The World War
It was the middle of the second world war and there was a girl called Clara. This girl once had a home and a big family, they were all happy, she lived in a small house with her: Mum, Dad, three Grandparents, four brothers and 5 sisters. It really was a big family. Mum and Dad shared a room. The three grandparents shared a small room and all of the 10 siblings shared a room. There was only one bed in the house, and it was for the three old grandparents. The Mum and Dad had an old mattress and the kids had to sleep on the cold, hard wooden floor. It's not like we knew any different, we've been like this for as long as I can remember so it's no big deal.
I am Clara and I will tell you my story.
All that happy family stuff changed so suddenly no one saw it coming.
I am the middle child of my family so it's hard to get noticed, and that's probably why I'm so violent, so I get noticed, my older siblings are always complaining about homework, boys and girls, being picked on and all of that extra boring stuff, and I don't get how they don't just sort it out themselves, I wrote a list of how to solve their problems.
Homework: Just don't do it what's the big deal, I don't do it.
Boys and girls: Just stay away from the opposite gender and your heart won't be broken. Easy.
Being picked on / bullied, easy fix: punch them in the face and no one will be mean ever again, and if they are, punch them again until they stop.
Little siblings. The are the annoyingest things in the universe. Am I right?
Always wanting stuff that's yours, taking your candy, and most important thing of all…
Embarrassing you in front of your friends!
Always complaining.
List of how to get rid of your ANNOYING little siblings. (For now)
Lock them in a closet or room.
Say the Easter Bunny is outside holding a sign saying FREE CANDY!
Say ‘if you don't leave me alone the boogie man is going to get you and eat you up!’
One day, soldiers from another country came into our town and took lots of people. Mum and dad were out at work, all of my siblings were at school. And my Grandparents were helping mum and dad with the book shop they worked in, because they are going through a hard time selling books.
I was the only one at home. I stayed home because I was getting bullied by a girl called Ellie so I punched her in the face and broke her nose!
I heard lots of yelling and screaming outside and occasionally a few gunshots. It was usually a very quiet town so I went to the window and saw something terrifying! There were lots of men in army uniforms, the men were going around each and every house, taking everyone's valuables and the ones that wouldn't hand them over were taken outside into the street and shot in front of everyone. I was so scared I didn't even hear the knock at my door. Then I heard someone yelling from my door, it was one of the soldiers. I was terrified, I didn't know what to do, then the man yelled “ open the door or I will come in and shoot everyone of you inside.”
Right now I have to make a life or death decision.
Suddenly I had an amazing idea, my siblings and I always play hide and seek, it's really hard when there's ten of us all hiding in our small house, but I never get found, I always hide in the exact same place every time we play…
Under the floorboards!!!
No one would ever find me there.
So I ran to my room that I shared with all of my sisters, lifted up the floor board under my mattress and climbed through the narrow hole into a dark room. I had never taken a flashlight into my hiding place because I knew I would get found, but this time I did take a flashlight and food and water and a shovel to dig a tunnel.
I could hear the soldier break the door down and he came into my room!!!
I was scared.
He stood right over my head for what seemed like forever, I held my breath.
Then he said “ I know you're in here, I can feel it.
Then he looked down.
I felt like I was going to scream.
The soldier was still looking down, it was like he was trying to see what was down below the floorboards.
Then I realised he was looking for me. He knew I was down there, he was waiting for me to give myself away.
I didn't dare move or breath.
Suddenly I felt a sharp tug on my sweater.
I was completely terrified. I didn't know if it was my mum or dad or a soldier.
Reluctantly I tip-toed as quietly as I could towards whatever or whoever it was.
The man left the room, it almost made me laugh out loud to where he went to.
He went to the toilet and he was farting so loudly, I bet the whole world could hear it.
Suddenly the whole underground room was filled with bright light.
I quickly turned around to see where the light was coming from, and there right behind me was…
My best friend Liberty!
I was so relieved it wasn't anyone else.
But the one questions is, why is she here, under my house?
“Liberty, why are you under my house and how did you get here, shouldn’t you be at school?” I asked all in one breath.
“Clara, I'm so glad to see you, and I was going to ask you the same thing, why aren't you at school?”
“I got stood down for punching Ellie in the face and breaking her nose.”
“Ha ha ha, she deserved it” Liberty laughed. “I got sent home for slapping the teacher right on the face after she hit me for writing notes while she was talking.”
Me and Liberty have been best friends since the first day of year one. We have never been really good kids, we used to get into a lot of fights with other kids and sometimes even a teacher. We both had to do counseling for the violent ways we sorted out arguments. I never really understood why I couldn't just hit someone if they were being mean or annoying.
She took me down a dark passage way, we made our way out of the passage into the dark night under a tree, it was night, already?
We walked for what seemed like hours but it was only three minutes.
“We’re there” Liberty told me.
I looked up half asleep.
I stood in front of the biggest, coolest…
Tree?
“It's just a tree.” I said confused.
“Exactly” she said looking rather proud.
“Come on this way” she said skipping towards the tree.
I followed her to the tree. Then she held her hand to the tree like it was scanning her hand.
Suddenly the tree opened up so there was now an open door in a tree.
Liberty walked through the door like she did it every day. I followed her.
The door closed.
We were now in an elevator. We went down, we were still going down five minutes later.
Then we stopped. The doors open and I was standing at the entrance of a whole underground city. No wonder I have never been to liberty’s house before!
She walked me to her house, it was rather big and it was painted rainbow on the outside and blue on the inside.
She explained what had happened and her parents said that I could live with them because my parents were taken to a concentration camp and are probably dead. But at least I know I will be safe here in the underground city, me, my best friend and her parents will live happily ever after.
I never found out what happened to my family, my Grandparents, Mum, Dad, and all of my siblings. I think about my family all the time but I don't get too upset about them, of course I miss them but I have accepted that that was what was meant to happen to them and to me.
By Faith.
