Life Between Two People

Hi.

Today we moved. Today I met Adeline at the dock. Today I said goodbye.  Let me start with meeting Adeline at the dock.

It was pretty late when I got to the dock. I was rushing there though. I had to get there before Adeline left. If I didn’t I wouldn’t get to say goodbye. I got there right on time. She was just turning to get in to her carriage. I ran and yelled out her name. She looked back and ran to me. Here is our conversation.

( I start first.)

” Adeline. He–re. This is for you. It’s a pre-s-ent.”

” Nayeli! Thanks so much. It’s beautiful! Sorry, but I must go. My mom is calling for me.”

” Wait! I have to show you something.”

I showed her my bracelet and she started crying. Thats when I started crying too. I didn’t want to leave. I didn’t want her to leave. I didn’t have much choice. I hugged Adeline for a long time. She turned to go. I silently cried. I decided that I should go home. There wasn’t much I could do so I turned to leave.

When I got home I saw the carriage was packed. I ran in to the house to see that it was empty, except for my mother writing a note. I had guessed it was for Father. I asked her what was going on and she said that we were moving. Right now. We had no other choice. The war was to close to home.

That is how I ended up here. In the middle of nowhere and sleeping in a carriage. We are travelling all day. I am throwing out my diary now, I can’t stand to look at it when all of the things that happened, happened. We didn’t get any letter’s from Father since the last one I got. I only told Mother parts of it, since Father didn’t want her to know about some stuff that happened.  But, I guess this is the end of one journey to the next. The sun is almost up so I will throw this diary out the window. Bye.

Yours Truly, Nayeli.

Hi.

Early on, I had sent father a letter. I had asked if Adeline’s father or brothers were injured. I also asked how he was doing, how my brother was doing, if he was coming home soon and lots more. It was a few days ago when I sent it. I finally got a letter back from him. Here is how the day went.

I woke up. I was the only one up. I had guessed that everyone else had a late night. I went to bed really early. I was cooking breakfast for my family when I heard a knock on the door. I suddenly got excited. I thought that it might have been Adeline or Naki to come and have a fun day. Sadly it wasn’t. It was a guy who was holding a supposed to be white envelope. I say supposed to be because it had black ashes covering it. Anyways, when I opened the door the man yelled ” Delivery for Nayeli!” It scared me.

I told the guy that I was Nayeli and he handed me the letter. I said thank you and shut the door. I was nervous for what it was. I barely get any letters so this was odd. I walked towards the kitchen, reading my letter. I had to put it down for a second, so I could put the eggs on a plate. After that I read the letter. This is what it said.

Dear my sweet Nayeli,

Hi. How are you doing? Is the house going good? Is everything okay? I have been wondering about you and your mother a lot. Your mother wrote a letter to me saying that your sister moved out. She moved in with a young man. What a surprise. I have been fighting all day and all night. I am sorry I couldn’t get the letter to you sooner. Well here is to answer your questions. Well some of them anyways.

Adeline’s father got badly injured. I know that because your brother injured him. He should be returning home soon. That is if he is lucky. The war is still going on and he could be captured and tortured. Sadly, I will be the one who has to torture him. Another guy will be capturing him. If you find out, tell me if he got home, safely.

I am doing well. Your brother on the other hand, got shot in the leg. He is at the hospital right now. Please do not tell your mother this, or else she will be worried. She might even go to the hospital to see if he is all right. I don’t want her to do this. If you’re wondering why, it’s because the war is moving more towards the hospital. If she goes there, then she could be shot.

For my last answer, I will not be coming home on time for when you move. It is a shame I know. I had asked your mother in her letter where you are moving to. She still hasn’t answered, but when she does, I will be sure to go there when I am done in the war. I hope that it ends quickly. If not, I have no clue what will happen.

Well, my dear. I better go back out there and protect what once used to be my land. Bye.

Love, Father.

You know, I actually got teary-eyed from that. I wonder if Atohi is okay. But Father said not to go to the hospital. Maybe I could send him a letter there. That would be cool. I hear Mother coming so, I need to hide Father’s letter in my diary. Bye!

Yours Truly, Nayeli.

 Hi.

I am sad to say this but war has begun. I really dislike it and the worst part is, that Father is in it, but he in not the only one in my family that is in the war. My brother, Atohi, is in the war with them. They left yesterday and Father said that if they weren’t back in a few days that we should move with out him. Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you. I’m moving.

 Father has been saying that war will ruin the land. If war does begin, we have no other choice but to move. War has begun, so that means we are moving. I have not talked to Adeline yet but I really need to because I have to know if she is moving to, and if her family is safe.

Before Father and Atohi left for war, Mother packed them food, clothes and a couple blankets for when they sleep, that is if they get to sleep. Mother told me that war could go on for days, weeks, months and even years. People do all sorts of crazy things. They plan attacks at night, they come and shoot people unexpectedly and they torture people. I almost puked at the thought of Father and Atohi being beaten and tortured. It made me really sick. I decided to go lay down in my bed.

Mother said that if I am a good girl, while we still live here, I might be able to write Father and Atohi letters. I asked if I could write Adeline a letter but Mother’s face got all red and she started yelling at me about the French should not be my friends and I should not make any connection to them. I almost cried. I am about to leave and I won’t even get to say bye? I am sure she wouldn’t be too happy if her mother said she couldn’t say goodbye to her friend. Adults don’t understand us kids.

Last night, I walked past Mother’s bedroom and all I could hear was her sobs of pain. I decided that I should go comfort her. When I walked in, she sat up and asked what I was doing. I didn’t say anything; I just walked over to her and hugged her. I slept with her last night and it feels that we have a better relationship.
Moving. It seems so awful, but what will it be like? I have been living in Quebec for my whole life. We don’t even know where we are going to move. All we know is that if Father and Atohi aren’t home in a few days, we are leaving without them. I wonder how they will find us. Maybe we will leave them a not so if they come back after we leave, they know where we are going. I hope Adeline can go on the computer and read this. If she doesn’t then she might not know that I am moving. That would be terrible.

Mother went to the grocery store and she said she would be back in half an hour. It’s been 28 minutes since she said that so I should go. If she catches me on the writing in my diary (she doesn’t think it is good for me), which might ruin the relationship that we just built yesterday. I wouldn’t want that to happen because Mother said that we would need each other a lot through this time. She said it would be hard if Father and Atohi don’t come back, but we will have to survive. I hope that we can survive, because Father and Atohi always get the meat and things to trade. If we have nothing to trade then we will be poor and we will die fast. But yes, I must go. Bye.

Yours Truly, Nayeli.  

Hi.
It has been almost a week and Father just got home. There is only one reason that has terrified me. I guess I should tell you.

Last night I was up really late writing in my diary. Mother had said that during the day I could only write one hour. So I went on at night for longer. It was about midnight when I heard a noise by the door. I quickly turned shut my diary and went to go see what it was. It was Father with two other men carrying him. I opened the door and the men thanked me. Father talked to them for a while and then they left. So I decided to ask where he was. And this is what happened.

“ Father, where have you been all of this time? We have been worried.”

“ I have been protecting my land, I only came back because I hurt my leg.”

“ What do you mean by protecting?”

“ I mean that I took my gun and started shooting at the people who try to take it.”

“ You were shooting at Adeline’s dad!?”

“ That is most likely. Why?”

“ Father, you could have killed my best friends father. Is that what you want?”

“ Right now I don’t care about anyone’s father’s. All I care about is my land. Now go to sleep young one.”

And that was pretty much it. I really need to know if Adeline and her father are okay. I will hate my father if they both aren’t. Even if one isn’t I still will hate my father. He has to go to the hospital in the city tomorrow. I will probably go with him, if I am allowed to.

Adeline will most likely move. That depresses me. We have only known each other for a few weeks. I was hoping that we could live to be great friends for a long time, but all of this is happening. My father has falling asleep, and I can hear his deep breathing in the background. I wonder if he is happy with himself. I wouldn’t be.

I saved up some money, so that when we go to the city tomorrow, I will be able to buy Adeline a goodbye present. If I have enough, I think I might buy her a best friends bracelet. It comes with two, so I could keep one and she can keep one. If I don’t have enough money, I can just get her something that she will remember me by.

This will be one of my last diary note. I started writing around when I met Adeline, so I decided to stop writing around when Adeline leaves. I think that it is only fair for her and for me. I guess it would be okay to come back on here once in a while. But this isn’t my very last diary note. It is just one of the ending diary notes. So, I guess I should go and get to bed, before the sun comes up! Mother would kill me if she found out that I was writing in my diary almost all night. Not to mention she will be in a bad mood with the whole father thing. Well I must go for now. Bye.

Yours Truly, Nayeli.

Hi.

Wow. Was this night ever eventful. Let’s start from me leaving.

I had told my sister that I was going to hang out with a few friends, just so she wouldn’t question me. I had to sneak out of the house with my bag of clothes and things. I decided that I would walk first then when I thought I had enough energy, I would start running. At home I had planned where to stop if I got too tired. About half way there I had enough energy to run for a little while. I only ran for twenty minutes until I got tired. I decided to walk from then on.

I got to Adeline’s house by the time my parents would get home. By the time I would have been in bed. By the time they would be looking frantically for me. I shook off all of my bad thoughts and knocked on the door. Adeline answered. She was in her night gown and she looked surprised.

I told her that I had to come, to get away from all of those weird feelings that I wasn’t used to. After she made tea and we talked while eating cookies. Her parents were sleeping, so they had no clue that I was there. After about an hour or two we heard a knock on the door. We were so surprised we forgot that it could be my parents.

As we opened the door together, we saw the angry faces of all my family. I didn’t get to say one word, because all that happened was my father pulling me by the shirt, into our carriage. I waved, silently to Adeline.

Now, I am back at home. I was in a lot of trouble, so I have to do a lot of chores. It really sucks. After last night, my father took his gun and he left. He isn’t back yet. I have a bad feeling about this. My mother said that he loses his temper easily. I hope he doesn’t lose it on the French people. That would be terrifying.

I must go. Goodbye.

Yours Truly, Nayeli.

Hi.

Do you know what I hate? I hate emotions, feelings. Ugh! I hate them but that is not the only thing I am mad at. I am very angry with Mother. She would not let me talk to Adeline or even Naki. It makes me mad. So that is when I made a plan. Here it is:

I know that every Sunday night, Mother and Father go out for dinner. I also know that Abequa is trying to get all of the kids out of the house so she can have a romantic night with her boyfriend. And I know one more thing. I am going to run away on Sunday night.

Devastating, I know. But I need to go visit Adeline to warn her that my father is going to attack them no matter what. And if we don’t do anything, one of our fathers is going to be killed. I am scared.

Sunday night, I will start walking to Adeline’s house. I will have a bag packed with some of my stuff. I will bring food, of course. If I run for half of it, I can get there before nightfall. I think my plan will be very good. I cannot wait. It will be fun.

This is what Mother and Father deserve. I do so much for them and now they are being mean. I say laugh at them, because they have no clue about anything. I must run to go pack. Night!

Yours truly, Nayeli.

Hi.

In life a lot of people get confused. But I think by far that I am the most confused person I know. And why? Well you will just have to read a little bit more to find out.

I have been sneaking around my house. Ever since I heard the conversation with my two parents, everything has been weird. Abequa told us not to tell Mother and Father about her and her lover. I have no clue why. She said something about being dishonest and that if they ever found out she would be kicked out of the house. I am scared of that. And it is not only that. Father doesn’t come home until late in the night.  It terrifies me. When Father comes home, you can smell the alcohol on his breath and he sways. I think he is drinking so he can become fearless and fight the French. Tomorrow he is going to the Fur Trade. I think that is when he is going to attack. Mother started packing our clothes. I asked why and all she said was “Father.” I am tired of living like this. Why can’t anyone tell me what is going on here! Only one good thing will happen.

The good thing that will happen is that Adeline is coming here and she is bringing her brother, Naki. We will be getting out of the house, and that is what I need, really badly. If anything happens between my people and the French people then we will be moving or the French will be moving. It is bad both ways, because I won’t be able to see Adeline.

With all of this stuff going on about the French, I hope that I am wrong. I might have heard the conversation wrong; it might not have been about the French. It might not have been a real thing. It could have been a dream. I hope it was a dream…

Yours truly Nayeli.

Hi.

I am so confused and it’s been bugging me like crazy! Here, let me tell you all about it.

It was morning and I was just getting up. I was in my bedroom, pulling on my shirt when I heard some whispering. I decided to go check it out. The whispering was coming from the kitchen. I thought that it would be important so I was crouching on my knees and stuck my head out to hear. This is what was said.

(Father talks first)

” They were saying that they are going to colonize on my land!”

” Honey, maybe you should try talking to them.”

” Talk!? Hah. If I tried to talk to them, someone’s head might ‘magically’ fall off. And it won’t be pretty”

” Well, what do you plan to do?”

” My plan is to attack them. Right in front of their noses. They won’t even notice”

” And after you attack them, they will probably come after us.”

” We move.”

” Darling, I still think this is a bad idea…”

And that was it. My father stormed out of the house. I really need to tell Adeline about this, but I am afraid she will tell her father and her father will kill my father and we won’t be friends anymore. Darn. I am confused. I hope things will eventually turn out for the best. Oh guess what! Ata’halne was going to do the laundry and he found Abequa with her friend she met at the festival. He said they were making love and that they will probably get married. I hope so; maybe I will get a niece!

I must dash off now. Bye!

Yours truly, Nayeli.  

Hi.

Oh what fun Adeline and I had today. It was absolutely great! You must listen to what we did!

Adeline had just come in to town, when we were starting to cook breakfast. We were having eggs and toast. Adeline had said that she already ate breakfast, but from the travel she was hungry. Adeline and I were excited about what fun we would have, so we hurried and ate our eggs and toast.

After eggs and toast, I decided to show her around the village. She was surprised at the stores we had. Whenever we would walk pass one she would whisper, ” I didn’t know you had that store.” I found it weird. I think she wanted to go in to them though, because she kept on pulling my hand. Finally I let us go in. We went to this one store, and we tried on tons of clothes, I was laughing so much, my stomach hurt. After playing dress-up in the store we went to meet Algoma.

Algoma’s house is the biggest in the village. It’s the biggest because her father is the chief. Mother gets nervous when we get in to fights, I don’t see why. Algoma gets a lot of toys, and she is spoiled. She says its because she’s ” daddy’s little princess” She has no brothers or sisters. I don’t think Adeline liked her much. She kept making this sour face. I thought Algoma was being a tiny bit rude, and that is why. Okay, I lied. Algoma was being very rude. I think Algoma thought Adeline would steal me away from her. Haha, I wouldn’t let that happen.

Anyways, it was lunchtime so we had to go home. For lunch we had some chicken and milk. It was tasty. For dessert we got to have donuts. Yummy! We were going to go swimming right after lunch, but we had to wait until our food was digested. We played some card games until Mother said we could go.

I jumped in to the water, and I accidentally splashed Adeline. She giggled. It was a weird giggle though. It sounded like a pig! Anyways, after I accidentally splashed her, she jumped in, and started splashing me, in the face! We were giggling a whole bunch that day. We swam for the rest of the day. It got ugly just before supper.

Adeline and I were playing some games in the water when my worst nightmare came. His name is Akecheta. We heard him coming, so I decided that we should leave, it was suppertime anyways. We were just getting out when he got here. And this is the conversation we had.

” Hi missy. Where do you think your going?”

” We were just about to leave. ”

” Oh, and you think I would let you leave without bugging you?”

” I knew you would bug me, but I was hoping you forgot.”

And the next thing I knew, I was back in the water. With ALL my clothes on. Boy, was Mother mad. After supper, Adeline’s father came to pick her up. I was a really good day; too bad it didn’t end better!

I can’t wait until the next time she comes. It will be even better than today! Anyways, Mother is calling me to go to bed. Night.

Yours Truly, Nayeli.

Hi.

I decided to write another diary note on meeting my new friend, Adeline. I am so excited about it; Mother says that I am getting pretty annoying when I talk about her.

Adeline is a very beautiful girl. She has big round eyes, with black, straight hair. I wish I could have her beautiful hair. She speaks French most of the time, but when she speaks English, she speaks with a French accent.

Adeline just moved here from France. She told me that her people a going to make a colony but she does not know where. She tells me a lot about her people and her family. She lives with both her parents and her 3 brothers and one sister. When her father and brothers go hunting she stays home with her mother and she cooks, cleans and makes clothes. I think that we are going to be great friends.

When Adeline gets here, I am going to show her around my tribe and introduce her to my best friend, Algoma. Algoma name means valley of flowers, because that is where she was born. It is kind of weird. I think Algoma and Adeline will get along great. After Adeline meets my friends, I think we will go for a swim. I don’t know what else we will do, but that’s my plan for now.

Anyways, Father is home from work. I think supper is ready, too. I need to go though. Bye.

Yours Truly, Nayeli.