Dedicated to CjayS42 my first ninja friend ^_^
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She Did It
Chapter One
~10 Years Later~
I walked out into the bright sunlight and took a huge breath of air. It had been ten years since I had been outside on my own free will and I can't believe that I was finally out. I was only seven on the night that it happened. The night that I decided to take my mother's safety into my own hands, I will never regret what I did. I was now seventeen and was happy that I was finally out of jail. Don't understand what I'm talking about? That's all right no one ever does, so I'll tell you what happened.
**Flashback**
My grip on the knife tightened as I took a deep breath steadying myself. I may be only seven but my brother taught me some things, he is in his own gang, I'm smart for my age. My brother wasn't home to protect my mom and myself, so I had to. My brother gave me the knife as a gift in case something ever happened so I could protect myself. He was eight years older than me and he hated our step father as much as I did, so he made it that he was hardly ever home. I walked out into the light that shone from the kitchen. I could see him now, that jerk that was still hollering at my mother. He still hadn't seen me. I saw him land more blows and kicks to my mom. I was done. After that I called 911 to help my mom, not him. He didn't deserve the help. When the police and ambulance arrived they took us all to the hospital. They couldn't just leave a seven year old alone in a house at night.
**End of Flashback**
When we went to court my mother said that she didn't know why I had stabbed "the man she loved" I never could understand why she had blamed me, when she should have been thanking me! I had saved her life, and yet she said that I had just attacked him and that she had fallen down the stairs to explain her injuries. With that my own mother had sent me off to jail. Since I was a minor I was sentenced to ten years with no bail.
My brother pulled up in his new black mustang shelby cobra. I envied him, but he was my only family member that I could actually turn to. My mother and her husband moved away leaving my brother alone to fend for himself. I know what you're thinking, Laela we thought you killed you're stepfather, well I didn't I stabbed him in the side but didn't do major damage. My brother Deangelo (I call him Dean) rolled the window down "Get in." and I did.
