Chapter 1

It was in the year 2004 when the sad tragedy of my life happens that had turned my whole life to 180o change. At that time I was only 8 years old which means I was too young to understand what had happened around me. If I remember correctly, I was in my mother's arms. Her arms that hold me, hug me, tightly had become my shield to protect me from any harm and had saved my life.

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"Mom ..., it's hurt. I'm hurt; you're hugging me to death if this goes on. Your hugs are too strong it's making me out of breath ..." complained Violette as she cannot breathe in her mother's hug.

"S...s...sorry honey..." said Eleanor, Violette's mother, as she loosened her hug towards Violette. Even though Eleanor had loosened her hug, Violette still having a hard time to get out from her mother's hug thus making Violette struggle much more and finally she gave up. Violette then laid her body against her mother's chest.

As Violette put her head on her mother's chest, she could hear her mother's heartbeats. She heard the sound of the heartbeats became distance with every heartbeat. Violette quickly turns her head towards her mother's face. A red liquid was flowing down across her mother's white and flawless cheek. "Mom... Hey, mom wakes up. Please! I beg you, wake up!" said Violette while shaking her mother but still no answer was heard. "Mom, please wake up... don't leave me here alone..." said Violette while sobbing on Eleanor's chest. Violette then tried holding Eleanor's hand, but she was too shocked that the first word that pops to her mind was 'cold'.

The little girl then tried her luck with her father, Andre. But her luck had just run out as she turned towards Andre and saw he was in the same condition as Eleanor. Violette touched her father wrist to check his pulse but sadly there were none. Violette is a smart girl so she now knew that her parents had left her all alone in this very world for a better place. A few seconds later, while Violette was in dazed she felt someone was pulling her out of the car. As she got far away enough from the car, she saw that her family car was in a really bad shape.

Violette still could see her parents still stuck in the crashed car. The front of the car was badly crumpled and so was the top of the car. Because of the crumpled part on the top of the car, the passerby cannot pull Violette's parents out like they had done to her. Violette could only saw one of the passersby was talking to the phone. Thus, by making an assumption the passerby was probably calling for help from the authority.

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At that time, I really feel like my heart was going to shatter like a broken glass. I have been crying the whole time since I have figured out that my parents had died. But I have to be strong because I know my parents would not like it to see me crying. So, the tears stop flowing the moment I got out of the car. I felt like I wanted to cry myself until I go blind but my tears just would not drop, I do not know why but maybe because I kept thinking about what would my parents thought of me if I cry. But it was still hurtful to just bear with it; I am just an eight years old girl that time. From afar I could see a crowd of passerby was trying to get my parents out while waiting for the reinforcement. Some of them were trying to calm me down with their little white lie but I knew the truth...

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A few minutes later, really loud siren was heard. The sound came from the ambulance and the police car. Violette could see many people were busy with their duty in the investigation of the car crashed. Violette saw a couple of paramedics came to her, thus letting them examined her. The paramedics were quite shocked when they found out that Violette only had a few scratched on the cheeks and knees although she was in an accident that could cost her life. Anyway, after the paramedics had confirmed that Violette was not badly injured the paramedics rushed towards the crashed car to examine the victim of this accident. But they were too late as there were only corpses.

The paramedics took Violette and her parents' dead body into the ambulance and brought them to the hospital. The police wanted to do some postmortem on the dead body because the accident did not look like the normal kind of accident but it looked like a murder case. In the ambulance, Violette just sat in between her parents' dead body. 'They look so calm but a little pale though' thought Violette. The paramedics in the same ambulance as Violette really worried about her as she did not shed a single drop of a tear since they arrived. Violette just ignored the pity look that she received from the paramedics. Violette already knew that her parents were dead so she thought that it was a useless attempt for the paramedics to tell her that her parents have gone to a wonderful place. But it was nice to them to care for Violette.

It took about 20 minutes for the ambulance to reach the hospital. As they arrived, one of the paramedics went to the front desk and instructed the nurse in charged to contact Violette's family member or guardian. So, Violette gave the nurse her house phone number. The nurse contacts the number that she was given and informed Violette's family member or guardian about the accident that just happened. The nurse also informs them to pick her up.

Violette waited patiently for someone to pick her up and the mean time she had a conversation with the nurse in charge of her. The nurse was amazed at Violette as she was talking casually like nothing had happened to her. "You're a strong little girl aren't you, Violette?" said the nurse to Violette but Violette just gave the nurse a smile. While they were talking, suddenly they heard loud footstep coming closer to the front desk.