Wait what?!!!

The beginning [Part 1]

It was a normal day for the children at the so-called orphanage. The house belonged to an elderly woman in her forties who took care of children left behind by their real parents. The children would attend classes which were held every weekend by people who had moved out of the house. Those people also gave some gifts and a lot of their old stuff to them as well.

A lot of things like old phones, laptops, CDs, pen drives and even some furniture were common things they would receive from the townspeople and some others who knew about the orphanage. The children had made good use of them all too. Sometimes just using them as clothing racks or selling some usable parts to small time businessmen.

Other days they would all work in the farm. This was a way for them to earn money and to get enough food for them all.

Almost every child though had a hobby of some kind to pass the time. Usually, it would be something which they could sell. For example, making baskets or bags was something almost every kid knew how to do. Some would even set up a painting stall at festivals.

Though everyone had to tell the old woman what they were doing and where they were going. It was a must rule that needed to be followed.

Today was a cleaning day. Everyone would get together and clean every single spot of the whole house.

That meant that Veronica had to talk to some people as well. It's not as though she hated it but she was the one child above the age of 14 who wasn't already adopted. She would get made fun of because of that. The other children liked to make up stupid reasons for why this was so. She was the mature and hard-working type, on the outside at least. She would always be busy with something or the other. Always in her own little world.

Never taking proper care of herself, whenever some parents visited, she would be busy doing some kind of chore and made sure to appear like a boring individual. It seemed to have worked till now so she always kept her appearance messy in case she didn't know of a parent visiting.

'I wanna go back to reading the Naruto manga. I still haven't read Sasuke and Naruto's fight on chapter 219. I should probably go borrow the other volume soon from big sister.

Sasugay. Heh! I still laugh at those jokes and theories of big sis Lily. I wonder what it would be like in that world~! Well, I'd totally be falling in love with at least 10 guys in the Naruto world.'

Lily, she was a sweet sickly person Veronica had come across. They would spend a lot of time together. Lily was thinking of soon adopting Veronica after discussing it with her husband. They both knew that Lily couldn't bear children and taking care of a small child even for a week was a very tiring job for her. Veronica however, was very independent. She helped Lily and sometimes stayed overnight when her husband was too tired from work so she could help out with dinner and clean up the house for them.

'I wonder what manga I should read after Naruto though~ I hope they can adopt me soon! I wanna spend more time big sister!!!'

Death is the price you pay for love.