Bahadur (Watties 2022)

Chapter 17

I was sat on my bed busy thinking about everything, I don't understand anything anymore. Especially him.

Vladimir hasn't killed anyone yet, he's let me make them food and given them time of but I'm fairly certain he'll kill us all once the job is done or before that since he knows we will start doing shit before.

Why does he make me feel such a way, why can't I fully hate him. The man has invaded my village, hurt me and other people but there's a part of me that feels weird.

No, I can't do this.

This isn't a love story, nor is it an adventure, this is real life. The hot invaders don't fall for the small ugly village girl, not that I want him to but you know what I mean.

I need to get going.

Sitting in front of my small mirror I stared at my pale face in worry, no Inaya you can't back out.

Yesterday I made up my mind after what Ivanov told me. I need to get to Khumbar village and back before the crack of dawn.

So we have 2 villages close by, Hayah and Khumbar. Hayah is about 2 hours away on foot whereas Khumbar is an hour and a half away. It also has better reception and is a lot more modern.

Most of the families in that village moved to the UK a few years ago but there's still many left. Because of the connection they have WiFi and good phones, count on people from the UK  to continuously upgrade your lifestyle.

If I push this off for any longer I fear we may not be alive next year. I fear ama, aba and the rest of the villagers will be hurt. Forget about me, I'm not important, if I die I die but I can't allow them to be hurt.

I've got Allah on my side and that's all I need.

I will make it to the village and I will call for help.

It's 12am, grabbing one of mums oversized cardigans I wrapped it around my body and glanced at the window.

Come on Inaya.

With one last prayer I slipped out and began running towards the woods mumbling Aytul Kursi under my breath, night time is the worst time to be outside.

Especially in the woods!

As soon as I got into a hidden area I slowed into a fast walk, I don't want to twist an ankle. I just need to get there.

I've walked through these woods many times with dad. We used to come here to pick Bair from the trees. Khumbar has the most bair trees so we would always go there, I have an addiction to them.

Ya Allah this plan needs to work cause of it doesn't what am I supposed to do.

Either Vladimir will kill me or everyone else. Please help me.

The UN are definitely corrupt, they have to be. I mean which government has a fricken VETO.
When I was taught this in the UK I almost died. Like what happened in Bosnia. The Bosnian genocide against Muslims happened and when they tried to get the person who did it done I think it was Russia who were like nah it's cool leave him and before of the veto they had to.

That man is despicable and deserves to rot in prison. But no he didn't, well actually I think he's in prison now but still.

Ahh Allah how is this going to work, it has to be public so it can't be denied or ignored.

The power of social media.