• Shattered glass. Screams. Pain. All short memories I barely knew. Mama cried alot. Sissy and daddy cried too. Everybody was crying. All the people who came to our house were crying too, but I saw one lady drop eyedrops in her eyes in the bathroom. They brought food and wished mama well. Well for what? Was she going to have another baby? Then why were they crying? Nobody answered me when I tried asking.
    After a while of going unnoticed I just sat on the stairs and stared at everyone. Daddy stepped on me while going upstairs but he didn't feel me. And I didn't feel him. Soon after they all left. Mama went off with the eyedrops lady. I just sat their while sissy and daddy went upstairs.
    A grand looking man came by me. He sat next to me, being the only person to notice me. "Emily," He smiled, "It's time to leave your family behind and come with me." He opened a portal leading to a place that looked beautiful, like heaven. Almost like heaven. But somkethinig was missing.
    "I'm not sopposed to go anywhere without mama or daddy," I explained to the man. He didn't look as grand when I told him that.
    "Emily, come with me. Your family doesn't need you anymore," I simply shook my head and he went off. I just sat there, staring at the door mama had gone through.
    Two years later and still no one had noticed me. I just sat on the step, waiting for mama to call me for school. But she never did. So I sat and sat. The man persistantly came back, telling me I'd be better off if I left through the portal, getting more and more brutal each time. But I declined.
    One day mama left the house saying something about shopping. She never came back. Shortly after dada and sissy left, leaving me alone. They came back a few times, taking things with them.
    Other people came into my house. The man had quit showing up shortly after mama left. I felt alone. The people ripped my house apart, leaving nothing but it's foundation. How would mama find her way home now? I went out to find her, tired of waiting. And then, before I'd gone too far, I heard a voice. It was different the others man's. It was storng, but not commanding. I looked up and saw a man inside a portal. This portal was different from the other man's. It opened into a place beyond all imagination. This man stood taller and stronger, with a kind face. And inside this portal was mama.
    "Come Emily." I trusted him more than the other man, and stepped into the portal.
    "Where are daddy and sissy?" I questioned.
    He smiled at my question and answered "they will arrive soon, but for now I hope you will enjoy it here with your mother."
    I smiled and ran to my mom, embracing her in a long needed hug.