planes surrounding the sky......

“Alice! Come and eat your lunch!” My mama is shouting out from the kitchen and setting up the table. It is one o’clock in the afternoon. I walk downstairs and sit near the dining table. While I am having my lunch, I look out the window. I see lots of planes surrounding the sky. It’s is not a normal afternoon as before, the time we still didn’t start the Battle of British…….

My name is Alice Stanwood and I live with my papa and mama and my older brother, Anthony. My brother is 19 years old and I am 11 years old. Our family relationship is quite good. Our family is not rich, but also not poor, so our lives are not that hard. Every day, I go to school with my friend, Flora. My brother goes to work in a bakery shop and my papa works in an office. Everything is fine but suddenly one day, papa and Anthony just left! Some people came to our house and brought them away! I was so scared and I didn’t know what happen. After they left, I ask mama and what she said was “Alice, they will be back…..” After mama said that, she started to cry and I ended up crying with her. “Papa and Anthony are going to save us, to save our place! They are going to fight with the bad people that trying to damage the place that we are living and take control over it! There is a mess outside and buildings and houses were destroyed by the bombs. Don’t go to school anymore! Just stay home with mama. Here will be the safest place for us for now……” mama hugs me really tight. What’s going to happen to us? Will we be safe? Will we die?

Everyday, I am waiting for papa and Anthony to come back home. I miss them a lot…… At home, mama tells me about what is happening outside the big big world. Mama said the bad people are the Germen and they want to take over England. This is their first step of their plan! Mama and I pray for papa and Anthony everyday and wish they can be home safely. Mama is really worried about them and she looks upset after they left to fight the Germen. “BOOM!!!” Suddenly, a really loud booming sound scared me and mama. We look out the window and see planes are all around the sky and far away from our house, there are smoke going up to the sky. The beautiful sky turned to black…. “I guess they have started the war……. Planes are all around the sky and they are dropping bombs!”Mama is very worry. BOMBS?! They will kill us! At that time, I don’t know what to say and the only thing in my mind is WE ALL DIE!

The war has already been for a month and it still doesn’t stop. One day, uncle john comes to our house. He is our family’s close friend and he knows all the things. He came to visit us and I start to ask him a lot of questions….. “What is happening outside, uncle john?” “Alice, there is something scary and terrible going on outside and the planes are always ready to drop the bombs if they like. But our men are going to save us! The German have the Luftwaffe that’s their air force and for us, we have the Royal Air Force! I believe we will win this war!” “This is my only wish now! I don’t want any toys, I only want my papa and Anthony back!” I keep crying and crying. “Don’t worry Alice, I am sure that they will be back soon,” said Uncle John and smiling at me.

Two weeks later, “Mama, Alice!!” Smiling and crying in the same time, papa and Anthony run in the house, hugging me and mama. That is one of the moment that I will never forget in my life! Papa tells us that they attacked and destroyed the German’s plane and finally, WE WON!!!!! This is the first time I had ever experienced a war although I am not the one that go out and fight. But the feeling of always scared of losing our family is really scary and I was really sad about it. It makes me know how my family is really important to me and it’s a scary but valuable memory.