Somadina

Orphanage

" Tell me another one Mrs Gabriel",
' Nope you've got to go to bed now my darling it's too late okay'

Mrs Gabriel declined my offer, then she tucked me at the top of the bunk bed and she kissed my forehead.

'Goodnight Mrs gabby'
We all chorused.
'Goodnight my angels, don't let the bedbugs bite I'd see y'all by tomorrow okay'
With that she left our room. Johnny, Curtis and Philip got up first then they woke others up, they had a very peculiar attitude, they did not like sleeping at night, they played all night and slept all day.
'Soma come play with us, I've got this feeling that tomorrow would be hectic, if you have fun today you'd not care about the hectic day'
Philip tried to sweet talk me out of bed but it didn't workout matter of fact it never works out but i guess he doesn't give up. I hated the idea of leaving my bed after Mrs Gabby had tucked me in, so I laid till morning in respective of Phillips convincing words, Johnny's sweet voice, Curtis smooth dance moves and my roommates amazing tales.
'Am sorry mate but I cant play today, you should get some rest too else you'd get those old people's brain damage  stuff, just like that of Mr D.'
Well, even after all I said and I had been saying they'd never listen just like i'd never listen. They let me be temporarily but deep down I knew they'd be back.

The big bell rang bringing me back to earth.
'God I hate that bell',
I muttered.
I wasn't the only one that grew a strong hatred for that bell, we all did. We dragged ourselves out of bed sluggishly but Philip wasn't tired at all he was the most agile of us all which had me thinking if he was human.

We did our normal routine, cleaned up our room, made our respective beds, cleaned up the bathing room then went straight to the dining.
'Johnny one day i'd be happy, matter of fact one day we'd all eat like kings and Mrs Tiffany would be our slave',

With that they all bursted laughing everyone seemed to love the idea of old witch Mrs Tiffany Cross being our slave. I especially hated her the most not because she trades the food proportioned to us but because she mistreated Mrs gabby and tells her to stop treating us with so much love, she says Mrs Gabby should remember that we are all strays and we'd mount to nothing.

'Soma, she'd clean our feet with her hair and bow at our feet'
Johnny added, everyone appreciated his idea too, I literally saw them rubbing their chins and grinning. Romeo was even tapping his shoulders, he was no more at the dinning, he had gone to the world of dreams.

'Y'all should better dress your abandoned selves properly because some parents would be coming today, maybe if you try to look good y'all would get your stinking selves out of my life, any one who disobeys me would have a thirst of the Loo's  water so don't dare me',
With that, old witch Tiffany stormed off. She called for a meeting, instead of telling us nicely to get dressed as to get adopted by descent parents, she just had to get to our heads.

'Joy I don't really see the point of looking good our age grade never gets adopted'
'That's very true grace but you know we just have to do as we've been told else we'd be drinking a very nice juice'
'Eww,  Joy, that's enough but sadly you're right we've got to look our best'.
Everyone had something to say they all did not see the point of getting all dressed up for an occasion that we wouldn't be getting any refreshments, but I  still had hope I knew that i'd get adopted, so I wore a huge smile on my face, wore my favourite red shirt on my only blue faded jeans.

After inspecting us properly, the parents were finally allowed to come in for window shopping. Our age grade sat with Sister  Martha.

I waited patiently for a parent to look at our direction but none did, they were all interested in the little kids. The day finally passed, sadly none of us got selected we all went to our bunks with long faces wondering if we were the most ill looking kids in the world.