Night Kiss

"Get up sleepy head!" yelled a voice in my ear. It was my 10-year-old sister Ashleigh.

"I'm awake" I moaned, "leave me alone!" I was tired after sneaking out of the house and going to a party all night.

"Mom said you have to get up now, or else we'll leave on the trip without you without you," Preened Ashleigh.

Oh my god! The trip, I totally forgot about it. I looked at my clock on the table beside me, 10:03! I'm supposed to be ready to leave in 7 minutes, and I haven't even packed yet! God, I thought, this is why mom told me to pack early.

I jumped out of bed and ran around my messy room, throwing random clothes into my new black suitcase.

I quickly threw on a sweater and brushed my long brown hair. I looked in the mirror; I didn't have enough time to put on any makeup but I ran a quick line of lip gloss over my lips.

I looked up and realized Ashleigh was still standing at the door. "Tell mom and dad I'll be down in a …." I stopped; I heard gunfire and my parents screaming.

I rushed into the hallway and stopped dead, there was a boy about my age, 15 or 16, with dirty blond hair pointing a hand gun right at me. I looked to my right; a guy in his thirties with black hair had an arm wrapped around Ashleigh and a knife at her throat.

I didn't know what to do so I screamed. The boy rushed behind me, clamped his hand over my mouth and grabbed me around the stomach.

I tried squirming out of his grasp, but that only made it worse, he tightened his grip on me so I could hardly breathe. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Ashleigh squirming. The man whispered something in her ear, she managed a scream just before the mans blade went flying through the air and into her throat. I stared as her bloody head rolled onto the floor and the next thing I knew, everything went black.