I grow up in a very small town where everyone knew everybody. My mother and father high school sweethearts. They got married right ather high school and stayed together through going to different schools. They came back to there home town and found out that she were pregnant with me. So now as the pregnancy goes on my mother and father both find jobs in their specialties. My mother a doctor and my father a lawyer. Nine months pass and any day now I shall arrive. I was born on a Monday in the near afternoon in may. My name is Daphne Blarie Carter. Growing up I had a very amazing childhood and always had everything i always wanted and needed. Growing my I had two very close best friends Quinn and Oliver we did everything together sports, traveling, shopping and, many sleep overs. Our childhood was amazing but it wasn’t always like that. Over the years my father becomes a drunk. Takes more pride in drinking then showing up to any sport I have played. My mother has never missed anything I have done or accomplished in my life yet so far. I grow older high school is now among us Oliver and Quinn and I go shopping for school cloths and everything else that is needed for becoming a freshmen in high school. Yet my father has still shown no signs of caring about any of it. Not his babygirl growing up, liking a boy, or playing sports. Waking up its the first day of school mom is making breakfast. Father is still sleeping like always. I walk down stairs and my mother has made my favorite chocolate chip pancakes with peanut butter and milk of course. After we eat. I ask my mother about my father. Can he get help I do not wish for him to miss anymore of my life. My mother signs honey I can try to help him but if he doesn’t want help it will make it worse. I will try for you my beautiful daughter. My first day of freshmen year as i walk through the doors with my besties I feel scared and happy and all so nerve. What if there mean? What if i fail. All these thoughts in my head i panic and run to the bathroom. Oliver runs after me he can’t come into the bathroom but he is talking to me through the door he opened asking me what’s wrong i tell me and he clams me down. He says your never only you have Quinn and me. Once lunch rolls around I feel better and think i had nothing to worry about Oliver was right. High school day one is over. We’re all walking home and part ways see you later at cheer right and i said yes of course. Tryouts are at six pm tonight. My mom is already cooking when i walk in the door and dad is walking sports on the tv in the living room drinking of course. I go to all to him and tell him about my day as he sees me yells don’t you see I’m busy. Go to your mother he has never talked to me this way. I walk into the kitchen and my mother is facing the stove did you talk to father today about getting help. Yes my dear I did okay so what was said. She turns to me as father walks in. He yells no one is getting help you hear me were all just fine right honey. I look up and down my mother sh is bloody and looks so sad and broken. I am in shock he has never hit her before. We continue to the table with no words I eat my dinner and ask to be excused from the table father says of course. I go get ready for cheer. Should I tell Oliver dad he is a cop or Quinn’s mom a lawyer but I just didn’t say anything. We all three make the team we go out for ice cream and I’m dropped off first. As I walk to the door I hear yelling then my mother screaming so I open the door to see my father holding a gun to my mother chest. I scream what are you doing dad you love mom what is wrong with you. Please put down the gun I need you da please he looks up at me are you sure. Yes i am father I’m your little girl ill need my daddy for the rest of my life. He lets go of my mom and drops the gun and starts crying that he is sorry. Through out these last 4 years his drinking has gotta so bad and he wont get help I need to do something before he kills one of us. I plot a plan to make everything okay again but not right now it needs to be a good plan. So i tell my best friends abou what has been going on for years now and Oliver says well we’re under sixteen so were kids we will be fine it need down now before we turn seventeen. Quinn is scared so she backs out which is okay. Me and Oliver plan to murder my father. We gonna do it this Friday after the game so all the cops will be out doing other things making sure everyone gets home safe no drinking and this that and the third. Friday morning off the school like normal come home eat everything is fine. It’s game time mother stays home because of her bruises dad goes to a bar and comes home right as the game is ending. I meet with Oliver he had his mothers gun and I have the gloves. We head home I call my mom and tell her i need her at the school we had bee left there and my phone is going to die but I was in the back yard. She leaves I run in the house yell for my dad he runs to the basement what’s wrong sweetie and Oliver is under the steps and I call my dad out on everything i has done and hurt us through the years and he calls my a little bitch and slaps me and Oliver runs out with the gun and shots him and i take the gun and empty it out in my dad as i cry. Oliver says we have to go lets go Daph we need to go. We run put the gun back in Oliver house and run back to the school and mom is yelling and panicking thinking the worse about us. Mom I’m here sorry was in the gym when my phone died. You ready to go home? Oliver is tired from throwing me in the air tonight and I’m ready to go to bed for this weekend. We get home and my sees the basement door is open tells me and Oliver to run to his house and to call his dad so we did. His dad dan arrives at my house to find my father dead from six shots to the head and one in the heart. I am hysterical and so is my mother who would do this? Oliver over the weekend feels the guilt from everything and tells his dad we we are both arrested and asked question of why so I tell them about my father hitting my mother all the time holding her at gun point. This was the way out. We would be dead if I didn’t kill him first. I only did it because he hit me Friday night and always hit my mother enough was enough. I love my dad but he should have never did bad things. He would still be here is he was a good person. That’s my reason that’s why I did it Oliver just got me the gun he didn’t do it I did it was all me. My dad is a bad man but when he was drinking was a good man but choose beer over us. So i choose to live over die.

Kendall and I have been friend since she moved acress the street when we were both just six years old. My mother went over to there house all those many years ago and brought food for them since they were new to are area. My mother introduced me to them and that we live in the blue house aross the road. This is my daugther Tia. My name is Tina and I have two more children a boy John and a older girl Penelope. My husband passed away right before Tia was born in a fire during his job. Sorry about running on and on about my myself and my family tell me about yours. My name is Linda and this is Kendall I don’t have anymore kids me and Kendalls dad meet when I was young and he and I never married. He left me three months ago because I asked him to marry me. It had been seven years that we had been together. So after he turned me down on marrying him I left and found this house and here were are talking with you both. So now years have passed Kendall and I have been friends through everything boyfriends, fights, anything and everything you can name it happened to us. So now here we are about to graduate from high school and go off to college. Were both goig to Harvard our dream school. Were gonna miss our parents and all of our home town friends we will see them around the holiday’s hopefully. With that been said the summer is now coming to its end. Graduation has now passed and we are spending all summer together with our family and friends. First day in our dorm just Kendall and I. I’ve been hiding this feeling I have had since eight grade summer camp. From everyone even myself I suppose. As we sit in our dorm awaiting classes to start we start talking about guy and if there gonna be hot or nerdy or jerks since we grown up now. I get off my bed and walk away she yells and asks whats wrong I say nothing is wrong Kendall I’m fine okay. She gets off her bed and comes and puts her hand on my arm and turns me around. Your not okay I can see it in yours eyes talk to me Tia I am yout best friend. As I look up at her I start shaking and she leads in for a hug everything is okay I know this is new and scary im scared too but together we got this. We pull apart from the hug looking deep into each others eyes and I lean in for a kiss thinking am I really about to do this. We kiss and neither one steps away as the kiss leads to her hand on my neck my heart is racing like ‘omg” did she like me this whole time to. Once we pull apart from out kiss she says I new you liked me I was waiting for years for you to tell me. I didn’t say anything Becasue I wasnt sure if it was just in my head or not. I smile and say so you liked me this whole time as well? Kendall say yes Tia I did but just like you I was scared. So she lead in to my ear and says neither one of us has been with a women what should we do first makeout and see where it leads. So Tia gets on my bed and I follow her and we start making out and hands start to wonder all over on each other and kissing of the neck and more exploring of each others bodies. We tell our familes that we are now dating each other and our moms say finally we knew all along. Four years has now passed and we are set to graduate from college and became nurses. We still together and kendall has planned and ever nice romantic night for us. I’m wearing a dress and so is she and were sitting down eating at a lake front restaurant as she pull a ring out of her purse and stands up and asks me to marry her and of course I said yes. We become nurses and live together in a beautiful town home and kandell wants to have kids but we both want to carry. So we go through all the red tape and medical crap. Six months later we both are pregant i’m having a boy and she is having twin girls. We hvae both gotten everything we have ever wanted and are now just waitting on our three babiesto arrive.

It has been ten year since montana and I have spoken. Last time we spoke we had a huge fight over a big lie that she had told me. I was married to my ex husband back then. The dreadful night i came home early and my best friend and my husband and the father of my children were in bed together. All ether one could say was it just happened we never meant to hurt you. I left out of the room crying got my twin out of bed called my mom and went to her house. What was I gonna do? Where do I go? Do i forgive them maybe it just was a mistake. `The next morning i go home to get the kids ready for school sp they just think we spend the night at maamw and papaws house. I get home thinking she would not be there and her and my so called husband was in bed still together and my daughter Lilly comes crying to me why is daddy and tan tan in bed togther that is you amd daddys bed. I get her calmed down for school and get jack my son are now on the bus. I go upstairs and wake them both up. I’m not showing any emotion now because i was just thinking that it was just a mistake becausee I had beem working alot and he was lonely. So now I have them both awake Josh is trying to calm me down and it”s not working she is my best friend josh since we were babies. You slept with her. Montana I thought you had more respect for me we have been friends for 20+ years and my husband. Do yall wanna be together? Do yall love each other? The response that came out of their mouths so soon had me feeling in disbeleaf. How could they love each other? How long has this been going on? Josh said its been going on for about a month you were working alot we was not acting like husband and wife. So I found comfart in her and it built into more. He said sorry she also said sorry i slapped them both and told them to get the hell out. Went to court few months later got full custody of lilly and jack because they father did not get and job he went back home to his parents two hours away. Then as for montana I told her she was dead to me. Now here we are ten years later im remarried two more babies Sophia and Carter. Lilly and jack are now sixteen years old. One monday morning getting all my kids off to school someone knocks on my door I open it t find montana standing there. Can we talk please I know its been years. I made a huge mistake by sleeping with josh I should have. Never hurt you like you were my best friend my whole life. I have been lost without can we meet for lunch and talk please. I tell her what you gonna do now try and sleep with my new husband now why now. Its been ten years. I come to realize that no man is worth never speaking to my friend again. So can. You give me another chance please tina I want us back. I said okay friday lunch at Cara Cafe. Tuesday evening I talk to nathan my husband about montana coming to the house yesterday morning about wanting to meet for lunch friday. I think im gonnago what doo you think? I mean it has been ten years. Nathan said go just hear her out then make your decision on what your gonna do from there. Whatever you decision i will support you no matter what. Friday afternoon we meet at Cara Cafe and I ask her what do you want from this because I am not gonna trust you like this never happened before. She apologizes For hurting me and for evening thinking about my ex in that way and taking my kids dad away from them. She goes on to say she need her friend more then she need any man. Were not together we did not even last 3 months after you lefft he didnt do anything but drink and sleep and eat. So i broke it off. I’m not sure why i waited this long to reach out to you I should have sooner but can you please forgive me for everything and we start over I havae my own husband and babyboy now. The ball is in your court. Two weeks later I call her and invite her and her hubby and son to dinner and we had a good night and she ges to meet my two youngest Sophia and carter. Lilly didnt want to speak to her. She had her own feelings because she seen them in bed togther back then. Jack did not care thinks of nathan as his dad so everything was good in his court. Sophia and carter are tqo years old now and her baby boy is two as well. So are kids now can grow up like we did as kids and grow bonds like no other and no mistakes will happen but everyone mkaes mistakes and you can forgive them. Now every week we have dinner our two families combanded together and lilly forgave montana. So all is well and going great. Remember you can make a small mistake or a big one but once you realize that you hurt someone you love and have been a big part of there life and same in yours you miss them and will do anything and evrything to have your best friend back

Its been twenty years sinceI walked out of these doors. Here I am about to walk back into these doors. Feeling the unknown is like the first day of high school. So as I take a deep breath I open these doors to see how much people has changed and to see who all has not changed. Then to see if popular kids now grown adult stilll act like children. I was not a popular kid in school. I just kept to myself and loved school so I guess I was a ‘nerd’. We all know every school had the cool kids and the groupies. Amanda was the Queen of all the girl’s who wanted to be popular. Her groupies were Lilly, Ashley and, Madison. They all were cheerleader of course Amanda was the captin. Then there football boyfriends that they thought one day they would marry. As i look around the room all the popular girls look married and miserable wiht kids and the footbal boys they married are beer drinking guys. My high school bestie who forgot about me our last year of school looks sad. So the best thing for me to do is to find the food and drink and stay away hopfully. Well that did not last long my high school crush walked up to me and did not even know who I was nor my name. Once I told him my name is yelled to the whole gym of all these people whom I did not want to speak to now are all in aw because I am a nurse with my two cats and had a glow up as everyone says. My crush Adam says damn your hot I am sorry about never knowing you in high school. Looks likes your doing amazing now probably better then all of us burnt out jocks. As the night when one it was better then high school this was all i had ever wish for was to just be noticed by anyone. Even my old best friend she walks up to me and apologizes to me about abandoning me our senior year. Beth my high school bestie asked if we can go for lunch and i said yes. My high school crush Adam asks me to dinner and my number this night was the best of my life everything I have always wanted. This for now twenty years later and better than it was twenty years ago. All best i decided to come tonight to the reunion.

Sitting on my front porch, in the night air I heard this sound. As I stand up I pick up my torch as I start heading to the sound I hear. The unknown is scary but as i creap closer and closer to the sound it seems to pause. I stop and think should I continue down to the creepy, dark, musty basement of mine where the sound is coming from. I head down the steps first them right after me my girlfriend follows behide me. Once we make it down to the basment i stop amd wait to hear that nosie again. I hear this moaning nosie as we creep closervthe louding it gets. lisa and I are about to move the table cloth that sits on top of this old table to see what maybe that noise is. I grab the cloth and pull it off the table as a cold breeze feels like it went straight through me. Lisa is holding the torch as now it feels like we standing outside in dead winter and the flame on the torch goes out. Lisa screams and as I light the torch and look for what lisa screamed about she is no where to be found. The basement door is locked no way out still cam heard her scream but i cant find her. I'm not sure what is happen a ghost a person a demon. As I walk to where i feel her screamimg . I think I go to the wall and I exploring thinking maybe wherec its a old house a trap door or something and nothing I yell for her and she screms demon its a demon run it wants to kill us all. Im not worried about this so called demon until out it comes from the wall wanting me as well. Never fought a demon before what do you use or say do you run scream. I just gve up snd let it take me to my girlfriend. Who has yet to quit screaming. I wake up to her screaming for me to wake up. Were in this dark bloody red area stuck to feels like raw skin smells like it too. Do I give up. In this moment yes no one knows whats going on or where we are. Were now the demons forever.