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A Fight
A fightOne day Yousuf and I were going to school, as usual. The weather was normal, and everyone was engaged in their routine. So were we. I was not feeling too lazy, so we decided to walk.
When we got halfway, some big guys 15 to 18 years old (I was 8 and Yousuf was 10) suddenly interrupted our conversations, snatched Yousuf’s bag, and passed it to another friend who took it and ran away.
At that time I got angry with them and tried to fight back, but the result was worse; they wounded me almost every parts of my body was injured and bleeding, especially from my head.
They didn't stop until I took a stone and threw it at them, and one member of the gang was injured and bleeding from his head, crying, asking for help. I got scared; without wasting a single moment I took my school bag and ran with super speed (or, as fast as I could).
I entered my home from the back door and hide myself under the bed in my room. After a couple of minutes I took a deep breath and came out, spending 20 minutes thinking of answers to all the intuitions (thoughts, concerns, worries, questions, ...?) which were coming up in my mind. Then I took a shower (which was a mistake).
(to be continued...)
(Part 2)
My wounds were hurting too much after the shower, so I ran to my mother and told her the whole story.
She got even more scared than I was, and she called a friend (who was a nurse). I don’t remember what she was talking about; I just remember that she warned her to never share this information with anyone, just come home and give first aid to her son.
Yousuf came home. He had gotten few injuries; the gang left him with his school bag and apologized to him for their actions and asked him to never tell anyone, as they all promised him they would never again cause any trouble to him and his friend.
That was the worst day of my life. I didn’t attend school for a couple of days, and for 3 or 4 days I never showed my face to my dad, until wounds cleared up, but he was a father, so he caught me at our first meeting. I apologized to him and promised that I would never do such a thing again. When I turned to 20 my mother told me that she had informed my father of all the details about the fighting and injuries that first day. She told me, "Your father wanted you to trust him; that's why he never said a word until you confessed to him."
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