Life as a refugee

The night I lost her

Bullets shattered through the windows and the walls like huge rocks were flying around. There were bombs being dropped but they didn't go of straight away. 

I grabbed my little sister and ran trying to dodge the bullets being fired. I ran outside through the back door and a few metres away from me was a bomb, I could hear it ticking and the numbers 3.00 were in bright red, it was a countdown and we had to get out of that house. The bomb was bright green and had a flag with red and white stripes and a blue square with white stars. I knew that I had to get out of there especially for Aisha but I was fascinated in how it looked and worked Aisha grabbed my hand and said "let's go."

That night I found an empty house, on the outside it had green vines growing up the walls and spider webs everywhere you looked the windows were half shattered from the vines one of them had wood pieces nailed to the opening of the window. I walked in and frowned, the walls were green with mould and smelt like someone had died, there was a rotting wooden table and a bedroom with a bed and an empty mattress that was full of dust and tiny bugs gnawing at the fabric, but it did not bother me as long as my sister was safe.

Later that night I woke to a faint ruffling sound I slowly sat up and tiptoed around the corner to find a mischief of rats eating the garbage which smelt like a corpse I walked around to the other side of the room to find a rotting corpse with bones as fragile as glass. After realising that there was a dead body in the house, I went straight back into the bedroom and watched over Aisha thinking to myself are we ever going to have a normal life. I said to her "we need to leave Iraq if we are ever going to be safe and I know you miss mum and dad but we need to leave" Aisha looked at me and burst into tears "I am scared Miriam I wish mummy and daddy were here to protect us." 

    Thenext morning, I woke to an ear piercing scream it was Aisha my little sister,my only family member left, the  government wanted my whole family deadbecause of what they did. I chased after her, she wasn't alone she was beingabducted by soldiers they wanted to take her away, torture her for the crimes my parents committed. My parents weren't even bad people, they were just doing what is right but the government officers saw it as mutiny.  As I was running they fired bullets in my direction they missed me a few times but within three minutes of them shooting a ricochet off a tin roof hit me in the back of my leg I screamed in pain and I instantly dropped to the ground. My only thoughts were for Aisha I wasn't worried about my leg I tried my best to stand but the pain was too much I collapsed in agony.