This week I am rewriting the ending of Tasting The Sky by Ibtisam Barakat for school, but I already liked how they ended it on a good note, so I thought I'd try and see how I'd flip the ending around.
As we hear the dreadful news of our leader Nasser's death, people carry coffins on the road to show their mourning and grief. My mom told me, that we have to move on and keep on rolling our lives, but for me, that's one of the hardest things.
I am now in second grade, and I do not like it. I want to go back to first grade, so I can be with Lillian my favorite teacher. Sometimes, I would try and sneak into the first graders line into the class room, but they always saw me and took me out. After giving up I started to like my new teacher.
At recess, I found one of Alef's friends looking really pale on the ground, so I thought I'd bring him home to make sure nothing happened to him. I put him in my pocket on the left side of my pants and went to the swing set to play. In the past few weeks there has been a lot more airplanes flying in the sky, I don't like how they make such a racket when they fly. At the end of the day I went home and told my mom how I had found Alef's friend, but when I reached into my pocket instead of finding Alef's friend I found my fingers going through a hole in my pocket.
I lost him I lost him I said in my head over and over again and again, my mother tried to comfort me, but I just couldn't stop thinking about it, I'm now the second person who has abandoned him. I asked my mom if I could look for him as fast as I could before it gets dark, she took a hesitant pause, then answered and said it was okay, but to make sure I got home before dinner and to take a flashlight with me. I thanked her so much and raced out the door looking for my new friend. Twenty minutes later, I was almost going to give up on the search, but I had one more place to look, the sun was setting and I needed to hurry, I ran to the school and looked at the swing set for my missing friend, when there was the biggest noise I had ever heard.
About five minutes later I noticed I was on the ground my ears were screaming from a high pitch siren in my head, as I got up, I noticed the whole earth had gotten all shaken up, so I thought it must have been an earth quake. The next moment I was racing down the pathway to get back to my house and make sure everyone was okay. As I got closer I noticed other people were running the same way and a strong smell unlike any other smell started to fill my nose, I ran faster and faster until I couldn't go any more, up ahead instead of my beautiful house with it's neighborhood and nice trees with wild animals and bugs, there were houses on fire, and black ground ,and black sky, and black everything. The thing that made my stomach churn and my heart drop, was that my beautiful house and my wonderful family and everything I had, was now just a black crater. I couldn't look anymore, I quickly turned and ran to some black grass, as I threw up in it, but as I was getting back up, I noticed a black stick in the path toward what used to be my house I then realized, it was my long lost friend, my only friend I had left my only family I had left, is now dissolving right before my eyes, just like my family did.
Today the sky is black, everything looks and feels dark as if all the love, all the peace is now turned to anger and revenge. No one is safe no matter where you go, because this is reality and nothing goes the way you wanted it to go, or at least that's how it ended up for me.
