MY LITTLE ANGEL

CHAPTER ONE

    "Get outttt! Now.... Stupid girl" She screamed at me.

"Plea..." But she won't let me finish what i was about to say. Again. Am really doomed. "No! now, leave" Betty said in a deathly calm voice. I removed the apron i was wearing and put it on the front counter. Now every single  person in the diner was staring at me. Not that all of them were single, maybe some of them  had wives and boyfriends at home. Awkward i know. With one last glance at Betty to silently plead with her not to fire me, but she wasn't even looking at me, i stepped out of the diner. How i needed that job. I feel like crying but i will myself not too. Am so hopeless. Now i know what you think, 'it's just a stupid night shift at a little local diner' but to me it's not. My situation is different. But first things first, let me introduce myself. My name is Sophie. Just Sophie. I don't have any close relatives. Am all alone in this cruel and cold world. I've practically been living on the streets since forever, if my memory serves me correct, until about two years ago. I managed to get a room where i can atleast get a good nights' sleep without worrying someone might harm me in anyway. In my small room i always feel safe. Like nothing can ever happen to me as long as am there. So that's why am freaking out right now. No job means no money. No money means no rent payment. And then i will lose my room. My safe haven.

    Tomorrow i'll have to find a third job that's the only way i can make myself feel secure again. God, am so tired i could sleep for a whole week. Checking my wrist watch i realize it's almost one in the morning. I better get going or am going to collapse due to exhaustion. No wonder Betty got mad at me. Apparently i fell asleep and almost 'burned down the whole diner. ' Well, that's according to her anyway. She knows how to exaggerate that woman.

              

              I just  wish i could turn my life around, change it for the better. Because i didn't do anything wrong to deserve a life like this. I've had enough of it already. I know i said tomorrow i'll go and find another job but i don't care anymore. Yep, my life is one huge rollercoaster of confusion and uncertainty.

             Then all of a sudden it hits me just like that, i think it's finally time for me to leave this stupid old town once and for all. I don't know why i never thought of it before. For fifteen years i have lived here and that thought never once crossed my mind. Am going to take the little money i stached inside my old mattress and go to the train station first thing tomorrow. Destination: anywhere but here, that's for sure.

     I wonder what the future holds for me

  I look at my watch again and it's two in the morning now. Wow. I don't even realize i was sitting on the muddy pavement or the fact that tears were streaming down my cheeks. Typical. I slowly make my way to my building, precisely to my safe haven. That thought alone makes me crack a sad smile. Sad but nonetheless a smile. 'Not for long though, remember tomorrow  you are leaving' I thought. Maybe, for once, i can have a fresh start, make friends, fall in love and then marry a prince. A girl can dream right?  Ha! Who am i kidding? Am just a painfully awkward and weird person. And no one ever understands me, i mean, they always look at me like i have completely lost it. Maybe am crazy and destined for a lifetime of insanity? Oh well...

"What do we do? " i heard a woman say.

"  Nothing,  lets go" replied a gruff voice. Focusing,  i could make out their silhouettes in the dark alley near my building.

"But it's only a poor... " The woman was saying but she was interrupted by the man.

"It's a demonic child that's what it is! " By now i have reached them but what grabs my attention is the small lump of blanket on the ground. I kneel down and peer over the clothing and it's a baby. Who could be so heartless to abandon an infant like this? Carefully i pick up the baby and cradle it close to me.

"Hey is the baby yours?, " the man asks. "Yes! " I answer him immediately, without thinking,   still looking at the baby. Then again when do i think? Actually i am thinking right now about how i don't think which in itself is really thinking. Now am confused. 

"Then why did... "He starts to say but i cut him off. "Shut the hell up! " I yell at him.Normally, am not abusive or violent but am so mad right now. Kinda like when you try to take a bear's baby away from its mother. I was feeling something close to what mamma grizzly would be feeling, not that am part bear or anything. But that would be so cool. Ah!  I get it now it's called maternal insticts, right? Not the part of me being part bear, then i'd be werebear you know like werewolf.  Wow, i think am going to be a mother.

So i continue making my way home. I really  can't believe he called this innocent angel in my arms a demonic child. They can't even save a baby? i wonder what the world's coming to. When i reached the main road with the help of streetlights i looked down at the baby and gasped. Beautiful, that's the only way i could describe the baby i was holding . How can anyone abandon a perfect baby like this?

Don't worry sweatheart, i'll take care of you.

Whoever left the baby must have placed him not so long ago, considering the baby was still warm and judging by how windy and chilly tonight is. Wait, did i just refer to the baby as a 'him'? Anyway  whether it's a he or a she it doesn't matter.

But what i do know is that i'll love and protect you, my dearest angel.

Yay! Am a mother. Mothers don't say 'yay', they use mature words like jolly. Ok  then let me rephrase that. Jolly am a mother. I feel so mature right now.

   I am going to be the maturest mature mother ever. Maybe those words don't make any sense but to maturest mature people they do.  Just like me.

Hi there just finished the  first chapter of the book.  Please let me know what you think.

Bye!!!!

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