"Right." Orchid looks around her room.
She would of course be taking all of her things, but to be fair, she didn't have much.
Starting with her bed, she grabbed her pillow with embroidered flowers on it (Melody's handiwork) and her floral patterned quilt and stuffed it in her battered suitcase.
Moving over to a small chest, she grabbed her clothes which mainly consisted of blue frocks and well, blue frocks were the only clothes she'd bothered to get whenever they had let the girls go to the city to buy clothes.
Stuffing an endless amount of blue frocks into the suitcase as well, she picked up her beautiful hardcover book of fairy tales and gently placed it with the other things.
She then collected her set of calligraphy pens and an worn-out notebook and placed them next to the other stuff as well.
She grabbed her phone from her bedside table and stuffed it in her small purse(some rich people came over one day and gave them an endless amount of phones because it was 'uncivilised' to not have a device on hand) and kept that in the suitcase as well.
By the end of that, it was all she had.
Picking up her suitcase, she walked over to the door.
Just before she stepped outside she felt a pang of sadness.
Spending your entire life at an orphanage isn't enjoyable, but it was the only home she had ever known.
Turning back one last time, she looked at the now bare room, thinking of all the memories that had been created there with Mel... Mel!
Orchid had spent all her time thinking about having a new start but she hadn't even thought about leaving Melody behind.
Suitcase in hand, she rushed over to Mel's room where she found Mel sitting on her bed reading her book.
"Oh! Orchid you're back! What happened?" Mel looked up from her book.
"Well, I..." Orchid stammered, worried about Mel's reaction.
"Wait. Are you leaving?" Mel said disappointed, noticing Orchid's suitcase.
"Um, yes." Orchid looked down at her feet.
"Well you finally get to leave this place. Where are you going?" Mel asked with a sad smile, her eyes glistening.
"I don't know." Orchid looked up.
Melody's smile disappeared and she ran over and gave Orchid the biggest hug that could have ever existed.
"I'm going to miss you so much!" Mel sobbed.
"Me too." Orchid stuttered.
She had never realised what an amazing friend Mel was, but now that she was leaving her forever, all her fantasies of starting a new life melted into the shadows.
Mel let go and stared with wet eyes at Orchid.
"Wherever you go, promise me that we will never really be apart, and you have to call me too." Mel wiped away her tears.
"I promise." Orchid smiled back sadly.
"You...you, have to go now I suppose. Goodbye Orchid." Mel smiled sadly back at her.
"Goodbye Mel." Orchid looked at her friend, her only friend one last time, and then walked out of the room.
The sadness that filled Orchid's heart was unbearable, the thought of losing the closest thing to family that she had, it just echoed on and on in her mind about how nothing will be the same again.
YOU ARE READING
The 13th Sunrise
FantasiaDISCONTINUED THIS WAS SO CRINGE IGNORE THIS 'If there are shadows, it means there is a light' Orchid has lived all her life as an orphan in a drowsy orphanage in the middle of no-where, not knowing who she was and her capabilities. One strange visit...
