My home was filled with strangers, my mother, Janet Brandon, had just won the award for best female estate agent in conneticut. I know its this gi-huge but to be honest I'm not that bothered. "Congrats mum! Not seen you yet, people have already taken you away from me like ten times!" I told her to make her laugh but she didn't, even though she's drunk! Well she always laughs when shes with her friends but when shes with me shes always uncomfortable so she puts on a fake laugh and says:"Sure, ok honey... Mary...?Will you go get me a drink? Erm... a Margarhita please," "Sure. When will everyone be gone?" I wondered hoping I could go to bed soon.
"Soon and thank you darling," I walked away and got her the Margarhita she had asked for, I had been allowed to invite my best friend, Ellie Park, she had been gone exploring my new home( the mansion as mum likes me calling it) for the last half an hour!
I had found her just sat on the floor in my room, head down and a puddle of red paint around her ...' OH WAIT! That isn't paint!
Thats ... blood' I thought. I walked over to her and lifted her head just as heard an ear-splitting scream come from in the lobby, as I ran I heard an ambulance's sirenmeaning someone's hurt! Hopefully they would take a look upstairs aswell! I burst out crying on my way as my best friend was dead and some-one else probably was.
I screamed as I saw who it was...my mother...she had fallen over the (very low) banister of our balcony which over looks the lobby, its a very big drop so when she hit the ground her head hit the floor and broke her skull.I over-heard some of the police saying she had been poisoned before hand. I know we never really spoke or anything like that but she was my mum i couldn't help but scream and cry. Police were also on their way to figure out who had done this to the two people who were most important in my life. I had a father, he left me and my mother when i was 7.
The police took me outside and sat me in a van so that i could talk to them about everything wierd that had happend.
I would not say a word. I was traumatised.
I'm Mary Alice and this is how my life changed dramatically when i was 16.