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“House.”
“What is your name?”
“Are you sending somebody?” I ask, frightened.
“I need your name, miss.”
“Violet Tate.”
“Violet, where are you in the house?”
“Upstairs.”
“Do you see anyone moving inside the house?”
“No.”
“Do you still hear movement?”
“No.”
“Find a safe place to hide until the officers arrive. I’m dispatching someone now. Stay on the line with me, okay?”
“I need to get my mom.”
“I recommend you stay where you are.”
But I don’t listen.
If we have to fight an intruder off, we damn sure are going to do it together.
I creep slowly toward the shut door of my mother’s bedroom. She must be sound asleep and hasn’t heard a thing. I carefully open her door but clench my teeth when the hinges make a sound. “Mom?”
Then I go completely still and release a wail that comes from deep within my soul.
“Miss,” the emergency dispatcher urges. “Can you tell me what’s happening?”
I’m kneeling by the body of my mother as I carefully lay my ear down to her chest, but I already dread what I’m going to hear.
Absolutely nothing.
“Miss!” the dispatcher repeats louder.
“It’s Mama,” I tell the woman, not even recognizing the hollow sound of my own voice.
“What about your mother?”
“She’s gone.”
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One Year Later
“Are you packed already?That was fast.”
“Yeah, because I’m not bringing that much with me,” I say with a great amount of trepidation.
“I know you’re probably nervous about going to a new school in a new state, but I promise that you’re going to love VCU.”
