Interlude 4.1 Wyatt's History

 

NOTE:  The racist viewpoint used in part of this chapter is not my viewpoint but the viewpoint of the racist unnamed political party members and its unnamed leader. 

Wyatt and I spend more time together and he told me in his broken English about the country of Afana and why his family had to escape. 

Both his sides of his family had come over to Afana as slaves for the royal family the Benavides in the 14th century .  But they were able to buy their way to freedom.  By Mr. and Mrs. Woods' time  (Mrs. Woods, have asked her to call her Auntie Rain) that Aunt Rain has become a doctor at the local hospital while Mr. Woods was a successful businessman.   The royal family had been around up until five months ago which is where Wyatt's story begins 

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A week or so before the royal family was found murdered  Mr. Woods found a mysterious toddler girl on their doorstep of their then-house.  The only clue to whom she was-was a picture of the royals.  Byt this point then been rumours that the Eldest Princess' royal boyfriends been killed. So the Woods had a family picture taken.  But a month later EVERYTHING WENT TO HELL!

First was lies like "They illegal come here, get jobs to put them in our nice clean banks no wonder our economy tanking.  Because the dirty illegal, dangerous drunkard criminals  N- backing our banks!"   and also "Why are this illegal N- women so loud and argumentative?/. and why are they allowed to be Doctors and Journalists! They should be docile and know their place-- IN A WHITE PERSON"S KITCHEN!"   Which caused both Mr. Woods and Aunt  Rain to lose their jobs.  Then soldiers came and arrested the parents and took the children away they both the children and the parents ended up in the same place a one-floor house a very dirty "ghetto"  with another family-which only consisted of one person. Mr. Griffin. 

Now that they lived in this 'ghetto" house- in the house Auntie Rain had to dress modestly- and have her head uncovered but if she DARED to go outside to like GO to the MARKETPLACE not only did she needs to have her head covered,  but she MUST be accompanied by a male relative. 

Mr. Griffin got the news that his family members were killed in "camps" and that he and Woods' family would also be taken to this kind of "camps" on trains like cattle.    How does Wyatt know this? Because Mr.Griffin told him himself after he finished the phone call since Wyatt asked him like he was upset.   Mr. Griffin and Woods' family got to the border of Afana before he was shot but Mr. Griffin had given Mr. Woods information which led them to a safe house which they could get passports without birth certificates and come to Windenburg

I have recently gotten word from my parents that our country and others have gone to war against the country of Afana due to the camp killings and other reasons.

4.1 Refugees

 

ciria: 1976

Dear sports diary..  there's a new family in town!   They're called the Woods.  Their son, Wyatt, is Cora's and my age.  He speaks better English than his parents but still broken English. He has a bit of a tragic past.  He was  excited about our family's washer and dryer when their family came over but I should start from the start 

The Woods comes from a county called Afana. I overheard Wyatt get excited about the washing machines.  I did wonder why Mrs. Woods wore the head covering. I tried asking my Dad about that but we got interrupted  by Mr. Woods 

"HOW DARE YOU ALLOW YOUR WIFE AND DAUGHTERS TO PARADE AROUND IN THEIR SWIM SUITS! DON'T YOU HAVE ANY SHAME?"  Dad said "Look I'm just a so-called "Mr. Swanson". here since it's my wife's legacy, not mine.  Trust me, you don't want to want to try to get Swansons to confirm with anything, not with their history!"  I then went and played a game of chess with Wyatt. With that, he told me in broken English  that they're refugees

After the Woods left- I asked Mom "Mom, what's a refugee?"  At first, she was hesitant to tell me but she told me "a refugee is someone who flees their home country because of war or persecution.  Your great-grandma Clarissa, was one as well since she was persecuted for supposedly doing witchcraft 

Over the next few days much to Cora's hatred we're forced to play with Wyatt together in a park.  Cora HATES being outside.  She's an indoors person.  And Wyatt and I always make her the bad guy in our games and she hates that 

Interlude 3.2: Toddlers

Note: I don't believe in spanking 

1971-1973

Dear Diary its been such a long time since I wrote in you.     But I have my hands full with three toddlers-Elizabeth, Cora and  Elliot. Cora is such a bad influence on Elizabeth so we have to punish her severely. 

Cora not only tries to claim that Elizabeth was the one who made the mess in the kitchen area. But that's impossible she's much more responsible for that. I had to punish Cora for lying. and for the mess in the kitchen/living room.

Then after Mom painted a picture of David and I Mom and Dad helped the Elizabeth and Cora be in the kiddie pools. But then we had a fire with our new washer and dryers. Then for no reason Cora bit Elizabeth! So Dad had to punish her for that 

Then out in the front yard one day when the toddlers came home from the daycare the two got into a fight but Cora started it so that Mom had to punish her.   Then both kids got hunry Elizabeth was a good child and eat her food.. Cora on the other hand made a mess of her food and spilled it onto the floor so David had to punish her.   I had right before I got pregnant with Elliot a playdate with Elizabeth and Cora with other toddler children some of whom were related to us. Like one of David's nieces either Jo or the other one  Esmerlda -both of them look like David, his twin sister and their brother and a different  cousin Charles  so it's confusing  and a distant cousin of mine the future Anneroine priestess  Julianne Priestess    It went pretty well. 

David was one of the only people to touch the new son or daughter.  It turned out to be a son and we named him Elliot and now he's 1 year old and the twins are three they're going to be children  soon -well not Elliot but the other two. Let's hope the Cora starts behaving herself now.