Reach For The Sky :)

 NOTE: Hey guys,, this is my first story and I wrote it when I was 13 years old, hope you guys like it..        (Inspirational One) 

        She was in the midst of darkness staring alone at the big round moon, hoping for the stars to fall. Then suddenly, the wind blows and the heavy snow falls. A dirty poor little child is shivering in the cold winter night with newspapers and a piece of bread on her innocent hands.

Suddenly, she heard a loud angry voice calling her name, “Daphne Foxworth!!”. A poor little girl with a big dream in life, a dream, that she already knew it will never come true. Again, an angry voice shouted her, when she turned and look at her back she saw her father bringing a stick coming towards her, she started to get pale, her body is shivering in fright, she kneels down, bowed her head asking for forgiveness but still her father beat her. Tears fall down from her cheeks, she wants to escape from the reality but she can do nothing but to sacrifice and accept the punishment.

       Ever since her mother died, after she was born, George Foxworth, her father became cruel to her. Because of poverty in the age of ten she was forced to quit school, instead she is ask to sell some newspapers in the street. Whenever she gets no profit from selling it, her father abuses her.

Later in life, her father remarried to Charlene Twain who puts a lot of pressure to Daphne, she treated her like a poor slave, she made Daphne cook, clean, wash dishes and till the garden. She was even made to sleep on the floor sometimes. And she suffered al of these without complaining.

One day, Charlene saw Daphne reading her favorite book…

“Hey Daphne, what are you doing here?”(Asked her stepmother in an angry tune of voice.) 

“I’m reading my favorite book tita,” Daphne’s reply.

“For what? It’s only a waste of time Daphne!”

“No tita it’s not. Through reading I can learn some lessons even though I don’t go to school.”, Daphne’s humble reply.

“Huh! You can’t earn money by that way! (She grabbed Daphne’s favorite book and threw it to the ground.)Here are some newspapers, go and sell it in the street! Don’t come back home if you can’t sell all of that!!”

          Daphne hid her tears, instead she obediently accept the given task. Because of her positive aspects towards her customers many of them ought Daphne’s newspapers until her cart was empty. She is very glad and excited to go back home and continue reading and writing stories.

Unfortunately, in her way back home she met a group of bandits. The poor little Daphne can do nothing but to give all her money. She went home sadly…

When she arrived home, her stepmother is standing in front of the door.

“Oh, and now you’re back!! Do you sell all the newspapers I give to you?”

“Yes tita but…….”

“But what? Where’s the money now?” questioned of her stepmother.

“Eh, hmmm…. I’m sorry tita, I have no money at all for a group of bandits trapped me along the road and get all my money… I’m sorry tita, please forgive me, I don’t expect it to happ….”

“Stop the drama girl!! Give me the money now! I know you’re only hiding it! Will you give me the money? Or else (Charlene gets a broom near the place where she is standing and bashed it to Daphne’s legs until it was bruised.)Now, won’t you tell me truth and give me the money?”