I was on the cold ground of Tolie Alley.
My home since 2 years ago .
When my parents abandoned me.
I raised my head to the sky just as a cold raindrop landed on my nose. I shivered visibly, my ribs poking out through my shirt.
I had literally no body fat to provide me with the least of warmth.
"Hello?" I heard a small voice call . A voice that sounded like it belonged to a child. "Hello is anybody there? I'm lost." I stood up, shivering . I had to find that girl, and if she was homeless I would take her in.
No one has to suffer this alone.
"Nina!"
I wake up to the shrieking voice of Dilly . ...
Who just happened to be fully dressed with her hair washed and her school uniform ironed.
My she looks decent.
"It's time for school.wake up"
I shrugged and stretched my back on the chair. I would do anything to be able to call in sick , but that was impossible. It would break my facade . The teaching staff needed to believe that I stayed in the boarding school and not outside of it... I had no legal guardian to sign us up for it , so us getting education in itself was a miracle. But we did it...
We were neither going to be homeless nor uneducated.
I splashed water on my face and pulled my school uniform on.
Bathing could wait.
......
Dilly and I ran quickly and climbed the wall. Entering at the exact time where we would miss the roll call for students and be there for the class attendance check. That way the teachers would think we were always in school. But the dorm mistress would be clueless of our existence.
At school we tried to blend in. To be unnoticeable. If we made ourselves noticeable we would be noticed ,duh,
people would talk... And eventually we would be expelled though we were never really enrolled in the first place.
"hey mm Nina?" . I bumped into a short boy whom I hadn't seen before.
"Erhmm hi......you?" . The boy smiled at me and then walked on to wherever he was going in the first place. Weird.
I never really got attention. Not because I was ugly. No I was far from ugly at least that's what I thought.
but mainly because I made myself unapproachable and I didn't pretty myself up like the other girls..
Not just because I didn't want to.
But mostly because I couldn't afford to.
...
At lunch Dilly and I sat at the corner of an empty table.
We faced each other and sat there so that no one would see that we weren't eating.. So that no one would guess that we didn't belong.
In this school all students were given student ID cards. They were used for almost nothing. Apart from event participation and food. Lucky us.
....
"Yh bro see you later" I heard a voice say as the owner of it moved closer to us and sat Down beside us .
ugghhhh go away.
"So why are you pretty ladies not eating anything?" Dilly turned her face to the wall and left me to deal with our current dilemma.
"We're not hungry" .
He didn't look convinced. And almost as if on cue my stomach rumbled as though trying to signal to him that I was lying. I could almost hear my own stomach laughing at me.
"Your stomach doesn't seem to think so"
thank you stomach for intentionally ruining my life.
"I'm just gassy that's all" I made up an embarrassing lie as a cover up.
I can't wait till I'm done with this school.
"Hmm I see.. What about you blondie ?" He turned his annoying interrogation towards Dilly. She shrugged
"I'm just trying to loose some weight"
the guy threw his head back laughing.. He couldn't seem to stop. He huffed and puffed and held his stomach.. Laughing till his face turned red
"you...oh you're funny . You're really funny" I got why he would laugh at that... Dilly was a few layers of skin away from being a skeleton ... But she was still hauntingly beautiful .he stopped laughing after what felt like hours and then he said
"the Name's Roderick" he held his hand out for a hand shake. I also extended my hand but then he dodged it
"gotcha !" He said entering into a fit of laughter again.
"You totally fell for that one" . I gave him my best 'are you fucking kidding me' face and he immediately straightened up.
"I gotta go . But don't be afraid to look for me sometime. Just in case you need someone for hacking or forgery of any sorts ,am your guy." Then he looked around and whispered "just because you were such entertaining people I'll do any a kind of forgery job for you for free" he winked and then stood up .
"And when you do look for me ,I'm in the boys dorm.. Obviously... That's the only place where I could be ... And it's Room 64 . Me and my room mate wouldn't mind sneaking in a few beautiful girls in the dead of night, or whenever you're bored " he winked again and blew us a kiss. To Which I replied by giving him a puking face with my finger pointing to my throat and Dilly just face palmed .
He clicked his fingers at us then he turned and left. And for the first time in a very long time I heard Dilly laugh.
It was such a refreshing sound.
...
After school, we passed through the back of the school and climbed the wall as usual. We took a luxury walk through the forest and passed by our favorite lake.
A place where we liked to unwind and talk about our future.
It was also where we fetched water for bathing since we had no water apart from the well.. Which was very deep and risky.
We liked to talk about the things we would do when we become rich.
"I would travel all around the world. Seeing new places. And helping homeless people" I smiled at the sweet words coming out of Dilly's mouth. She was feisty but she had a heart of gold.
"I would build a mansion far far away. I won't get married but I want kids... I'm considering getting artificial insemination " I rambled on as Dilly winced
"why don't you adopt instead.. And leave the insemination for people who actually can't have their own kids with their partners" .. I shook my head with disbelief at her wisdom.
"that's true ill just adopt a few and then have a few of my own"
"But why don't you want to get married? " her innocent brown eyes opened widely at the question and I felt some ice melt off my heart. " sometimes life teaches you lessons that can't be taught by books..a lesson it taught me was to not trust. "
Anyone...or anything.
"she looked at me and then looked back to the water moving her toe in it and causing tiny ripples. I stared at my reflection in the water... I was a beautiful girl , I had long red hair and stunning eyes. I was skinny but not to the point of bones. So why? Why was life so unfair to me...
What did I ever do to deserve this treatment?
I stared deeper into the water hoping that maybe I would find some answers in it. And in the water I saw something... It wasn't the answer I was looking for ..
But it was something familiar.
I saw a figure hidden in the bushes staring into the water ,and through the reflection it saw me watching .
it ran , giving me only a glimpse of white blonde hair.
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DID YOU SAY MANGO CAKE?
Teen Fiction"Feisty aren't we?" I pulled my shirt on under the water and and climbed out . Shivering in my wet clothes. "You.. You're the guy who let me escape the other night." He ran his hands through his hair and walked up to me. Drawfing me with his heig...
