Somewhere In The Darkness

Somewhere in The Darkness

Chapter 1

When Everything Changed

My name is Caitlyn Anderson and about a year ago my dad passed away. It was a robbery gone bad, some masked men came into our home one night. I was doing homework in my room when I heard my mom scream. I quickly started running downstairs to see what happened because I grew worried. And when I went downstairs I saw my dad on the floor grunting in pain he looked beaten up he was bleeding from his face.

I quickly rushed over to him and I started crying calling out to him “Dad it’s okay come on dad stay with me your going to be-“. I was cut off by my dad who saw me kneeling to him and he reached for me “Caitlyn its okay look at me sweetie look at me run sweetie run and go get help”. Before I could get up and do as I was told I felt a metal object to the side of my head it was a gun pressed to my head. Then I heard the guy’s voice “Well well what do we have here, this must be your daughter Anderson”. He yanked me by my hair to stand me up and I winced in pain and started crying as he still had his gun pressed to me.

My dad tried getting up and tried to help me, he threatened the man “You leave her alone you son of a bitch or so help me god I will-“. However, my dad was cut off when the man in the ski mask kicked my dad. I let out a cry as he laughed a humorless laugh that brought chills to my bones “Or what Anderson what will you do about it”. Then two other guys came with ski masks and one of them had a gun too. The one who had me ordered the other two men to tie my dad up and they did as they were told.

I was guessing that the one that had me was probably the one in charge. And then another one came out with a ski mask as well and a gun but what scared me the most was that he had a gun pressed to my mother’s waist and was yanking her by the arm. she was crying hysterically and I called out to her and when she saw me she said: “Oh my Caitlin it’s going to be okay sweetie”. she tried to reassure me. Then she pleaded the robbers not to hurt me and the one who was in charge told the one that had my mom to tie her up as well.

After they tied up my parents I saw my mom’s cheek was red and then I let tears fall down my cheeks because I knew they had hurt my mom too. I didn’t understand what was going on and then my dad pleaded to the man in charge. “Please please - don’t hurt my family I beg you if you want money I’ll give you the god damn money but please don’t hurt them please”. This caused the man to laugh again but it was an evil laugh “Well I’m glad we could finally see eye to eye Anderson and ill take you up on that offer”. He told my dad then directed two of his men to take anything of value and trash the place”.

The sound of things being thrown, furniture being trashed caused me to jump every time I heard a glass shatter to the floor. Then he asked my dad where the safe was and my dad told him. He told one of his guys to tie me up which he did and the one that was in charge took my dad forcefully. They went to the safe and it was just me and my mom and one of the guys I turned to look at my mom and through my sobbing tears, I said “Mom I’m scared, What’s going to happen to us ” I started crying. She looked at me and I knew she just wanted to hug me and comfort me but, she couldn’t I saw a tear fall down her face and she was crying with me. “It’s okay I know sweetie I know but don’t worry Cait was going to be okay honey”.

Then my dad and the man in charge came back with my dad and a bunch of money but not before throwing my dad to the floor roughly. He was already in pain so this just made it worse I heard him grunt and I felt bad for my dad why were they doing this to us why. I know that stuff like this happens in the real world but I just never imagined that we would have to endure it one day. I didn’t think this could happen to us sometimes even good people go through the pain that is unjust and cruel. “There you got what you wanted please just leave us alone please” my dad begged to guy.

But then he had an evil look on his face he was looking at me. He told one of the guys to hold my dad back and he came over to me. “Not just yet” he kneeled down to my level and I looked away from him but he grabbed my chin by force and made me look at him. “You have a beautiful daughter” and my mom started screaming at him and trying to do something to get him away from him but the guy just grew angry and impatient. He hit her across the face and I winced when I heard it when he told one of the guys to tape her mouth.

The one in charge grabbed me by force even though I protested and yelled for my mom and dad someone. When my dad saw he got up to fight the guy and protest but one of the guys hit my dad with the back of the gun. This caused him to fall to the floor and lose consciousness. I screamed for him and started thrashing against the guy’s grip but it was useless. He took me upstairs and I think you know what I happened next, he raped me and not only that but it was the first time I had sex and it was by force.

I pleaded him to stop and tried to fight him off but it was again hopeless as he slapped hard across the face. All you could hear were my screams as he forced himself inside of me. After he was done with me he dragged me downstairs and threw me to the floor I started crying. My dad had regained consciousness and ran to me he started crying for me and then he grew angry and this time my dad fought with all the strength he had left in him. I ran to my mom but one of the guys grabbed me and then that’s when I saw the guy shoot my dad in the head.

I screamed in agony after that it was complete chaos. we heard police sirens and that’s when the fucking bastards left. I ran to my mom and untied her then took the tape off her mouth and she hugged me for dear life and I hugged her back. We both started crying and then we went over to my dad and I saw him he was dead they killed him. I grabbed onto him hoping he could wake up and then I cried in his chest “No dad please don’t leave me dad wake up” “Dad” I yelled one more time and I heard my mom crying and screaming we were both in pain and I felt broken I felt like my world came crashing down on me - he was gone.