As a 16 year old girl it for me was really hard to fit in especially the fact I was a red head with freckles EVERYWHERE, lived in downtown near York and then they’re was my mother which made it 10x worse her being a prostitute and everyone at school knowing it to the fact she tried to sleep with them for money to didn’t seem to help much at all. I also had my little sister Lucy, who was my best friend sad yes I know.
Every day at school I would constantly get called names and get asked if my mum was free for tonight. I hated it, hated life just thinking of ways I could kill myself every night but only here for my little sister I was all she had except mum who was more worried about if she’d get business good or if she’d find a boyfriend. She didn’t seem to care much about us, so I had to stay strong.
It was 1994 my 16th birthday me and my little sister Lucy decided to go out for a evening stroll downtown when a car drove past, threw eggs at us and left my little sister only being 9 was Scared out of her brains. Me trying to calm myself down all I could think of was death I didn’t understand why someone would do that I’m not my mother now am I. Me and my sister then walked home, me giving her a piggy bag trying to hold the tears back. We got home to a “where have you been are you serious it’s like 10pm” from my mother. Not saying a word me and Lucy walked back into my room got packed “I can’t stay here I’m sorry Lucy” I said to her “I understand, but I’m coming she told me”.
All packed we left through the tiny window in my room. It was about 10:30pm at that moment walking down the stairs from out 2 story apartment building. A loud creek notice from the creaky stairs caught my mother’s attention, she had spotted us “get back here girls where do you think you’re going” she screamed to us. But we just ran and ran down the dark alleys until I found a taxi and we got in it I gave them about 50 dollars which I’d been saving and told the taxi driver to drive as far away as possible. “How about I just drive you as far away as possible for free” the taxi driver said as he locked the doors, screaming our heads of the taxi driver took us to an abandoned warehouse on the othersider of town.
As we got out of the taxi he then told us to wait they’re or he’d kill us. His Skinny face reminded me of someone and then I realised he was that taxi rapist they hadn’t been caught yet. My little sister just stood there with a blank face tears rushing down her face, then there was me just a straight face holding back my tears I held my sister and told her she was going to be ok.
The rapist was in fact Daniel Robinson wanted for 10 counts of rape and 3 of murder, everything flew through my mind my past everything all that was on my mind was hopping we wouldn’t get murdered and if we did get rapped hoping my Lucy wouldn’t have to go through it. “You know what today isn’t your lucky day I’m going to get the oldest first then I’ll get the youngest well you don’t want to know what I’ll do to her” the taxi driver explained. This was the worst thing I’d ever been told it was the first time in my life when I couldn’t be strong and just burst into tears. “Let my little sister go you can have me, she’s too little to go through this please” I begged him, but everything I seemed to say he didn’t give a shit about he just wanted to do whatever he wanted to.
“Go and sit on those two beds” he told us, dusty old steel beds they were. I and Lucy scared to death we both sat on the beds, he followed us everywhere watching our every move. He then pulled out 2 pairs of hand cuffs and whip. “What are they for” I asked him “Wait and see” he replied “guess what for asking to many questions you’re going to beat your little sister up with this belt”, I cried my eyes out not knowing what to do eaiter beat up my best friend, my little sister or probably end up dead leaving my little sister on this earth all by herself. I then picked up the belt telling my little sister that I loved her and whispering in her little ear that something good will happen at the end of this, I beat up my little sister with the whip tears pouring down her face and seeing the tears a whimpering in her little brown eyes with death in her eyes. I could no longer take it I stopped and starting whipping myself until my body was drenched in my blood “I told you to beat up her not yourself” the taxi driver told me “I can’t do it”. “I’ll come for you” I whispered in Lucy’s ear before He took away me away and put me in his small smelly cell in the basement.
I sat they’re for days without food and little water only bits that I’d be drinking from a puddle in the cell knowing I wouldn’t last very long living like this and wondering where my little sister was made me strong and planining a way out of this place. There was a whole in the wall but the trouble was making sure I wasn’t seen, “I’ve got my period can you please get me something” I told him not wanting to see period blood all over the place he went up stairs and left to go and get something from his supply room. Small and dark I didn’t know where this little whole would take me and knowing he wouldn’t be very long, I crawled through the little whole which ended up taking me to a little room which I found dead bodies everywhere of people my age and little girls my sisters age, trying not to cry and vomit I looked around for my little sister to see if he’d killed her with a bit of relief she wasn’t they’re.
I heard the car then pull up “get back into your bed you little shit before I slit your throat” I heard him say to my little sister, as he slowly went to open the latch. I had to be dead silent he was upstairs and anything down stairs could be heard upstairs. I then found myself near the latches which lead to upstairs it was a dark tiny room with little room to even walk. I knew I’d either get caught and probably get myself killed or take the chance to escape and save my sister to, everything then poured back into my head how much I wanted to live I remembered the fighting skills I’d learnt from having to deal with my mother’s dead beat boyfriends.
I then quickly opened the latch knocking him right in the nose, knocking him straight to the ground he put his hand in his pocket looking for his gun not releasing It’d fell out of his pocket straight into my path “I told you Lucy I’d come for you scared out his mind Daniel Robinson said “I’m sorry let me live let me be free”. Anger poured through my whole body just one trigger could end his life and give my revenge on all the pain he put me and Lucy through. Bang the gun went off I’d shot him in the leg, kicked him in the face and punched him in the face, It felt so good knowing I’d practically saved my little sister from death.
Soon after that I’d rung the police, they’re was about 40 of them sirens all over the place “please just kill me I’d rather be dead” he said to me “I’m not giving into temptation” I told him, all the police officers ran out in their blue uniform pointing guns at him and pushing us into the ambulance and rushing to the hospital we were treated and left in hospital for about a month treating some of the most horrific cuts they’d seen the doctors and nurses said.
Daniel Robinson was then sent to court in about what they said was now 23 counts of murder and 10 counts of rapped and was then sentenced to life imprisonment. The police then dropped us at our mothers, as we walked in there was a letter
Dear my girls,
If you get a chance to read this, I hope you understand I did love you and always will, everything I did was for you, and if I don’t have you in my life well I don’t want to be here. See you in another life
Love always mum x
Tears just poured down my face they’re my mum is the living room hanging with a rope around her neck, her face as pale as ever and releasing that my mum did care and that she did love us but she wouldn’t be with us anymore. After about 5 weeks of being in a physic ward at the hospital me and my little sister were sent to a foster care and lived happily with an old couple in a tiny house in California.
THE END.
