The D.E.A.T.H group

Chapter 2

 Mrs. Estuary Haven gave me extra chores to do for sleeping in. I had to do the dishes, do the laundry, make lunch for ten people, and clean the toilet. I guess that was kind of a good thing. It kept my mind off the incident with my family. Every time i saw taxable i shivered. I asked the other kids about him. "He's never spoken to anyone. Nobody even knows how long he's been here! All we know is his parents were killed by a drunk driver how hit their car with his and there car was pushed off the side of the highway into a ditch. He was at home, but his parents died. He was an only child. We have tried to talk to him, but he never respondes!" said a boy in the orphanage name Willie.

That night after i ate dinner and finished my chores, i went to go take a shower. I went to go get my clothes from my room when i noticed Taxable sitting in front of my doll house. He held a black crystal in his hand. He turned and handed it to me, then he stood up and walk to the door. He turned toward me and said "Wait." then walked away.

I went and got in the shower line. Since we only have two showers we have to make a long line. Luckily i was only fourth in line usually im seventh or tenth. Finally, when i was done with my shower, I went back to my room and got dressed. Then i sat on my bed and turned of the 8:00pm news. Me and my friends loved to hear what was going on in the world. Tonight they were going to talk about a murder that happened at 7:00pm today. I always felt bad for the family's that's had a loss. I had felt the pain before. "Tonight we are showing a burning house that had a poor lady inside!" When i saw who it was though i felt even worse.

"Ma'am! Ma'am! Wake up! Everything will be okay." said a police. He was holding a woman in his arms. She was hard to see in the smoke, but i noticed who it was. My neighbor! She called the police for me when my family died! She was so nice. I hoped she was okay!

"Sadly this woman didn't make it. Her husband came to the hospital tonight, he has pretty much nothing. He lost a wife, and a house with everything in it. Please call this number if you want to make a donation to this man. 713-444-HELP" Said the reporter with sorrow in his voice.

"That was my old neighbor" i screamed with tears pouring from my face. Everyone looked at me. Even Mrs. Estuary Haven. She came over to me with an angry face. She was probably going to scold me for screaming, but instead she stared at me real hard, then walked away.

"Good night children!" said Mrs. Estuary Haven.

"Good night Mrs. Estuary Haven!" said all the children

"Good night Destrin, sweet dreams."

"Good night Mrs. Estuary Haven" I said dreading it.

I went to bed, after lying there for an hour. I dreamed of my dolls in my doll house, my friend Carta who i hadn't seen since the day my parents died. We were playing at her house, then i had to go home and do homework, and then it all happened. I dreamed about the black crystal that Taxable handed me that was in my dollhouse. Why was it there?

I awoke with sweat pouring down my warm face. I jumped out of bed and walked over to my decaying doll house in the corner of the room. The roof really needed some repairs from the fall. I would never be able to fix it unless someone adopted me. I had no money to buy anything. The black crystal Taxable handed to me was gone! Gone with the wind! I searched around the room, in my bed, on my nightstand, but then i looked behind my dollhouse to find another doll. It wasn't mine, so i decided to ask everyone if this was there's. Nobody claimed it. I tried to put it in my dollhouse, but it was deflecting it. It was weird. I decided if i couldn't put the doll in the house, and it wasn't anybody's doll, i'd cut it open!

I walked into the kitchen. Everyone else was doing chores in other rooms, so no one would snitch on me. I grabbed a knife from the drawer, and stabbed the doll in the heart. I went into a blackout where all i could see was fire. I heard someone screaming faintly in the background.

I woke up in a hospital room, it was blurry at first, but i soon recognized Mrs. Estuary Haven standing next to a doctor whispering. "Dear this kind of thing happens to people a lot if they went through hard times recently."

"Why was there fire?" I said as if the doctor was totally off about why i'd fainted. Well he was wrong, I guess?

"Dear i don't understand. Fire?" The doctor said, making a quite confused face as if i might have a rare condition.

"Ya. And someone was screaming."

"Oh well maybe she should stay tonight Estuary." He said with concern

"She's fine!" Mrs. Estuary haven said, "This doctor bill better not be big Destrin! Or you'll be doing everybody's chores for a month!" Anger arose from her voice like i'd never heard before! She acted as if she were a rhino about to charge at my face.

I got back to the orphanage at 5:30p.m. everyone greeted me back. I went to the kitchen to find the doll nowhere. I went to my dollhouse where Taxable was standing, facing me.

"Hi. You left this in the kitchen." Taxable said with his arm outstretched with my doll in it. I took it quickly out of his hand. He walked out of the room. I watched him go. Then i turned to see my dollhouse. It was fixed. Perfectly painted, not chipped, and had a bed in it.

"Taxable! Taxable!" i said needing to say thank you.

"Do you really expect him to answer?! I told you he doesn't talk! You must be dumb or something!" Willie laughed at me along with his other friends. I ignored him until i hit the ground with a crack. I couldn't feel my arm or my fingers.

"Mrs. Estuary Haven!" I croaked. Tears are hard to cover up when everything goes on all at once. My family dying, fainting, breaking my arm, and my neighbor dying. Mrs. Estuary Haven came in and stared at me for a good minute. "It was Willie! He tackled me!" tears fell like a waterfall from my eyes leaving a puddle on the floor.

"Get up Destrin!" she said as if she didn't hear me say it was Willie's fault. "You already made me take you to the hospital, so were putting on a home made cast. I have camera's Destrin. If you're lying extra chores for a week!" She wrapped a cloth around my arm, and put a safety clip on it to keep it together.

"Destrin!" Mrs. Estuary Haven called. "Get over here. NOW! You lied. I can't believe you lied. Willie wasn't even in the same room as you! Extra chores, and i don't care if you have a cast."

"Mrs. Estuary Haven can i see the camera clip? I don't know how i would have fallen if willie didn't tackle me?"

"Dumb child! You tripped over your own stupid doll!" She said as if she were going to kick me onto the streets and leave me there.

I went to my room, and then remember i was going to see Taxable before i fell to Thank him.

I noticed Taxable looking at his family Album. I looked at the pages,and then i noticed something about Taxable. He's had many adopted family's before.

"Were both masters." he said.

"Okay, anyways, thank you for fixing my doll house. I didn't think it would ever be in good condition again."

"Were similar." he said pulling my arm towards him bed in the boys room. The boys were all doing their chores so it was just me and Taxable. He pulled a box of dolls from underneath his bed. I get them randomly too. Keep the dollhouse and dolls happy."he looked at me sternly.

"Okay," I said to distract him while i pulled the album off the bed, and behind my back.

I ran to my room. I got under the covers and started looking at the album. The first family must be his real parents, then there's another family, a couple of picture's of them, and another family.  He must have had 8 families by now.  Why did he have doll's too though?