Hi my name is Mei Lin I haven't seen my mother since the day she left me all alone in the woods, when i was six years old. I was scared and didn't know where to go it was dark and i couldn't see anything. I ran around in the woods desperate to found my mom, and then i saw something i never should've have seen. There was two men holding my mom and another man holding a knife, he slapped her and said some strange things about my dad, i saw how tears filled my moms eyes and the last thing i heard was a scream and that was my moms death scream. I stood there all alone with the three men in front of me and my dead mom laying only a few inches from me, i was so scared and even though i wanted to run away i couldn't, it felt like my legs we're glued onto the cold ground and my legs only felt numb i hoped and prayed to god that it was just a nightmare and that i would wake up whenever now. But I didn't wake up instead one of the men noticed me and started chasing after me. I ran the fastest i could but at the end of the woods there was only a lake and I couldn't swim but the man came closer and closer so I didn't have a choice so i jumped down in the lake. I knew that I was going to die and even when I tried to swim up I couldn't I just sunk deeper and deeper down in the dark cold lake. But I was reviled that I could die with my mom and then I closed my eyes and was prepared to die. But right in that moment an old man took my hand and whispered in my ear that everything was going to be alright. The next day when I woke up i was in the hospital. Somehow everything was quiet and I couldn't hear the nurse talking or the birds not even the children's playing!. I was told that i was found by an animal hunter and he brought me to the hospital near by. I was also told that i had become deaf, because when I was almost drowning in the water the preacher became to high and destroyed my hearing. The last thing they confirmed was that I was now an orphan and that an family with two children's and both parents had adopted me. I thought that I should be happy because now I would have a whole family and that I wouldn't be alone but even now ten years later I still feel like I'm all alone...
