How The Bombing Changed My Life

The air was thick and dusty, the sky a dark gloom grey. Thick clouds of smoke and ash billowed from the chimneys of every factory as far as the eye could see. The factories all looked the same, tall grey box-like structures erected from the ground. There was no colour here. No happiness.
It had been 7 years since I last came to the city. I never wanted to come back, I thought the memories would be too painful, but Mr. Tom made me come. He said it would be good for me to get over my past. As I looked around, I remembered back to when the station was full of soldiers going off to the war. The bombing had clearly taken its toll on the city. It had been nearly a year since the end of the war and many factories were still damaged.
I had become so
accustom to the country life that I forgot what the city was like, what is smelled like, what it tasted like.
I never thought I would be returning to the city where so many bad memories took place. I walked down the station platform to a bench, the same bench where I found my mother that last time I arrived here, it looked to be the very same bench, even after all these years. The city had changed so much, it seemed to be the only thing that hadn’t, and everything was much more boring and plain.
I walked down the street looking at all the factories and buildings. The further I walked the smaller the buildings became, until they were just houses on the outskirts of the city.
I turned down the street of where I used to stay. I stopped outside an old house. My house. This is where I was abused, told I was useless and that nobody cares for me, this is where my mother left me. I never lived here, it was only a home in which I slept and ate. To me, my home is, and always will be, in Little Weirwold.
As the sky began to darken, the autumn leaves glowed a bright orange in the twilight. A red overlay covered the city. The sun a rich red and clouds a bright pink. I turned away and started to look for a place to sleep, an inn.
As the last light faded, the sky became a dark blue, the stars twinkling in the night sky and the
cool night air whistling in through the open window. I sat down my things in the room and laid on the bed. Tomorrow I will go visit the rest of London, to see what has changed, or what hasn’t. I will visit the school where I used to go, maybe it’s still open. Maybe it’s not even there, blown up like the rest of the buildings seemed to be.
Darkness overcame me and heaviness filled my eyelids, the strength to hold them open had long left
me.