Wartorn Place
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Alexander Stodolak, Grade 5B
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Short Story
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2017
I'm walking down the war torn street with my best friend Jack. Then I hear an ear deafening BANG!! Then Jack falls to the ground. My heart sinks I duck back behind a crashed car. I drag Jack's body behind the car too. My eyes are swelling with tears I can barely see. Jack is bleeding crazily out of his chest. He opens his mouth to speak but I quickly say “save your breath.” I'm crying so much my top is soaking wet from tears. I have already lost one person in my life I don't want to lose another. “Run while you still can” says Jack in a weak voice.
“No i'm not losing you” I replied. I look down at Jack's wound it hurts me to see him in pain. Then I realized what just happened I can see a bullet in jack's bloody chest. “A sniper” I say a sniper just shot Jack. Before I can help aid him the glass from the car smashes and fall on me and Jack. Then a grenade rolls next to Jack I run for my life. Then a huge explosion explodes behind me. The force of the explosion pushes me to the ground scraping my face against the asphalt. I know Jack is dead and seeing him will make me cry plus the sniper is still hiding somewhere. I run around the bend of the street. I see a group of troops with fully automatic guns. I'm not sure if they're on our side or the governments. I don't want to take any chances so I try to avoid them by jumping the barbed wire fence to the abandoned school. I cut myself on the barbed wire it stings. Then I think of Jack it makes my cut hurt even more. I run through the school trying to avoid the mob of troops. I am now moving quietly through the bush then I think they see me. They throw something at me. Then a canister goes through the bushes and rollers towards my feet. Then neil gas starts to pour out of the canister they did this to get me out of here I have to run out or I will choke on the neil gas. So I go out to see them. their guns are pointing at me this is it. Then one of the men put there hand out so I can shake it. I sake his hand. He starts to laugh then I realize why. On his arm he had a big skull and crossbones but the bones were replaced with AK-47’s my heart sank. He’s a pirate he's with either the government's side. (army/government) or the “workers” side (the civilian/police/other) they were on there own side called the “Ace of Spades” which was like the third party of the civil war.
I realize that this is it i'm done for. Then they lifted their guns and shot me and it all ended there