Rally 13 — The Mother’s Checkmate
In Honor of Tyler Romero, Baseboy 13, the First-Born Son of the Maiden Krista Kirton, K. Kirton Niner, AKA Krista Romero 1997-2010.
Halloween 2013.
The night my son, Tyler Romero Niner, did not come home from Pinnacle High School.
What began as an ordinary Friday became the night a mother’s heart broke and the world fell silent.
By morning, he was reported missing.
When questioned, Mark Howell — a lobbyist whose birthday fell that same weekend — claimed he had no idea where Tyler was.
Yet only three days later, on Monday evening, November 3rd — my birthday — that very man served me court papers attempting to take custody of my son.
It was not months later.
It was not coincidence.
It was a calculated act of power made just eight weeks before Tyler’s eighteenth birthday on January 9, 2014, during his senior year of high school — a final attempt to rewrite a mother’s authority and a son’s future.
But truth cannot be served with false papers, nor can love be signed away.
That night became the checkmate that revealed what was hidden, and I — the maiden once called Krista Kirton, now K. Kirton Niner — stood as both mother and witness.
For Rally 13, I mark this day in remembrance and resolve:
you cannot erase a mother’s love, and you cannot silence what Heaven records.
What was done in darkness will always come to light.