Chapter 2

The police began to investigate the issue but it had no head. They couldn't find out who was behind the serial murder. A lot of people heard about the death of my aunt and her family including my father's one time family friend although we are no longer family friends now because when my dad was alive they had the very huge quarrel months before he died and it included threats of life and death

I ran to my best friend's house and my best friend was able to convince her brother and her father too but her mother felt like there was something that was not right about the story and what wasn't right was why they killed my aunt and her family and also why they killed my family and why I am still running she felt like I am the next target and I am the real target and if they should find out where I am their family would be in danger so she didn't want me in her house. I assured her that nothing will ever happen to her and her family all I wanted was a place to rest my head I knew that I couldn't go to uncle Jeremy's place because if I go to his place they will come after him and he would die on time I felt like all they needed was my family members well I didn't know that the serial killer was bent on finding me and killing anyone who he saw with me.

I began to go to school again with my best friend I didn't know that someone was secretly spying on me and very soon I would have to start running . On a hot sunny afternoon I and my best friend Kiara were moving around the park when a man suddenly jumped out from the bushes dragged my best friend and stabbed her 10 times in my front the way he did to others I began to run I ran so fast till I ran to a distance that he couldn't see me so easily I thought of how was going to tell kiara's mother that her child was dead I was sad I asked myself why should I be the one to suffer all these to cause the death of those I love why I tore my clothes I was so sad I didn't know if I will kill myself and end the whole trauma and drama in my life but at that point I made a decision and that I would find out who the serial killer is.

I went to Kiara's house and before I could talk her mother gave me a resounding slap and asked me to leave the house.She reminded me of my promise to keep her family safe .I felt like committing suicide but if I did the serial killer will win.I packed my clothes and shoes including the only thing I used to remember my parents and that was my pink teddy bear which had a zip in which I kept some keys that my mum threw to me before her death.

I left the house.I cried I didn't know what to do.I was so sad and I was pretty sure that they will come for me and I had to act fast and I had to think fast .I was in the park where my friend had died .I kept on crying .My eyes and my heart was filled with fury and anger.Truly the world had turned their back on me I had lost all my loved ones and I was lonely and I was not ready to put Uncle Jeremy's life in danger .The only option I felt I had was wait for the serial killer to come and take my life too .

But I had to fight to stay alive and make sure the killer is dealt with and all those that have died will get Justice .I had to solve this mystery even if it means sacrificing my dreams.

Everything in my Life changed.I had to be disguised but I didn't know what to do .I had some money with me so I went to a barbing saloon and I cut my hair .I got a clean nice haircut that boys normally get .I told them put a scar on my eyebrow.I looked so different from how I was before.I went to the mall and shopped some male clothes for myself and put them on .They looked and seemed weird but I had to adapt.

From that day I was now John Knoxville and there was nothing like Sarah Johnson ever again to me the name had to on extinct.I was now John .I used part of the money I had to travel to Los Angeles and there I started to live a new life as John Knoxville and I did petty jobs so that I will go to school.I saw that the jobs I did was not giving me enough money so I joined a street gang and I began petty stealing.I became a petty thief.

My life changed and most of my principles died all of a sudden.I did all I did to make earns meet so that I will have food to eat and go to school .When I came to join the gang at first I wasn't let in .I was used and used until I gained confidence and I became brutal .I began to steal more and fight in the street .I began to take marijuana just to feel high and be happy but that happiness was fake it was euphoric.As time went on I became addicted and it was bad . I couldn't help it it was a way to stop myself from thinking about the past.

All these happened after I had left high school I was 16 years of age that was exactly 2 years after my aunt and her family and Kiara died and I have no plans of going to college so I lived my life in the ghetto . I was carefree I didn't care about anything I went about fighting on the streets. I was a very free human but the only thing was that I said nothing about my past and about my family whenever I was asked I always say that they died in an accident and then they will pity me. the People in the ghetto took me as their brother and were always ready to fight for me in any situation.

As time went on I loved them and I adapted to their way of life I began to act like them I was so addicted to marijuana and I couldn't stay a day without it. while I was in Los Angeles I was watching TV at one of my friends house then I saw Uncle Jeremy on the TV being asked some questions about the killings and murder he said that he have been looking for Sarah and he haven't found her till today and he didn't know where to start from to look for her my friend and I were watching it and as I watched the TV I felt a cold shiver running through my body. My friends quickly noticed it and ask if I had known them but I told them no I told them that I only felt cold because the story was actually very painful.

They agreed and all wished that they could find Sarah so that she could become one of their members . They said it not knowing that the person they were talking about was within them looking at them feeling sad and smiling. As soon as they said that I felt relieved I felt accepted and not rejected in any way I only wished that we all could have a better life than the one we had now even as I sat down thinking they didn't know what I was thinking about for inside me I was Sarah but outside I was John Knoxville. I had to manage two personalities at a time but I was no longer Sarah at all I was a different person altogether.