Who Can You Trust?

Opportunity

6 year old Akoni sits in the corner coloring in her coloring book. The other kids don't really deal with her unless they want a punching bag for the day. She's known as the dirty little girl with uneven pigtails. She doesn't speak anymore. Maybe because she has no friends to speak to. After her parents died in a car accident she was never the bubbly little girl that always had a smile on her face.

No family member wanted the responsibility of taking care of a child with the small amount of check they would receive for caring for her. In there eyes she wasn't worth the trouble. So they let her go in the system.

Everything she knew, loved was gone in a blink of the eye. She got use to her surroundings quickly.

The young kids circle her, before starting there taunting. She pulls her knees to her chest backing against the wall as far as her skinny body will allow her. Even though she's young, she's very intelligent for her age.

Her father had her reading at the age of 2. By 3 she knew how handle a gun blind folded, not missing one shot. By five she was learning on a middle school level, knowing four languages. She knew how to fight but her mind would tell her no. So she let the kids and grown ups do what they wanted.

Her social worker could careless about another child in the system. In her head that was one less child she had to deal with.

"Look how skinny she is!"

"You sure are ugly"

"What are you? Is she black, white? I think she's a mutt"

The kids begin there daily laughter. The hits begin making her ball up like a baby in the womb. She thought they were finish so she lifts her head up. But it was too soon,she feels and taste the blood as her lip spilt's open.

"Hey! Get off her!"

The group of kids look at the intruder.

"What the fuck you gone do"

The fiesty little girl kicks the little boy where the sun don't shine making him cry out. All the other kids run for the hills leaving there friend on the ground, to deal with the little girls wrath.

She helps Akoni off the floor before grabbing her hand leading her to the bathroom to clean the blood dropping down.

"We are going to go to Miss Sally"

Akoni snatchs her hand away looking scared.

"No no no! If you tell she will put me in the closet again. We have to keep this between us"

The little girl bites her lip debating. She holds her pinky up

"On one condition. We become befriends. I'm Jasmine by the way"

Akoni takes her pinky in here smiling ear from ear

"Akoni and deal"