Flame

My sister

Adam carried me inside. Their house was nice but it smelled funny and was a lot smaller than grandma's. I was given my own little room next to their little girl, Cindy.

      I cried my self to sleep that night and then had a strange dream.

      My flame was small but it slowly grew into the shape of a demon. It laughed at me and told me I was worthless. Grabbing my hand and burning my skin. The pale pink skin tuned stary black and crawled its way up my arm. Pain grabbing at every place the darkness devoured.

      I awoke in Adam's and Katherine's arms. They told me I was screaming and clutching at the frame of the bed. They told me everything would be alright. I asked them to stay with me.

      Adam started to tell me a story. It was a strange story. Nothing like the stories grandma told me. This story made me feel happy.

      They kissed me good night and told me what I had was a gift calling me their little flame princess.

      I went to sleep and dreamt strange dreams. They were like the story that Adam told me. I was happy and didn't want to wake. But when I did, I woke with a smile.

I stumbled out of bed and found my way to the lounge room. Cindy gave me a glance and we instantly decided to be best friends. Cindy got my breakfast and sat down next to me. We ate as she told me about her friends at kindy. She asked about my friends but I explained to her "I have only ever met grandma and my parents but I haven't seen my parents for about a year". She gave me a funny look then promised that she would get me to big school. We got excited and started talking about every thing we would do together at school.

      When Katherine and Adam walked in Cindy asked if I was going to join her at big school next year. Katherine looked at Adam with a questioning look. Cindy ran grabbed at Adam's leg and started pleading to let her new sister go to big school with her. Adam lifted Cindy up and said "why not?". I ran into his arms and said "thanks dad".

      I pulled away and apologized. But Adam took me into his arms and whispered "I will always be your dad". I smiled and hugged my new Dad and Mum.

      "Lets go out for lunch and celebrate our new member of the family" dad announced. So Cindy gave me some cloths while mum and dad made us a picnic lunch.

      We went to the park, fed the ducks, smiled, laughed and for the first time I felt like I belonged to a real family.