ONCE UPON A TIME- DarlingPan's story

Season 2- Chapter 12:"The fire match"

"No problem. That happened a long time ago."- She said.

Me and her sat silently. 

"That happened when I was very young. A big fire burned the house. My parents saved me, then I ran out and my parents couldn't escape. They were completely burned down."- She cried.

"I'm so sorry, Wendy."- I said.

"Don't tell anyone about the fire match, please? Because you're the first one I say about it."- She said.

"Okay. So now you live alone?"- I said.

"No. After ran out the fire, there's a woman want to take care of me. She led me to this house. After that, she married. Her husband treated her badly. Made she sicked and death. Everything has not stopped there. He married a new wife."- She said.

"Wendy!"- A woman on the floor called her.

"Yes, mom."- She stood up and said.

The woman went away. I stood up too.

"I need to go now. What's your name?"- She smiled.

"Peter. So goodbye. See you later."- I said.

"See you again after school. Goodbye, Peter."- She smiled.

I ran out of her garden. I turned back and saw she went inside home.

Next day, I went to school. I stood in front of her house. I didn't see her. Waited for five minutes, I didn't see her. So I ran to school. She appoint me after school. I stood at my cabinet, waited for her. It was ten minutes. I didn't see her after fifteen minutes. Why she didn't come? I ran to her house. I stood in her yard, called out her name. A woman stepped out. She walked to me.

"Wendy today is not fine. She needs to take a rest. So she can't meet you."- The woman said.

"I'm sorry because I don't know she sicks."- I said.

I looked up at her window. She stood by it and looked at me. She took a paper. It's write:" She lied. I don't sick. I have something to tell you." 

"Can I meet her? To tell her about homework and notice of teachers."- I said after saw the paper.

She think for a while. 

"Okay but fast because Wendy needs to take a rest."- She said.

"I promise I won't bother her."- I said.

I walked to her bedroom. I opened the door. The woman looked at me. I walked inside her bedroom. She lied on the bed. 

"Peter. Thanks for visiting me."- She pretend because I closed the door not yet.

I closed the door. I stood next to her. I sat on her bed.

"Wendy, who is she? Why she lied?"- I asked.

She sat up.

"She is my mum, a cruel and evil woman. She lied to let me not talk to you. She afraids I will tell you about her, the fire match."- She said.

"It's the reason that you weren't at class this morning."- I asked.

"Yes."- She said.

I looked down. I saw her arms have some wounds. It bruises. I took her arm up.

"What is it?"- I asked.

She pull back her arm.

"It's just..."- She said slowly.

She not finished talking yet, the woman opened the door. She stepped inside. She glanced and glowered Wendy. She took a tray with two glasses of orange juice.

"It's just small scratches. Is it right, Wendy?"- She said.

"Yes, it's right."- Wendy answered.

"I made orange juice. Wendy, please invite your friend to drink."- She said to Wendy.

"Please drink it."- Wendy took a glass for me.

"Thanks."- I said.

"The two of you enlisted to finish their homework and then went down to eat. I must go mow."- the woman said.

"Yes mum."- Wendy said.

The woman walked out the bedroom for a while.

"After all, what happened?"- I asked.

"Her husband is mayor. He is the one burned my house, made my parents dead. He poisoned his old wife. But he tell everyone his wife sick and die. They take care of me because I know everything and I can tell everyone. No one knows I'm not their own child. So if everyone know it, he won't be the mayor more."- Wendy said.

"So leave this house, this place is dangerous for you."- I said.

"I can't. They follow me everyday, everytime. I can't talk to anyone. How to I leave?"- She said.

"So what can we do?"- I asked.

"We can't do anything."- She said.