GEMMA
I couldn't wrap my head around the fact that I had seen my mother. She had driven past me, not seeing me. I wondered how she had survived.
I remembered the night as clear as yesterday. My mother fell to the ground after being stabbed. I watched her die. I remember being pulled away by my older brother, trying to get us away.
My other siblings had tried to fight and had been brutally killed. Wani grabbed my hand and ran outside the house. He took me to my favorite hide-and-seek spot in the trees.
I hid in the hole in the trunk that was only big enough to contain one person. He had covered the hole up with leaves and told me to stay quiet.
I begged him to say. I held onto his shirt and cried. I begged him not to die but he couldn't stay. The soldiers were chasing after us and if h
