The sun rose again in march, blinding my vision as I woke on my spring bed. "great.", I silently spoke to myself. I stretched realizing my room mate was gone. And just as I had thought of her she busted thought the room wearing the most ridiculous thing I had ever seen, a fairy princess costume. It was anther anther miserable day at the orphanage, my room mate was 7 years old, 8 years younger than me." hi Scarlett!" she said really bubbly. "what do you want?" I exclaimed still trying to wake up.
She had long blonde hair, chubby little cheeks, and the coldest blue eyes you have ever seen. Inside I knew she was a little devil. And worst of all she had the cheeriest attitude that could put you to shame. Her name was ashlee, they put her in my room my room in hopes to convince me to be a cheery little girly girl like her. Like that was ever gonna happen.
she looked up at me in her puffy pink dress with pleading eyes " could you make me breakfust?" i sigh remebering the last time she asked me to do that. she got me in so much trouble that my phone, computer, and tv privlages were taken away from me. the reason was because everyone has a certain amount of food per day, and if you get more than that, one of us will starve. there were about 30 kids in this house, all of them girls.
"how about no." i sternly stated, grabbing a brush to take out all the tangles in my long jet black hair. "why not? im so hungry!" she practily screamed at me. " look ashlee, we all are, if you want more, go ask Deloris and take things up with her. i dont want to get in trouble like the last time." she stared at me, trying to hypnotize me with her cold blue eyes. she sent chills down my spine. "ok... fine, but dont tell anyone, i have some chips in my 3rd drawer i was saving if i ever got really hungry..but it looks like you can have them." i mummbled. she lit up and gave me a huge hug. i almost smiled for a moment --amost.
knowing ashlee had gypped me for food for the hundreth time i got up and slipped into the bathroom for anther day at the orphanage. it was a saturday, so no school, but that was the bad thing, we all 30 girls and we all had to do chores, each of us got 5 chroes to do, and if we didnt do them we got all our privlages taken away, and no food for that day. if we did do them we get to keep all our privlages and we get paid $5-$20 depending on age. although, there was no garentee there would be food considering the owner of the house (Deloris) was super poor.
after getting ready i ran down stairs into the kitchen to get my breakfust. standing by the stove was a short mexican women with dark brown hair, Deloris. "good moring Scarlett" deloris greeted shallowly. "morning Deloris" replying in the same tone. she turned around and handed me my list of chores and a bowl of blue berry oat meal. Although we didn't get much food, Deloris tried to keep tabs on what was our favorite food. which was nice considering any other orphanage i was put in gave us shitty food that was tastless, but at least it stopped the hunger.
I walked over to the table in the dinning room where about 10 other girls sat all spread out. no one really liked anyone in this orphange. i sat down and read what work i was assigned. it read:
- clean bathroom #4
- wash car #2
-clean room
-clean the whole kitchen
-organize / clean part3 of the backyard
after finishing breakfust, i stood up and thought about how Deloris split up the work among us all. there were 10 bathrooms, 15 bedrooms, 2 living rooms, 1 den, and a back yard that was split up into 5 parts. 1/4 of were too young to do work, but being over the age of 7 (im 15 btw) i could work. the ones who were too young were cared for by teens like me. this counted as a chore. finally after getting my head out of the clouds i started to do all my work for the day.
cleaning the bathroom was a hassle, every so often one of the little kids would need to use my bathroom every 5-10 minutes. or a girl my age would want to take a shower, or get ready since there room mate took thier bathoom in thier room. it was hard but, i got it done. all day i worked on cleaning until i got to the backyard. the sun was setting and its was almost to the point were the grassy 1 acer back yard was full of dark shadows. the temprature was getting noticably cooler and the sounds of the night were about to start.
quickly i grabbed my camrea, and a flash light. one of my talents was photography. right now the sun had hidden behind a near by moutain of washtington state. oranges, reds, yellows and purples all buetifully blended together giving a sense of calmness inside me. "Scarlett!" yelled deloris. i was takening pictures again." what?!" i yelled walking over to her. " are you finished with your work?" she exclaimed al sassy like. " this is my last job of the day, can you give me grace today?" i pleaded hpoing she wouldn't take my camrea away again. she looked at me as if i had just comitted a crime. " Scarlett you know the rules, no activities until you have finished all your work, now hand it over, and get your ass back to work."she replied to my remark. with a sigh i gave my precious camrea and got back to my spot in the backyard.
finally it was dark, and all the trees in the back yard blended with the night sky. it was 7p.m., when i had finally started my work. i took out my flashlight, got the rake from near by and started to rake all the dead leafs and weeds away. near by were 2 other girls, one was average , while the other was tall and skinny. i believe thier names were Ally and Miranda. ally had white skin and strawberry blonde hair while miranda had tan skin and long dark brown hair. there ages were 15 and 13. all three of us worked in teh dark until ally left and i was left with Miranda.
"hey! Scarlett!" Miranda yelled, "yeah?" i replied, "how about we team up and get our work done faster? that way we can go to bed faster?" she excliamed, "it tempting, but how about no, beucase i know what you did to kimberly last weekend, you asked her to help you and she did, but you didnt help her. so no im good." i replied. after that she shut up and got back to her work, after about 40 minutes she left too, and i was all alone in the dark.
when i got finished with all my work i turned to look at the house and realized no light were on. i worked too slow again. i took my phone out of my pocket , it was 10 o'clock, and everyone had to be in by 9 or get locked out of the house. unforchantly, this wasn't the first time i had been locked out of the house. every so often one of us gets locked outside beucase we finish work late. good news though, since i get locked out of the house more than i should have, i hide a tent and a sleeping bag with an extra pair of clothese, pjs, shoes, toothbrush, toothpaste, and soap just in case.
Quietly, I grabbed my stuff and hid in the patch of trees so no one would see my small tent I purchased at Walmart for $20. after making my tent I rolled out my sleeping bag, got dressed, and went to sleep. The sound of the night soothed me, almost rocking me. The wind shuffled the leaves above, some fell on my tent, but I didn't mind. After about 10 minutes I finally drifted off to sleep land.
In about 3 o'clock in the morning there was a rustle in a near by bush, I didn't bother about it, but it kept making sounds, after about ten minutes a small bark came from the bush outside my tent. Really wanting to go back to bed I git my flashlight and stepped out side. But what I saw sent chills down my spine. Slowly backing away I ran for the house, and jumped on the porch in the near by hammock hoping the thing I just saw wouldn't come near me.... but it followed me. I was screwed.
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