PROLOGUE
I couldn't believe the news I had just received.
How could it have happened, I had just seen them an hour ago.
I had just kissed my parents goodbye, they had just told me to take care of myself cause my little sister needed the treatments badly so they needed to go see her.
So how could they be dead?
I couldn't believe what I was hearing, maybe it was a misunderstanding, maybe it was not my own Mr and Mrs Griffin Adams.
"Are you sure you are talking about my own parents, I just said goodbye to?" I asked trying to hold the tears from Spilling out, I was trying to be strong just in case it was true.
I needed to be a strong girl cause my little sister Ella would need me more than ever now.
"Unfortunately young miss it is your parents.. they just Uhmm ..had a car crash thirty minutes ago" the cop who had brought the sad news said.
"But don't worry your aunt Victoria would be coming to stay with you, and your sister Ella would soon be discharged from the hospital everything is going to be okay. okay?"
The other officer said squatting down a little to my height so he could look me in the eye.
"How old are you young woman?" He asked.
"14" I said still trying to be a big girl and not shed any of the tears that was lurking in my eyes.
My mother had always told me that I was a grown woman no matter what people said about my height and small stature. That's why for a 14years old I looked like an 8year old.
That no matter what happens I had to be strong for myself and my 8years old sister Ella.
"Oh officers I think that's enough, let's allow the little kid to have some time to take this all in." Ruth said.
Ruth was our neighbour, who My parents had left me with her to take care of me till they were back cause the visit to Ella always took them a day to get back.
"C'mon Scarlet go upstairs and wait for me OK?" Elizabeth said to me and I only nodded my head and did as I was told.
Immediately I got into the room upstairs I threw myself on the bed and finally let the tears I had been holding flow, I cried and cried until I couldn't cry anymore.
"So mum and dad had gone to heaven, now its up to me to take care of Ella and I would make you proud mum and dad I would" I sobbed.
And sleep claimed me after that.