Fireweed

Story took place in the 1940's during World War II in London.The author discuses the life of a young man named Bill and a young women name Julie who lived on the streets and managed to make it on their own.

The book opens up with a young man reminiscing about the past where he met his best friend who also became his partner. He was fifteen that year, the year he met Julie. He was in the underground station living as he usually did and he saw her wandering around. HE went to introduce himself when she was startled and ran away. He managed to stick with her until she got tired of running. He asked her what her name was and she replied Julie,and he told her his name was Bill.They got to know each other and decided to get some breakfast together at Marco's, since Julie didn't no the streets too well. Bill was very happy that he had met someone, because ever since the war had started he had felt very lonely. Julie was just as happy because she didn't want to be wandering the streets all alone and no one to talk to.Julie was curious how Bill had gotten to be on the streets, so he told her over breakfast.

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One night as Bill and Julie where getting ready for bed they noticed a strange man wandering around the shelter. They both got very scared when he started to question them, so they picked up their things and ran, of course he ran after them, but Bill and Julie didn't want to take any chances of being separated. They headed for the shelter down the street, once again they tried to get ready for bed and Julie noticed a women who she had known coming around checking things. She became very scared and insisted that they leave. Bill of course went along with whatever she said so she would be happy.As they went upstairs all they heard was loud gun fires and bomb going off, Bill nor Julie wanted to be out there but they didn't want to get separated. They decided to spend a few nights in the next town. As They were crossing the bridge the noises just got louder and as they were half way across there was a big explosion. Both of them were pushed up against the rail. That frightened them very much. As they crossed the bridge they noticed all the dead people laying on the streets. They were afraid of what they have seen and what they just saw. After about a week Bill got home sick and wanted to go back to the firmilier side of London. So the headed back over the bridge to Bill's Aunt's house . When they had gotten to where the house once stood there was just a giant hole in the ground. Bill became very upset and had to find somewhere firmilier so they went off to the park that he used to play at when he was kid. They spent most of the day there. Towards the end of the day Bill was looking off into the distance and he saw his father, he had come back for the war. HE took a jump start and yelled back to Julie "I have to catch my father" and ran as fast as he could. As he was just about to jump over the fence not taking an eye of of his father he heard Julie's soft innocent voice say, "Good Bye Bill!" He froze, he couldn't move. Just hearing her voice like that made tears come to eyes. He turned around loosing site of his father and looking at Julie he stared to walk back towards her. She had tear stains on her dirty skin. She must have apologized 100 times because she thought she was the reason why Bill turned around and left his father. Bill thought even though she was he wouldn't let her live with that gult.She then took him to a place that was firmilier to her. They went to Julie's aunts house which has been knocked down. They went into the house and Julie took Bill down stairs. They knew that the room in the basemen

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