Ivy

"bye" i told one of my most trusted friend Kelly as we split up walking home away from Nilly High school "see ya tomorrow Ivy" she replied. I sometimes feel guilty for not telling her my side of my life as a mouse. The sad side of me, but its better hiding your pain with a smile. As i got closer home my smile fades away. I enter my house and the usual nobody is home. I make myself a grilled cheese sandwich. My parents are never home. they dont realize they have a 14 year old daughter they don't even know i exist. My mom was probley shopping like she does everyday (she won the lottery) and spends all the money on herself while our own fridge is empty. My dad is probley robbing some bank. I don't know why i never call the cobs on him even though there is a robbery like every month. i have to stay in my room locked up the whole day. This is how i live: Steal 5 dollars everyday form one of parents and then escape through the window in my room and go to a store near by and eat so i don't starve to death, good thing i have a bathroom in my room. and When i come home from school they're mostly not home so i eat real food and watch t.v. Its around 5pm i take some food and water and go to my room. i start my homework a few minutes later the front door opens. i hear lots of laughing my dad and his friends. they sit up a table and watch a movie. Its around midnight i finish my homework dress and sleep. but i cant sleep with all the noise from the living room. i wait in my bed silent. i started listing to the movie and try to sleep. then i fall asleep. Its morning again, I dress sneak out of my room get 10 dollars today and leave from my window afraid the door would cause noise. I walk to my favorite mini mart and get a drink and a bag of chips and put them in my bag. By the time i reach school my mood changes to happy. I see my friends waiting for me at the door. My friend Kelly, shes short an inch shorter then me she has frizzy hair that's dirty blond, and then my friend Zendya shes taller and has straight black shiny hair going below her shoulders then my friend Miller hes as tall as Zendya and has brown hair that he always spikes up. Those are my group of friends. everyone thinks were creeps and are emos but we actually are Happy. Zendya is the smartest one of us. sometimes people say I'm stupid cause im a blond. but I'm a 3.5 student average. school finished it went by fast. Kelly and I started walking home  i was a block away from my house and i saw 3 police cars in front of my house knocking on the door i run to them and they say " do you know who lives here?" "ya me and my parents" "sorry to tell you this but your parents past away today in the morning" i start shaking , they may have not loved me but they were still my parents "HOW!" i snap. "well they were shopping and some robber came killed everyone and stole the money, do you have any relatives?" "no" "I'm afraid your under age? you must have a guardian" "but i don't, my parents don't have brothers or sisters" He tells me to pack my bags that in 24 hours they ll be picking me up and going to an orphanage that 21 miles away. I went inside and started crying my eyes out, Now I'm put in an orphanage away from my friends the ones that i call family and parents dieing, but what if the orphanage wasn't so bad. I packed all my stuff in one bag, 3 outfits, My favorite stuffed animal, a toothbrush and tooth paste. I went to parents bedroom found 50 dollars left so i took them and packed them to. i put 2 pictures one of my small family and one of my friends and i. I fell asleep on the sofa. By morning i ran to school. I met my friends on the door of the school again, i told them the whole story my eyes got watery and they seemed said Zendya hugged me and said we keep in touch send letters Miller gave me a necklace that had a bird flying across he said keep it to remember me and then last Kelly  hugged me. we said goodbyes. I ran back home and waited to be picked up to the orphanage. then i walked to my favorite mini mart got a bar of snickers and pop. by the time i was home a big red truck was honking a horn my eyes were still red from all the crying Ive done. I walk in and an old one with white hair tells me "Welcome to your new home, not the car" she laughs as it was the funniest joke ever, i didn't find it funny though then she continues " the Orphanage make yourself comfortable its a long ride, the rules are no electronics no sending letters no violence no trouble making no food allowed unless we give you and no rudeness you have choirs you must sweep the sitars from the top to  bottom and make it super shine i wanna see my reflection in it and if you fail to do your choirs you will pay consequences hard ones" Later i fell asleep and then when i woke we were in front of a bag mansion it was dark and when i walked in there was a tall lady wearing black whipping little girls backs as they tried to rest from sweeping the stairs. The stairs were 5 stories high i knew this is going to be a hard job i don't like this place so far. Then the old lady led me into a small room which looked more like a torture chamber there was 3 girls and 3 bunk beds on bunk was empty i guessed it was mine. I went to the bottom empty bunk and settled my self in it. The girl next to me smiled i said hi she looked around the age 12 and had tanned skin and she was wearing her hair in a ponytail. the girl that was on my other side looked more like 15 years old she had blond hair like me and was a lot taller then my friend Zendya. I smiled and she said hi the other girl was around 9 years old she seemed sad and i smiled and said hi also. she jumped down the top bunk and asked what my name was i told her "Ivy" she introduced herself her name was Natasha. Then the 12 year old said her name was Mia. and then the oldest one said she is Jean. we stared talking i asked how long they've been here Natasha said shes been here ever since she was a baby. Mia was here 2 years ago and Jean was here a couple months ago. " your gone hate it here, they whip us everyday if we complain they starve us to death the girl before she died they murdered her" Jean said. "if you don't do your choirs" Natasha said. "they also feed us trash latterly left overs" Mia said "what they put in charge of Ivy?" "sweeping the stairs" "oh man that's the hardest i have to do it too but they hit the most if you stop for a break" Mia said. "me and Natasha are in charge of dusting every single place of this dirty mansion" Jean said. It was night time everyone got tucked in. I can see Natasha's brown braids tangling from up. I fell asleep looking at the moon light that shining from the dark window I was hoping the orphanage to be a happy place for orphan girls.