. You, Ellie and i could be so happy." He helped her up and pressed his body to hers. She winced.

"Never." She looked and me and mouthed the words i love you. I started to cry. He lost his grin. "Have it your way." She screamed and i buried my face in my hands. I heard two shots. I opened my eyes and my mother was on the ground. Eric above her frowning. He looked at me. That's when i heard the sirens coming near the house. "Shit." He looked out the window and saw cop cars and ambulances. He looked back at me and smiled. "We will met again, Ellie." He gave my mother a kiss and left. I ran down stairs to my mum. "Mum? Mum!" I tapped her. She was bleeding from her head from hitting the counter and her arm. He looked up at me. "Ellie. I love you. More then words can say. And when we cant find words to say, what do we do?" She smiled so weakly. "We sing?" I said crying. "Yes, Boo we do." She started to sing Stevie Wonder. She loved him. Then she stopped. "Mum?" I started to cry and shake her. "Mum! Wake up!"

 The police came into our house. One of them spoke in a walkie thing that daddy used to use. "Both parents are dead. There is just a little girl." Then i saw Uncle Taylor come through the door. He was my mum's brother. He looked at daddy then mum and me. I looked at him as he was holding back a scream. He picked me up as other people came in to our house. I looked back at my mum and dad. I'de lost them both. With that, i screamed and cried. Uncle Taylor took me out of the house and Aunt Lucy came up to us. "It was Eric. I know it." He said with anger and sadness in his voice. I looked at Aunt Lucy as she was staring at me. We both cried.

The police asked me a bunch of questions. I answered them the best i could. Uncle Taylor said Eric had been threatening us for years. That's why we moved around so much. We saw a juge and he said that Uncle Taylor and Aunt Lucy would look after me from now on. They let us in the house and we got to take somethings. Uncle Taylor was searching around the house while Aunt Lucy helped me pack. "Where are we going to go?" i asked as i held my elephant my mum had given me. "We're going to go to a little town not far from here. You will love it." she smiled warmly at me. I nodded and Uncle Taylor came in with somthing in his hands. It was a locket my mum used to wear. He put it on my neck. "Your mum would have wanted you to have this." He smiled and gave me a hug. "Everything is going to be ok, Boo. We're going to take care of you." 

We left Audley after that, We moved. Aunt Lucy got me a vocal instructor so i could hold onto that part of what my mother gave me. We found a little house and a little school for me to go to. And began our new life in Holmes Chapel.