The Man

Chapter 1 : Back to the beginning

"Wake up, you filthy, rotten children!The health inspector is going to be here in 37 minutes, and we have to be more than super ready, more than super tidy and more than super polite, or else I will put you in a little, cold box as you rats deserve!Understood?" "Yes, Miss. Chesterfield."the poor orphans responded, as they started to walk towards the bathroom. Everyone was preparing themselves, everyone except Mia. She was sitting on her messy bed, staring at her minuscule feet. Mia was in the orphanage of Miss. Chesterfield from when she was 3.The building was situated in London, Gloucester Road. Now she had 17 years, and wanted to see what was beyond the orphanage's grey, dirty walls. Mia was trying to find a feasible plan for her escape, when, all at a sudden, a big smile came on her white face......
Mia ran towards the only bed where someone was still under the dirty and grey blankets of the institute: her best friend Bradley. He was 17 (like Mia) but had the similarity of an adult because of his height. Mia unwrapped Bradley as if he was a gift and shook him violently for two or three minutes.When he woke up he found Mia's head that was bumping on his back to make him stand up. They called this method "buffalo", and I reassure you that it hurts a lot! After he stood up, washed his face and dressed up, Mia took him and put aside and whispered: "Hey Brad, I want to escape from here!" "You what?"answered Bradley incredulous,"How can we possibly do it?This building is armored like an armadillo, and Miss. Chesterfield will catch us and...." "Calm down Brad! If you shut up for three seconds i could speak to you! Yesterday i couldn't sleep so i went for a walk through the orphanage, and i found a little bump under the carpet, that's in the principal corridor, so I lifted the carpet and found a button. I pressed it and the wall turned itself, leading to me a secret passage......"
"Wow!" said Bradley amazed "I have no words!The only thing i can say is that i'm with you, in everything and for everything ." "Thank you Brad, I know you could understand me!Now we can plot our pla-"and Mia stopped talking. That tic-toc was unmistakable. It belonged to the most horrible human in the world. Miss. Chesterfield."Are you ready little disgusting scarabs to pretend to be adorable,cute creatures? Did you wash your filthy face? And did you clean all the institute's walls? Because the inspector is going to be here in less than one minute!"the poor orphans didn't even have time to answer back that the health inspector was arrived! Everyone was taking their places and, in all that chaos, Mia and Bradley went into the bathrooms, the place in where they decided that they would have escaped that same, exciting night.
It was nearly time to go to bed. The health inspector's visit had gone well, and Miss.Chesterfield was satisfied(that's weird!). Everyone was sleeping,or pretending to sleep! In fact, after six or seven minutes Mia's eyes were twisted together with Bradley's eyes. They telepathically tought that  it was time to go, to act. They delicately removed the blankets from their bodies, and tip-toed towards the end of the room, through the doorway and in the principal corridor. Mia lifted the carpet,pressed the button and, as if by magic, the wall turned to let them see what was there."Ready?" said Mia. Bradley nodded and answered"Lets go out of this flophouse !"So there they were, standing in front of the way that could let them free and change their lives.....