I’m Remembering

Date: 8/5/2018

By LaDaina

Anthony was driving me to the house in west Sacramento to go pick up some clothes. At the first he said he was going to take me to Shane’s house to see if I left anything but I haven’t lived there in a while so we just decided that’s we would go to the house in West Sacramento. He pulls up to this one yellow and red building and I told him that’s not the house. He tells me that he has a meeting to go to at 7pm back in San Francisco and it was already 5:49pm. He tells me to walk the rest of the way using my gps. I end up getting lost and I sit down on the sidewalk trying to wait for my gps to load. It starts to get dark and I notice a lady standing outside her home with her kid. I ask her what she’s doing and she says she practicing home evacuation. She runs to the other side of the street and stands in the next driveway and turns on security alarms, I run across the grass to stand next to her in the driveway and then the grass starts to set off alarms but I ask her if I could join her and she said yes. She starts walking off to the back of her house and into the backyard and she tells me to stay behind. I hide behind a bush and wait for something to go by, maybe gunshots. I get out my spot and I see this guy sitting in the grass next to me. We start talking and all of a sudden three big buys come out of the house across the street with guns and then the guy next to me already knew it was trouble to he covers me up with a blanket or jacket and they start shooting. I can peek outside the blankets and see blood. It’s also getting in my mouth. After they’re done shooting I lift the cover up and see blood everywhere, all on my clothes and all over the guy next to me and he’s dead. All of a sudden I’m at Aliajha’s house. And there’s blood in her room too. We end up going to this event at my old elementary school John Reith and then when it’s almost over, Ashley is trying to copy down a security number of one of our brothers so we can turn it in to a lady at a desk. I actually don’t know him in real life. And another guy takes it away but I memorize the number. Ashley hands off the paper to amber, and amber tells the guy to turn it in for them. And he takes The social security paper out of the stack and turns in the rest. I take the social security papers and take them to the desk. I then realize that was a big mistake because there’s a lot of guys looking at me. I realize it’s not safe and I need to get to the car and Anthony follows me. I say “this is what I’m going to do; I’m gonna grab my shoes” and Anthony says what are you gonna do? And I say it again “this is what I’m gonna do. Grab my shoes and exit out this door. We walked out of the back door and I told him to hide in the dark between cars. We kneel in between two cars in a dark space but a guy who’s looking for us walking between cars spots us. He pulls out his gun to shoot us but his gun doesn’t work. Another guy comes along to watch. He tries to shoot us again but his gun still isn’t working. They go away for a bit to go fill up their guns and one guy comes back and says he reloaded and is trying to shoot us again. I start screaming and I pretend I just got bit by a snack and I roll down the hill and start running. I run for a couple blocks past cars and I hold my thumb up to try and get a ride, but soon there’s only people that follow the cars because there’s a parade going on. So I keep running against all these people and I turn into a dead corner on the side of this commercial truck. A girl starts to walk up to me and I realize she’s apart of the gang, she tries to grab me but I get away. I’m able to fly up above the commercial truck and keep running. I run into a park and then music around me starts to become dark music. I see guys playing basketball and I know they’re also from the gang. It’s really dark by the woods so I walk towards the darker part but one of the gang members see me anyways so i run through the woods and into this attraction in the woods with lots of tunnels and hideouts. I come to an end and I see gang members approaching so I pull up a rug to hide myself. There’s a lady standing up blocking me as she’s paints her face. I hear the gang members ask her if she’s seen me but she lies and said she saw me go another way.