Will it ever change?

Submitted into Contest #45 in response to: Write a story about change.... view prompt

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One normal evening, Mrs. Wellers was making dinner while shouting at the little ones to lower the volume on the TV. Alice the oldest was talking on the single phone they owned, to her friend Cary. "Mmm, that smells wonderful dear", David Wellers, the head of the family was home. Jessica Wellers laughed, "Oh David, what took you so long?" She kissed him on the cheek and told the children to wash up for dinner. "Ok, one minute mom" Alice shouted. Mr. Wellers put his suitcase down, washed his hands and sat down at the table. "Come on, Alice! Get off the phone!!" "Liam! Stop drawing with crayon on your little sisters face!" She ran to the bathroom and washed up the children for dinner and made them sit at the table. Than she went into Alice's room and told her to hangup. Finally, half 'n hour after Mr. Wellers arrived home, they started dinner. "Yum!" "Mom, this tastes awesome!" "pasa yum bum" "Mmm" The Wellers family appreciated the delicious food. 'Just another ordinary day" Jessica thought. After dinner, when the little ones were in bed, and Alice back on the phone, and Mama Weller cleaning up the kitchen, David said "Dear, come watch the news..another man killed because of his race". Mama let out a big sigh, "When will this stop? It's only going to get worse." she said. "Mama? What happening??" Little Liam asked. "David, off the TV you'll frighten the children." "Nothing honey, go back to bed." Once all the children were in bed, fast asleep David and Mama decided to talk. "It's getting worse and worse each day!" "What if something happens to us, I mean the people affected are colored too!" Mama said in worry. "Don't worry dear, we will be fine!" David said, but he himself wasn't so sure they would be okay. The next 2 weeks, went on normally, except more and more families were separated, killed. One evening, as usual, the kids were fighting, Mama was making dinner, and Alice was in her room. Rap Rap Rap. "Alice, could you open the door? It must be your father, he forgot his keys." Mama yelled. "I'm busy mom!" Mama walked over with one hand clean and one dirty and opened the door. "Hello dear" "How was your day?" Mama said giving him a quick kiss on the cheek. "It was OK." Mama washed her hands and took his suitcase and gave him a cup of water. He turned on the TV, mama continued cooking dinner. After 20 minutes she called everyone for dinner. "Delicious as always dear." Mr. Weller said with a smile. Rap Rap Rap Rap. "Who's at the door?" "David? Are we expecting guests?" Mama asked. "No..not that I know of." Mr. Weller walked over to the door and unlocked it. "Hello, can we help y-". It was a policeman. Mr. Weller turned around and mouthed "Kids, room, NOW". "Hello sir, how may we help you?" Mr. Weller said. "Weller household?" "Yes, this is it." "Is this er..- D-David J. Weller?" the Police asked. "Yes, and this is my wife, Jessica M. Weller" Mr. Weller pointed to mama. "You live here?" "Yes?" The police looked at his papers and went through a few. He told them "This household is under supervision". "Sir, w-why? We have done nothing wrong" Mr. Weller said confidently. "You are suspected for fraudery". "Fraudery? Sir, we have no criminal records as such and would never do anything of the sort!". The policeman looked up at him and said "Do not raise your voice to me, you un-educated, lying n***!". Mrs. and Mr. Wellers looked extremely angry and Mama was about to say something when she heard a creak from inside. The policeman glared at them and drove away. Mr. Wellers slammed the door and Mama ran to Alice and said "Why were you watching?!" "what did you see?!" Alice burst into tears. Mamas face softened and sat beside her on the bed. "Whats wrong honey?" "m-mom, why did he shout at you and dad? W-why did is o-our house under supervision?! W-what did we do?!" Mama looked down and said "Honey, I-I don't know, the world is unkind..but remember this" She looked at her " You are strong and amazing, and we WILL be okay, its just a period, it will get over soon." she smiled at her. "Now get some rest, its rather late" Mama said. "G-goodnight mom, thank you..I love you :)" Alice replied calmer than before. "I love you too, Good night." But it didn't get any better. Mr. Weller lost his job, because of his color and had to work as a janitor that didn't get paid much, Mama had to work as a launder to help support the family and also make time to come home for the kids, Alice couldn't go to the same highschool as before because the staff and children harassed her, due to her color. They had to move houses because they couldn't pay the rent, and now they lived in a small, old, shabby 'house'. It had only 1 bedroom with 2 beds and some pillows on the floors for mama and Mr. Wellers to sleep on, across the bedroom there was a creaky, dirty door for the bathroom. It was very small. A small, creaky, leaky tap with a bowl underneath for a sink and no cupboards just a toilet and a hose for baths. Than there was a VERY small rusty kitchen, with no tap and about 4 feet away a shabby rug with a couch with holes and rather old. The house had a few windows for light a 3 small weak lamps for night. It was a very old and poor home, and they didn't have much money..but they made it the best they could. It was hard, with the little amount of money they had, but Alice was studying harder than ever, Liam was trying his best in school and rarely complained, mama and Mr. Wellers were working very hard and they did their best. People become ruder and ruder towards them, they would stare, and curse and say rude expressions and words to their face. But the family tried to be happy..as they were together. Luckily, they managed to save up for a small, shabby old rusty Ford Anglia. But it worked, and rather well for its conditions. People even started to accuse them of doing crimes, like robbing homes or fraudery or dealing drugs. It wasn't pleasant at all. Liam and Alice got bullied. But it wasn't just them, all colored people were getting treated this way. Like I showed you before, the Wellers family are strong and positive. But this was the final straw for them. One day, Mr. Weller was driving home from his shift. Mama had already came home and started to make dinner. Mr. Weller had picked up Alice and Liam on his way home. They were just driving on the empty road, it wasn't very late..but probably around 8:30. They got stopped by a police. This was normal, police saying rude things to them, coming to their house, stopping them on the road..this was different. "ID, License." Mr. Wellers unfolded his wallet and took out the license and ID. "Here, and no, they aren't fake". The police scowled. "Get out of the car." Mr. Weller open the door, it creaked and stepped on the gravel road. "I've had enough of you. Don't you ever stop?" The police took out his gun and shot him. Thud. "DAD!" "DADDY!!!" Alice and Liam ran out of the car and bent beside him to his aid. Alice knew better than to talk back to the policeman, but Liam didn't. "YOU MEANIE! WHY WOULD YOU HURT DADDY!? I HATE YOU!" Liam burst into tears. The police looked as if he didn't care, he got into his car and drove away splashing mud on the kids. "get mommy" Mr. Wellers said with great difficulty. Alice told liam to stay there and ran to the house. "MOM!" She yelled in tears. "C-COME! DAD!" Mama didn't know what was going on but by the look on alice's face she ran outside to where the car was. "DAVID WHAT HAPPENED?!" She bent beside his and felt his pulse. She took out some cash and told Alice to find a phone and call the ambulance. "THE POLICEMAN SHOT DADDY!" Liam cried. I'm not gonna say what happened next in detail, because..I doubt you'd want to hear it. After 10 minutes, the ambulance found them and took him to the hospital. It was too late. David Wellers got to say he loved his family before he left. Their life was ruined, forever after that. Nothing could help them. Life was destroyed. I know this isn't a very good story but, its an example of whats happening in this cruel world. People are getting killed for no reasons. People are getting hurt for no reason. We need to change this! Aren't we all humans? Don't we all live on earth? Don't we all Eat to live? Breathe? We need to make this stop for once and for all. 'Humans is the only creature killing each other.' -The BFG. Stay Safe

June 09, 2020 04:48

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11 comments

Niveeidha Palani
08:03 Jul 21, 2020

A wonderful meaningful read, just one thing: Paragraphing would make it easier to read. It seemed all clumped up and hard to read.

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02:56 Jul 22, 2020

Thanks! I'm not really good at paragraphing.. 0-0 but I'll make it work!! :D

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Niveeidha Palani
04:10 Jul 22, 2020

:) No problem, have a great day!

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23:03 Jul 29, 2020

You too!! :DD

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Niveeidha Palani
07:17 Aug 01, 2020

:D

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A. Y. R
13:31 Jun 09, 2020

Despite it being quite jumpy, I think you really captured the senselessness of events that are happening in the world with your story. And I love how you managed to fit in that iconic quote from one of my favourite books! Though your story really does need paragraph spacing to make it a bit easier to read.

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13:38 Jun 11, 2020

Thank you SO much for your feedback! I'll make sure to add paragraph spacing. And thank you for your kind words ^u^

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Katy S.
10:48 Jun 10, 2020

I really like the dialogue in the first bit, and the story carries a strong and important message.

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13:40 Jun 11, 2020

Thank you <3

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07:36 Jun 09, 2020

A great lesson for our times. Your description of their hardships and poverty was very well written. I also liked your quote from The BFG at the end. Can't wait to read more of your work.

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12:33 Jun 09, 2020

Thank you so much! As its my first story, it means alot! <3

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