Chapter One: Nick-KnockA Chapter by Miss Evans
Previous Version This is a previous version of Chapter One: Nick-Knock. It was a normal day when they came. The men in black suits, with their gold-badged buddies following behind. My mother was at home, busy with laundry and her las bundle of joy. My brother, sister, and I were just getting up from our naps, warned to not wake the baby with our impending play. Business as usual in the house of ours; Dad was at work, like he was meant to be at this time of day. It was a happy time for a child, age five. I remember playing with a plastic baseball bat, and seeing a soccerball on the floor, just about the time we heard the banging on the door. I can't remember what our house smelled like right then, but it was probably laundry sheets. There were six people in our family, one of whom was a baby, so my mom was always doing laundry. I had to put proper pants on, while my mom looked out of our front room window to see who was at our door. There were a bunch of men outside. Men in black suits with ties, and men who wore officer uniforms. When my mom opened the door, she said that dad was at work, but they looked for him anyway. I remember that the officers were looking everywhere, even in our backyard, while a mean-looking man talked to my mom. Being five, my understanding of the conversation was mostly taken from the facial expressions. What are you doing? Why are you here? Who are you? Those were the words that my mothers face screamed so loudly above the words she was actually saying to the man. One of the men, the quiet one who didn't say much, told her that we had to leave with them. That was when the 'uh-oh' alarm sounded off in my head. The really tall man made me angry. He was smiling at me, while I watched my mom stand there and cry. Did he think it was funny to make her sad like that? It wasn't even a nice smile. It made me want to kick him in the shin, or hit him with my plastic bat. I knew that would only get me in trouble, though. My grandma came to help my mom, because she didn't know what to do. She told mom that we had to pack, we were leaving with those mean men. I remember hugging my mom while she filled my 'I'm going to Grandma's' suitcase. It was blue, and had a little girl with blonde hair on the front of it. I didn't like that my mom was sad, or that we had to leave her. The baby was a month old, to the day, but they still took him away. My sister was nearly one, my brother was edging towards three, and I was making my way to five. The eldest of the kids, and even I couldn't understand what was happening. I remember how my brother and sister cried when we got into the men's white van, it had a huge gold badge on the side of it, just like the officer's uniforms. I remember how the baby slept blissfully through the whole commotion. I remember how I couldn't comfort my brother or sister, I couldn't tell them it was okay, because I didn't know that it was. That was the day the men in black took us away. © 2012 Miss EvansFeatured Review
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