My mom looked at the girl in the short shorts, tank top, piercings, and blue hair. She sighed.
"I just don't want Julie to turn out this way," she said, motioning to the girl.
"Trust me mom, I know. Julie's just retarded that way. If she wants to look terrible, it's what she wants," I reply, shrugging.
"I know, it's just I really don't want to have a daughter to look this way. She already looks bad wearing black all the time." Mom sighed again. "I don't want a delinquent child, that's all."
The line we were in moved, and we went.
Later that night, when everything was perfectly normal, Mom started making dinner. Julie came and sat down at the table, listening to her iPod and not caring about anything. I stared her down, silently telling her, Be a good child, not this retarded goth girl. She didn't get the note.
"Julie, stop listening to your iPod," Mom said tiredly.
Julie turned her iPod off but didn't take out her headphone.
Finally Dad came home from work. He ate, then everyone went to their nightly spots. Julie's was in the tv room, mine in my room, the parents downstairs below my feet. We stayed there until it was time to sleep. Julie finally came out, just jumping into bed, clothes and all.
I slept that night soundly. I did not rouse once. I was out.
The next morning I was awoken by my dad, shaking me, yelling at me. I couldn't hear anything, but it all happened to fast. He was shaking me, yelling in my face, blaming me for what happened to Julie, then my mom came in my room and tried getting him to stop shaking me, for I was getting a headache, and he just kept pointing at me and left the room. Mom looked at me with a look of despair and happiness. I didn't know it then, but she murdered Julie.
I went to school that day, but I wasn't "there." I knew something was wrong when I passed Julie's room the door was closed. I talked with my friends about it, and they just said "I don't know" repeatedly. I was still worried, but my friends made me forget about it for the time being.
When I got home, there were caution ropes and police surrounding the house. I set my book bag down and stared at the madness in front of me. Mom was being interrogated be the police on one side of the yard, Dad on the other, police coming toward me to interrogate me, and a few guys in black carrying a body bag out of the front door. I took my phone and immediently texted my friends that everything wasn't all right, that my sister was dead. I went to sleep last night, while she was being murdered. I told them I felt terrible, and if they had any advice or could take me in for a while I would appreciate it. I got no replies back. Then the interrogation started.
I was hooked up to a lie detector and asked a series of control questions. I was asked it it was currently sunny outside, if my name was Rachel, if I was in a seated position. Then they got into the real questions. I was asked about last night, if I had heard anything, if I saw anything strange. When they kept asking me about my dead sister, I felt nothing. No pain, no sadness, just empty. They finally let me loose.
I was allowed inside the house, to gather my stuff, to get anything I might need since I wouldn't be coming back for a long time. By that time I had gotten four replies from friends, two for a place to stay, all for sympathy. I still felt empty.
I wanted to stay home, but I was told by the shrink there that it would be best if I stayed away from the house awhile. I went to stay witl a friend while my parents remained home.
I stayed with my friend Sammy, who let me live in her house for about a month. Since I was in the same neighborhood as most of my friends, they kept coming by and giving me sympathy, but they cheered me up. That was the best part while I stayed with Sammy, to know I had friends that really cared.
The police kept interrogating my mom, thinking they were on to something. She kept denying, and because she wasn't on a lie detector, they believed her. She's a good liar. She kept them going for months.
They finally got her, when they asked her about the day she and I shared waiting in line when we saw the blue-haired chick. She broke down, talking about how she wanted Julie to stay her, not this goth punk that wouldn't listen to anyone and live her way. They took her in that day.
Dad and I still go and see her, but I think we won't go anymore. I think it kills Dad for him to see the woman he loved that killed his daughter. It still hurt me. I still fall asleep ever night crying, remembering all the times I yelled at Julie for the smallest things. Only my friends kept me alive.