<a class="postlink" href="http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz260/TimeKeys/MsHawaii2010.jpg">[ img ]</a><br/>Maria LopezMartinez<br/>18<br/>Actress<br/>Mother of one<br/><br/><a class="postlink" href="http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz260/TimeKeys/Nurirdinaqaisara.jpg">[ img ]</a><br/>Niya LopezMartinez<br/>One month<br/>Daught of Maria<br/><br/>Maria listened to the radio telling about how she had gone missing. How people reported that she might have been kidnapped. Little did they know she had run away. She had broken off the engagement with her fiance and father of her child. She could not take anymore of his abuse. His torture. His verbal and mental degradation. It was too much and she had come to realize she didn't want to raise her daughter in such a situation. She had broken it off with her ex-fiance. Publicly in order to prevent him beating the shit out of her. Packing a bag of clothes for her and put clothes in her daughter's diaper bag. Loading it with diapers, formula, bottles, and her rattle toy. Leaving the house while her ex-fiance was on a photoshoot. Only stopping to grab a sweatshirt and her daughters heavy jacket.<br/><br/>That was seven hours earlier. She had only stopped twice to go to the bathroom and change her daughters diaper. She stopped at a light and stroked her daughters head. "It'll be okay sweetie. Mommy's going to get us someplace safe." Someplace safe and where nobody would care who she was or ask questions. She was afraid to go back. Afraid of what her ex-fiance would do if he found her. What was most important was her baby's safety. She tucked her daughter in more before driving again. Roads were deserted and it was beginning to snow. The snow coming down in a thin layer at the moment. She took a right turn that would lead her into the mountains. Within minutes the radio said the blizzard was nearing where they were. Not even a couple minutes later it began snowing heavier and heavier. She could almost feel the nippy wind as it overpowered the heat in her car.<br/><br/>Six miles into the mountains it began snowing heavier and heavier still. The car was beginning to make funny sounds. She bit her lip. "Come on car...keep working." As she spoke the snow had gotten to the point it was near impossible to see through it. The car making further noises indicating that it was having trouble continuing on. The wind outside picking up so much she could hear the howling wind that was outside her car. Another mile and the car suddenly stalled. It refused to move any further. It even shut itself off. She tried for three minutes to get it working. "Come on... Come on..." She bit her lip nervously. This was not good. Leaving the keys to the old car in the ignition she unbuckled. Undoing her daughter's carseat buckles and reached onto the front seat. Grabbing her daughters jacket. Leaning over the back seat and picked up her daughter carefully. Slipping her into the jacket and zipped it up. "Its okay baby...we're gonna have to try to make it to a house."<br/><br/>She pulled the hood up and tied it into place. Taking off her sweatshirt and bundled her baby in it. Taking her jacet and laid her daughter in it as well. Wrapping her in a tight cocoon but allowing her room to breath. Throwing the bag over her shoulder she picked up her baby. Facing her bundled child towards her chest. Reaching around with one arm as she balanced her baby, and opened the door to the car. Having to push with her feet and her hand to get it open. Stepping out into the snow. It was almost up to her chest being she was only five feet tall. She made sure that Niya was not even dangling near the snow by her feet. Carrying her precious child as she began trudging through the snow. It made her shiver in her sweatpants. Her top half covered only by a thin sweatshirt.<br/><br/>Her face getting nipped at by the icy winds. She could see her breath but not for long. The snow feel harder as the blizzard was on top of them. All she could do now was hope to see a light to indicate there was a house there. Snow beginning to cover her hair and shoulders. Still she sheltered her daughter from the weather. For two hours she walked aimlessly while hopefully looking for a light in the blanket of snow coming from the sky. She was tiring and turning blue she was so cold. "Just a little farther baby. Just a little farther." She said when her baby began wailing about it being cold. As she walked she shook from the cold. Teeth chattering as even her lips were turning blue. "Just...a little...further..." She chattered out. When all was beginning to seem dim she saw yellow against the blanket of snow.<br/><br/>She pressed on towards it. The wind biting at her harder. Her hair covered in a layer of snow. It felt like forever before she reached the front of the house. She was quivering hard and holder her daughter even closer. "P...p....pl...ple...pleas...please l...let...s...s...so...some....someone b...be....h...here." She chattered out. She held her daughter close. Her back to the wind as she bent a bit to shield her baby with her body and the doorframe. She rang the doorbell. Over and over again. Her hand shaking so hard each time took several times. Her eyes were beginning o grow heavy. The toll of the walking through snow up to her lower chest, walking through a blizzard in naught but a tee shirt, and protecting her baby from the cold were beginning to weight heavily on her. She leaned a bit on the doorframe.