One day playing outside with my friends I heard my mom shouting inside the house so I ran inside and asked what was happening. She just starred at me like if she was hopeless, I didn’t know what to say. Just by the look of her face I knew their was something wrong but I didn’t know exactly what it was. Running up to my mom she hugged me tightly, something she never does to me. Telling me that everything would be alright, when I didn’t even know what was happening I was just 13. Everyone calls me Boose in my family but my real name is Jack Daniels. My dad said he was going on a trip with some of his soldier friends but since I caught him one day with his suit, I knew he was a soldier.
Mom said she couldn’t tell me what she was screaming about until she got more information on what was happening. Seeing that my Dad hasn’t been home on the day he said he would be I knew it had something to do with him. Late at night when my mom had fallen asleep I sat on my bed, thinking that I was eager to know. So I went off sneaking into my moms rooming hoping to get the newspaper she read and I was successful. I started to read carefully and I saw that very serious event were happening not to long from where I live. Having the thought that my Dad could be in their gave me a sick feeling to my stomach making me want to fall asleep to stop thinking about it.
The next day I told my Mom that I found out what she read about and she started to cry. She told me that she didn’t know what to do, and holding her tightly I tried to cheer her up telling her everything would be alright. Waiting for the next newspaper it finally hit our house, the headline was “Belgium in Danger?”. I was scared I am not going to lie because finding out that Germany is getting closer to us terrifies me in the way of what I heard what they did to the other countries. Me and my mom started getting prepared for the worst, getting warned everywhere that the invasion had been getting closer. Since my father was not around I knew I had to stay tough and hope for the best.
Later on the week, I couldn’t sleep it was midnight and I had waken up because of gun shots that were being fired not to far from my home. My mom rapidly got up, came to my room and took me with her, she just wanted to make sure I was okay. Wanting to check outside I did, when my mom wasn’t looking but I found a other newspaper that looked freshly print. Reading that how Germany got through Belgium and was starting to invade France. My heart dropped for a second as if I was being chased by death, adrenaline started to kick in. The only thing that was in my mind was my father, the time me and my mom need him the most he’s not here.
Germany coming through invading, everyone was scared. France ended up surrendering as we all had to but the battle wasn’t over. The last newspaper we ended up getting was that soldier evacuated through Dunkirk and that their was new plans and strategies that were going to be used. Making me happy at the moment was good but knowing that I’m still in the present of what’s happening right in front of me was all bad. Thought we might, just might have a second chance to turn it around but knowing that Germany is powerful I also had second thoughts. Hopefully we get them back and my Dad returns back to me and my Mom that’s all I want.
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