Letty's P.O.V

It's been rough since dad got back from Sweden, him and mama were always fighting, I guess telling him her wrist were bleeding didn't make him too happy. When he first got home I wouldn't even talk to him but about a week later he did some major sucking up and I decided to forgive him only if he promised never to lie to me again. Us making up didn't stop him and mama from fighting after a few weeks I swear I went deft from all the yelling, and papa ended up filing for divorce about a month after his return. Its been two months since then and I've barley seen my dad, mama's always off with her friends or locked in her room with all of her boyfriends. She hasn't been the same since papa left, I know she's sad but I wish things good go back to the way they use to be, before she hated me. Now all she does when she's home is yells at me and tries to find way so hurt me without leaving a mark. She thinks' it's all my fault papa left her, if we would of just stayed home none of this would of happened.

It's morning and Tali and I are in the kitchen eating breakfast waiting for Quincy to get ready so we can go out for my seventh birthday. He's taking us to Lorenzo's garage for the morning then we're going to spend the day at the park. Mama's asleep in the living room with her new boyfriend, they got here yesterday afternoon and locked me and Tali outside until Quincy got home late at night. I was trying to keep Tali quit until Quincy came downstairs so we wouldn't wake them up. After Quincy was ready we went out to his car.

"Shit, I forgot me keys inside" Quincy said as he felt around in his pockets. "I'll be right back, wait here"

"Okay" I mumbled

I heard Quincy shut the front door and I knew he closed it too loud because after he disappeared into the house all you could here is yelling. Mama was yelling at him for being rude and waking them up, she kept repeating how he was a horrible son and that she wanted him out of her house. I was starting to get scared that mama would come outside and start yelling at us and when I looked over at Tali I could tell she was scared too. The only safe place was in the car but because the doors were locked we couldn't get in.

"Wait here" I instructed Tali. She shook her head yes and I made my way inside. When I opened the door the yelling stopped for a split second before it started up again. Quincy gave me a look telling me to go back outside but I didn't listen, instead I made my way up to his room. I walked in his room and found the keys on his desk, I quickly grabbed them and rushed back downstairs.

"Owe!" I yelled as I felt some grab my arm and pull me to the ground. I looked up and saw mama's new boyfriend smiling down at me.

"Hey! Don't touch her!" Quincy yelled and before I knew It Quincy ran up and punched him in the face.

They both exchanged punches, then started wrestling each other to the ground, mama tried to pull them apart but it didn't work because she got knocked over the coffee table, which made the whole room go silent. I looked around the room and both Quincy and mama's new boyfriend were sitting on the floor covered with blood.

"Get Out!" Mama yelled "I want you and your Bitch of a sister out of my house now!"

"Are you serious?" Quincy asked trying to keep his voice down.

"I want you two out of my house now!" She stood up and opened the door as she motioned us to leave.

"Fine" Quincy said standing up. He walked over to me and grabbed my hand. "Come on Letty let's go."

As we walked out of the house mama slammed the door. We went over to the car and I handed him the keys.

"Where's Tali?" Quincy asked me.

"I don't know I told her to wait by the car, and then I came inside to get they keys"

"Well then, where is she? Because she sure the hell not by the car."

"I don't know" I whispered

"Tali!" Quincy called. I followed suit and we continued to call her name.

We searched all around the house and when we couldn't find her we drove up and down the street looking for her and asking people if they've seen her. We checked in all of her hiding places and all the places she could of gone. We were getting really worried that something bad could of happened to her so we called the police.

It wasn't long after the police got there that the whole block knew what was going on, we tried to get our mom to lets us in the house so we could tell her but she wouldn't let us in.

"Can you tell what happened or when the last time you saw this girl was?"

"She went missing about an hour ago."

"And what can you tell me about what happened?"

"I forgot my keys inside so I told the girls to wait by the car so I could go and get them. But when I went back inside I got into a fight with my mom. The girls heard the yelling from outside and Letty came into the house in order to get the keys so they could be safe inside the car, but when we got back outside she was gone."

"We'll do whatever we can to find your little sister but you need to make sure you stay out of the way so we can do our jobs. We'll keep you posted and maybe you can go home and get people together for a search party tomorrow."

"Okay officer, just please you have to find her she's only four years old."

"We will, I promise."