Dear Pandora

Chapter Five

"So! Was this your ultimate plan? Planned since the day I was born? Curse before I could even say 'Mamma?' Why did you have to be my mother?" Pandora broke down into tears, Georgia always knew that her eye would somehow affect Pandora, but she never knew it would go this far. "Pandora, you don't understand, do you not think that I'm affected as well, after all I am the one with only one eye!" "I don't care about you and your problems, this is about me OK, you can go die in a dark hole for all I care! Listen to now and listen to me well! Go away, you don't deserve to be my mother, I don't actually know what I had done wrong to receive you as a mother!"

Georgia for the first time in forever was on the verge of fury. "Don't you dare tell me all this rubbish, I had kept a roof over your head for 15 years, I have made sure you never got kwashiorkor because I fed you breakfast, lunch and dinner. I made sure you never died of pneumonia because I gave you all the clothing possible to keep you warm. Ever since you were 12, you finally decided to take everything out on me. For the past 5 years, I have stayed strong to my love for you because I believed that everything was in God's hands, don't break my faith!" Pandora laughed so loud and so hard, you could see neighbours poking their heads outside their windows to see what was happening. Georgia broke into tears, this was the first time Pandora had seen her mum hurt. This hurt. "Don't be so pathetic!" Pandora barged past her mother with no other word. Georgia was sat there crying for so long, she cried herself to sleep.

Pandora had enough of her mother, so in the middle of the night, she planned her runaway. She packed all her clothes, her toiletries, her electronics, her everything! And some of Georgia's money as well. She set off but she didn't know where, she just needed to be far away from that Female Cyclopes that gave her life. Worst of all she didn't even tell her best friends what was happening, Simone and Kendall were going to panic the next day. Georgia woke up to see that she was where she left herself crying. She remembered the night before and the thought of it made her cringe. The first time she had ever shown any sense of emotion to the daughter of hers that emotionally and physically abused her. Georgia knocked on Pandora's door. No answer. She entered the room, no Pandora in sight. The bathroom door was open, Pandora never left it open so she was definitely not in there. Georgia went round the whole house looking for Pandora but couldn't find her. She tried not to panic because she only thought that Pandora was tricking her after what awoke last night. She called Simone's parents, Kendall's parents, the school but no one had seen her. She went outside and knocked on Champ's door. Even he hadn't seen Pandora. Champ was Georgia's oldest friend. He was her fathers friend which made Champ like family to her. It was time to take this to the police.

She had now been missing for three days, so many things were working up in Georgia's head. Was she eating OK? Was she warm? Was she safe? Where was she? Was she alive? Finally after a week, we got the answers. "15 year old Pandora Rickman went missing on the 22nd July and has now been missing for a week. Police have questioned people close to Pandora like friends, classmates, neighbours, etc. Pandora's mother has not given up after this whole incident but claims Pandora does not want to be found after an argument that took place between them. But there also must be more to the story so if anyone knows anything please refer to Mrs Rickman or the police with the contacts at the bottom of the page." Pandora sat there cold, hungry but happy. She was away from her mother for a whole week! But that peace was about to end, she decided to go for good where no one would find her! She took her bags and belongings and set off the bridge, no one recognised her, but at least that it what she thought. She leaned over the bridge, she smiled but she was scared. "Pandora Rickman, step away from the bridge. There is no way out anymore, we will go to the car and we can talk this over, you don't need to end it!" Pandora was scared for sure, she didn't know where to go...