The Changing of History Chapter 1 The Other Side of Dawn

Chapter 1

It’s been only 25 minutes since Fi (I think) said that I should write down what we’ve been doing for the past
months.
By the way I’m making sure I’m putting the ‘I’ before the E except after C.
That was Mrs Robinson’s (my english teacher) favourite saying.
I wonder where they all are; anyway I should probably get writing because I’m just doing this to escape from
doing
my job. That's what Ian does to skip what he’s meant to be doing. I guess there is only one way to do this and
thats
from the beginning. Wow it seems ages ago, funny to think its only been a few months.

It all started when Mrs Robinson decided to organise a local trip to Waitangi for the Waitangi day celebrations.
I decided not to go because of Netball and I needed to look after the farm,
Homer didn’t go because he said that he had to stay and look after the Cattle but I seriously doubt it.
Fi had to do Exams or something. Robyn had netball too and Will had senior rugby. Ian had to attend soccer
finals,
Mackenzie had some course work to finish up for  his shearing certificate.
And finally Lee had to keep an eye on the restaurant while his parents were away,
their chiller had been playing up recently.
Other than us the only people left in town were a couple of young families and old Mr Granger.

The day before all the sports started something weird happened, tourists and visitors stopped coming
. I tried to ring Fi but the phone was out. Next I tried to put the TV on,
but all that came up was a blank screen not even any noise. That evening around 7pm I heard them,
hundreds of Air Force planes flying low without lights.
It was Quite Dark so I could not see what country they were from.
Next minute I heard some shots from Front St.
Quickly I got Into the SUV and drove about 160 to Fi’s that’s how nervous I was.
It took quite a while because Fi’s house was right in the centre of town.
When I got there there was Fi just standing there looking like a ghost she was so pale.
‘W wh wha… what's happened’ she stammered. We went to the Police Station but no one was there ether.
By now I was Filled with terror. ‘I don’t think the Williamsons went’ Fi whispered finally they might no whats
going on” I just nodded I couldn’t get a word past the huge lump in my throat so Fi drove. When we got there
I just sat hoping that Homer's family knew what was going on.

Slowly the time stretched on three minutes, twenty minutes, one hour.
Then I saw a reassuring Shape Mr Williams he was talking to Homer and Fe I couldn’t
hear what they were saying but a few minutes later Homer and Fe came walking out of the house each
one had a few bags one on Homer's back In Homer's hand was a 22 rifle.
‘We’ve got to leave not the district but only leave town and go somewhere where no one will find us
and only come out if we see people that we know very well are looking for us’ Homer explained.
‘Ok’ me and Fe chorused together. ‘Lets go and get more people and try to help them too’ Fe said 'ok' but the
Adults
will stay and work the land. Next Minute a Shreech! Noise them Boom! By the Johnsons place.
On the way we went past the Johnsons.
It was a mess there was scattered wood and stone the roof was Burnt and all the stones scattered.
Mr Johnson the rugby coach had luckily been out while his family were away.
Mr Johnson is a big guy about 1.96 meters tall and 101 kgs
. We picked up Ian from Christos arbitrageur College and then we got Mackenzie from a farm just south from
where
we were. Robyn wasn't at her house when we got there.
We decided to wait for 20 minutes then we’d go and look at the netball court.