It’s 1938  the year before World War 2 and Eleanor Williams is a sixteen year old girl  who lives in Melbourne with her best friend Harriet Clifford. Harriet Clifford is Eleanor’s best friend. They have always been there for each other so thats why they are best friends.

When Harriet and I went to school , we were bullied because we weren’t as rich as the other kids so that is why we were bullied. One thing the bullies said changed our lives.

“ I bet you girls won’t be able to go to war since you would be so scared,”  said one of the bullies.

“ No we won’t,” I told the bully.

“ Yeah, if we could go to war, we would!” Harriet said.

After that situation occurred, we started talking about the war and that Adolf Hitler was crazy just because Germany was on the losing side. They just have to get over it.

After school, Harriet invited me to her house so we could think of ideas how we could stop the bullying, but got off  track and started talking about war.

“ I think we should go to war,” I told Harriet. “Yeah but they only accept boys.” “ That is why we dress up as boys,” I explained to Harriet.

3 Months Later…

“Are you ready?”

“ Yeah,” I said back.

So then we picked up our things and went to a motel. When we arrived at our hotel, we got scissors and started to cut our hair. When we finished I said, “ Wow, our hair looks good!” and Harriet nodded .

“ Well we need to go to bed  so we can go to the administration center,” I said and after that, we fell asleep.

Next Day At Administration Center…

“NEXT!” said a woman, we both walked up. “ What are your names?” said another lady.

“ I’m Clifford Green and this my brother Will Green” Harriet said to the lady and pointed to me when she said my name.

“ How old are you?” asked the same lady.

“ We are both 17,” I said this time.

“Okay go through for your uniform.”

After we got our uniform, we wereshown to our room that we would stay in until war and we just rested.

Next Year 1939 Eleanor and Harriet arrived at Gallipoli.

When we arrived,we heard a big bang and we saw one of our soldiers shot a German soldier.  Straight after that, we heard one of our soldiers yell out ,“ GET IN  HERE!”  so we jumped into the bunker and then we could hear another explosion and I saw one of our soldiers  go down.

6 months later…

“ Wow, I can’t believe we have survived some of this,” Harriet told me, I nodded.  After our little conversation, we got our weapons and then we got out of the bunker. I saw a German coming our way and I shot him in the chest and he dropped down onto the ground.

In the far view, Harriet and I could see three men coming our way but they weren’t Australian soldiers, they were German soldiers carrying bombs and their guns. When I wasn’t looking, there was gun fire and I felt something hit my leg and I fell to the ground . I looked at my leg and blood was gushing out. Everything turned dizzy and I blacked out.

When I woke up, I was in the bunker with  Harriet and with some of our soldiers,  and the pain in my leg was gone so I stood up and grabbed my things with Harriet.

“ William and Clifford, while you were in here, lots of our soldiers got shot down and most of them died, so we need you guys to work hard .Okay?” said our captain.

3 years later

After we both got up,and we through a bomb in the german bunker and we took cover and we both saw an explosion with soldiers flying everywhere.

“Wow! that was so cool!” Harriet said.

“It was,” I said back to her.

“ When we went back to the bunker, our captain said to us ,“ Clifford and William, I am going to send you back home because you boys are too young and you have to be with your family” “ Okay, good luck and try to be on the winning side,” Harriet told him and  I  nodded. So then we packed up our things and head back home.

In Australia…

Home sweet home.” I said.

“ Yep,” Harriet said back in response.

When we went back to school, our bullies came up and said to us, “Where did you go?”

 “ Well we just went to war,”Harriet said back.

“ Prove it,” they said back.

“ Well, I have my uniform  and a picture.” I showed them.

The bullies faces went embarrassed. “ Oh, we didn’t know that you really went. We are sorry that we bullied you. We did it because we were jealous of  you guys. Can you forgive us ?” one of our bullies said.

“ Okay we forgive you,” I said.

Every day since the war, we became stronger and we haven’t been bullied ever since.