You laid on your bed, listening the the music box play. The song made you forget about your life, and everything around you, made you feel safe, like you finally belonged somewhere. The foster home was ok, the people were nice, and you had lots of friends, but everyday you watched as your friends leave, and became more and more lonely.
"hey, (Y/N), max found a worm, come look, its HUGE." your roommate walked away. He was nice, but a not the brightest. You let out a sigh, and set your music box back on the night stand by your bed. You then quickly turned and chased down your roommate to see this worm.
When you arrived with your roommate to see the worm, you found several other kids there investigating it. Some where from the foster home like you, and others where just kids from around the neighborhood.
"James come check it out!" one of the neighbor girls shouted, your roommate ran ahead, you kept your pace and slowly made your way to this entrancing worm.
"(Y/N) come look!" You looked over the other kids and seen something, long, and black. You screamed when the realization of it being a snake.
You jumped back and fell on the ground "get that thing out of here" The other kids looked at you confused "that's a snake god damn it, how did you confuse that for a worm!" You scream at the other kids, a few others scream and jump back, but most just got more excited about there newly found snake.
"whats all the screaming about" a tall man walks over to you and extends his hand to you. You take his hand and stand up, "just a snake.." you look over at the other kids, who are now poking it with a stick.
The man was tall, her had red hair that went down to his shoulders and bright yellow eyes. He wore a brown vest. "a snake aye?" he walks over to the other kids and picks it up. "why its just a baby, and besides, its harmless."
"how do you know?" James asked looking up at the stranger
"red white black, is a friend of jack, and well" the stranger chuckled slightly, "well, red black yellow is a poisones fellow, and as you can see, there are no yellow on this little fellow." The snake crawled around the mans fingers, and he slowly brought the snake around and showed all the kids. You didn't move, snakes are gross, and one of your biggest fears. The man looked up at you "would you like to pet him, he is harmless." he holds the snake up and you shake your head. "oh..not a fan of snakes i presume?"
"excuse me, who are you, and what are you doing here with all these kids?" One of the neighborhood parents came out and stood next to you.
"ah, excuse me, i heard screaming thought i would check it out. Just a harmless snake though."
The mother did not look amused, "ok, but who are you."
"i am Jason, the toy maker" for some reason, that name sent chills down your spine. "would you like to pet the snake?" Jason holds the snake up once again laughing slightly.
"no, and i think you should go. And you kids should go home" The kids quickly split and ran twords there homes, and others twords the foster home. You stood by the woman and Jason smiled at you, petting the snake. You ran off into the foster home looking for Aunt Susan. You knew she wasn't really your aunt, but you just been there so long you cant think about what it would be like, getting adopted and not keeping in touch with her.
"Aunt Susan, where you at?" you shout looking in all the rooms
"im in the clinic" a voice responds, from three doors down. you walked into the clinic, and saw your aunt wearing her white lab coat she wore when she was helping one of the other orphans. "there you are, all better now" your aunt finishes putting a band-aid on one of the younger kids knee's, "and because you were such a big brave boy, how would you like a lollipop?" your aunt turns and reaches into a jar full of lollipops, and hands one to the younger boy.
