The sun is just rising and the bell for breakfast ring. We woke up to the same loud trumpet about thirty minutes ago. In that thirty minutes we are expected to get prepared and ready for the day ahead.
Me and the rest of the nannies dress the kids and lead them down to the courtyard where Miss Ripe hands out a slice of bread and a cup of water to each kid, with the help of Compound three nannies.
As I pass out the food and drink, all I can think about is being in the drawing bucket. It was crazy to even think I had a chance of going to Island 1 with a guest- who would obviously be Daxton.
Snapping me out of my thoughts I hear, "Sup lil mama". I glance at the kid who said it, only to see a grinning Jesse. For a good 3 seconds I didn't know how to react. All I ended up doing was rolling my eyes and walkling to the next person.
After I finally eat my bread, I take some kids and find a rock. I trace my finger in the dirt making them a game of hopscotch. The other nannies find occupations for the rest of the kids, then we all meet up on the side of compound building one.
Hailey looks around and then looks at me and nods, signaling me that the coast is clear. Walking over to the edge of the building, I spot the dirt pile and start digging. I pull out a ball, or our version of a ball. We have to hide the ball everyday or some kid would take it. It sounds mean but you have to do what you have to do.
All the nannies split up into teams. Brooke, Avery, and me are on one team while Hailey, Taylor, and Lilly are on another. For the next five minutes their team argues about who is playing what position.
It ended up being, Avery is our goalie and Lilly is theirs, goalies defend their teams goals. Brooke and Taylor we're their defenders, who help defend the goals. Lastly, me and Hailey were the forwards, who mainly try to score the goals. How we know this is because before Avery came to the orphange, her father coached soccer and she played. When she came here, she taught us everything.
We were in the middle of our game, the score was 3-1, we were winning. Hailey kicked it to Lilly and she threw it to Taylor. I crept up behind Taylor and attempted to steal the ball but she tried to kick it and I tripped over her foot. She gasped as I fell and helped me up. I was fine except a few scratches on my knees and elbows, the dirt always scratced them up. Hailey came up to me and was checking to see if anything was wrong.
"Alex, your mouth is bleeding, bad!" She exclaimed. I grabbed my mouth and brought it back down, she was right. When I turned around to go inside, I rammed into someone and fell on my butt. I looked up and saw Taylor. I started getting up when I realized there was a hand reaching in front of me. I grabbed it and they pulled. As I wipped off my butt, I heard, "Sorry bout that". I looked up and saw Jesse.
Why is it always him?
I bit the inside of my lip and said, "It's fine" and started to walk away. Someone grabbed my wrist, so I flipped around. "What?" I asked Jesse. Still holding my wrist, he said "You're bleeding, do you need help?" I looked at his hand on my wrist.
I'm guessing he noticed, because he let go. "I think I'm okay, thanks though"
In compound building three's bathroom, I looked in the dirty mirror. All I saw was a dirty face staring back. I examined all my features. My caramel hair pulled up into the ponytail holder Ms. Marcey gave me, my green eyes, my bloody lip. I smiled. The bottom row of my teeth red from my lip. Taking my dirty shirt, I wiped up my lip. Walking out of the bathroom into the hallway, I noticed something outside of the window in one of the bedrooms. I walked in and stepped over a mattress, approaching the window.
There, in the middle of the courtyard, stood a girl I have never seen in my life. Kids crowded her, including Jesse. Her clean black hair matched Jesse's. She wore a dress, a plain baby blue dress. Baby blue flip flops were in her hand, her bare feet in the dirt, as if she was feeling it for the first time.
