• I stand next to the lake peering anxiously into the dark and shadowy water. “Mommy, I don’t want to go into the water” I say stepping
    back suddenly afraid.
    “We talked about this before Robin” my distraught looking mother says to me impatiently. “Don’t you want to see Daddy?”
    “I do” I say looking down at my feet quiet. “Then get in the water” she says walking foreword closer and closer to me. I look up from the ground and see something bad in Mommy’s eyes. I step back afraid and she is suddenly on top of me. “You little b***h you
    promised me” she yells hitting me without a pause. “Mommy stop” I scream at her as pain explodes on my stomach, “Stop please”. I cry through much winded breaths. I lay
    on the ground screaming at Mommy to stop and when she does I am completely still. Curled up in a ball, ribs and stomach throbbing I don’t want to move.
    Why did Mommy hit me? What did I do that was so bad? Pain burns my eyes as I am yanked up by my hair. “Mommy let go” I whimper trying to get away. She drags me forward and I
    realize that were nearing the water. “No Mommy, No Water” I yell trying to pull away but she just keeps dragging me forward. She
    steps into the water dragging me in front of her, putting my head in her hands. She dips my head in the water and drags me up. “The water’s not so bad is it?” she says laughing as I tremble. “N-no Mommy I-its not” I say. Before I can take a good breath
    she does it again and again. I try to plead with her, asking her to stop telling her I’ll be good girl and picked up all my toy’s, and I’ll always do what im supposed to but she doesn’t stop. Im out of breathe and im dizzy, so when she stops I inhale gratefully.
    “You don’t have to worry about any of that daughter because you’re not going to leave here alive” she says to me smiling “you’re going to see daddy”. Forcing under the water she and places her hands around my neck tighter and tighter she squeezes I felt her fingernails slowly cut into my throat I fight trying not to breathe in the water I rake at her arms and hands to get her off of me but its no use I feel myself getting weaker and weaker and was not sure if I was drowning or it was mommy choking me, finally I can’t take it anymore I go to take a breath, inhaling water I drown.