Oranges in No Man's Land
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- Go on Ayesha, go with Granny, I'll be right behind you. Wait by the Mosque in the corner.
- There's no time for that, the gunmen are coming!
- Is she dead?
- Where’s mum?
- Well I think so?
- umm....
- OH NO!...she never came out of the house she must be dead by now!
- There are people up there in that window, they're waving to us.
- Where are we going to spend the night?
- Ayesha and her family live in Beirut where a civil war is raging. Bombs are falling around their house and Ayesha’s mum is shoving bundles of clothes into a small suitcase, while everyone else is panicking and rushing out the door.
- You guys can sleep over here in this corner tonight.
- Ayesha and her family managed to get out in time before a bomb hit their little shack of a house, except for their mum, who they never saw again after the bomb wiped out their house.
- Why don’t you go down to the checkpoint and get some cooking oil?
- Ok.
- This is My chance to find Dr Leila.
- Later on in the evening as it started to get dark, Ayesha and her family sat all alone on a block of stairs. They sat there wondering where they would spend the night, then Ayesha’s younger brother Latif spotted some people in a window happily waving to them. Those people, named Mrs Zainab and her daughter Samar willingly let Ayesha and her family stay at their crowded flat where other refugees stayed.
- What’s the matter with you?
- Do you want an orange?
- I've finally made across no man’s land but I’ll still have to all the way back home again.
- Mrs Zainab and Samar lead Ayesha and her family upstairs to what must had once been a beautiful flat where rich people would’ve lived. Mrs Zainab set them up in a corner like all the other refugees, and they spent the night there over the next couple of weeks.
- Over the next couple of days since they had been staying at the flat, Granny became very ill. Ayesha started to worry about granny dying and who would look after her and her brothers if that were to happen. Mrs Zainab told Ayesha to go and get some cooking oil as the refugee truck was coming today. Ayesha did what she was asked and was also planning to go and see Dr Leila to get some medicine for her Granny.
- After leaving the flat and running for ages Ayesha had made it through no man’s land and across the Green line. Ayesha sat down on a step and then burst into tears as millions of bad thoughts went through her head. Meanwhile a boy about Ayesha’s age approached her asking her questions and offering her an orange when suddenly Ayesha thought to herself ‘ Granny, what am I doing here? She could be dead by now! I need to find Dr Leila!
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