January 25 1939....
-narator- this was the tale of not one, not two, but three indipendant orphans, slowly being drawn together in the most extradinary ways, and they didnt even have a clue. -narator-
scence- end of winter, parade down town of new york.
chapter 1- Lucy
" come on jerome, set the kitchten table cloth down faster, we have no time to waste" "oh deary deary i dont see how were going to get everything ready in time for when our float arrives" says Nancy the Orphanige owner, pacing back and forth.
Lucy arrives at Cenrtal Park, fasionable late as usual, wearing her worn out, tatterd, old fasioned robe, (between you and me i think its one of our table cloths we chucked out into ther trash bag), her hair is lusely flowing down the front of her chest., dirty blonde with a hint of mud.
Lucy is always this late due to being stopped outside the park, this was all Mildred kenneth's fault. Always looking for trouble, trying to cause fueds with our darling Lucy.................
(background information) Lucy was once friends with mildred when their fathers were working for the british parlimant as a stratagy advisor , but when lucys dad was accused of being a traitor by malcomn ( mildrids father ) he lost everything , he got demoted and was forced to go out to war were he was sadly killed in battle 6 months later her mother fell ill while being a month pregnant. Lucy got sent into care and soon lost memory of her mother and father being alive, the only home she knew of was care.
However the chances were so low of her mother surviving that lucy had no idea whether the baby had died to.
............................Lucy was covering her self up in mud at the park alond side with some of her friends waiting for the parade to go by. Mildrid and her friends had walked by and chucked mud all over lucy, she got up and stood only 10cm away from Mildrids face with cake in her hand, she went to chuck it at her face, when she was stopped by a loud fog horn of sierans, she turned around when she felt, Mildrids prsence getting closer and closer she started to walk that turned into a pace like run.
Mildrid chased her to end of the park were the care home children were setting up the buffet of food, Lucy was doging all the carts trying to slow down Mildrid, they were getting closer to the end of the path next to road, with the parade only being a couple of meteres down. Lucy stopped in the middle of the road with out noticing, but when she noticed by turning around she was to late Mildrid was one step behind and pushed her under the start of there float, Lucys eyes were slowely closing as she seen police cars and ambulances surrounding her, Mildrid being taken into the back of the police car was her last memory.
Chapter 2- The long lost memory
Lucys eyes slowely open, having no memory of what happened , waking up to the sound of a babys tears, not remembering how loud they can be, the confusion on her face was not forgetable to the people in the room, which was a population of 2. As she regains full contiousness a young boy walked into the room and sat down onto the chair next to her bed, looking at her in the eyes like they have met a thousand times before, the baby stopped crying when he had picked her up, She was holding a rattel with a tag on it saying : no.25 from a loving mother : she remembered the number and the hand writting from somewere but couldnt quiet remember, she chucked the idea over her head of it being her mum and replaced to thinking it was a letter she had delivered to her care owner.
After a few days had passed by, the same children visited her with some crazy idea of them being brothers and sisters, she denys his acusation, and simply tells him everytime that she grew up in a care home and her parents dying at birth. After the children had stopped visiting the same dream was ocurring, a little girl in a pink frock, touching her mothers bump, each night she would get further and further into the dream, it strated to become clear to her, that she knew the young boy and girl, she didnt quiet agree that they were brothers and sisters, it just seemed to be quiet piculier, that why would this happen to her of all people.
This is were there journey biggins.
Chapter 3 - A family portraite.
9 months later Lucy is now released from hospital.
She opens the big patchy, warn out, brown doors of the orphanige. She runs and wraps her arms around Nancy whilst being carried to her office.
" Nancy i need your help with something" lucy asked with regards
"yes what ever is the matter" Nancy said worriedly
" who were them 2 children that were in my hospital room, i must of known them other wise they wouldnt of let them in, did i forget about them after the accident, i need the truth and nothing but the truth nancy your lucky i still remember you" lucy said without taking one single breath in between
" i knew this was going to come, i know you wont like this but you can not deny it, they are your brother and sister, your brother was staying at the hospital after your mother gave birth when you was in paris with your dads job, she wanted to keep it a surprise when you got back unfortunatly this was the time when he was getting accused of traitory, so you got sent home 1 year and a half later and you got sent straight to care losing all memory and contact of your family.she was pregnant again and you knew nothing about your brother being born seen as though he was in hospital at the age 5 years old being terminally ill, your dad gets sent to war and dies 6 months later, your mother couldnt cope with the presure and saldy started a form of depression, your baby sister was born and your mother died in child birth, and was noted down on her files that it was suicide" Nancy regretfully said.
" thanks for telling the truth could you call me for tea later "
As lucy was walking away she noticed a peice of paper in her pocket addressed to her. It read
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Dear Lucy 25 Orphanige New York Park
OL25 LMLM
Meet us at the New York Coastline South of Detroit. At 5:30 pm on friday 25th October. All quistions answered.
........25
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" what should i do?" Lucy thought to herself
She packed her bag ready to set off to South Detroit.
as all of the the othe children were swarming to the kitchen as nancy called them in that was the perfect time to make her escape.
She was around the corner form the coastline, she coudle hear the waves clamber together, the smell of the fish and chip shops. At this point Lucy was wondering whether she was about to walk into danger or faith, either way it wouldnt be easy to get out of nor explain to Nancy when she got back that is if she ever would. Lucy was stood underneith a lamp post pacing back and forth waiting for there arriavl. As she faced away from the shore she seen two small but plump like sihlouettes coming toward her with a very fast pace, as they reached closer and closer she identified who she thought it was, as she seen there faces up close it was her 'supposed to be' brother and baby sister.
(we all seen that coming)
After minuets of silence it was broken by Aaron (her younger brother) by reaching into his pocket whilst pulling out the note in her back pocket. He puts together all two notes that they had recieved without Lucy noticing.
"who gave you this" Aaron asked whilst placing them together
" How did you get that, I dont know, i found it in my pocket" Lucy regarded with little intrest
They turned there heads as Veronica took out a piece of paper. Now this 2 year old baby might of just saved there family tree. As Aaron looked at his piece of paper he noticed there was a section of it ripped of. Veronica had found that section. It said
"there is a boat waiting for you on the docks of South DeTriot, this will lead you to the middle of Lake St Clair"
