Surviving Dad

 "Wake Up"! Dad yelled. Me and Numan rushed out of bed dressed and ran downstairs. "yes dad" we both said together. "What do you mean yes get ready for school" He yelled back. "We are ready," I said quickly, "Then get to school, you lazy brats"! he yelled. and we rushed out. 

When we got to school the teachers sent us to the nurse even though we said we were fine, my friend Ahmed came with us for support.

 "You guys should just run away or come live with me and my mom, you can't keep letting your dad abuse you every day you can't keep living like this" Ahmed said while walking with them to the nurse. “Well, we have nowhere to go or have a lot of money saved up,” I said. “Come this is our chance Ahmed is offering us a place to sleep and get away from dad” Numan said knocking on the nurse's door. “Come in,” a voice said. 

We entered and sat down as usual. The nurse put some alcohol wipes on our bruises and put bandages on and sent us to class. We learned a little bit of math, did some English work, took a little nap, had lunch, (we didn't have any food though) recess, and then the dismissal bell went off, so we left for home. But we didn’t go how right away we went to a small stall and paid less than $2 for some curry so we didn’t starve and then we quickly went home. Dad checked our bags to see if we had eaten anything behind his back and checked our homework. He saw a mistake in Numan's homework and slapped him for being so dumb.

 “ Next time you make a mistake I'll slap you so hard you wish you weren’t born” dad yelled at Numan and left. “ I'm sorry Numan, I'll help you with your homework today,” I said. “I’m not that dumb I need help from you,” he said and ran off to our room. 

After a little while, he came to me asking for help on a question he got stuck on. I started helping him write it because my handwriting wasn't the best and he was better than me at writing. We were almost done when Dad saw me helping him with his homework.

 He grabbed Numan's hand and dragged him to the other room and I could hear him yelling at Numan and saying “your so dumb you can’t solve this easy problem without Hammad's help ” and slapping him I could hear Numan crying in pain but I couldn’t do anything but listen. 

After it had gone silent the doors opened and dad was holding Numan’s hand and threw him towards me, slamming the door and leaving. Numan was covered in bruises and blood. I took the secret first aid kit and made sure dad wasn’t around and started cleaning the blood and put bandages on the bruises no one could see.

 “We have to leave this place we can’t live like this I can’t live like this” Numan stated. “Fine I’ll do something about it but if we do run away where will we go I don’t have a lot of money saved up,” I said in a low voice making sure dad diden’t overhear us “I do” “How,” I asked “don’t worry about it,” Numan said and started finishing his homework.

 I did think much of it and went to sleep but when I woke up I got dressed quickly because I didn't sleep in my school uniform at night. When I got my bag I noticed it was a little heavier than it usually was I opened it and saw that Numan had stuffed my bag with food like cookies and chips. I had no idea where he got all this food but I ignored it and went downstairs and saw Numan waiting outside saying hurry up to me in a very low voice.

 "wait I have to say goodbye to dad, or else you know what happens" I whispered back to him 

 "it doesn't matter anymore, I'll tell you about it later now let's go" he whispered in a hurry.

 I trusted him because he is my younger brother and I left without saying goodbye, and we both knew the concusses if we messed up.

Middle- 

I walk to school with him and halfway between walking there I noticed that Numan's backpack was also kind to big so I asked him “Numan, why is my backpack full of food and yours looks like it has the same story, you mind telling me what your big plan is here,”. 

“Well you see I knew that if we ran away we would need food to stay alive and since none of us have money saved up I saved up bags of food” explained, Numan

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“Well why didn’t you tell me yesterday,” I asked

“Because I didn’t want dad to hear us,” he told me

"Ok then”

We made our way down to the classroom and sat down today was one of the lucky days we didn’t get beaten and the teacher was a little happy to see us. After class, we went to the lunchroom to eat but luckily we went to one of the schools that gave lunch to the students if they wanted it. And we had a pretty big meal and went in for seconds because we were starving. We didn’t want to go in for seconds ourselves so we asked our friend Ahmed to go and get us some. After recess, the bell for dismissal rang, and we left. 

As we were walking back I asked Numan “Where are we going to go now”

“I thought you would think of that” He replied

Well many we can find a home to stay at or a homeless shelter or maybe even an orphanage” I told him.

“But we're not orphans and plus I don't think we should go to strangers' houses and ask to live there,” He said back.

“We need to hurry and find a safe place to hide from dad or else he might find us: Numan said, 

“Well, that's why mom told us (do things right the first time or the second time the thing might get harder to do) and in our case it’s running away”. I reminded him

“Well let's get looking,” Numan said

We search for hours for a safe hiding place and found a few shelters but we need permission from our parents. Plus there were no homeless shelters within 100 miles of us there was one, and it was 5 hours away and on foot for 2 whole days without taking any breaks. So we found a small stand market with food stands, huddled together in a corner, put a blanket around us, and fell asleep. We woke up to the loud noises of the people in the market talking. 

“We really dozed off here,” I ask Numan 

“Yep,” He replied

“Well, since we're here let's go look around,” I said

“Ok” 

We started walking and saw a bunch of grocery stands, stands with clothes, and a whole bunch of other things. After about an hour of walking and looking around, I spotted something I didn't see on the other side of the market, a Missing poster there was no picture so I walked up to it and read the description and read that it matched me and Numan perfectly. In a panic, I took it down quickly crumbled it up into a ball, and threw it on the ground. 

I rushed over to Numan and told him “Let's go”

“Why,” he asked

“No time to explain,” I said and took his hand, and dragged him back to where we were previously sleeping. 

“Why are we back here, I was exploring, we have never gone here once let me take my time to look around” Numan yelled at me

“I saw a missing poster of us and if anyone saw that and saw us then we would have been caught” I explained to him

“Dad must have put them up after we didn’t come back yesterday,” Numan said

“Well at least dad can’t come outside and look for us after what he did,” Numan said

“I don’t think that will stop him though” I replied

“Anyway we need to hide and can’t let anyone looking for us see us,” I said quickly to change the subject a little.

We stayed in one place and tried not to move around a lot so no one can see us. But then Numan had a great Idea I agreed to it because it was our only chance to live peacefully.

End- 

I made sure the preparation was ready to bring dad down once and for all. I went back to our house so I can lure dad but I was a little scared to knock on the door so I waited for a little. I waited outside the house for a few minutes and then finally build up enough courage to knock on the door. I knew I had to do everything perfectly. I had to do everything on the first try or there won’t be a second. I knocked on the door twice (Knock Knock) and ran a few feet back so he could at least see me. 

“Creak”

“You, so you finally came back hurry up and get your lazy-”

“No I'm not here to listen to you,” I said which got him really mad

After saying that I ran as fast as I could and knew he was going to follow me. As just as I thought he did h chased me and almost caught up to me while extending his arm trying to grab me. But I was not going in to let him mess up our one chance of doing this so I dogged and waved until he almost fell over. He chased after me for at least 30 minutes until he started slowing down bit by bit trying to catch his breath. I slowed down because I need him to follow me so I pretend I was running out of breath. While I was running from him I was secretly luring him to the place where me and Numan had been hiding from him. When we got there he saw Numan was waiting for him. 

“Do it now” Numan yelled, and in a matter of seconds police agents came out of their hiding spots and arrested our father

“What, let me go I did nothing wrong,” dad said,

“You know exactly what you did, plus you are getting charged for something else to If is proven to be true,” The chief police officer said

“What do you mean,” dad asked

“Your kids told us that you murdered someone and put them in a secret room in your house,” the chief said

“Take him away,” the chief told the other officer and they left with him

“And that's the story of how me and my brother survived your great grandfather, Now off to bed you grandkids go, you have school tomorrow,” I said to my grandkids as they felt like I left a thing out of the story or I shorted it.