Chapter 1:From the land of the green rolling hills, to the land of the snow drifts

Lena

Aydan

"Mom!" My little sister screamed as the gun shot. Our mothers body seized as the bullet burst through her thin frame.
"Ashling!" I screamed my sisters name. "Come here, run! Hurry" I screamed at her, but it was to no avail. The sickening sound of the gun going off went of again and she collapsed looking at me, her large green eyes pained.
"No! Ashling! NNOO!" I screamed and screamed, but they couldn't hear me. The house was burning to the ground and I was stuck outside watching as my father shot the rest of our, no my family, they weren't his. Family didn't do this. I watched him as he walked toward my sister and rested his fingers against her neck. She struggled as he touched her. She was still alive. I was about to scream her name again when the creeking of the house finally reached its peak and suddenly cutting off in a sickening silence as the house collapsed. I was thrown away from the door that I had seen my sister and mother murdered and saw my sister attempt to stand up again. I screamed, the pain was to much. I screamed and screamed. Then I felt a pain in my back and I could no longer see my burning house with my eyes in its terrible reality but that didn't stop the image that was burnt in my eyelids as I slipped into unconsiousness.

I woke muffling my screams with my fist. I was covered in cold sweat. I was only momentarily disoreinted as I realized that I was on the plane flying over the sea to America. To live with my grandmother-my mothers mother-in Minnesota. I hadn't spoken to anyone after the police questioned me. I hadn't looked clearly at anyone since that night. Why did I have to go to the party? Why wasn't the key where it should have been when I got home? I'd been questioning this since I could think clearly. My breathing was finally returning to normal when I saw the seatbelt sign flashing in front of me. I looked around and saw one flight attendant looking at me with concern. My muffled screams had been obviously just that, and it wouldn't have fooled anyone who had been looking at me when i woke up. I sighed and ignored the concerned stare. I might as well get over it or get used to it, I'd probably be getting alot of them pretty soon anyways. I tucked my short red hair behind my ear and grabbed my book from my bag which was on the seat beside me and started reading. The book I was reading was a drama. But I couldn't see how it was getting anywhere good. The main charector had just discovered that she was pregenant and was considering the fact that the two last girls from her school who had goten prego around Halloween had killed themselves. I was utterly confused. I put down my book glad that we were landing soon, maybe I could find a book store and buya different, better book to read. Hopefully it would be less depressing.
"Passengers, please buckle your seatbelts wewill be landing in your destination, Atlanta ,Georgia, shortly." Said the flight attendant over the loud speaker. Ohh, how I wish it was my destination, butalas, I was to board another plane to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where a small plane would be waiting to bring me to the small and secluded border town of International falls, Minnesota. Oh, sure it's on all the maps but the only reason for that one is because it is the best place to cross the border in Minnesota, If you don't want to swim there, god forbiding the water ever be above freezing. I could see this was going to be fun, I thought to myself as the plane jolted to aroll on the landing strip.