Preface

Writing my English project paper I wanted readers to feel my characters' feelings and emotions, wanted them to think about other peoples' lives, and not just about themselves. There are a lot of people who suffer and struggle, like John did, and we have no idea how hard it is for them. The narrative that i wrote attempted to capture the emotions felt by other people. Another goal of mine was to read it and compare this story to their lives and think about things that happen in the world.

Story

Marta felt the warmth of the sun on her cheek, she woke up slowly. The pain pulsed through her body, and when she opened her eyes, she realized that she fell asleep sitting on the chair, before reaching the bed. Sleeping in this position, her body was stiff and numb. She clearly remembered what happened yesterday. “So it actually happened, it wasn’t a dream”, she sleepily thought. Marta immediately jumped up and quietly approached the couch. Her friend, Kristi, was sleeping tight, and was holding a pillow. Kristi’s hair was matted; she had stains on her face because of tears. Marta was looking for Kristi all night, when she was told about her brother, John, who died in the war, and ran out of house. Kristi’s mom, Mrs. Jones, called Marta at 2 AM. At first, Marta didn’t get what Mrs. Jones was trying to tell her. At the same time she was crying and trying to explain the situation. After couple tries, Marta finally understood that John is gone, he died, and no one knew where Kristi was. Going through this shock, Marta started guessing where Kristi can be. Marta woke up her parents, and all of them together went to find Kristi. They went to the park where Kristi and Marta always hung out, and went all the way from park to Kristi’s house, and he wasn’t there. After looking for Kristi for many hours, they decided to go home because it was late and they were tired. On the way home, they saw her sitting on the porch of their house. For them, it seemed like she didn’t hear anything and didn’t see anything. Marta hugged her friend, and told her to come into the house. Marta helped her to lie on the couch, and gave her a warm blanket. Then, Kristi looked into Marta’s eyes and said: “You know, John is not there anymore, I’ll never see him again. How can the world exist when your best friend died?” Marta hugged her friend and whispered: “I know that it is hard for you, but John is in your heart, he is with you.” Marta sat with Kristi for a long time until she fell asleep. After that, she sat on the chair, and thought about Kristi’s family, as how would they live without John, how they would fight with it. Starting from that day, Kristi was trying to learn to live without her brother, and Marta learned how to be a loving friend for Kristi who would always cry and be sad. They didn’t have that joy and happiness in their friend relationships. After a month, when girls were walking in the park, Marta’s mom called her on her phone, and told them that they immediately had to go to Kristi’s house. Girls were running and hurrying as fast as they could. When they got into her house, they saw a huge army bag, and Kristi looked at Mata and said: “What kind of news would we else have? Everything is over. I don’t want to go there.” Marta took her hand and said: “Don’t be afraid, I’m going to be with you.” When they went to the living room they saw Mr and Mrs. Jones, they were crying, but they also had smiles on their faces. There was a guy who was sitting right next to them, and they were holding his hands. He didn’t have a leg, he had a lot of scars all over his face, he was really skinny, but the girls recognized him. John was looking at them. His bright blue eyes were shining like nobody else’s.