My sister was gone with the bus, my two younger brothers were missing… As I ran I kept crying because I wasn’t sure I would even survive… Maybe my sister would survive because they were taken to the next community… That feeling seemed to give me some hope and I knew that once I could stay alive I would surely look for her..
I blamed myself for not being with her at that moment she was taken… I kept hearing gun shots as I ran and the dead bodies on the road were countless… Just then I heard my name “brother, I am here” and as I turned I saw my immediate younger brother and with full speed and so much joy we hugged ourselves… Then I held his hands and we kept running… He said he could not find our other brother and I assured him that we would as long as he was alive but for now we had to stay alive and save ourselves…
Then he started to slow down… I kept trying to drag him but he kept falling and so I had to stop to see what was wrong with him and to my surprise I saw alot of blood coming from the side of his stomach… “oh my God! A bullet hit you” I said to him… He didn’t really know a bullet had hit him, or he knew but had to keep running or maybe because I wasn’t there at the time it happened… I had this guilt as I tried to add pressure to the wound… He had lost a lot of blood and he was already tired and thirsty…
He was already jerking and tears started to fall from his eyes… I started crying too… I didn’t know what to do and besides we were hiding from the enemies… I used my cloth to cover the wounded area but it didn’t help… My brother started trying to sing his favorite song… A song we use to sing when we had good moments and with his last strength he started “… We are the world, we are the children, we are the one to make a better place so let’s start giving, there’s a….” and he held my hands so tight and squeezed it with all his strength…
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I knew what was coming. I cried… I cried… I cried and my tears were like the rain drops… He then started to smile and said “brother pls find our other brother and find our sister, pls don’t let anything happen to them… Tell them I tried, tell them I fought hard, tell them that I’ll see them again soon”… With this words he closed his eyes and breathed his last… Can you believe that my own brother died in my arms… The pain is unbearable… If tears would bring him back I surely cried him a river… But he was gone and there was nothing I could do about it…
With the heart of a young man I pushed his body to the side and made sure no one would see it and then I set out but this time in search of my other brother…
Just as i got closer to our community market that the crisis had started from I saw some abandoned food stuff and snacks all left…i had to take some and even had to hide to eat some… I was so hungry and it was getting dark. I looked around and saw water and so I took some too and had some along with me… At this point I didn’t know where the enemies were because the shooting was not intense at this side…
It was almost 7pm and it seemed like all hope of seeing my other brother was lost. What if he was dead? What if he was captured? What may have happened to him. But I had to keep walking and all I kept seeing were dead bodies… I got to this small park close to the market and saw the many buses that were vandalized during the fight…
It used to be a very busy park and I remembered once when I and dad saw took mommy to this park when she wanted to travel to the village. I remembered what she bought for me that day and how I kept it till the next day so that I can take it to school… Now all the buses were vandalized while some were burnt…
At this point I noticed some movement and I had to hide… Then I saw the foot of someone approaching and I looked for a bug stick close by. That stick use to serve as a wedge for the buses before and although it was too heavy I tried to carry it because the foot steps were too Close and I was not willing to die like that especially not after all I’ve seen that day. As it got closer my heart started to beat so fast and I used all my strength to lift the stick and just as I was about to hit the victim I just saw it was my other brother… I dropped the stick and shouted as he jumped on me and we fell to the ground…
Oh lord! Something finally made us laugh after a day filled with tears and sorrow… I asked how he arrived at that place and he narrated how he and some other kids ran during the shooting and he and some of them have been hiding in the abandoned buses since that time to this time very quietly… He was in charge of them all and he had Come out to search for Food to eat before he met me… So he took me to this big bus that they children were all hiding and when I saw them I was moved to tears…
They were about 13 of them and I didn’t have much food on me and besides it was risky for us to go back to the market place to search for food… The little Food I brought with me I gave to my brother and he shared to them, all of them he gave the food to… We made sure they don’t say a word and came out of the bus to hide and watch out for any movement…
Prepare your mind for what happens next. ..Â
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