inkling teen magazine 2021 - Flipbook - Page 5
8The Communist Party has taken over
Beijing. Families are fleeing, and we need
to get out. Fast!9
Their eyes locked together, thoughts
intertwined, as a wave of maternal
instincts washed over the mother.
Instantaneously, the left-behind girl9s
mother and father found themselves
sprinting towards the nearby docks, their
dazed children in tow.
They arrived breathlessly; the rhythmic
thumping of their shoes reverberating
through the boat station. They pushed
past swarms of distraught civilians, the
entire building heavy with panic. Luck
reigned supreme, and the family made it
to the last boat bound for Shanghai;
however, as the chaos began to diffuse,
the mother9s heart dropped to her
stomach. Her insides flipped, and she
underwent
the
slow,
cool,
allencompassing burn of pure fear. The leftbehind girl wasn9t with her siblings; the
family had forgotten her. As they were
shoved onto the boat by the masses, the
mother knew she had to go back, she had
to turn around!
She began to furiously push past her
obstacles, the bodies blocking her from
her child, but even she knew her attempts
were futile. As she stood, shoved between
hordes of other hysterical escapees, one
singular tear streamed down her face. She
was numb. As the boat departed from the
dock, hope departed from her being.=
Taking a breath I paused, my throat
burning with emotion.
Cutting through the stunned silence my
story had left behind, Angela whispered,
