Chapter 1
Whilst a storm, a family wondered away escaping the wrath of an angry high up, to reach a safe place called the cactus city to start over.
"come on my children rest here while I go find the mayor of the city" said the father then went searching, at the same time his three boys and one daughter waited for him under a large tree protecting themselves from the storm, the sound of wind filled the silence making the trees swing and dance on its loud music going left and right because of it, the soil of the earth was carried by the Reckless storm going forth and back causing eyes to tear up and sometimes to go blind.
a far away voice calling "we are saved, the mayor gave us an old house to move into with cheap price let's go and see" they went without any notion to see their new home.
it was ancient, crappy, a rotten wood was everywhere, the sound of wood cracking was so painful for the years, doors which doesn't have locks, and rooms with no lights whatsoever, "it's okay my children we are going to fix every bit of it when the sun comes up, now let's go in and inspect what we need to repair and start with what we can, look, i have a candle to help us see in the dark" said the father.
The sun came up when the rooster crow,thus the rooms started to be recognized little by little, buckets full of water from last night's as a result to water dripping from the cracked ceiling, the walls were full of rot in it's cracks therefore the humidity in the area, of course the doors and windows were opened to the fullest because of the missing locks, the floor was cracked too in some places as a result to the weight that was on it.
"let's start working" said the father, then hurriedly went with his older child Louis to buy their needs, the younger child was afraid of the house so he followed them to where they were going, the father after buying some of the things he intended to looked at the youngest and said "did you memorize the road sweetie? take this and go home, this is the food for today's meals, tell your sister to prepare them" the boy ran happily, he was so hungry at this point, all are.
"hello and welcome are you new here" the old owner said
"Yes I came yesterday" said the father with hopefully and bright smile.
"do you live in that house? it was owned by an old woman but she died, afterwards no one saw anybody come near it" said the old owner relieved as if he believed her ghost still lingering here.
"it's okay we can and we'll fix it, I have three strong boys who can help me with everything" answered the father who started to warm up to his new neighbor.
"if you needed any help ask me, don't hesitate, I live in that house over there, we can help you with anything you please" said the pleasant neighbor.
"thank you, you are a good man" said the father who started to tear up after feeling the warmth of the people, and he was going to be executed for a crime he didn't do, the father went back with Louie getting all the goods they both bought, and he started with all his children to work very hard on their new environment.
they finish their good work after a whole month and finally they have a place to call home.
during a dark night the mayor, the village head and the ministerial representative -whom comes to the city every now and then- came together to discuss what did happen in the city last month.
"let's begin our meeting, the new family that transferred here looks suspicious, mayor, why did you allow them to stay in the old woman's house with that price?" The representative said.
"the father came to me saying he wants to stay for a short period of time, so I gave him the old house hoping he will leave soon enough, never accurate to me that he will actually redeem it" the mayor answered worriedly
"I search for his name in the country's files he is from the neighboring country and he came escaping that new president they put not long ago, and this is his orders" the village head said determined
The ministrial representative showed a piece of paper written on it the law of strange people coming to the country and leaving the country
"it Sounds like a good idea, we will ask thim what happened with them and why did they run away" the mayor said wanting to wrap it up.
" what are you saying they are strangers, strangers, how are you asking us to live with them in the same area, I beg you to refraine from talking with thim, and do not give them any rights whatsoever"
the sun came back up as it does every day in the morning declaring the beginning of a working day, during that month the father and his older child cooperated with the city's men to help them with work in addition to their house redemption, the villag's head didn't seem pleased about it, them acting like it's their own country, so he began to cause problems very frequently, hoping they will go away and leave willingly, but they were always strong, never discouraged, never weak, returning to the work every time and staying on their feet whatever he had done.
there comes a Day and Louie the older child got murdered and his sister received a large amount of threats, a threat to get murdered and another to be raped, all the threats had been sent to the police to start an investigation to know who did that and capture them, but no clue whatsoever.
the kindness of the murderer strikes and his heart returned to throb as a human being, he sent the cold body of Louis, his family found an amount of cigarette Burns on his body as was a good amount of hitting marks, the family asked the police but they did nothing and the case was closed.
as a tradition the family prayed before burying the body, whilst the younger child left his head to look to the sky where his brother would be, he saw smiling brightly faces appears as if they were proud of something they did, the little kid went to see his father telling him about today and what did he saw in the presence of his sister and other brother the father decided to escape once more hoping this time would be the last
