Violence at my neighborhood

By my neighborhood there is a lot of violence.
As far as i remember there had always been violence by all the neighborhoods i've lived in.
i've seen people die in front of me.
Once there were gang members in the corner of my house.
It was in the summer and it was late at night.
I was outside coming from my sister's house...
when all of a sudden they started shooting
&& i was in the middle of that.
My parents didn't know i was out of the house
because they had left to work.
Till this day my parents still don't know that they could've lost their only child
just because she decided to go out when their parents told her not to leave the house.
Last year on halloween me and my sister went trick-or-treating and egg bombing.
it was 10p.m and me and my sister decided to go to a bad neighborhood to go to her boyfriend's house
and go to my boyfriends house.
Thank god nothing happened to us but my mom told me that they were shooting by the house.
my mom went looking for us that night and when she found me she started screaming at me
and she was actually about to hit me.... she didn't though.
The reason why she was really scared was because she thought that something could've happened to me that day
but if only she knew that i was in a neighborhood where something could've really happened to me.
Ever since that day on halloween she wouldn't even let me out again.

--ViVi =]