One Day

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

"Get up." someone says far away in the distance. "Mmmmm" I groan, rolling over and pulling the covers over my head. "Sydney your gonna be late for breakfast, do you not want to eat again today?" the same voice says.

I feel the world moving, what's happening. "Ow! What the fuck?!"

I open my eyes to see Katherine staring over me with a grin on her face. "I said wake up, not stay asleep." She says and helps pull me up.

"Did you push me on the floor?" I ask sitting on my bed.

"Maybe I did, maybe I didn't. Now get dressed so we can eat breakfast." Katherine says.

"Asshole." I mutter walking into the bathroom. I get dressed and just as I'm about to walk out the room a flying pillow hits me in my face.

"That's for calling me an asshole." Katherine says and walks past me going upstairs. I follow her up the steps and we walk into the dining room and sit down at the table. The girls that made breakfast bring it to us and we start eating.

Ms. Clancy walks in and everyone sits up straighter than before and stops eating. "Good Morning Ladies.", she says while standing by the door frame. "Good Morning Ms. Clancy.", we all say in unison.

"Continue eating." she says as if she owns us. She's delusional, she may keep us here because we have no other home, send us to school, or you know do everything else, but she doesn't own me.

As she sits down she makes an announcement. "Today we have some visitors, they are looking to adopt a teenage girl. So change into something nice, expecially you Sydney. They are coming in at around 3 pm, its 8am now so you have a while to get ready." Everyone starts to talk and some of the younger kids start to tear up because they won't get adopted.

I turn to one of the younger girls who is sobbing her tiny heart out and I try to comfort her. "It's okay, maybe they will change their minds when they see you." She stops crying and smiles then runs off to her friends. I'm happy that she's happy but in reality I'm secretly excited because I might have a chance of getting out of this hell.

I head downstairs to go change. I put on some jeans and a gray sweater. I put on my Jordan's and put my hair in a ponytail and go upstairs.

I walk into the living room and see most of the girls in a line side by side. Walking to the end of the line I see Katherine and in the middle of the line and she smiles at me and I smile back. I get to the end of the line and stand next to a little blonde girl.

We all stand straight and wait for the people to come so they can adopt one of us. When I hear the familiar ring of the doorbell, I stand up straighter in hopes of seeing my family again. That they figured out where I am and are here to rescue me.

I look up and I see Ryan from school. What is he doing here? I hope his parents don't adopt me, I can't stand him. An older couple walks in behind him. I guess those are his parents.

Ryan looks just like his mom, brown hair brown eyes but he has his dad's nose. I hear a couple of the girls gasp and squeal when they see Ryan. That's wrong, if they get adopted by him then they're siblings and they would still try to have sex with him. Ew.

Ryan looks at me and smirks. Oh man, please don't– he turns to his parents and whispers something to them. Fuck. His parents are looking my way and the woman starts smiling brightly. The woman walks up to me and looks at Ms. Clancy and says
"We would like to adopt Sydney."

Shock, happiness, and surprise is all I feel when I hear those 6 words.