The Lived and the Living

Once upon a time there was a family of seven. A mother, a father and five children. There were three boys and two girls. The mother was very beautiful, she had long wavy black hair almost touching her feet, a wide white smile that could light up a room. The father was tall like a buliding, and had rich brown skin almost glowing. This family lived in a small village called cherrywood village. Now since there were five children, a lot of things were always going on. The mother and father were always fighting, could never be on the same page. The father soon became very abusive toward the mother. She felt trapped in her own home.

The Little Ones

One day, the mother woke up motivated to get away from her abusive husband but didn't have a plan how to get all her five children and herself from this dangerous man. As she made breakfast for her two younger children, who weren't old enough to be in school. she tried to think of a strategy to leave their father for good. When all of a sudden there was a knock on their door. It was the children's grandmother, at the moment the mother knew what she had to do to protect her children. After giving her children their breakfast she asked them if they wanted to stay with there grandma for the weekend. The children were thrilled, they loved their grandmother dearly. The daughter was so excited at the idea of going with her grandma she jumped from her chair and ran up the stairs to pack herself a bag. This little one was a very small one but very unique. She had long brown hair and a big warm smile that she wore so nicely her mother would say she was a sweet angel. Her little brother followed to do the same. Now this little one was the youngest of them all. he also had brown hair and had big brown eyes. As the two little kids went to get ready for grandmas house, the mother tried to explain to her own mother that the man she thought she loved no longer was in love with her and she needs to get away.

The grandmother looked at her daughter and said "Oh darling I always wished you would have a life of happiness." The little ones came downstairs with their backpacks full, with smiles from ear to ear and off they were to their grandmother's house.

The Middle Child

Now that the mother got the little ones out safely, she was on her way to pick up her oldest daughter. Now this daughter was a bit older then the little ones so she had more knowledge about her mother and father's disagreements. She had long black hair she looked just like her mother, younger version of course. As the mother took her walk up to her daughter's school she was thinking of away to get all her children away from her abusive husband as discreetly as possible. The mother signed her daughter out of school and both headed home. While they were walking through a park toward their home the mother knew she could not take her oldest daughter home so they passed their home and walked to the next village named Bellwoods Village where they found a nice man who claimed he would give them a place to stay for the night. After they settled down in a room the mother called up the near by high school and asked to speak to her eldest son.

The Phone Call

"Hello?" said the mother. "I need you to collect your brother from his class today and go to the waterfall between Cherrywood Village and Bellwoods Village and make sure you are not followed," continued the mother. "There you will find a map under the highest rock you must follow that map very well and make sure you keep your brother very close. Do not look or talk to anyone you hear me son I need you to be very safe on this quest." The mother then hung up the phone and collected a pen a paper and herself began to walk toward the waterfall but was writing her every step down on paper backwards so her sons knew where to find her. While she was writing out her children's map to safety, she realized that her and her children will not have anything to eat. She had to go back home to retrieve the money she had saved up for the day she would leave her husband. So as soon as she got to the waterfall and left the map she drew out for her children, she started the walk back to her home.

Self-Defense

As the sun was going down, the mother was making it to her home to get the money she had put away to leave. When the mother walked in her front door she found her husband sitting on the couch in the living room with a shotgun in his hand. "WHERE ARE MY CHILDREN?!" he yelled. The mother speechless made her way to the kitchen where she had hid the money but her husband followed behind her so she didn't have enough time to get the money. "WOMAN DID I STUDER?!" the husband yelled.

"Uhh... no I'm sorry umm... your children umm... they are out with friends... I told them they can stay out a few more hours since there is no school tomorrow." she said frightened.

The husband grabbed her by the arm and said "Woman why do you alway lie to me when all i am trying to do is be a good father and a good husband?"

He pushed into the cabinets in the kitchen and grabbed her neck tight and yelled once again, "WHERE ARE MY CHILDREN?!"

The mother couldn't breath she tried to tell him to stop and to let go of her but she was out of breath. She started reaching her hands out to grab something to help herself and then she finally got a hold of something and swung it hard as she could toward her husband's face. It was a knife she had found and slit the side of his face with it. He let go of her neck and yelled out at her for her action and then went toward her again with rage in his eyes. The mother scared that this was it for her and realizing what she had in her hand, she stabbed him straight in the heart. Her husband in shook looked at her in the eyes and slowly fell to the ground.

"Oh dear I killed him," she said to herself.

Not sure what to do next, she collect the money she went for and a little more from his pockets grabbed the shotgun from the living room and out the door she went. Off to her children back in Bellwoods Village. She told her oldest to hide the shotgun and the money until she found a way to get them as far as possible.