I didn't want Lamie to panic. I lied. Saying it was something else. A festival. She loved those, and she was so out of it after the injection for pain I had given her earlier started kicking in, she bought it.

I hoped it was just people fighting over food. That had happened before.

The gunfire wasn't stopping though. It was getting louder, and we could hear screaming. It was coming from multiple directions.

I ordered my sister under the bed. Told her no matter what she couldn't make a sound. [No other place to hide her.] The hospital was in a panic - our patients, our nurses, everyone was terrified and you could hear it through the walls.

I told Lamie I'd be right back. I had to find our parents.

But the soldiers had already arrived. When I found them at the entrance, the guns were training on them.