Robbed Blind
"Shoot 'em, shoot 'em! Oh, you got him in the head!" It was a few days after my sister's fifth birthday, which was on October 28. We had just pulled out our extremely ancient Nintendo system and were playing Duck Hunt, just in case you were wondering what the shooting was about. It started like any other ordinary off track day, but as the story unfolds, the day becomes anything, but ordinary. My father and cousin, Tuyen, had left for work, in El Monte, early that day to avoid traffic. Nghia, who is Tuyen's younger brother, left for school a little bit early that day. The only people at home were my mother, my two brothers, Minh, who is the older of the two, and Hai, who was barely two years old, my sister, Anh, and myself. Minh and Anh were in my upstairs room with me and we were playing video games. My mother and younger brother, Hai, were in the living room. I was starting to get bored of playing video games; so I headed towards the kitchen to find something to eat. As I turned to the hallway, I saw a man in his mid-twenties, wearing a brown jacket and pointing a gun at me. All I heard him say was "Get down!" so I told my siblings to do what he said and did the same thing myself.
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Approximate Word count = 1094
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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