My Story of Escape - by Thomas

 When I was nine years oldI had to leave my country . My name is Blake and this is my story.

 It was a dark and stormy night I was playing on my phone. If you are wondering what I was playing I was playing a skateboard game anyways back to the story. Then I heard a big boom and it was no ordinary boom. It was really loud and then it got even louder and louder and louder. Then I ran to my mum and told her and when I was running to my mum half of my house was gone then it hit me that loud boom at the end it was my house so I ran outside and saw that there were people with guns and bombs and likely no one saw me. So I ran to my dad and he was cooking but not anymore he was under the table then he said quik get under here we will have to run soon quickly pack your stuff. So I ran to my room and got the stuff that I needed to camp so I packed my teddy bear and water and some clothes. I went back to mum dad and he had packed a lot of stuff and I was thinking if I had brought too little stuff.

 We stared to head off out the front door and we saw this person with a minigun. so we slowly headed to the forest and the person with a minigun saw us and started to shoot at us so we speed to the forest and hid. so they would not see us and then we gaped it to the other side of the forest and luckily there was no one in the forest and it was very calming . But anyway we heard more gunshots in the background of the forest so we knew we were safe for a little bit so we sat down for a minute and I asked my dad. Why are we running dad? Dad said that there was a war going down in our town and we are not safe there any more. So I asked my dad why there was a war in our town and what have we done wrong. He said we have not done anything wrong there, just do it anyway we need to move so we were on the move again but this time it was a bit different. When running the forest ended that was nose but the only thing is is that there was sea in sight and a bunch of people so we ran up to the boat that was there and we snached a life jacket or two and hopped on the boat it was a rough ride to land but we got to land in the end so that was good. We ended up in this country called New Zealand. We got put into a refugee camp. It was a nice refugee camp and that was my story.