Camilla

Chapter 1

My name is Camila I am 10 years old I have a brother named Jamal and a mum and dad we live in a village 2 miles away from the capital city of Afghanistan, Kabul. And this is my story.

Today I was running around and playing with my brother and the neighbours (well secretly because I'm not aloud out of the house without dad and my full outfit on) when suddenly we heard loud trucks roll up so we all ran back inside, me and my brother looked out the window and saw men in army looking suits get out of the trucks with guns strapped around they're chests and walked in pairs into houses, when two men came up to our door me and Jamal hid around the corner and let mum and dad deal with it,

mum said "what's going on, sir" one of the men said "just an inspection to make sure your all doing the right thing....." Mum looked confused so he corrected himself "for your safety.......we were Sent here from the government" he pushed straight passed mum bumping into her shoulder on the way into our house, a shiver went down my spine, then they started ravaging through our stuff, after a while he said to the man standing out side "all clear in here" and left, but I noticed something as he was leaving it looked like he took something......but I didn't worry about it, so I walked up to mum who was looking out the window with a "suspicious" expression on her face watching the men clamper back into they're trucks and I asked "what was that all about" then she turned around to face dad and said "yea.... What was that about" as if carrying my question on, so dad said back with a *sigh* "the governments at it again" and he went back to what he was doing, i tapped mum On the shoulder and whispered in her ear "mum..... I think I saw him take something" I look into her eyes and say again "took something.....like a book" but she just sat there looking at the same spot with a wide eyed expression and muttered under her breath " a school book" (by the way mum runs a secret school for me and some of the village girls which is illegal but she does it because we are not allowed to go to school....because we're girls) dad said "what was that?" Because he couldn't quite hear her, so she said louder "a school book" then added "Camila thinks the man took a school book" then dad said "what!!! If he took a school book oh geez we would be in trouble" mum said back "yea, of cause that's why I'm telling you". That night we were sitting at the dinner table and eating dinner, when we heard the trucks come back then all of a sudden.....BANG then following that sound was a BOOM as if they blew up something and very close by then mum grabbed my hand and looked at me and said "are you sure it was a school book" and there was a pause of silence when I said "ummm.......yea I think........yes it was" so mum raised her voice to nearly a shout and said to everyone " ok get your things together we're going.......now!"         " but I'm not completely sure that it was a school book" I say so she said " I know but we can't take any chances".