I got up from my desk and began to walk out the door.
"Wait, Alex." Said John who was taking so long to put all of his things in his bag. I waited at the door like I always do until he finally comes running to the door because he realizes we are the last two to leave the room. It always makes me laugh when he runs in those stupid shoes his mom makes him wear. They're to small for his feet so he kind of waddles like a penguin. We both walked out with me laughing and him being annoyed that I was laughing.
"You run like a penguin!" I kind of said laughing.
"I know I run like a penguin. You tell me this everyday. I've come to the conclusion that I walk like a penguin." He said now kind of dragging himself.
"Awe, come on now. We can find you some kids cuisine!" I said laughing so hard that I fell on the ground. Thank god nobody was there.
John and I walked into the lunch room and began to walk to the table we sit at everyday. I stopped him when I saw someone sitting there. Livia. Oh no, I was not about to sit with her, no way, no how.
"We can sit somewhere else for today." Suggested John. I stormed out of the lunch room and into the bathroom. I hate her so much. After everything she has done and now she needs to take more. I heard a sniffle in one of the bath room stalls.
"Hello?" I asked. The girl quitted down as if she didn't want anyone to hear her. "No, no, it's okay. Don't mind me." I said to reassure her that I don't care if she cried in the bathroom or not. I've had plenty of those times.
"Alex? Is that you?" The voice asked. I knew that voice anywhere. I was not in the mood to talk to Marah at all.
"Nope." I said and was about to leave when I heard the most painful thing anybody could ever say.
"Please don't leave." Marah winced. I had to turn around. That one phrase kept ringing in my ears. I wanted to break down right there with Marah. I ran over to her once she walked out of the stall and gave her a hug. Marah reminds me of my little sister so much. Helpless, clueless, vulnerable. Thats why I was always so close to Marah before Livia. Once my mom died and my dad went... somewhere, they took Milly and I to this office and they had her go room with the kids more her age and brought me with the kids that were more her age. I told her it was like school, I go with the older kids and she went with the younger kids. But this time it is better because we will get to see each other in the halls this time. She like that idea and she smiled and skipped off to make friends. I knew that she was going to be happy with the other girls. I knew that we would get split up. I just knew it. Milly was sweet, cute, and adorable. She would be gone in no time. So I tried to spend as much time with her as possible. I knew I would have to work to get somewhere. She actually stayed there for a while. Until one day I heard her screaming my name ' Alex! Alex!' It was blood curtailing. I bolted out of my room and basically leaped into her bedroom. She was holding onto her bed post for dear life. Tears were staining her face and they wouldn't stop. The "mother" of the whole place was trying to pry her off her bed and this couple was standing there dumbfounded at what was going on. I pushed "mother" out of the way and grabbed Milly. I squeezed her so tight that you would need a tank to separate us.
"Alex go back to your room!" "mother" yelled.
"Are you two friends." Asked the couple.
"This is my little sister." I said not looking them in the eye. That's what some of the girls in my wing told me to do if you rejected a couple.
"Well your little sister is going to a good new home! We will take very good care of her!" The woman said reassuringly. But I knew better than to trust someone right away.
"Come on now Alex, let your sister go." said "mother". I looked down at Milly because she stopped crying. I thought that she was about to give up and go with them. She calmed herself down first and then looked up at me.
"Alex, please don't leave." She said to me gripping my arm tighter. It was in that moment that I knew she had given up. She knew that she couldn't do anything to save herself and that everything now relied on me. I looked back up at the couple and tole them that if they took my sister they would have to take me too. They said they only have enought money to raise one girl. "mother" was about to take her from me until I said the one thing I knew would shut them up and let me keep her.
"If you take Milly away from me then I'll kill myself. That's right, I'm not afraid. How would that sound, little girl kills herself because she was separated from her sister. She was the only family she had left and she had a separation disorder. Owner did nothing to help her in her time of need. No child should be sent here in these conditions. Do smell that? That's the smell of your money burning." I said. She gave me that look of fear. Not for my life, but for her pay.
"I'm so sorry folks. The girls must stay together." Said "mother". They left childless. Many months past when I guess my brother moved back to his home town and him and his girlfriend were looking to adopt a child. Someone older, so they didn't have to potty train them or change them. My brother found me and was wondering why I was here. Nobody told him what happened to our parents. SO instead of getting a child they got me and my sister instead. I could tell his girlfriend was not happy. She liked Milly, but her and I never got along.
"Marah what's the matter?" I asked her.
"My parents want to split up." She said. I felt so bad for her. My roommate from the office was there because her parents split up and alone neither one of them could afford to take of her. "I forgive you. After the Livia incident." She said. I didn't forgive her but no one should be alone in these troubling times.
"Yeah. These things are tough. One of my friends went through this too. You'll be okay. Now go back to lunch and eat with your friends." I told her.
"Do you forgive me?" She asked. I pointed to the door and we both walked out.
