On the 18th of august 2002, is when the ill-fated death of my parents happened. It was 9:30pm, we where making our way back to our house from my cousins' birthday party. The windows of our car were all open letting in the warm breeze of the summer's evening caress my face. The sun had not fully set, so the sky was illuminated in a saturated orange tint.

 

My dad was driving quite fast down the motorway when two unexpected, window tinted, black SUV's where on both sides of our car. I was 9 years old, Luhan was 6 and Kris 12. I sat on the right, Luhan in the middle and kris on the left with my mother next to my dad. The passenger window of one of the SUV's rolled down revealing a person wearing a black mask. I remember my dad telling us to roll our windows up and to stay down. But knowing the dare devil that I was, I couldn't help myself but to sneek a peek at what was happening. I heard the guy shout at my dad telling him to stop the car and began threatening him with a gun. At that moment my heart felt like it had stopped, I sank into my seat, horrified to look, so I tightly shut my eyes. The next thing I could remember hearing was a loud bang and mother's high pitched scream. The car swerved from side to side before falling into a ditch causing our car roll over multiple times before it abruptly halted.

 

When I opened my eyes the car was laying on its left side. Luhan was crying and my mother was urging us to keep calm and to get out of the car. When we got out we saw that my dads right arm was punctured by a bullet and was loosing a lot of blood. My mother sat us all down on the ground, checking each one of us. There was nothing too severe that couldn't be taken care of with a little antiseptic and plasters, she had said with a fake smile. The sky began to change colour, from that orange dye to a nasty browny colour. I was scared, and the wind became chilly and sent cold static down my spine, forcing my small body to tremble. After calming Luhan, who just ended his crying, my mother had said that we had to get home as fast as we could. She and Kris aided our dad to walk and me and Luhan walked hand in hand down the rest of the motorway beside them. I could remember seeing thee struggle that my dad was in, staggering all over the place, before collapsing heavily on the cementl. I froze in mid track. I questioned myself, what was happening to dad?That's all I could recall. Little did I know that my father was slowly dying and frowned at the idea of him merely being tired, as my mother had said. I don't remember what happened afterwards, however, I remember this clearly, dad's last few words telling us, I'm sorry, and I love you. His voice had evaporated into the deepening night. Of course, we had to give him a proper burial, and we did, it was the least we could do for him, our beloved Father. We resumed our journey home, and having just lost the foundation of our family, it all felt like a nightmare. It was a nightmare, a very morbid nightmare that you could not wake up from, and it was only the beginning of that long sickening night. After finally  reaching our destination, Mother had cleaned us all up and put Luhan to sleep. The three of us slept in the same room that night. Mother had said that she would be in the kitchen to relax and then she would go to sleep. 

 

1:37am I woke up after hearing something hitting the marbled floor hard. I panicked and froze and woke up Kris, making sure Luhan was still asleep. I held onto Kris's hand tightly. I was fearful. In my mind all I could think of were those masked people who were after us. I was wrong. There in the kitchen, my Mother's body hung from one of the ceiling pipes and was bleeding from dozens of deep slashes in her arms. A large kitchen knife lay on the floor. As young as I was, I could tell the situation, and stood there speechless. Kris being the brave brother he was covered my eyes with a hug and walked me into the living room where he sat me down. I saw him pick up the house phone. He was dialing emergency services. The rest after that was just a blur. That is until...