The Serpent

It was a cold night. It was a foggy night, and sixteen-year-old Teresa Kelly wanted desperately to go to the record store across town. After an exhausting debate, her softhearted father relented. "Yes!" Teresa said, smiling wily at her father and turning up the car radio. Teresa did not hear the scream of the brakes. Teresa did not see her father's head fall into her crushed lap.The one person she loved and trusted was gone, and Teresa was left to rehabilitate a life