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=Orphan=

Chapter 1
It was a Saturday in December and the day before Christmas, when everybody at the orphanage went out to play in the snow except for me, because I had just been assigned to a new room at the orphanage. While I was packing my bags I noticed that there were some engraved letters on the inside of my bracelet. The letters read Elizabeth Callow. It was my name. When I got to my new room there was that sad feeling when I stepped into the doorway, and it wasn’t because the walls were painted gray and there was a picture of a sad clown from a girl that lived here before me. In the room I saw that there was another girl n the room. I had never seen anything like it she was in a wheel chair, and she didn’t have any legs. When I first saw her I tried not to stare because I knew it was rude. I had so many questions running through my head. What happened to her legs? Did she get hurt? Was she born like that? All those questions in my head waiting to ask her. “Hi I’m Anna your new roommate”. I tried to tell her my name, but no words came out. I just stood there like a mime staring at her. ”Yeah, I see you noticed my wheelchair”, she said. I was in total shock mode and the only thing that I could do is run. I sprinted outside hoping not to talk to her because every time I tried to talk to her I’ll just look like a babbling fool. Through the window I saw Anna looking at me, I felt kind of bad and guilty so I went back inside to apologize. “It’s okay”, she said, “Hey you want to go get a snow cone”. At that very moment I knew that we would be good friends and that there was something about her that I really liked. We went outside and Kara our caretaker announced that we were going skating tomorrow. I had never skated before but I’ve seen people skate on television and it looked very easy. That night I couldn’t sleep, I thought about skating all night and I was so excited. The next day our bus driver Tom drove us to the community skating rink. When we got there I walked up to the fence and saw the shining ice and the reflections of the sky. I turned around and there in big bold black letters said “Closed for renovations”. I felt disappointed and sad and now I would never know how it felt like to skate. All the kids at the orphanaraim held hands in a circle and prayed that we will have a better Christmas and that the cold winds would blow away.

Chapter 2
Even though we didn’t get to go skating I was kind of happy because if we went skating Anna wouldn’t be able to skate because she was in a wheel chair. The black widow on the window reminded me of my mom because she was a housewife. Sometimes I can hear her in my mind and in my dreams. If only my parents didn’t die from a plane crash I wouldn’t be afraid of airplanes. Before my mother and father had died I always dreamed of going on a plane. I’ve always dreamed of flying up into the sky and looking down on all the people that would look like ants. As I watched the spider spinning its web I picked it up its tiny legs tickled me, some people don’t like spiders but I think their beautiful and elegant and their great weavers. As I was watching the spider climb up and down my arm, I noticed that Anna was also looking out the window and she was crying.

Chapter 3
Everyday now at lunch Anna would ask me to sit with her for I had noticed she didn’t have any friends. She told me about the other day why she was crying, and that she was sad and depressed about not having any friends, she told me about how nobody knew how she felt. But I knew exactly how she felt. But I didn’t want to tell her because if I did then I was the sad girl that nobody liked. From that day on I sat with Anna at lunch every day and we became friends. I still wasn’t comfortable talking about my inner feelings. But Anna and me still got to be close friends.

Chapter 4
With the roaring winds and the monstrous rain I was trapped inside with nasty Nick and scary Scarlet. Inside Kara told me to play duck duck goose with nick and scarlet. I was still sad about the skating rink being closed and playing duck duck goose with Nick’s freshly picked bogey hand would not cheer me up. When I was walking back to my room, Anna was also there playing her guitar and she was good very good. She sounded like a professional and her songs were played in just the right tune but other than that she sounded great really great. As I was on my bed reading my favorite book a couple walked in and they wanted to adopt one of us. The man was tall and wore a hat that nearly covered his face and the woman wore too much lipstick and had a skirt that totally did not match her shoes. When they entered everyone tried to act normal but they just looked like zombies because they were all smiling. “That one, I’ll take that one”, she said her long polished finger pointed right at me. “Me, but I...” I couldn’t believe it but had just been adopted.

Chapter 5
That night Anna and me spent our last minutes together and we couldn’t believe it and we knew that we had to do something about this. “Get up Elizabeth, we’re going to runaway”, said Anna “But why?” “Do you really want to spend the rest of your life living with those strangers that adopted you”? “No but that still isn’t a reason to run away” “C’mon are just going to forget about our friendship. You said yourself if one of us are in trouble its the others job to look out for the otherone. C’mon go pack your bags” “Your right, okay, so where are we running away to” “I have no idea but wherever we’re running of to it better be someplace nice with a wheelchair ramp”. We started packing our bags, there something in my gut that told me not to runaway, something that told me something bad was going to happen something we would both regret.

Chapter 6
We left the orphanage without anyone seeing and we were off to find adventures and hoping that nobody would ever find us. But first of all we needed money to survive. I dug into my pocket and found a twenty-dollar bill, a quarter, and a dirty penny. However Anna had about 200 dollars and some change. “Wow, where did you get all that money”, I said. “I saved it, duh” “Oh, so where are we going exactly” “Umm....... uh..... well I.. Thought that we could go to my uh....... hmmmm well I thought that we could go to my tree house you know the one at the park in Scarsdale”. “Do you really expect me to stay there for the rest of my life”? “Well actually you are only going to stay there until your eighteen” “WHAT. Well I guess it’s not that bad right, RIGHT?” “Yeah sure, I think maybe, I hope” This was not good. There was no way that I was going to sleep in a tree house. Absolutely do not accept this consequence for being adopted, I mean it’s not my fault that I got adopted and that I’m leaving my best friend Anna. Well it kind of is but still this is cruel and I do not deserve to sleep in a tree house, well thanks a lot god.

Chapter 7
When we got to the tree house there were bugs everywhere and there was a moldy sandwich somebody left last year. It was very disgusting. “Ewwwww”, I screamed, and “what is that” “I don’t know but don’t touch it. I SAID DON’T TOUCH IT” “Okay, gosh I was just trying to see what it was, man this is worst than I thought” “So, let’s go to the park and play for a while” “No thanks I’m good” “C’mon lets go to the cheap hotel down the street it’s the only one we can afford” “Sure” “Fabulous” Anna and I went to the hotel and it only cost $30 a night. This was perfect now we could stay at the hotel until the women changed her mind.