Despondency

LENA'S POV

I couldn't hold myself back. After I heard the gunshots, I ran. I ran toward them, hoping Fritz was alive. I looked back and Lukas was running behind me. He looked worried too. Finally, I reached the wood were Hitler had walked them. I figured we probably weren't allowed to be here, so I crouched down behind a tree. "All of you are Jews. You have committed serious crimes and the punishment is death." Hitler told them. I wanted to yell stop, but I held it in. "What crimes did we commit, Führer?" one of them asked. "I told you. You are Jew's." "Now, take off your clothes and line up." he told them. At that exact moment one of them said "No." "Fine. Shoot him.". They immediately shot him and put him in this big hole. Then, they lined everyone up and shot them into the big hole, even Fritz. I couldn't watch. The horror and all because they were Jewish. I completely fell to the ground and everything went black.

LUKAS' POV

Lena started running. I don't know why, but I followed her. I heard more gunshots. I ran faster. He won't die. I told myself. When we got there, we hid behind a tree. I watched with Lena as they killed all of them for being Jewish. Then, women started sorting their clothes and took them home. I quickly ran out from behind the tree when no one was looking and grabbed my Papa's pocket watch out of his pants. I needed something to remember him by. Before anyone saw me, I ran back to the tree. "Oh no." Lena was laying on the ground, her eyes closed. Her face was deathly pale. "Did they take you from me too?" I asked myself. I didn't know what to do, so I picked her up and ran all the way home. If she was sick, I knew my Mama could take care of her. I burst through the door. "Mama!" "Mama!" I yelled in between sobs. She came running out of her room. "What is wrong?" she asked me. I couldn't answer. I just held Lena and sobbed. She seem to have saw Lena and took her from me. About an hour later she came out from the spare room. "She is all right, something must have shocked her." "What is wrong?" she asked me in a delicate voice. "Papa." I said "What about him?" she asked worried. "Hitler, he shot him along with Lena's brother and other men." I told her. I pulled out his pocket watch and we sobbed together. Having to tell her Papa was dead was the worst moment ever. Somewhere in the midst of all of it, I fell asleep.

LENA'S POV

I woke up with a startle. I couldn't seem to remember much. "Okay, calm down." "Just find out where you are." I told myself. I felt around. It was dark outside and I couldn't see much. I was in a bed. "Lukas' house." I said aloud my voice filled with relief. All at once everything came back to me. The killing, my brother, everything. I sobbed. For everyone who had died, for my brother, for me. "Why God?" I heard someone say on the other side of the wall. I walked into Lukas' room and saw him and his mother crying together. "Couldn't sleep?" his Mama said. "Yes, can I join you?" "Of course sweetie." she said in a soft tone. I walked over to the bed and got under the covers with her. I looked over at Lukas. Why is he crying? I asked myself. His Mama must have noticed because the she said "My husband, his Papa, was with your brother.". I nodded and started crying silently. She held me tight and did the same. We stayed that way until morning.