1 The Past

All right I'm Ashtrid or Ash for short, nice to meet you all. I'm here to tell you about my past, all be talking about when my parents and little brother died. It was a normal night in Oconomowco Wisconsin.

I was about 5 years old I was just getting into bed after helping my 3 year old brother Darin into his bed. I always slept on the bottom bunk because Darin was scared of the "Monster's" underneath the bed. Soon after I had laid down to go to bed I ended up falling asleep like every other kid would.

In the middle of the night I woke up to get a glass of water out in the kitchen. I hear something crack and break from a few rooms away, me being the so say "Fearless one" I decided to go check it out. So I put on my glass of water and I walked to the room where I thought I heard the noise, my parents room.

I walked to their room and I knocked on the door once then twice then the third time but I got no answer. I called for them "Mom, Dad?" I said, I still got no reply. I heard another crack then break and I knew it was coming from this room it was a lot louder than last time when I was in the kitchen. I slowly turn the knob on the door discovering it was kind of warm and I called one more time "Mom, Dad?", still no reply.

I pushed open the door seeing that there was someone standing outside the window and the room was on fire. The bed, the windowsill, the furniture, everything in the room was burning it looked like. I called out one last final cry "Mom, Dad?!?".

I could have swore I stood there for the next five minutes just staring at the room will it burns, completely forgetting about my sleeping little brother. The next thing I remember is a fireman swooping me up off the ground.

Of course by now I passed out from inhaling too much smoke. they rushed me to the hospital and search the house, they found three burned bodies. My Mother, Father, and Darin. I had realized what happened as soon as it happened, my family was dead and I was all alone.