Eva+Assyrian+Narrative

The Assyrians It all started at 6:00 when mother was making dinner. It was Sunday which means it was god’s day I had just gone up to my room to change my clothes, when my younger sister screamed. She usually screams when she doesn’t get her way or something like that so I just ignored her. But she wouldn’t stop screaming. So I went to her room to see what was wrong. But she just kept screaming. “Salla, Salla what’s wrong!?” I tried screaming over her loud sobs. After a couple of tries I gave up and just laid with her until she calmed down. When she seemed calm enough to talk to I asked her again. This time she pointed out the window. My mom and I were trying to get her to talk to people but I didn’t think it was a good time to remind her. So I looked out the window. I saw a man outside our house. It was hard to see what he looked like but I could tell that he was a tall broad man with a spear. I ran down stairs and told my mom about the strange man that was standing outside the house. My mom is a calm person. She usually is not frightened by many things. Like once my older brother Racko came home with a wound as big as my arm, I screamed and ran out of the room. But my mom stayed calm and helped him with his wound. That’s what made me scared when she dropped the spoon she was holding and ran up to Salla’s room. I ran up after her. When I entered salla’s room my mom was squinting out the window trying to make out the figure so she could identify who the strange man was. I went to the window to see what my mom was looking at. After a few minutes my mom said she would go down and tell him to leave, when the man turned his face towards the window. My mom’s face turned pale as his face shined in the moonlight. “What is it mother,” I asked suspiciously. “The Assyrians,” she whispered as she ran out of the room. I was only 7 and there was really nothing that I could do to help her if she needed help but I still ran out after her.

As I reached the bottom of the stairs she told me to get my sister and tell my brother to come down to the main room. I asked why but she wouldn’t listen. So I ran upstairs and told my Racko to go down to the main room to meet mom, but he said “Kona don’t bother me while I am reading about the sun god.” So I went to get Salla from her room. But when I got there I knew it was not going to be easy to get her. She was sleeping so if I woke her up she would be crabby for the rest of the day. I was standing there trying to decide what to do when my mom yelled “Kona hurry it is an emergency!” then when I saw Racko run down the stairs with the same look mother had on her face I knew the Assyrians were really bad people. I grabbed Salla and ran downstairs to see if I could help, but when I asked mom what I could do to help she didn’t respond. So I kept asking her till she finally responded, “Take your sister and go hide in the ferns by our house, I will meet you there.” So I took Salla and went to hide in the ferns. Salla, still half awake, looked up at me with her doughy brown eyes and said “Why are we in the ferns? I’m hungry.” I looked at her and told her “we are in trouble so we have to hide here for a little bit.” “WHAT!” Salla screamed, “I didn’t do nothing!” Salla started crying. I tried to explain to her that we were hiding from bad people, and that she didn’t have to cry because it would make things worse, but as usual her crying drained out my voice. So instead of trying to make her feel better I took off my shoe and shoved it in her mouth and held it so she couldn’t take it out of her mouth. Of course this made her cry harder but at least the shoe in her mouth clogged the sound from coming out. After a couple of minutes Salla went to sleep. I did not want to wake her up again so I put her on the ground and waited, waited for mom to come. I knew that mom would come soon and tell us that everything was all right. About a half hour has past mother has not come yet. So instead of just sitting beside the snoring Salla, I went to go look for her. I went around the house and to the piles of sand by our front door. The piles were about as tall as Salla and as wide as Racko lying on his back. I love the sand piles because there were a straight line of bushes inside the sand piles that is like a little tunnel and the only people who know about it is Racko and I. Anyway I climbed over the sand pile to look for mother, when I saw two men walking toward are front door and I saw mother behind the other sand pile gesturing me to come to where she was. So I ran to the other sand pile to meet my mother. “What are you doing here Kona?! You are supposed to be watching Salla! Where is Salla?!” she angrily whispered. “Don’t worry” I replied calmly “She is in the ferns where you told us to be. I only came here to get you. Can we go into the house yet?” “Not yet” mother said sadly “You might have to spend the night in the ferns with Salla for tonight. I will be here with Racko guarding the house.” I was very mad at my mom that night because she made me sleep outside and with Salla.

I don’t know exactly when I woke up but I knew why I did. There were loud screams coming from every direction, there were clinking of swords, spears going every which way and water going up to my knees. I was super scared, I could hardly hear my heart beat and I was berating very hard. Salla (just waking up) was staring out of the bushes. “What now” I asked, as she pointed outside. I quickly walked to the edge of the bush to see what Salla was pointing at, I would have ran but the bush was not that big, so I just walked. I looked out of the ferns and wished that I had never looked. It was the worst sight I have ever seen, there were bodies of our neighbors and friends laying on the ground dead. The rivers were red with blood, and our house was lined with Assyrians and I saw heads of villagers being carried away. I didn’t know what to do so I went to go get mom. But as I stepped outside I saw an Assyrian standing right outside of the fern. I held my breath and quickly stepped back into the bush. Salla sat in the middle of the fern with sticks and dirt in her hair. I hadn’t noticed how dirty she was until now. She looked up at me and asked again “What are we doing in the ferns?” I didn’t even try to answer her I just said “If you talk we will die, so if you really want to die scream at the top of your lungs.” I angrily whispered. Salla started crying. I took the shoe she had spit out in the middle of the night, stuffed it in her mouth, grabbed Salla and ran. I ran from the first fern to the second until I was at my last fern. I knew somebody was following us because someone had to hear Salla’s crying and the movement of the ferns. So I held Salla super tight and ran as fast as I could to the sand piles. I shoved Salla in and then dove in after her. I was a little worried that the water would be too high in the sand piles but luckily I was wrong and the water wasn’t that high. I was also wrong about it being sand piles, they were really made out o dirt. I was very happy about the things I was wrong about because they gave us advantages over the Assyrians. I looked at Salla and said “We just have to wait here until mother comes and tells us that everything is alright.” Salla nodded her head and started picking the twigs out of her hair. We sat there for what felt to be forever. About two days later the fighting began to die down, then a couple of hours later the fighting completely stopped. I nudged Salla and we stepped outside. It was a horrible sight. There were dead bodies everywhere. I hated the sight so I tried to run away from it but I ran into something worse, I found my mother her face was pale and her guts were spilling out of her side I screamed as loud as I could and then started to cry. That’s when I swore to take revenge on all the Assyrians.

11 years later… I was 18 and very busy, “Salla “ I screamed,“Come down here and help my clean the rest of the house” Salla came down stairs, but not dressed for cleaning had a super short dress on and very tall high hells on. “Why are you dressed like your going to a party and not like your ready to clean?” “ I’ll give you one guess.” Salla replied. “you have to work you know.” I said “why, why would they make a smart girl like myself work in such a dirty house?” “It’s only dirty because you wont clean it!” “ Ya, ya I know but they make you work because your not as pretty or talented or smart as me” “ ya or modest” I replied under my breath. “Also they don’t just make me work they make both of us work but I’m the only one doing anything because you are too lazy to do any work, you don’t even clean your half of our room that I pay the rent for.” Well ok then I will start working right after Lee’s party” “No you will start now” “But I promised I would be there, I can’t just ditch.” “Then I will go and tell her that you will not be attending.” “No, no please don’t! I promise it will be the last party during work hours.” “Fine how late do I have cover for you?” “Like to about 2:30” “In the morning!” I asked “Got to go bye.” “No wait Salla!” I yelled but I was too late she already slammed the door behind her. I could hear her footsteps running to get to the party. I sighed and looked at the mess I had to clean.

Many hours later… I am so tired I cleaned all night and its 3:45 and Salla’s still not here. I’m going to make her do all our work for a week. Salla got home at 6:32 that night and looked super tired. “Alright now get to work.” “ Seriously you are going to make me work after such an exhausting day.” Salla sighed. “ First it was a day and you said you would be back by 2:30 in the morning but you came back at 6:30. So you have many of hours of work to do.” I said. “Fine” Salla said “But I am not cleaning your half of the room” “Ok” I replied.

The next morning was horrible. I walked into the kitchen and saw two men who looked very familiar standing in the middle of the kitchen. They were holding Rumela, the person who looked after us when are mother was dead, by the arm and forcing her to do something. I decided to go closer and take a look. I saw my sister dead and Rumela grinding her bones. Then I looked up, the men were the Assyrians.