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    Fights Can Change Everything

    By: Hannah Chalom

    Lets face it, my teeth were bad. I didnt nderstand why! I mean, I brshed my

    teeth twice a day and had no cavities. "y crossbite, overbite, yellow and three

    croo#ed teeth have cost me more $ain than yo can imagine. %hey cost me a friend.

    &Hey Hannah chec# ot my Lego starshi$!!'

    &(ow )oah! %hats so cool! It can $ar# at Hotel )oah and Hannah.'I said gestring

    toward the colorfl lm$ I had *st assembled. +s soon as he $ar#ed his starshi$ he

    stood $ to get some more Legos and tri$$ed over my hotel to$$ling it to the

    grond. &I am so sorry!' he said, $ic#ing $ the remains and starting to cry.

    &Its ne' I said smiling. -o see (e were the best of friends! + normal

    toddler wold have thrown a t. (ell I gess it *st wasnt meant to be, for

    everything was going to change.

    It was an ordinary day/ as sal )oah and I were $laying Legos alongside or little

    siblings, 0achel and 1ydney. 1ince )oah didnt want to really $lay with me mch, I

    moved over to $lay with them. 1ydney, )oahs little sister was caring and really

    fnny. 1he was growing on me. (ith every day )oah seemed to grow even more

    distant ntil he seemed li#e a stranger to me.

    %hen one day we were $laying $stairs when we heard shoting coming from

    downstairs. This cant be good!I thoght, and saw on the others faces that

    they were thin#ing the same thing.

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    (e cre$t down the hallway, trying to #ee$ as 2iet as $ossible. I rested my hand on

    the smooth mahogany banister and $ee#ed over the edge. 3nly shadows were

    visible, and the shoting was growing loder by the minte .I reali4ed that I wold

    have to go downstairs to see what was going on. Bt one thing I have learned over

    the years is to )E5E0 interfere with an angry $arent, es$ecially yors, so I was

    hesitant to go downstairs. Bt of corse, criosity got the best of me and I slid down

    the stairs on my btt ma#ing a lodTHUMP every time I hit a stair. %hat was

    another mista#e on my $art.

    %he shoting came to a sdden sto$ and was re$laced by hshed whis$ers,

    which meant I wold even closerto hear .Awww man .I thoght and waved to

    )oah and or little siblings who were all armed with )erf gns. %hey then all

    followed my sit and came down the stairs in a chors of bm$s and thm$s.

    1ddenly the door to the #itchen o$ened and the shoting was clear.

    &-360E CHIL70E) "31% CE0%+I)L- 73 )3% H+5E CLE+)E0 %EE%HMISS

    DENTIST &"y mom screamed &3H 13 )3( (E0E 86%%I)9 BL+"E1

    H6H')oahs mom yelled bac#. &(ELL %H+) I & &%HI1 I1

    (((++++++00000!!' )oah hollered from the bottom of the stairs and shot

    his )erf gn. %he bllet nearly missed his moms head and ricocheted o; the

    wall behind her. &)3+H

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    have to go.' 1he said. I saw tear strea#s on her face. 1he loo#ed li#e she had

    been crying hard. &)o,' I said crossing my arms over my chest.I am not

    going to lose this fght I thoght as I trned my bac# on her and resmed the

    tas# of climbing the stairs. &H+))+H LE%1 93!' she said in a more forcefl

    tone. &)3!'I screamed and ran $ the stairs, into )oahs room, and straight

    into his closet. It felt li#e an eternity, sitting there.

    Finally my mom fond me and too# my arm and dragged me down the stairs

    and ot the door. I was screaming and crying as I caght a glance at )oah

    sitting in the corner staring at the >oor.

    %hat was the last I ever saw of )oah and 1ydney. %o this day I still wonder

    what ha$$ened to them, what they loo# li#e. %he image of )oah sitting there

    is brned in my mind to this day, for that was when I reali4ed that ghts can

    change everything.