"I was just trying to clean up my home improvement project." Danny explained. "I walked by Hayley's room, just to tell her that I loved her and to offer her some homemade cookies and milk. That's when the yelling began."
Danny had to pause to collect himself. "The horrible names that she called me, I can't even repeat. She screamed that she hated me, wanted me out of her life forever."
"I tried to walk away, but she wouldn't let me go. She was swinging her fists. Then she jumped on my back." Danny cried. I could tell that he was still very terrified by what happened that day. "I finally shook her loose and was just going to leave the situation. It is true that I had the screwdriver, but not as a weapon." Danny explained between sobs.
"Then, I heard this low guttural growl. My body went cold like all that was good and pure was being sucked out of me. Then she screamed. I turned just in time to see her come at me with a crazy look in her eye. I turned my body toward her and just as she brought her arm down on me, I instinctively brought my arm up to block her punch. That's when I stabbed her, or rather, that's when she fell on my screwdriver, once."
"Hayley crumpled to the floor. I heard Jacob running up the stairs. He saw Hayley bleeding, I tried to offer her help but Jacob yelled "NO!!!" He said to let her bleed out."
"Jacob tried to wrestle the screwdriver from my hand. He kept saying it was his chance. I pushed him away and covered Hayley's body with my own until help could arrive." Danny finished his story as he pulled the last tissue from the box. It was heart wrenching to see this family falling apart in the upstairs hall.
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