left to fight alone in the dark.

left to fight alone in the dark. 1

"your new here, heh?" the girl in ragged clathes asked alethea.

alethea nodded as she unpacked the little clothes that she had in her new room at the orphange. Alethea was 15 and the reason she was in this orphanage was because of her parents. her mother was in depression and she kept drinking loads of alchohol, her father was sick and tired of paying for her mothers fines and so one day when he was totally fed up he just killed Alethea's mother. When that happened Alethea was in school, and when she came home she found three police cars surrounding her house. then a police office explained to her what had happened. her father had the death sentence and Alethea did not show any feelings, not a single tear dropped. she was sent to child services and ended up in this orphanaged owned by mrs. buller. Alethea sat on her new bed with no bedsheets and she could feel the springs under the thin sheet og cloth covering the bed. As she unpacked her bag she realised the ragged clothed girl was still standing infront of her watching her evey move. i might as well make friends since i might be living her for a while, or forever. Alethea lifted her head to face the girl.

"so what's your name?" asked Alethea with a sigh.

"my name's Jennifer! but you can call me Jen. you are Alethea right?" Jen replied cheerfully.

"yes." said Alethea solomly.

Alethea did not really like Jen. she did not like people to be happy when she was sad. but she did not tell Jen that.

"so how'd ya end up here?"

"oh, parents just left me." lied Alethea.

"you'll love it here!"
and with that Jen skipped merrily out of the room.

"weird girl" muttered Alethea.

after Jen left Alethea was left alone in her misery. Alethea lay on the bed thinking about the events that happened today. it was like only yesterday when she found police cars and her mothers dead body in a pool of blood with a kitchen nife stuck in her stomach. it was a gruelling sight but Alethea just could not believe her dad would do such thing. Alethea was a girl who was always looking on the bright side and she was quite popular in her school. But no one knew her situation except for her best friend and her boyfriend. their name's were, Erika and Jason. Sadly for Alethea she had to break up with Jason as she was now a orphange.

8 in the night, mrs. buller came into alethea's room interrupting her thoughts. when alethea saw her she sat up on her bed and watched as mrs. buller slowly sat on her oh so uncomfortable bed.

"im sorry for your loss alethea."

"that's alright, i wasn't even that close to my mother."

"i did not mean your mother, i meant your... father."

silence filled the room. Alethea just stoned there looking at mrs. buller with a blank face showing no expressions. but deep down inside of her she was crushed, she wanted Jason to be with her.

"are you okay?" said mrs. buller feeling concerned or her.

"yarh, can i have a momment alone please."

"yes, sure... no problem."

mrs. buller left Alethea alone. when mrs. buller left, a small kid popped his head into Alethea room. he entered without knocking.

"can i please be alone!" shouted Alethea

"sorry, but i need to tell you something." the boy waited for alethea's response.

finally alethea said "what?" feeling very annoyed.

"when your at this age, err i mean when someone at the age of 15, she or he will have a hard time being adopted so don't get your hopes up and be like the others."

the boy did not want to disturb the grumpy alethea anymore and he left as queitly as possible.
when the door closed shut, alethea broke down into tears.

"why! why me!" alethea shouted to heavens.

she cried herself to sleep, with no more disturbances from other orphans.


[the exams are coming for me so i might not write often. so just wait and the next chapter will appear.]