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~Adora's pov~

'I awoke to the bright light that was shining through my window, I looked over to my clock, it was about 8am.

I realized that today was Christmas!

'Oh how wonderful! I bet I'm going to get so many presents!' I thought to myself.

I rushed out of my room and straight to Delphines, excited.

"Delphine! Delphine!! Wake up! It's Christmas!! Ughhhh!" I said to my little step sister wanting her to just get up already.

"Adora.. I'm tired.." Delphine said groaning at the end.

"It's Christmas!" I said pulling her out of the bed, "hurry up so we can get mom and dad up."

Delphine opened her eyes and stared at me, her 11 year old sister, this meant Delphine was 10, "fine.." Delphine said yawning.

"YAY!" I said a little too loudly for Delphine to handle so early, I quickly apologized to Delphine and helped her out of her bed.

We rushed to our parents room to see that they were still sleeping, we looked at each other and nodded, knowing exactly what to do.

We started running to their bed, jumping up on it. We then started jumping on the bed, screaming, laughing having a fun time. We saw that our parents were starting to wake up.

We stopped jumping and stared back at our parents as we saw they were staring at us.

"Do you think they're angry?" I whispered to Delphine.

"Yeah.." Delphine whispered back, looking worried.

We immediately ran out of the room, jumping off of the bed with a thud.

Our parents quickly came out of the room chasing us down the stairs and to the living room, we were corned!

They tackled us in hugs and kisses, my mother saying merry Christmas to us eventually.

"Alright girls, get to the table. I'm making breakfast!" My mother said to us.

My father, Delphine, and I all sat down at the table making small talk and trying to guess what was in our presents while my mom cooked breakfast.

After we ate we excitedly walked over to the Christmas tree, taking pillows off of the couch to sit on when on the ground.

Two presents were opened when we heard glass shatter from upstairs, we realized that someone had climbed the balcony in our parents room.

My mother looked at our father with a scared/worried expression, then she looked to us. She told us to hide in the basement somewhere.

Worse case scenario, if they found us in the basement we could climb out of the windows there.

We ran downstairs and hid behind some boxes as we heard yelling and fighting going on upstairs.

We then heard gun shots, and the creaking of a door.

We knew our father was dead because our mother had screamed so loud it started to make my ears bleed.

We then heard a man yell at my mother to shut up and that if she didn't she would get shot.

I heard someone walking down the stairs and stop in the center of the basement.

'There must be more then one.' I thought to myself.

My sisters clothing was sticking out from behind the box, and before I knew it the man was walking slowly towards the boxes we were hiding behind.

"Hey hey hey.. do I see a child?" The man said licking his lips. This creep.

He started walking 10x faster before he grabbed one of the boxes and ripped it from its place finding that there wasn't just one child, it was in fact two.

Delphine made a mad dash to the window expecting me to follow, but the man was more in front of me then her, so I couldn't.

The man was shocked but before he could react Delphine was already halfway through the window.

The man started walking over to her to stop her, so I took this as my chance to run up the stairs.

I got to the door before I was grabbed and dragged back down, I started yelling and screaming for him to let me go.

"I think we should have some fun? Don't you think?" The man said to me with a smirk.

I was thrown to the ground on my back while he was already taking off his pants, staring at me.

He started taking off my pants, starting to touch me in my private parts.

I started crying, screaming for help until his hand covered my mouth.

I heard sirens in the distance, meaning Delphine had gone to get help. I started crying more, knowing that I was about to be saved.

From upstairs I heard the other man screaming at my mother, thinking she was the one who called. The man did something that I wasn't aware of until I smelt smoke. Meaning he had set my mother on fire.

I heard her screams before she passed away, and saw that the fire was spreading to just below the basement door.

The window smashed, guessing that the other man escaped.

The man above me started freaking out, then I heard more breaking from upstairs and closer sirens, knowing those were the police they called for fire men.

I started screaming to tell them I was here, telling them I was in the basement. I then saw a police officer in one of the basement Windows reaching his hand at me and yelling for me to hurry up and get out.

I quickly put back on my pants, noticing that the man was no longer there. I ran towards the window and got out, hugging the police officer.

I may not have been raped, but I did lose both my parents and had been scarred for life. '

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I woke up in a cold sweat, a few tears building up in my eyes as I saw that I was in my bedroom. I looked around, seeing that everything was normal and that I was back to my older self, my 17 year old self, not the 11 year old.

"Delphine!" I called for my sister, "please come here.." I said.

I saw Delphine walk into my room with a tired expression and also annoyed, until she saw my face. It changed to an upset and concerned one.

"What's wrong? Did something happen?" She asked as we walked over and sat on my bed, I looked over at her, then to my clock seeing it was 3:24am.

"I had a dream about when we were younger.. when it was.. when it was Christmas.." I said clearing my throat in the middle of the sentence since my voice was starting to break.

Delphine hugged me and started petting my hair, telling me it was gonna be okay and that I wasn't there anymore.

"Do you want me to stay here with you?" She asked me looking into my eyes.

"Yes please.." I said hugging her again and laying down, having her hug me back and lay on top of me. She moved into a more comfortable position and we soon fell asleep.