I was born December 13, 2000 with the name Riley Dawn Lowe.My parents were the kindest people I had ever met. I only had my parents,aunt,and uncle left in my family. But I was happy until the most unpredictable and heart wrenching accident happened on New Years Eve. My parents were on their way home from a party when they were passing through an intersection, that was sort of like a large plus sign in the road, their light was clearly green when a drunk driver barreled through his red light and nailed the drivers side. It killed my father instantly but my mother didn’t die until after a witness pulled her from the car and held her hand. Her last words were “Tell Riley I... I tried,...to always be the better person,...to always... look at the bright side” Her words were slipping away “And mostly...that...I’m...I’m sorry”Then she touched the strangers face and slipped out of the world and away from me.
My aunt and uncle wouldn’t take me in so I was forced to live in a boys and girls orphanage. Where I only had one true friend. His name was Dustin he was fourteen and the best looking boy I had ever looked at. He had dirty blonde hair that fell in his face just the right way and the most gorgeous blue eyes that sparkled in the light. All the girls in our orphanage were in “love” with him. But he only spoke to me even though I was two years younger than he was, and that made them mad. But what really made them hate me was when he would stand up for me during their practical jokes and pranks on me.
I was spending my first christmas in the orphanage with no family, one friend,a house full of people who despised me. I thought it was going to be a horrible christmas because well who wants to give a bunch of rotten orphans presents.
I was wrong, a family who had a lot of money bought each child three presents each. We were all surprised that they would do something like that there were over thirty children in our house, but no one was going to object.
On christmas eve we all went to bed early because we all were so eager to open our gifts. No one thought that anything would or even could happen. But around six A.M. I heard a huge crash downstairs. Then the sound of Dustin’s door opening and closing and the sound of him tiptoeing down the wooden stairs. I figured one of the little kids had gotten out of bed and gone down to wait for the rest of us to get out of bed. When I heard Dustin scream and then another large crash.
I was out of bed and on the stairs before anyone else could open their doors. When I arrived in the T.V. room I saw Dustin on top of a large man dressed in all black. He was in the process of robbing the place and had knocked a lamp over, when Dustin tackled him.
It was ten o’clock when the police finally left we were all glad that we could finally open our presents. I got a ballerina Barbie doll,a beautiful pink dress,and ballerina slippers. All of the girls were crowded around around Dustin while he opened his presents he got a pair of jeans,some action figures,and a pair of boots. He gathered all of his new belongings, pushed through the wall of girls, and sat down beside me. When I looked up at him he said “Riley...I love you.” He then leaned in and kissed me.
