Jo was gone. Taken away that mourning, and we saw them do it. Maggie wasn't gonna check on us after what I said yesterday so I decided to wake up Tommy and scale the side of the building to get to the Klumpar's house. I thought they wouldn't take her away till later that mourning but I guess I was wrong. it was a horrible site. Huge trucks passed us just as we were coming into the alley, and the stopped right in front of Jo's door. Big men dressed in huge armor suits with guns game out of the trucks. They barged open the door pried her away from her mother and brother, and would not let her say one goodbye. They threw her in the back of one of the trucks, the one with a cage over it, then drove away. All you could hear in the distance was the sobs of the Klumpar's.
At that moment I said, "Tommy, we should probably go home."
Thomas was traumatized. I should have pulled him away as soon as that ordeal started. What was I thinking, he's gonna have to witness it again tomorrow. I should have never woken him up, I should have never brought him there to see that. Ugh, what was I thinking.
Once we got back home Thomas asked, "Mar, are they gonna take you away like that?"
"No, Tommy, I promise, I will demand a goodbye, I will not leave you that way," I said reassuringly.
And that is exactly what I did.
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They showed up at the house Thomas and I were in our room. I was hugging him tightly because he knew what was going to happen. I was going to have to fight them, fight them if they do not let me say goodbye to him and Mama. The trucks showed up, and it was time.
I go down stairs and see the two men, not as big as the ones that were standing at the door.
"Will I be able to say goodbye to my family?" I ask as bravely as I can at this terrible time.
They come up to me and try and grab me by the arms. I just run. Run up the stairs into the room Tommy was in.
"I will be back, Tommy, I'll be back," I say as fast as I can. "I'll be back in three years or less and I will not let them..."
They grab me by the arms tightly and I try to break loose. The more I struggle the tighter their hold gets. I finally stomp on the bigger one's foot as hard as I can and kick the other one in the groin.
Tommy and I run out of the room and I hug him as tightly as I can.
"I will escape as soon as I can Thomas," I whisper in his ear before they take me away and throw me into the truck.
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The New World
Teen FictionOnce the Great Crisis came along to Earth almost no one survived except the group that now lives in Novi. Novi is now ruled by the new government that put kids into government "training" then after three years they can live normal lives or work for...
