The Beginning

　　Hi my name is Sasha Miller my story starts at the age of 12. My life isn't easy, my life has been a struggle ever since the death of my parents.

　　The school bus dropped me off in front of my house. I'm the only child of Diane and Kevin Miller. I walked up the front walk and up the stairs, I opened the door and after shutting it behind me called out to my mother.

　　"Mom I'm home!" I called out.

　　"Go wash up, dinner is almost ready." She replied.

　　I went upstairs to my room and put my book bag on top of my desk and went into my connected bathroom to wash my hands and face. After I'm done I made my way downstairs into the dining room. As I'm pulling out my chair and started to sit down I asked. " When will daddy be home?" "Any minute now." She answered.

　　"Where are my favorite girls?" Kevin yelled as he walked into the house. "In here!" Diane yelled back to him, as I got up from my seat and started running to the door.

　　"Daddy your home!" I said excitedly. Hugging him. "Hi princess." He said to me. We let go of each other and headed into the dining room together. I went into the kitchen to get three plates out of the cupboard, and silverware out of the drawer. After setting the table and sitting down, mom brought out the food. She placed down on the table her famous lasagna, then took each of our plates starting with my father and ending with her. After taking a bite of his lasagna he asked me. "How was school today princess?" I answered. "Good. I'm doing a science project with Seth, Dave and Elijah." "I really wish you would make some female friends." My mother said. "But mom, girls cause drama. So I would rather have friends that are boys." I replied. All of a sudden mom started screaming at me. "You'll end up with a bad reputation!" "Is that what you want? She asked. "No!!!" I yelled back. "Diane, calm down!" My father firmly stated. "No I won't calm down, Kevin!!!" "Do you want your daughter to be known as the slut of the whole school?" She yelled back getting up out of her chair and running towards the front door screaming. "I can't deal with the both of you right now, especially your shit Kevin!!!" Than the door slams shut. My father looks over at me. "Don't worry I'll go after her." He said as he's standing up and walking over to the front door that my mother just left screaming from.

　　I quietly finished my dinner and started clearing away the dishes. "I guess I should probably be a good daughter and wash the dishes to surprise mom when her and dad gets back." I thought to myself. After washing, drying and putting away the clean dishes, I went upstairs to my room to grab my math and history homework out of my book bag that I have put on my desk when I got home from school. I went back to the dining room and sat down at the table, starting on my math homework, thinking to myself. "I'll do my math first since I find it so easy, than when my parents come back I'll see if mom will help me with my history." See I'm not very good in history class, I find it too hard to memorize names, dates and countries in which important things took place to change the world. Especially dates of each war and names of the men who fought. I looked up at the clock after finishing my math and noticed that my parents have been gone for almost two hours. I started fidgeting nervously wondering what could be keeping them. I put aside my math and started to open my history book and grabbing my worksheet when there's a knock at the door. I know I'm not supposed to open the door when my parents aren't at home, with only being 12 years old. But something told me that I should go to the door to atlease see who it is. I was scared because it was 10:20 at night. I slowly walked to the door, once I approached the door I looked through the peep hole. At the sight of the two men at my door I became more frieghted then I have ever been in my 12 years.

　　I shakenly reached for the dead bolt lock, then the one on the door handle, leaving only the chain lock in place. I caustionly opened the door asking nervously. "Can I help you officers?" They replied. "We need you to come to the police station with us miss." Can I see your identification, please?" I asked. "I really shouldn't be talking to strangers, my mother taught me that it is dangerous. It could be even worse going anywhere where with you." I told them. "I understand that little miss." The other officer said. "Are you Sasha Miller?" He spoke again.Then the light skinned officer introduced himself. "I'm officer Reynolds." He stated. The dark skinned officer then introduced himself. "And I'm officer Stevenson." "Can I ask what this is about?" I asked. Officer Stevenson answered. "It's about your parents." "Hold on a moment, please." I said. I gently closed the door, cleaned up my homework by putting it back into my book bag, and grabbed out my house key from the small pocket on side of the bag. I made my way back downstairs and over to the front door, opening it trembling, I walked out and turned locking the door behind me. I met both officers down at the sidewalk where their car is parked in front of the house. To my surprise it really is a cop car.

　　I get in the back seat while the two officers both seat in the front seats. Once we get to the station officer Reynolds asked me to sit in the seat in front of the middle desk farthest from the door. Officer Stevenson went over to a vending machine as I took a seat. He comes over handing me a can of juice in which I thanked him for. Officer Reynolds sat at his desk in front of the computer and turned on a tape recorder. "Now I'm going to ask you a few questions while I record everything." He explained. "Okay." I replied. Reynolds: "What is your name?" Sasha: "You already know my name!" Reynolds: "Yes, I know. This is going into your parents file." Sasha: "Sasha Miller." Reynolds: "Sasha can you tell me what happened tonight?" Sasha: "Um, well....The three of us were seating at the dining room table eating my mother's famous lasagna. My father asked me about my day at school, I answered him by telling about a science project that was assigned. I went on saying how I was paired up with three of my friends that just happen to be boys. That got my mother all bent out of shape, yelling and screaming about why I don't have any friends that were girls. That's when my father got involved telling her to leave me alone. My mother really got mad and yelled and screamed again something about having a reputation as the school slut. After saying that she ran out the door slamming it behind her, Than my father followed after her, telling me not to worry that he will bring her back home." Reynolds: " I'm sorry to inform you Sasha, that after your father found your mother, they were on their way home together when they got ran over by a pick up truck, while they crossed the street." Sasha: "NOOOOOOO!!!!!!" I screamed running out of the police station and into the night.