𝕐𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝔼𝕕𝕨𝕒𝕣𝕕 𝕊𝕔𝕚𝕤𝕤𝕠𝕣𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕤 𝕩 𝕞𝕒𝕝𝕖 𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕣

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ONE DAY a woman was wandering around her street, she knocked on several people's doors, trying to sell some makeup, products- key word trying.
  She was fed up in the end, sitting in her car, sighing while she looks in her side mirror. She double-takes at the reflection, she notices the shabby castle that towers over the street. She taps her chin.

" I wonder... " she hums as she drives up the hill. Parking on a small patch of grass. She walks through the rusty gate, now admiring all the bushes.

"They're beautiful... Hello?" She perks up seeing someone in the corner of her eye. She looks up and a broken window. She walks up a couple of stairs and knocks loudly on the door.

" Hello? Anybody home? " she says sweetly.

She heard shuffling and expects someone to answer, But nothing came. She knocked a couple more times when she decided to push the door open.

"Hello? I'm not here to hurt you! Anybody here?" She chuckles. Her head jerks up as She heard noises coming from upstairs

She walks  up about three different flights of stairs before she's near her destination

"My my, what a lot of stairs you have, thank goodness for my aerobic classes." Her voice trails lower as she looks into this seemingly empty room. There is a huge hole in the roof. She goes towards it. The wind now blowing in her hair.
She turns around and sees a scruffy bed, there was a bunch of photos taped to a wall, they were all of hands.

She heard shuffling behind her. She turned around and slowly walked towards the source. She saw the outline of a man. Something was shining next to him.

"Oh, hello! Why are you hiding back there? The figure slowly edges closer towards her.
"You don't have to hide from me! I'm Peg Boggs, I'm your local Avon representative and I'm as harmless as blueberry pie-..."
She looks at the shiny object and realised it was a pair of scissors. Or multiple.

"Oh!" She starts to panic " I can see that I've disturbed you. How stupid of me...I'll leave now-" she turns around when she heard a soft voice call her.

"Don't go..." he sounded sad. She stopped and had a better look at what was in his hands.

"Oh my... what happened to you??" She says sympathetically.

"I'm not finished" he jerks his hands up towards Peg and she jumps.

"No closer- wait... those are your hands?" She repeats that to herself to help it sink in while he just stands there awkwardly. He seems extremely anxious.

"Where are your parents?" Her motherly instincts start to take control.
"Your mother?... father?"

"He didn't wake up" she nods slowly.

"Are you alone? Do you live up here all by yourself?" She then gets close enough to catch the sad-looking scars that cover most of his face.

"What happened to your face..." she says to herself mostly. She unwittingly reaches to touch the light pink scars. He jumps and snips his fingers, which causes her to retract her hand and quietly apologise.

"No, Sweety I won't hurt you... but at the very least. Let me give you a good astringent, and this will help to prevent infection. She starts to dab his face with a dry ass looking pom-pom. He looks as if he has never had human contact in his life, or for a long long time. Peg sees his uncomfortable stance and changes the subject.

"What's your name?"

"Edward"

"Edward... I think you should just come home with me." She smiles and nods. Then guides him all the way to her car and on the way to his new home.