Personal Narrative On Conflict

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I have always been surrounded by conflict. As a child, my parents fought over the smallest of things, like who forgot to water the plants or who left the washing machine on for too long. Occasionally, they would even lash out on me and my brother Kaiba. It definitely took an emotional toll on the both of us. Even so, Kaiba would always try to comfort me. He would say that even though our parents get mad, they still love us. Kaiba Raikan was a pretty small kid with short, black hair and brown eyes. Even though he 's my twin brother, it felt like he was much older. He was always able to calm me down whenever I was in a tough situation or was having one of my usual temper tantrums. He was always able to easily read what I was thinking or feeling, …show more content…
Instead of replying with the usual "Hey," though; he completely ignored his greeting and yelled at him for making a mess in the house. I had no idea what he was talking about until I remembered that our mom dropped a vase earlier that day and had told me to clean it up. I completely forgot about cleaning it up until that moment. Hearing all of this happening from my room, I decided to go save Kaiba. I told him that mother dropped the vase, but it was my fault for not cleaning it up. He started yelling at me instead. I knew I deserved it in the end, but for some reason, this time the things father yelled were much harsher than usual. He looked down at me with disgust and said things like, "I can 't believe I have such a worthless daughter that she can 't even clean up a broken vase," and "You 're trash! You were supposed to be better! Why did you end being so worthless? Why are you even …show more content…
Like any country, there has been a lot of conflict going on between ours and our competitor’s, Vairan. Long story short, Vairan threatened to invade Alitrus, our country, if they found any Alitrian spies on the Vairanian territory, and you can basically guess what happened next. Four Alitrian spies were found in Vairan’s capital within the course of a year. Vairanian soldiers were sent to invade Alitrus soon after. They sent hundreds of thousands of soldiers to invade Drolan Town in broad daylight-- it was so gruesome, the bodies laying out across the chaos ridden streets, the blood pooled around those who were either too slow to not get trampled or too unlucky to not be shot. I am still haunted by what I

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