PAUL's WAR-For everyone whose life has been torn apart and taken away from someone they love, by Erin LeCount x
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Paul was a kind man from the United Kingdom, his family was terribly poor and were starving from hunger and thirst. Paul's wife Coral had one child named Charlotte, they did their best for their daughter to survive. Charlotte wore an necklace and never took it off, it was from Coral and Paul, if anything happened to them the L would always stand for love. So they'd always be close to her heart.
Paul didn't have a job, neither did Coral. Everyday Paul woke up and tried his hardest to get one, “Daddy, will you ever get a job?” Charlotte whined painfully, Coral stood by her, Paul looked up at his extremely thin family. Nobody ever talked about the poor family. They were never talk of the town!
Paul knew he had to get a job before it was too late, before his family died, before they all died. Coral was getting worried about the family “Paul! Will we survive?” Coral panicked frantically, “Coral! Calm down!”Paul soothed softly. He wasn't playing around anymore, a job was his target. It was getting serious now, this was what he was after. It was not funny.
Everyday they got slimmer by the minute. Paul was fighting through this, Coral had been told several times to calm down, Paul could see his family getting weaker everyday. Coral was getting ill, Paul and Charlotte had fears in them which made them shiver and shake. Poor Coral, starving, tears rolled down eyes of the family and
together they cuddled and cried to sleep. In the morning Paul woke up first, his eyes went wide.
Coral and Charlotte awoke, they cuddled up to Paul but in a distance was the war! “It's started? Already? NO!” Coral gasped, in a week or so Charlotte was evacuated. Coral promised her that Miss Danbury would give her a better home for a while.
A few weeks later Coral got extremely ill, Paul searched less for a job that week to take care of his wife. Later on in life while Charlotte was still evacuated and Paul had no job still, something happened. Coral's illness had mixed with her starvation. One day Coral died, Charlotte still wasn't back. Paul's heart had broken and melted, but throughout his life he remembered wise words from Coral the second before she died “I know a job, survive, be brave................” Paul was focused on her words, one day he decided to have a stroll down dusty, windy parts of England, but he paused on the road, ahead was the war! Paul's mouth dropped and he ran away as fast as he could. He fell on on the dusty path, suddenly he saw some sticks, straw and other things that had been used to attack. He had an idea, he collected firewood and tied them together with some string. He'd made a hut! But even better......he'd found out what Coral's job was...................
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Paul smiled he was everything Coral said he was. He trained harder than ever, Coral was standing there right next to him he whole time and he knew it. Paul's scariest moment of his life began, he was joining the army........... he stood there and in his mind was a voice whispering Good Luck. He got off the plane and jumped up into action. He knelt behind the rock and got ready.
The sounds of banging guns echoed in the dusky, cold night. Paul and the army got ready with their weapons ready to attack. Out of nowhere Germans flooded the place! Paul was amazed. The fight began Paul was a real lover of God, he hated fighting, but this was to help the future go on, not just for money.
Meanwhile, Charlotte and Miss Danbury were having a wonderful time! Charlotte peered out the window of the little bungalow. “What's wrong dear?” Miss Danbury asked cuddling her tightly “I miss my Mum and Dad” Charlotte explained sadly crying.
One day Miss Danbury married a selfish man named Mr Stone, one night, he sent Charlotte away. Charlotte spent most of her time curling up on a rock. Her starvation was enormous! Until one day a pile of sticks were laying on the floor she made it a massive basket, one day she found some fruit trees! Apple's, Peaches, Plums, Grapes, Cherries, Berries, Oranges, Grapes, Grapefruits, Kiwi, Pears, Strawberries, Tomato's and lot's more! She's brought out the big cover that Miss Danbury told her to keep, Charlotte knew she had to go home! Miss Danbury was one of the richest people alive! She gave Charlotte a lot of money, Charlotte paid with some of the money for the trip home.
She found the little hut where she had lived she sat inside she'd found gigantic pile of feathers and slept all night, Paul wasn't home from his job yet. That night Paul found poor thin Charlotte in the the hut, Charlotte woke suddenly and saw her father “FATHER! FATHER! Where's Mother?” She gasped happily, “Well....” Both their faces fell. “Mummy........died” Paul sighed disappointedly. Charlotte's eyes turned to wells of water.
That week Charlotte didn't talk, her mouth didn't even move. Paul was confused. One day Charlotte was eating a Pear, a cloud that was shaped like a heart caught her attention “I love you Mummy” She faintly smiled, it made her feel stronger, a lot stronger. Paul had the feeling that Charlotte should be checked at hospital though so he called the ambulance, Charlotte laid down her eyes shut.
Paul's whole life could come to an end. Paul was alone silent, this was it, this will be it, he was concentrating, he was serious he wouldn't let his family leave him, not now, he was wasn't going to have his heart ripped out yet. You would not think it is stupid and of course it isn't, he wasn't going to be left with threads of his life, he was was not going to be screwed up and definitely not ripped apart, he wasn't letting anyone pull or touch his life, he wouldn't get himself lost. No way.
Charlotte came back soon enough, an oxygen mask had been put on her, she was lying still and eyes shut. A tear rolled down Paul's face his life had really come to an end.
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Paul had never felt worse, he hated it. “What have I done?! I'm such an idiot!!!!!” Paul yelled, he sighed. In 10 months Charlotte came home, “DADDY!” She screamed and jumped up onto him. “Listen, I need to go to my work, the army, so I want you to be really good and go in the helicopter with me!” Paul told her “But I'll be killed” Gasped Charlotte “I won't let them hurt you, I cross my heart and hope to die”
Paul insisted her. Charlotte thought it was a bit crazy and stupid but she took his hand and off they went.
Charlotte ducked down when they arrived and suddenly the driver got out and left the propeller going, it looked like people were still in there! The Germans threw bricks at the helicopter. Charlotte scrambled away and screamed, she got to her feet and hid under control panel. She shivered with fright, Paul ran to the helicopter and grabbed Charlotte he took her to the back of the helicopter where little bedrooms were stored and there was an iron wall surrounding it, Charlotte frowned and held back her screams and tears. But could she hold her screams back? Well obviously no, because she did a massive scream! It made the front of the helicopter shake! The bowl next to button to open and close the iron gate got knocked! The iron gate slowly lifted up.
She went to the front of the helicopter but she was surrounded! She passed out and couldn't get her breath back in half a minutes time she restored her breath. Guns were pointed straight, “Oh my god I don't know why Dad got me into this situation. I'm going to be in heaven or hell by the time this is done!” Charlotte sighed usually, Charlotte turned round to the open iron gate, they blocked her way, she walked a little more forwards until the Germans were inside the bedroom. Before they had time to escape she pressed the button for the iron gate to close.
When the war was done for Paul he took Charlotte home, the Germans had been loaded out “Oh my god, we're home!” Charlotte gasped peering at the sunset. That night they had some potatoes cooked on the fire, they sat around telling each other what they'd want to do in life, they had a laugh. In 5 years time Paul came home from his last war “It's one I shan't forget” He told Charlotte.
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Charlotte loved her father but so rarely did she say it, it reminded Paul of Coral and the dreaded time she died, he would normally say it was all his fault, but one day he soothed quietly “Coral has a better life, a life like no-one could have” Charlotte grinned and hugged her father “DADDY!” She yelled once, Paul rushed over, a purse had been dropped “It's full of money!” Charlotte grinned, “It's got a note on it! It says:
DEAR
PAUL & CHARLOTTE
I MISS YOU A LOT, HERE IS A GIFT
HOPE IT'S USEFUL GOD WROTE THIS FOR ME
PLEASE TAKE CARE OF THIS
SPEND IT WISELY!
MY LOVE FOR YOU IS THE
HARDEST EVER FOR ME TO
DESCRIBE
CORAL TOPP ALWAYS YOURS XXXXXXXXX
P.S WANT TO STAY IN CONTACT WITH ME?
TALK TO THE BRIGHTEST STAR or blow a clock flower AND SAY SOMETHING I'LL RESPOND AS QUICK AS I CAN! XXXXXX
They gasped, Charlotte was too dizzy and amazed so instead she fainted! Not deliberately!
A few years after that Paul married again! The new mother was a rich lady who's name was Madam Clem but loved to be called Ruby Clamshell! When she was 50 she retired Paul was having his 30th birthday the next day.
But 3 years ago the adopted a girl called Rebecca, but when Paul and Ruby met Ruby had a secret she had a daughter who was 7! Paul hadn't realised until Ruby moved in, poor Charlotte. Ruby was only a weeny bit nice she thought, but the whole day she admired her other two daughters and Paul, well didn't even catch eye on her! Charlotte wouldn't and couldn't stand it anymore, so she packed her bags and meanwhile she's been selling thing for thousands of pounds so she went to the airport and travelled to Bulgaria. She built a house of straw, hay and sticks. Piles of hay were her bed.
The next day Paul went to wake Charlotte up “Oh my god! Charlotte's gone!”Gasped Ruby, Paul grabbed Ruby's mobile phone and called the police.
Paul was worried sick, Charlotte phoned one of her sisters, “CHARLOTTE! MUM! DAD! IT'S CHARLOTTE!” The sister yelled happily, Ruby raced to the phone but Charlotte hung up quickly and slapped her mobile phone screen down. In her tiny rucksack she had a picture of Coral, Paul and her, a tear rolled down her cheek. Paul sat in the hut, “She's okay!” Rebecca promised him. In a few weeks Charlotte texted her family
HI EVERYONE, I AM IN BULGARIA IF U WANT TO KNOW! I AM OK ARE U? DON'T PANIC I'M FINE I LOVE YOU
COMING HOME SOON, CHAR XXX
Paul text back
CHAR! BULGARIA? I'M DISAPPOINTED IN U! WHAT WOULD YOUR MOTHER SAY?
>:-[ POOR RUBY, YOU'RE COMING HOME THIS WEEK!
DAD PAUL XXXX
That week Ruby texted her
CHARLOTTE! WHEN ARE YOU COMING HOME? YOU'VE BEEN IN BULGARIA 4 AGES
SEE YOU SOON I HOPE P.S WHEN YOU'RE BACK YOU R DEAD MISSY. RUBY RED BLOOD XXXX HA HA HA
“She's a killer!” Screamed Charlotte she ran onto the plane and went to England she went to get Paul before he was killed Charlotte found Paul on the floor asleep was she too late?
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Ruby came in “What the heck? You're early!” “REBECCA! BETH!” Charlotte yelled at her sisters, they raced in, Ruby tossed Charlotte back and aimed for Rebecca and Beth “Over my dead body” Charlotte whispered getting on her feet again, Paul woke up “DAD DAD DAD!” The children rabbited noisily “DAD, listen Ruby's a killer “HA! NO she isn't”Paul laughed, he opened the cupboard to get some food but everything was axes and knifes, Ruby? You're that killer in Chelmsford? Ruby Red Blood?
Ruby Red Blood was taken to prison “Thanks to you daughter we could of all been killed “You're extremely clever young lady, you've saved the worlds lives! Sneaky Ruby Red Blood has been creeping round all her life ever since her family died she'd been attacking, she's killed 40 people believe it or not!” The policewoman explained.
Reward posters had been given in on Tuesday and Charlotte chose her reward, she chose to get a job and get a massive house for free that the police and public pay for and to get £6000! Charlotte was in the paper several times each week.
Charlotte signed autographs, she found a job at being a film star while Paul just relaxed, Charlotte had a wonderful time, her boyfriend Joe Coward came to stay the night “This is awesome!” Joe gasped gazing dreamily,
Charlotte had all the attention she wanted, for her birthday she invited a whole 300 guests! Charlotte got a best friend called Peggy, she was short with dark flat hair and she always wore a white dress with two butterflies on the side. In her hair she wore a little tiara and had heart clips, she looked like a princess! In fact she was a Princess! Her mother owns a little shop called Style and Dress where they did a beauty salon called Style and a Clothes Designer called Dress! Peggy's Mum was in charge of the shop and was Queen of fashion!
Charlotte walked up to Peggy one day, “Hey Peggy! You're dress...” Charlotte paused, Peggy held up her index finger “Don't mess with the dress!” She smiled, that sidetracked Charlotte. Charlotte held her arm, “Oh Charlotte? What's wrong?” Peggy asked squeezing her friend “Oh I was thinking we could have a little party for my Mum, she died, we could maybe add some people to my family? I'm only left two sisters and a Dad” Charlotte murmured “Oh....you probably don't want to get too upset but am I a loud to ask you a question...?” The bell rang for dinner “Sorry! See you tomorrow!” Charlotte laughed running in the massive house.
The next day Peggy posted a note through the door of Charlotte's, Charlotte plopped on her bed, she read a book called DANGER RANGER about a girl who's life is coming close to a dying end. \
Charlotte was really becoming nervous, she heard the doorbell ring it was Peggy!! She had a shivery feeling this could be scary to face.
THE FINAL CHAPTER
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Charlotte politely let Peggy in, “Hi, my Mum asked the council to put posters up for your FAMILY DAY they're going to be ready in a week!” Peggy explained loading her stuff on the floor, “I can't believe I'm staying here for a whole Summer Holiday!” Peggy smiled “Come on monsters!” Paul joked, “Mr Top, you and your jokes!” Peggy's Mum giggled shaking her head. “Mr Top, thank you ever so much! I just hope you can cope! Lucy and I can't stand the noise when the others come!” “Others?” Paul's mouth dropped as he saw 15 children load out of the car “I adopted 5! OH here! Please take the dog, Hamster, Mice and 2 cats, here's a list of everything you have to do! BE GOOD EVERY ONE!” Peggy's Mum waved.
“Quick Mr Top, quick Charlotte! Don't talk to the brightest star!” Peggy passed a note round “NO!” It read:
You are in great Danger
Take good care for you
Maybe you be gone
Say Goodbye, for you
May have death............
Charlotte and Paul gasped they looked up, Peggy had gone! Charlotte screamed, she didn't know what to do, her temperature was very high which made her throw up. Charlotte went and sat in her tree-house suddenly she stood up and felt stronger Paul would stay home but for Charlotte it was GAME ON!
THE END?
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