Safe place

Dear Diary, today I met a soldier, he wasn't too nice though. I had to make him leave to protect mother. She was very upset with me but I don't know why. Mother said he was my father, but she's wrong my father isn't a soldier. I'm being sent to a safe place in Westminster, I'm sure I'm going away because of the war. I'm eight years old though I can protect myself.
Dear Diary, the journey to Westminster was so long it felt like one hundred years. The safe place is deep in the woods far far away. It's dark here there isn't a glimmer of sunshine but I'm sure I'm going to be safe from the soldiers now. I heard mother tell Our neighbor that the safe place used to be a pretty house but now it's not because it's a safe place now. Madame Clark takes care of me now, kind of like a mother but not really. There are many other rooms with many other people. I suppose they need to be safe from the soldiers too. I've made some friends here but I don't see them often because I have to stay in my room most of the days. There are lots of locks and bars and doctors in the safe place. The locks are probably to keep the soldiers out.
Dear Diary, the soldiers come to my window and talk to me sometimes. Madame Clark made me stay in my room for three weeks when I told her I talked to them. I guess she wanted to keep me extra safe, they still come but I don't tell her because I miss my friends and I want to play with them. I have a friend named jack but he doesn't talk he just stares.
Dear Diary, I haven't seen the soldiers in a long time like 50 days I think so the war must be over. If the war is over I can go home! I miss mother she said she would write me but she never does and that makes me sad. The soldiers that used to come to my window were nice sometimes but sometimes mean. I still think I'm safe though so maybe I don't need to be in the safe place anymore.
Dear Diary, the war has been over for 300 days I think and I really want to go home. I miss mother and my pet chickens and pet cows back in Canterbury, mother didn't let me play with them anymore because she said I would hurt them but that's not true because I love them. Madame Clark said I have to stay in the safe place with her, she's mean and I hate her. I'm nine now even soldiers can't hurt me.
Dear Diary, it took me two days to get the locks off of my door but I did it! I'm really smart that's what the soldier in my window told me. Madame Clark said I have to go back to my room and I can't go back to Texas. She mean and I hate her so I had to make her leave like the soldier before I came here. My bags are all packed and I'm going home now, I think I will take Jack with me he's my friend.
Dear Diary, a policeman stopped me in town as I was walking home. He took me to his office and yelled at me with harsh words. He told me that I killed my father and Madame Clark but he is wrong I just made them leave because they were not nice. I'm confused now he said there isn't a war or soldiers. He's lying again! I saw them I asked him why I was in a safe place if there wasn't a war and he told me it was to keep the good people safe from me. The policeman kept lying to me and that's really mean so I had to make him leave like the soldier before I came here. I think I'll go home to Canterbury now.