Sonny opened her eyes to see her bedroom light on. She looked at her watch and saw it was 2:30 in the morning. Sonny felt someone sitting on the side of her bed. Thinking it was her mom Sonny rolled over to face the person. She felt her heart pounding when she saw one person dressed in black looking through her stuff and another person also dressed in black sitting on her bed. They were both wearing masks. Sonny saw the person looking though her things turn around. She quickly closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep. Sonny could tell by their voices that they were men.

"There's nothing in here. Let's search the other room." One of the men said.

The man who was sitting on Sonny's bed stood up and followed the man who talked out of the room.

Sonny opened her eyes and looked at the men as they walked out. The man looking through her things had dark skin and was tall. The man sitting on her bed was shorter then the tall man and he was a little pale.

Once they left Sonny sat up. She was terrified. Who were these men? What did they want? Why were they in Sonny's room? Sonny was to scared at move. A few seconds later Sonny heard a horrible scream. She knew it was her mom. She got up and ran to the hall and saw her mom.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?" Connie screamed as she stood on front of Sonny.

The tall man took out a knife and pointed it at the girls. "Just sit down on the couch and don't dare move!" He snapped.

Connie put her arm around Sonny and they walked to the couch.

"Mom, what are they doing here? What do they want?" Sonny whispered as she started tearing up.

"I don't know." Connie said as she held her daughter close. "Just stay calm. Okay?" Sonny nodded.

After a few minutes the tall man came out of Connie's room, still holding the knife.

He pointed the knife at Connie. "Tell me where all your money is."

"There's no money here!" Connie said as she stood up.

"Don't lie to me!" The man snapped.

"I'm not lying!" Connie shouted. Sonny was getting scared now.

"Get the girl." He shouted at the smaller man.

Before Sonny had a chance to scream the smaller man covered Sonny's mouth and dragged her out of the apartment.

"We'll take care of your darling daughter." The taller man with the knife said to Connie.

"Sonny!" Connie screamed as she tried to run to the door.

The man pushed Connie causing her to fall backwards. He ran out of the apartment.

It took Connie a few seconds to get up. Once she got up she ran after the men. By the time she caught up with them, they were just about to get into a black van. Sonny was trying to get from them.

"Let her go!" Screamed Connie.

Out of nowhere the tall man took out a gun and shot Connie in the stomach. Sonny screamed as she saw her mom fall backwards.

The man holding Sonny pushed her to the ground. She landed face-first. The men got into the van and drove away. Sonny got up she knew her face was cut, her nose was bleeding, her wrist was hurting. She got up and went over to her mom.

"Sonny?" Connie said in a very weak voice.

"I'm here mom." Sonny said as she held her moms hand.

"Sonny, I love you so much. You always have made me proud. I never want you to forget that."

Sonny started sobbing. "Mom please don't leave me. I don't know want I'll do without you."

"Don't worry baby. You'll be fine. I'll always be with you. I promise. Just be a brave girl."

Sonny hugged her mom and continued crying. "I love you mom."

"I love you too." Connie said in a low voice as her eyes started to close.

Seconds later most of their neighbours came out to see what the noise was. Most of them rushed over to Connie and other neighbours called an ambulance while Grace went over to Sonny.

Grace was in her mid-60's and lived on the bottom floor of the apartment.

Grace gasped when she saw Sonny's face. Sonny's forehead, nose and cheeks were badly cut. Her face was covered in blood.

"Sonny, Come with me." Grace said as she helped Sonny up.

Sonny shook her head. "No. I want to stay with my mom."

"She'll be fine. The neighbours are going to look after her until the ambulance comes." Grace said as she put her arm around Sonny and walked to her apartment.

Once they got into the apartment Grace took Sonny over to the couch.

"I'm just going to get some tissue to stop your nosebleed." Grace said as she went into the kitchen.

After a moment Grace came back and gave Sonny the tissue. Sonny held it to her nose.

"Sonny what happened?" Grace asked.

"These two guys broke into our apartment. They tried to kidnap me then they shot my mom." Sonny said as she started crying again.

"Oh Sonny." Grace gave Sonny a hug. "Everything's going to be okay I promise."

After a few minutes Grace went out to see if the ambulance arrived. She came back with a paramedic.

"What's your name, honey?" The male paramedic asked as he sat down next to Sonny.

"Sonny."

"Okay Sonny, how old are you?"

"15."

"And how did you get the cuts on your face?"

Sonny closed her eyes as she felt more tears coming. "These two men broke into my apartment. They tried to kidnap me and one of them pushed me and I landed on the ground face-first."

The paramedic looked at Sonny's wrist. "Did you hurt your wrist? It's very swollen."

Sonny nodded. "I hurt it when I fell."

"Okay Sonny, we're going to take you to the hospital now. We're going you get your cleaned up and we're going to get some ice for your wrist."

Sonny nodded. She got up and walked out with the paramedic.

"I'm going with her." Grace said as she got her keys followed then out.

Once Sonny got out to the ambulance she saw her mom was already taken away in a different ambulance. She felt more tears in her eyes as she got into the ambulance.

Meanwhile a group of paramedics were in the ambulance trying to save Connie's life. One of her neighbours gave her CPR until the ambulance arrived. Connie's heart stopped just minutes after she got into the ambulance.

"We're losing her!" The female paramedic said. "She's losing a lot of blood."

"We can't get her heart started again." The other female paramedic said.

"Is there anything else we can do?" Asked the male paramedic.

After another minute of trying to restart Connie's heart nothing happened.

"We lost her." The female paramedic said.

The male paramedic sighed and looked at his watch.

"Time of death. 4:15 am."