2012
I could slowly See the exit of the town hearing bombs going off in the background behind me. My heart was thumping like it was about to jump out of my chest and my hands were shaking so much I could hardly hold on to the steering wheel of the car. When I reached the sign I was quite relieved that I had got out but it wasn’t over yet because right behind me I saw flashing lights red and blue speeding up behind me, I didn’t know what to do, suddenly I heard a voice like it was through a microphone and was yelling at me to pull over, but I thought the complete other way so I speed up and got to the main transit roads and got away. My family was already at the new city, I was by myself for this one. I got to the airport just in time to get to san francisco. The airport man was standing at the desk waiting for me to get my passport out but I said it was in my bag and had already checked in so he let me on. Illegally.
I was on the plane and had a sigh of relief after all that I’d been through but there was a big problem I had realized that I have broken two laws in 3 hours, racing away from cops and getting on a plane illegally to san francisco. My head was all wound up and I thought to myself, I had two choices either stay there and die or get out of that and run away not thinking about the trouble I got myself into.
I got off the plane after a 5 hour flight from Iraq and, what a journey. I saw my family waiting at the gates of the airport and gave them big hugs, but there was just one last thing to tell them. We all got in the taxi and got to our new apartment which was really nice. We all unpacked our luggage and found our bedrooms which for the kids was really exciting.
After the fun of unpacking and relaxing we again got back in the taxi and drove off to get diner. On the way the taxi driver by the way was really nice told us where everything is and where to get the groceries and where the middle of town is. The city was so pretty all lit up at night and all the tall buildings stood out to all the rest. We got to our restaurant which was only like 5 minutes away from our apartment. The food was really nice aswell. I said to the kids “this is what we are going to be having for the next 2 weeks”, they laughed.
It was only 8:30 at night and we all crashed. We got back to the apartment and I just fell on my bed like I’d just died. it was the morning and we got up at 10 o'clock in the morning. it was probably the latest I've ever slept in. you know that feeling when you have to tell someone something but you can't, that is what I'm feeling now because they still don't know. One day I will have to tell them what is going on, but it isn't that easy. I got up and did my usual stuff, cleaning my teeth, getting dressed, Eating breakfast, bang bang bang, it was someone at the door, I couldn't think who it was, could it be the neighbours or could it be someone that I know.I walked to the door slowly. as I walked slowly I realised that it could be someone looking for me and I slowly step back I heard the same voice yelled come outside if your name is… I tried to hold back but the voice made me come outside, It was one of the police commanders asking for me wondering where I was, I was pretty afraid he was going to do to me and then I thought how to make him happy because really when you are in trouble with the police the only thing you can do is to make a point that you were just doing something you weren't doing and lying but that isn't good enough, the only thing you could do was tell the truth to your family and to the cops. I slowly walked up to him and told him what was happening but he interrupted me by saying “ sure I've heard your story but it wasn't good enough for me”. At this moment I thought that I should of stayed there and died but either way it's going to happen.
I knew the best thing for this was but suddenly I heard a voice come to the door it was my wife she had no idea of what was going on and came out looking quite awkward she said “ what is going on” the policeman said “ oh you haven't told her yet have you, bad choice, either way she was going to find out” she said “ what is going on I need to know now” I tried to speak but the words wouldn't come out I knew this was a whole stuff up for me and my family but it was going to end up badly anyway. the policeman told her what was going on and she just ran back inside quite angry but also confused.
