War

This is a fiction story about young girl from England’s involvement in the Second World War. (1939-1945)

This young girl was named Madeleine Finney, but her close relatives and friends called her Maddie.
Maddie lived in the outskirts of London with her mother and father.
Maddie’s mother, Katie was a waitress at there local diner and worked the day shift from nine till five, then she would return home prepare dinner for her family and do the house chores.
Maddie’s father, Jack was a pilot, it was his job to fly low over the crops of farmers to water them and he was sometimes used to spot stray cows that had wondered off at night, he was also a trick pilot and gave tourists rides. Jack would leave at six in the morning and be back around six in the evening.
Maddie worked in London at a barbers shop, ever morning at seven, except on Sundays Maddie would take the families farm truck and drive for around forty-five minutes to get to the barbers (which opened at eight) work there until four then drive home and assist her mother Katie with the house chores.
The first unfortunate event for the Finney family happened on a quite evening rather close to Maddies 18th birthday.
They was a knock on the door and Katie rose and made her way down the hall, when she returned however she was not alone.
With Maddies mother, was a man, he was in a dull green uniform and stood tall and straight. Maddie could tell that this man was involved with war; by the clolour and style of his uniform and the look on her mothers face told her that something wasn't right.
“Maddie go check the chickens are all locked in right we don’t want the foxes to get them” said Maddies mother.
And being the good girl they had raised her to be, she stood up and walk out the door to check on the chickens without a word of disagreement.
When she returned to the house her father had gone to sleep and her mother was doing the dishes.
Maddie went over to help, she didn’t ask any questions about the man in the uniform because she knew that she would get lies or she would just be ignored.
After doing the dishes Maddie went to bed wonder about the night’s events, wondering if something in her family was about to change.
Maddie woke early on the Sunday morning and went out to collect the chicken eggs for breakfast when she return her father was sitting at the table all packed as if he was going on a huge trip and wouldn’t be back for a long time.
When Maddie enter carrying in basket of eggs, he looked up and smiled as if nothing was wrong.
“Maddie” he began.
“Sit down, just listen don’t interrupt me, because this is important and you need to her it. I’m leaving to day and im going to a special facility to fight the Germans, its going to be ok im only going for about a year, and you can write to me from here.”
Maddie was speechless so many things were racing though her mind she was angry with her father and the uniformed officer, she was also scared. What if her father never came back what if the whole country was attacked.
Maddie was brought back from the troubles that were in her head by a knock at the door she stood up to answer it but her father stood up to and carrying his huge bag he left the house with out another word.
It had only taken Maddie 30mins to realise what she had to do. She had to become a nurse and go to war herself and make sure her father was ok, then right there and then she knew that she had to work fast she ran up stairs and packed her bags then she wrote a note to her mother to explain what she had done and why. The only thing she didn’t tell her was where she was going and what she was going to do, because she didn’t want her mother to come looking for her or to try and stop her.
And with that she ran out to the car and started to drive out of the drive way thinking of what in would be like to become a nurse.
Maddie drove into London; she knew that the war building was on the other side of the city, at that there was a good chance she would find out how to become a nurse there.
Maddie arrived at the building parked and quickly walked inside. There was an old man with thick white hair, smoking a cigar, sitting behind the small wooden desk looking though some official looking documents.
Maddie walked up to the man with surprising confidents.
“I would like to become a nurse in the war” Maddie informed clearly.
The old man sighed and mover around a few more papers until he found the one that he wanted.
“O.K then what would your name be then?” replied the old man.
“And how old are you?”
“My name is Madeleine Finney and I am 21yrs old” Maddie lied
“O.K then just carry on through there and you will find the dormitories to the left your door number is 15 and you will be sharing with three other girls the time table for your classes will be on the wall, here is a map of the grounds so you don’t get lost, classes start at 7:00am sharp, you will be ask some more questions later.
“Stunned at how easy that was Maddie slowly walked through the door wondering what her dorm would be like?

This is my work in process its nt quitte finshed in fact its a long way off but i thought some of you would like to read what i've got so far