Erika Padilla

Chosen Fate

“Please don’t do this!” I screamed. My heart was beating so loud it was as if I could hear the sound of a drum from my chest. My legs began to weaken and I fell to my knees. “Stop please! Don’t take my things!” I sat in the middle of my floor and closed my eyes. I wanted to pretend that none of this was happening. I pushed my ears in so tight that all I could hear was the muffling of my things being taken away from me. All of a sudden, it was night out. I realized that I had blacked out. As I looked around I noticed myself in an empty room. Although I knew what happened, I wanted to pretend it wasn’t real. I sat in the middle of the room for an hour, then it became two, then five. “What do I do now?” I said to myself. I couldn’t fight my tears from falling. “There is no place for me to go, nowhere to run. I’m all alone.”