Hide and Seek

September 23, 1941 a young boy was sitting in his small bedroom playing with his wooden train set ,while his parents argued downstairs. The boys parents had been stressed and extremely worried with all that was happening in the world at the moment. The sound of multiple truck engines and the slamming of car doors along with his mothers hurried footsteps are what brought him back from his thoughts.

His mother barged into the room grabbing him by the shoulders and having him look directly in her worried,fearful eyes. "Son I need you to go run and hide in the safe room we had and don't come out unless its me or your father calling for you OK?" She rushed out, with a heavy sight at the end. With a quick kiss to the forehead his mother ran out his door and down the stairs. The little boy quickly ran down the hallway and pull on the string that revealed the ladder to the attic. He climbed up the bars of the ladder with clouded eye, the tears just begging to be let out. When he finally got to the top he pulled up the ladder and crawled to the back of the attic with his brown teddy he had managed to snag just before he ran. His whimpers were nearly silent as he breathed heavily, the boys heart pounding with panic and fear. He sat in that same spot for days crying and no one ever came to get him, he slowly died by starvation and the unreadable feeling of loneliness.