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- Author: Millie Bobby Brown
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It was a bright Saturday in September that felt as though it was still
summer. Nellie had had a busy week at work at the town hall, where she
was assistant to the Mayor, and today she longed for a bit of normality, a
little taste of how life used to be before the war. Before the air raids and the
rationing and the endless sombre news reports on the wireless radio. She
was taking her little sister, Flo, for a picnic in the park. It was hot – the kind
of heat that makes you long for the weather to cool down and the leaves to
fall, but then you berated yourself for wishing away the good weather.
The autumn chill would come soon enough, Nellie told herself. And
with it the dark days of winter when she’d be returning home from work
after dark, stumbling along in the blackout, every yard treacherous.
‘Come on, Flo. Let’s get a move on. More time for our picnic,’ she said,
tugging her sister by the hand.
They walked through the familiar streets of Bethnal Green where she’d
always lived, passing a row of shops with their meagre window displays.
Second-hand clothes, rabbit and mutton in the butcher’s (it had been so long
since she’d had beef!), a queue, still, at the greengrocer’s for apples from
the orchards of Kent. On one corner stood the remains of a side wall of a
bombed-out house, a curtain still flapping forlornly in its window. She
averted her eyes from the bomb sites, the hollowed-out shells that had once
been people’s homes, houses just like her own. She didn’t want to risk
spoiling her happy mood thinking about them now.
‘When will they rebuild it? When can the people have their house
back?’ Flo asked, looking up at it.
‘After the war’s over, I expect.’ Nellie sighed, adjusting the basket
hanging from her arm. But the people who’d lived there were unlikely to
ever come home, she thought. For all she knew they might have perished
inside when their house took a direct hit.
‘What if the war goes on for ever and ever?’
Lately the headlines screamed about RAF bombing raids on Munich
and Nellie felt her stomach lurch thinking about it. Whenever the British
had successfully bombed a German city, you could be sure there’d be a
retaliatory strike coming soon after. And that usually meant London would
be hit. Which meant the East End of London would be once more in danger.
Her little sister, only seven years old, could barely remember a time
before the war began, and it showed no signs of ending any time soon. As
much as the war had marred Flo’s childhood, it had robbed Nellie of her
teenage years when she should have been having fun without a care in the
world. Although, it wasn’t as bad these days as it was in the beginning,
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