I was woken up by mom shaking me and whispering franticly.
"Louise, wake up, wake up." she said.
I opened my eyes. Half asleep I said "Mom what's going on? What wrong?"
She pulled me out of bed. I noticed that Melinda, my little sister was clinging on to mom's leg. I call her Lynne. I got up off the floor. I Finally new what was going on. The town was under attack.
You see I live in a town by a sea port. Its fun because my sister and I play down at the water and collect rocks and shells. My sister and I are both such tom-boys. We do everything the guys do and better sometimes. Our mom always gets mad at us because to her we are gorgeous because we both have red hair and pail skin. We could care less what we look like. I'm 18 and Lynne is 11. There haven't been any pirate attacks in almost 20 years. But today...
"Louise, take your sister in the back room and hide." said my mom as she picked up Lynne and gave her to me. Lynne was crying hard. I ran into the back room and put her down on the chair. I walked over to the door and put my ear against it to listen. I wanted to know what was going to happen. I was scared I didn't know what to do. What if they got in the house?
I sat at the door for about 10 maybe 20 minutes, when they got in. My mom screamed and there was a loud bang. I heard a bang on the floor and crawled away from the door. I grabbed Lynne and pushed her in to the closet. She was still crying.
"Lynne you have to stop. You can't make any noise. Ok. We're going to be fine ok. But you have to stay here and be quiet. I'm going to block the door. OK."
Lynne nodded and started taking long shaky breaths. I hugged her and walked out of the closet. I pulled dresser in front of the door. It was the only thing in the room that would keep the door shut. I was so scared. I heard 2 guys talking in the other room.
"...it's a shame he had to die. He looked like a strong man."
"I wish we didn't have to kill all the women. Some of them are..."
I went back into the closet.
"Lynne put these on." And I handed her a pair of pants and a boys shirt. I also changed in to boys clothes. I closed the closet door all the way and we sat waiting. The whole time all I could hear was my heart beating and Lynne trying not to cry. About 5 minutes later. I decided to see what was going on. Lynne had fallen asleep. I got up and walked to the door. I didn't hear anything. Thanks god they left. I thought. There was dust every where. I sneezed. Then I heard a bang on the door. Two men came pushing in. Saw me and said "what do we have here?"
"Look like a decent kid to take on. He's a little scrawny but he'll do."
They grabbed me and I resisted. I bit one and kicked the other. I ran towards the closet, but they grabbed my by the waist and dragged me away. I struggled as much as I could. I couldn't get free. I wanted to yell for Lynne but I didn't want her captured too.
They dragged me through the town. Seeing all the bodies, and people running around trying to get away. We finally got to the boat.