When war comes to town.

The Symbols.

All eyes are facing me. Silence.

"Anne, why were you standing at the door?" My Père questions.

"I wasn't.. I was just about to open the door..."I reply, avoiding his eyes. I'm not very good at lying.

My Père gives me an unconvinced look but moves aside and lets me pass with the food.

"So Anne... How have you been?" Asks my Grand-Mère, clearly trying to make conversation.

"Uh I've been good. It's been pretty boring." I reply.

My Frères walk through the door accompanied by my Father.

"Okay. Time for lunch!" Pères exclaims.

Lunch mainly consisted of small talk, how have you been's, haven't you grown, how old are you now's, blah blah blah...

After a while I excuse myself from the table and play outside for the rest of the afternoon with Lucien and Marcel.

*Later that evening*

"That one looks like a rabbit!" Shouts Lucien.

"No way!! It looks like a horse!!" Marc argues back.

"No way!"

"Yes way!"

"NO!!"

"YEESSS!!!!"

I finally get sick of it. "STOP!" "Just sit quietly and look at the stars. Okay?" I say to them both.

The stars are beautiful tonight. Just a quarter of the moon, no bright lights. Just the night sky.

"Can anyone hear that?..." Lucien asks?

"Be quiet.." I whisper.

"No but it's getting louder.." He whispers back.

"I thought I said be quiet!! There is no noise okay?!" I yell back.

I was wrong though. It was like a quiet, buzzing sound, almost like a swarm of bugs.

I motion got them to be quiet as the noise gets louder and closer.

I stand up and search the sky for the sound. Nothing. Zip. Zero. All I see is darkness but the sound was getting closer.

Finally, I see it. It's like a bunch of metal birds flying in formation but it's not. They are way too big to be birds.

"It's planes! Look!" Explains Marc.

"Weird... Planes don't normally fly this close nor low to Vanves... Especially like that.." I mumble to myself.

The sound eventually fades out and then it starts again. Getting louder and louder. Another formation of planes fly over head and I see a weird symbol on the side of not one, not two but on all of them.

It's like some sort of flag.. A red and white flag with a strange black symbol in the middle I have never seen before...

"I think it's time for you kids to come inside now..." A voice calls from the backdoor.

I don't argue.