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A Sick Game- A SICK GAME Somebody screamed at me, ?Vedran, lay down, lay down!? When something flew over my head, it was that bee sound that I had heard so many times before, only this time, much, much louder. Somebody was shooting at me and my sister while we were on the way to the well to get water for our family. While we were lying on the ground, the bullets kept flying over our heads. I asked my sister, ?Are you OK ?Yes I'm fine,? she said. ?But is dad OK I didn't even know that dad was there in the first place, but as we both turned around, we saw our dad lying on the ground and giving us a sign to stay quiet and down. I don't know how long we were lying on the dirty road, but it seemed to me like an eternity. My whole life flashed in front of my eyes. I know at that time wasn't much, because I was only thirteen, but it seemed to me a lot. Finally I looked up to see my dad, and he gave me a sign to start running towards him. While running, I was covering my little sister Irena, with my body, my little sister Irena. At the same time, one thought was going through my head; what was dad doing there? This wasn't really the perfect time to ask anybody anything, especially while somebody was shooting at us, so I let it go. The only thing that crossed my mind was my mom and my brother Igor. Page2 Prior to this whole incident, my mom and brother were on their way to a nearby Bosnian city to try to get Igor's girlfriend out of the war zone. Everybody knew that that wasn't such a great idea, but Igor is an extremely stubborn person. What he puts in his Prior to this whole incident, my mom and brother were on their way to a nearby Bosnian city to try to get Igor's girlfriend out of the war zone. Everybody knew that that wasn't such a great idea, but Igor is an extremely stubborn person. What he puts in his head is how it is going to be. My mom couldn't let him go by himself, so she went with him. Finally, my father, my sister and I arrived safely at the house. Nobody was hurt, so we were happy about that. However my dad didn't look so happy so I asked him, ?What's wrong, dad? We are alive.? ?Yes we are,? he said. But mom and Igor were shot. They are alive but they are injured pretty badly.? That is why he had followed us, to tell us what had happened. That was the first time in my entire life that I was scared, not because I almost got shot, but because that was the first time I felt that the war was not a game. The attitude that ?it won't happen to me? just disappeared. A few hours later Mom and Igor returned from the hospital. Just a few minutes before they showed up, I was back to my old self, thinking now that they had been shot in the arm or leg, I would have to do all the work around the house. Page 3 Irena and I were still in the house when I heard my dad, ?Hey, you two! They are here.? When I came out of the house I literally got scared again. It was a horrible picture. My brother Igor was only shot in the arm, but the woman in the front of my house didn't even look like my mom. Her eyes were full of blood because of the shattered windshield glass and she could hear absolutely nothing. She said only one thing, ?We are the luckiest people alive.? And they were. Thirty-six bullets went through the car. Only one hit my brother in the arm. Nine of them went straight to my mom's head. Five of them hit her but they kept bouncing off her skull. I didn't understand how that was possible, but later on I learned a little bit more about so-called Dum-Dum bullets. They are bullets that explode on contact