Memories

New Home-Theodora Flint

We landed and I had barely slept. I couldn't sleep and I couldn't breathe because of how broken my smile was and how my eyes swam with tears every time a human looks my way. I spoke in cracks and broken ways and I felt like falling through the plane and dying.
After we landed, I woke the woman up, I found her name was Elise and we got off the plane and collected our luggage.
When we left the building, there was a limo outside and a driver in tux waiting for us. Elise tried speaking in broken Japanese to the driver but I stepped in and said what she needed to, which was, "Are you here for us?"
The driver looked at a photo in his hand and nodded. We got into the limo and I was vibrating with anxiety. My hands couldn't sit still in my lap and the shirt I was wearing was suddenly way too hot.
We drove for a about thirty minutes before we stopped in front of a huge house, if house was the right word to call this building. It was about three floors and was a traditional Japanese home, but beautiful and huge. The driver stopped out front of it and opened the car door for us.
  "Are you them?" A man said in english as soon as we got out of the car.
  "By 'them', I'm guessing you're referring to CPS," Elise smiled, though it looked like it held something else. I was looking at the gravel below my feet. I didn't want to believe I wasn't gonna be able to see her, to live with her. I wanted to so badly. Why did I have to be the one who lived?
   "My name is Elise Macintosh! I'm Theodora Flint's CSP worker," Elise told someone.
   "Bakugo Katsuki," the man stated his name.
   "I'll only be here for a few days before leaving, our company would like to make sure Theodora would really be safe and like it here," Elise explains.
   "And that's her?" I'm guessing me pointed in my direction. I didn't look up.
   "Theodora, yes! Would you like to introduce yourself?"
   I stayed silent, not even breathing loud enough for them to hear. I bit my tongue and shook my head. Elise sounded pouty afterwards but we were then placed inside the house and brought to our rooms.
   "This is where Theodora will stay?" Elise questioned. I still hadn't looked up, but knew he had some kind of matted floor.
  "Yeah. I didn't have much time to really decorate for a girls room," the man stated.
  "That's alright. Theo, you can go inside and the driver will bring your bags up shortly," Elise smiled at me. I kept looking at the floor as I walked in and heard Elise and Mr. Bakugou shut the door.
   I looked up right after they left. The room was plain. White walls, a twin bed with a grey comforter and four pillows. The walls had nothing on them and my dresser was the same color as my walls. I turned around, looking at the room fully, before I came face-to-face with a mirror, which was less than three inches from the door. It was a full body mirror with a black frame.
    This is when it all set in. I was supposed to live with a man I knew nothing about, in a house I hadn't seen before and I wasn't ever going to see my mom again. Looking at my baggy eyes and my cracked glassses, I was surprised they survived with me, and the red shirt and basketball shorts the hospital gave me was a slap in the face.
   This was real...