Prologue: In the past
A young girl of 10 years old sat on her bed reading a book while listening to her stereo. She loved her home and her family. Every night her dad would come home and spend time with her and her mother was the best friend she'd ever have. They would always go on family trips and her parents were so in love with each other. Her mother would always come up into her room and braid her long brown hair into two pigtails before she went to school and she never got into trouble. If there was such thing as the ideal family they would've been it. Until, that night where that young girl of 10 years old sat on her bed, reading a book while listening to her stereo....
Yori just finished the next chapter of her book when she heard the loud yelling of her parents downstairs. She blinked her large green eyes and slowly walked over to her door trying not to make a sound. ' this isn't right!' she thought to herself as she opened the door and walked into the hallway. 'Mom, and Dad, never fight.' As she inched closer to the stairwell she could make out what they were saying.
" How could you even think of doing something like this!" she heard her mother Saya yell
" I Have too! You wouldn't understand. This has nothing to do with your kind!" her father yelled back at her
" My kind!" she heard her mother yell as she made it to the top of the stairs and watched them argue " HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT!! AFTER EVERYTHING I WENT THROUGH FOR YOU!"
" It doesn't matter." he answered calmly " Now, move!"
" NEVER! I won't let you do this!"
" Saya, I don't want to hurt you. So, please MOVE!" he said his green eyes flaring
" Kanaye" she started stepping in his path, her short brown hair covering her eyes " I WILL NOT MOVE!"
" Saya" he said looking away, his black hair shadowing his face. " I'm afraid I have no choice then."
Yori looked down at what was going on below. Her eyes filled with fear then as she wondered what her father was going to do. He raised his arm and in one quick motion her mother hit the floor covered in her own blood. Tears poured down Yori's face as she covered her mouth to keep from screaming when she heard a loud clang and watched as a knife stained with her mother's blood hit the floor. At that moment she knew she had to get out of that house and she needed a plan. She ran back to her room and shut the door and quickly pushed her dresser and anything else heavy she could find against her door. Then as she was placing the last thing she could find against her door she heard it, a knock and the sound of her father's voice.
" Yori? Are you okay?"
Then without answering she slipped on her shoes and grabbed her coat off her bed.
" Yori!?! Can you open the door? I want to talk to you."
She rushed over to her window and opened it, rain pouring outside. Suddenly, she heard a loud bang and snapped her head back to the direction of her door when she realized he was trying to break the door down.
" YORI! What's going on in there!?! Open this door now!"
Quickly, she climbed onto the window seal and kicked her feet out in front of her then reached to the nearest branch on the tree outside her window. She grabbed the branch then let her body drop from the window causing her arms hanging from the branch her only means of support. She then pulled herself up onto the branch and carefully slide down the tree until she reached the ground. Then without even thinking she ran through the pouring rain and mud, not daring to look back. She continued to run until she got almost halfway across town to her friend Yoko's house and banged on the door. She banged and banged until finally the door opened and there stood Mr. Yoshida, Yoko's father.
"Yori?" he started " What on earth are you-"
" Koji!" Mrs. Yoshida yelled from the stairwell "What's going on?"
Then as soon as Mrs. Yoshida came downstairs Yori rushed into the house a latched onto her legs.
" Yori!?! Wha-"
" He killed her!" she screamed
" What!?!" they yelled in unison
" HE KILLED MY MOTHER!!!!" she screamed through gaint sobs
" Oh my god!" Mrs. Yoshida yelled "Koji! CALL THE POLICE!"
Suddenly, Mr. Yoshida was snapped out of his dumbfounded state and rushed to the phone to call the police. While Mrs. Yoshida tried to comfort her.
" Shhh.." she said while hugging her little body " It'll be okay..."
" Mom?" Yoko called from the top of the stairs " What's going on?"
" Nothing sweetie! Go back to your room!" No sooner had she said that when Yoko walked down to where her mother was.
" Yori!?! Mom, what's wrong with Yori? What's going on?"
" The police will be here soon." said Yoko's father from the other room " The police!?! Mom, what's happening!?! What happened to Yori? What's going on!?!"
" He killed her..." she repeated again
" Who did sweetie?" Mrs. Yoshida asked her as calmly as possible
Yoko was just about to speak when her mother silenced her and Mr. Yoshida answered the door to let the police in.
" MY FATHER KILLED MY MOTHER!!!"
Those words echoed through Yori's ears as she awoke with start. The dream that had haunted her sleep every night after her mother was killed had come back. She hadn't had that dream since she was eleven. Why now after 5 years of dreamless nights had it come back to haunt her? Why now? Why ever?
