I - (polaroid)

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2005

"mom? can I go outside? I will just take photos of those flowers please?"  an 8-year old kid with a skinny body pleaded her mom. Lisa is celebrating her birthday in an orphanage that her parents sponsors.

"okay just be quick you will blow your candle in a minute okay?" her mom answered and the kid gave her mom the most precious smile everyone
loves.

The kid runaway with a smile on her face.

"you always tolerate Lisa with her taking photos of this.. of that!" the kid's dad whispered madly to her mom.

"Lisa is just a kid Marco! sooner she will change her mind. She's just fantasizing cameras or anything a kid must have this days" Lisa's mom responded

"You as her mom should tell her in the first place that she will handle the company at the right time!" her dad argued.

"just relax honey she just turned eight for fuck's sake--"

"excuse me? shall we start with the program madam..sir?" A nun from the orphanage interrupted.

Meanwhile..

"capture..capture.. let's capture flowers..." Lisa sings as she happily walking and capturing everything her eyes pleases.  A chilling cry from a kid and a man's angry voice distracted her happy moment and gives her a disturbed feeling.

Not far from her place, she saw the man grabbing the shirt's collar of a youg girl around her age with one hand and one hand lifted up.

A second after, the man slapped the girl that gives her the urge to fight for the girl remembering the man hurting the girl, is the same man she saw when she went down the van a while ago who's cutting the dried leaves on the orphanage's garden.

"hey! you!" she fearlessly shouted to the man that caught his attention.

As soon as the man saw who is shouting, he quickly put down the kid and bow down to the owner's only child.

"he-hello M-miss Bruischweiller.. What are y-you doing here?" the man stuttered.

"If i caught you hitting other kids again, I will tell this to dad and you know what will happen next mister" Lisa bravely said to the big man who is bowing down in front of her.

"I-I'm sorry Miss Bruishweiller, But my daughter is a pain in the neck that's why--"

"still, you don't have the right to do this to kids mister! now go! before I tell dad all of this!" 

The man gave the little kid a dagger look before running away from the scene.

"Let me help you" Lisa said while helping her to stand up.

"why do you let your dad do that to you?" Lisa asked but she got stiffen when the other girl hugged her while crying.

"thank you..*hiccups* thank you for saving me to that man" the kid said between sobs.

"wait! that man? I thought he is your dad?" Lisa asked.

The two sits together on the fountain while licking the lollipop that Lisa always have on her pocket.

"he is just my second father when my dad died from cancer. My mom died in an accident then my step-father send me here" the little girl explained.

"but he is the gardener here. Isn't he?" the skinny kid confusely asked and the girl just nod.

Both kids are having fun capturing one another with the polaroid camera when Lisa heard her mother calling her.

"so you're name's Lisa? "  the little kid asked as lisa happily nodded.

"we should go inside mandu" Lisa said.

"mandu?" the other girl confusely asked.

"Mandu.. A korean term for Dumpling.  Since you're not giving me your name, I should call you that because of your fluffly cheeks"  Lisa teased while pinching the other girl's cheeks.

"so should I call you stick? because you look like one!" the other girl teased back.

"maybe that's fair enough mandu!" Lisa pinched her cheeks then runaway.

"comeback you stick!" the other girl run after her.

the day passes so quick that it's time for the two kids to say their goodbyes.

"So.. Mom will just talk to Sister Maeng then we will go" Lisa explained which made the girl sad.

"hey don't be sad we will be back soon then I will bring mandu for you. hahahaha" Lisa teased but stops when she saw the other girl still in her serious face.

"it's okay Mandu.. Mom already talked to the sisters to take care of you and warned your step-dad. They will protect you." She pinched the little girl's cheeks once more and ready to leave when the girl stops her by grabbing her hand.

"wh--" Lisa stops her tracks.

"take this!" the other girl said and gave the little box to Lisa then runaway while waving goodbye.

"see you again soon stick!" the other girl said waving her hands.

As Lisa's parents are sleeping inside their car going home, she silently opens the box and a smile formed on her lips when she saw her mandu's favorite yellow stone with written names on top of it (mandu & stick) and a copy of their picture together. She notice something on the back of
the picture.

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