Two Months:
When two months had passed & nobody could find us, the U.S. looked for other countries to start helping. Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa, & South America started looking for all 6 of us. Our pictures were posted on posters everywhere. I realized that my Cousin Hector was in Saudi Arabia, helping the Air Force guard an American Air Strip. I told Naomi, Ruthie, Katie, Sarah, Brian, & Jake & the plans began. We would leave as soon as possible. That night we waited till one of the guards came by & checked our cell. I lay on the ground, curled in a ball, pretending to be hurt. The guard unlocked the door, unaware of our plan. He came up to me & reached his hand out to shake me, but I felt his hand go around my throat. He was going to choke me to death. Brian jumped on him then & put his arm around the guard's neck & slammed his free hand into the back of his head. He grabbed the keys, we all left, & Brian locked the cell door. We left the building, ran for the fence door, opened it, & then locked it when we were all out of the camp. Brian slipped the keys through the fence & dropped them we took off running & made it to the next town by daybreak. We seeked refuge in an orphanage & the owners took us in. that very minute we knew we were still going to have to fight our way home.
When the camp figured out that we had escaped, they immediately started searching the grounds. They found the keys at the camp entrance & they knew we were in the desert. They didn't come looking for us because they figured we were probably already dead.
Many Iraqi & American soldiers saw us enter the battle grounds during crossfire & immediately bullets but my Cousin Hector was among those American & Iraqi soldiers that were looking for us. Nobody knew that we were now standing in front of these men. Nobody knew what we looked like at the moment. We had gone out looking for food for the orphanage & ourselves. One Iraqi soldier made a note on the building we went into after walking through the firefight. We gave the food to the cooks & went to our room. We stayed there for a long time, just waiting. Waiting for American soldiers to find us.