'Don't leave me.'
That was what she said to her elder brother, Jack Winters, when he left his family behind to help other families, or at least that's what he told her. But even though she was only 7 years old, she knew that there was something behind her parents' plastered smiles, that there was something behind it all, his leaving...
Lisa Winters only got to know what that something was a year later - he had gone to war. A war, she learnt the same week, was where families lost loved ones.
Lisa vividly remembered going home that day and screaming at her parents for sending Jack away to die. For more than a week, she spent all her free time locked up in her room, crying, hugging the last jacket of Jack's, believing that her parents were going to send her to die too... and that was how she went into a form of depression. She tried running away, not eating, forcing her parents to reveal whether it was a torture camp or a death trap they had sent Jack to, but when nothing worked, she started losing her mind a little, and started inflicting pain on herself. Every day, at least one or two new cuts appeared on her arms, and she never took off her jackets and long-sleeved tops, to cover the cuts up.
This continued for about four months, until the day she found out what 'war' actually was, and started believing her parents, for what they said matched what people at school said.
A/N: Sooo? How was it? I'll try to upload around twice a week, after I upload the ones I already finished (those will be added soon).
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Winter Jackets
Fiction généraleTo all the families affected by war. Lisa was never the same after losing her brother. But on her thirteenth birthday, she gets the biggest shock of her life. Will she go on an adventure or continue suffering from grief?
