It all happened so fast

“It all happened so fast.”


The air-raid sirens start blaring. We ran to turn off the lights. I was in charge of the black-out curtains, but being short meant that it was hard to reach the pull-string. I kept jumping and struggling to reach it. I finally got it and ran to do the next one,once I had got all of them Shreccy and Lulu and turned the lights off,we sat under the counter with a candle. “Why couldn’t we have been sent to the countryside?” Tilly asked the room. The only thing that answered were the sirens and some loud crashing. Suddenly the crashing got so loud it could deafen someone,then everything started to shake,the floor felt lopsided and I heard Tilly scream. Everything went quiet. I jumped up so fast the corner of my favourite dress tore. Some of the lilac fabric ripped. “Lulu! You ripped your dress!” Shreccy tutted. “Okay mother-rr!” I said. We realised that Tilly still hadn’t said anything. I ran around shouting her name when all of a sudden someone came staggering through the door “Hey,Hey you're giving me a headache.” father slurred as she came through the door as if nothing happened. “What happened,WHAT HAPPENED?” Shreccy shouted “A BOMB JUST WENT OFF AND YOU COME IN HERE LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED” They went on shouting until I cried “TILLY’S MISSING!” They turned to look at me. “What?” Father said calmly. Too calmly. Sensing what's about to happen Shreccy came over and put her arm around me. “The crash,Tilly screamed and I can't find her '' I mumbled. “That's it!” Shreccy said she walked to our room and grabbed a few dresses, a couple of cardigans,our raincoats,a few books,a notebook and pencil,some of Tillys favourite things and my stuffie,Mr Snow. She packed all of this into 2 of our school satchels and walked out our room and through the hall. She looked up at dad and said so coldly it made my blood shiver “Thanks.for.nothing.father” she held her arm out indicating to me that I should follow her. As we left the room I heard father...crying?

We walked down the staircase in worse condition than before the bomb hit we had to jump a few missing stairs. Once we got out on the street we heard crying,shouting and people cursing the Germans. “Where are we gonna go now?” I asked in tears. Someone from the streets came up to us.”Hey little ladies,what are you doing out this early after an attack?” He asked us kindly, I mumbled something, “Pardon?” he asked “She said none of your business sir,now if you excuse us” Shreccy said making herself seem a LOT older than 9. “No can do lil’ missy. I'm part of the crew who helps the sick and injured and if your mummy and daddy got bombed then you're going to have to go to us and we’ll set you up in foster care for now.” This got me stuck and I think it stumped Shreccy too. “Ahhh,you see sir we were just going home now.” Shreccy said not quite thinking of the words. “Where were you?” He asked with what In believed was general concern. Shreccy stood there not replying “Go on then lovey,I’d ask your little sister but I believe she doesn’t wanna talk” he laughed as if he had cracked an amazing joke. “We were at school. We were in trouble so we had to stay late and clean the backboards” I squeaked. “And she talks!” He said with a friendly grin “Well that would explain the satchels. I thought you would have been running away!” He said cheerily “Anyway poppets hop along now and get home quick I expect your parents are worried sick!” and with that he left “Good-bye” Shreccy said to make her seem like she had enjoyed that conversation when we walked off I added “And good riddance!”.

“Where did you get that good at lying Lulu? You almost made me believe it!”.

“I- I’m not sure” I confessed. “Where are we going to go?” I asked “Well Emma said we were always welcome with her!” Emma! Why hadn’t I thought of it before? Oh wait BECAUSE SHE HALFWAY ACROSS THE WORLD well not HALFway I never found out exactly how far away Whales is but I do know its far! “How will we get there?” I asked sarcastically.

Gretel's Diary Entry

this is my diary entry for Gretel, Bruno's sister. I hope you enjoy.

12 August 1942

Dear diary,

I hate it here! I haven't anyone to play with apart from my idiot brother,sorry I mean my dimwitted brother. His name is Bruno and hes 9,he acts like he knows everything but I’m 2 years older than him. Today he told me he had an imaginary friend called Shmuel. I was sceptical at first because he's 9 and I don't know how or when but I think he made friends with another child here. When we first got here Bruno mentioned how there were so many children and others on the side of the fence and he wished he could go over to play with them! I mean hasn’t he any brains? I mean, they're Jews! Worlds away from us.

Anyhow,here at “out-with” as Bruno calls it we have a very small house,much smaller than the one back in Berlin. We moved here when father got appointed his job to watch over the camp next door. I wish we could’ve stopped in Berlin,don't get me wrong I love father but i miss Berlin so! As I said my 3 best friends are back in Berlin and so are Bruno's. That's all Bruno goes on about these days “I miss Berlin,lets all go back,I miss Daniel,Carl and Martin” I mean we all have things we miss but we suck it up!

Lock Down Writing

This is my lock down writing. I hope you enjoy.

Life is not something that you can take for granted, it is something you earn, yet here we are breathing and living.

Soooooo,lock down? Not a great time ay?
My lock down wasn’t what I would call “fun” more like… TEDIOUS, A PRISON, A TIME TO REALISE HOW MUCH MORE ANNOYING YOUR BROTHER ACTUALLY IS! Of course there were good points too,not many,but still..
Like when my brother built me a bike ramp, which I fell off, but I got my cast off, but I couldn’t straighten my elbow for a few weeks. I binged nearly everything on Netflix and Disney + but I had to do online school,I read every book in the HOUSE but then got sore eyes..
Oh come on lock down!,give me some good points to write about! Oh,here's a couple! I called my best friends,Zoe and Grace just about everyday to keep in touch and me and my other best friend Bryah played 1000's of years in the sim world (for the sims of course) And when I say that I don’t mean a couple of lives I mean the sims had a whole bloodline going! We also bought some packs and custom content!


Man,I wish I could go on about Sims FOREVER but I can't so a few things before I go. Quarantine does NOT mean holidays,if your brother is ever annoying you,a wooden spoon is a good weapon and of course during quarantine stay safe!

Life during lock down