chapter 2

when bruno and shmuel woke up after being asleep for at least 2 hours after they got back from nearly being killed at that camp. Ralf and elsa made bruno, shmuel and gretel some dinner and shmuel was that hungry that he ate all of the food that was on his plate. the next day Ralf and elsa are trying to tell the kids that they are gonna move again but shmuel is scared that they are going to leave him but Ralf looks at him and says "your coming with us so dont think we are going to leave you here" he had said while putting a hand on shmuels shoulder and shmuel smiles and then bruno comes into the room and asks his mom and dad where they were moving to and elso replys by saying "we are moving to europe to start a new life in a different part of the country" bruno says "ok" with a sad smile. Elsa looks at her husband with a knowing look, and Ralf tells the kids to go to bed and then he tucks them ito bed and then he meets elsa in the dining room to discuss bruno because he has been acting strange ever since the tragedy that accured a couple of hours ago.

And then elsa speaks up "we need to keep a close eye on bruno" then Ralf says "i know we also have to make sure shmuel feels like he belongs in this family and is comfortable with the changes that will come to his life now that he is no longer in that camp" then they agree to sleep on it and the next morning htye wake up and decide to give it a couple of months before they fully decide to adopt shmuel and to see if bruno and gretel are ok with it but mostly to see if bruno opens up to them and then decide on what is best for them. but at this moment they are really scared bruno won't open up to them. then elsa and Ralf walked into the living room and saw gretel reading a book on the sofa and her showing shmuel the book while she reads because she has gotten used to shmueland feels really sorry for him and she was showing him how to read, then they saw bruno on the floor in the corner crying and elsa asks her daughter "how long has he been like that gretel" and gretel replys by saying "i dont know he just came down like 2 mins before you walked in" elsa looked at her husband who was making his way over to bruno and knelt down beside him and says "bruno are you going to tell us whats wrong, cause we cant help you if you don't" he said putting an arm around bruno who flinched from the touch and Ralf put a sad smile on his face but then bruno nodded and Ralf picked him up and put him on the sofa since elsa told gretel to take shmuel upstairs so they could talk to bruno. bruno sat there for a while not speaking and then finally said "dad do you know exactly whats going on in that camp" he said starting to to cry but hold back some of the tears. and Ralf says "yes of course i do son" and bruno looked up at him and says "really so did you know that lieutenant kotler never left and was there hurting people including me" he said with a hint of anger in his voice thats when Ralf looked at his son with a shocked face and says "what do you mean including you" he asked his son and bruno says "he was there dad and he saw mw and didnt even try to help instead he started kicking and punching me in the stomach while saying 'you deserve all this and everything your gonna get' and when mom was carrying me out, i saw him and he mouthed to me 'i will find you' and then i fall asleep i guess"

elsa then started to hug her son really tightly while she was crying with tears rolling down her face but Ralf on the other hand looked like he was going to kill someone and he then joined his wife in hugging bruno and says "we won't let him touch you ever again i promise" then with that said they were in that position for another hour or two before they finally noticed that bruno had fallen asleep and Ralf carried him upstairs and got him dressed for bed and then told shmuel to go to bed aswell in brunos room and gave his son a kiss goodnight but didnt think shmuel would be comfortable with it yet so he turned the lift off and shut the door behind him and went to bed himself.

well theres chapter 2 and there will be more soon but i would like to say thank you to charlotte once again for helping me create this story so anyway i hope you enjoyed it.