Short Story: The Orphanage , First Chapter

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Lily Mychelle Gardner shook her head as she laid her head back against the flat yet somehow hard pillow, "I hate this fucking orphanage!!" she screamed at the top of her lungs, everyone else was outside but not Lily she prefered to stay in and read or write or practice her arts and music. Lily was a very gifted girl with a very spirited temper and an even more firey attitude, she had built up a wall around her never letting anyone in; not after the night that she had let that man in the house Beetle.. she sneered at the sheer thought of him. He had tried to take her from her parents causing her father to strike the virmin and her momma to push Lily behind her.. she was only nine at the time and already the fucking Judge Turpin wanted her for his own claiming she to become his ward, but her parents refused after they had seen what he did to the poor Todd family. Lily's eyes slowly drifted shut as she fell into a fitful slumber of that night. Her father was sitting in his big chair reading to her as her mother held her in her arms gently rocking her as she brushed through her long curled bright crimson red hair, it fell in soft ringlets and waves down her back to her thin waist as her mother brushed it causing it to shine and fluff up a bit. She smiled and watched her father with eyes that people had always considered strange, Lily's eyes were two different colors one was a deep emerald green that seemed to glow with a light from within and the other was the color of clear perfect amber the only thing both colors had in common were the speckles of violet blue that popped up in them. She tilted her head listening to her father tell the story, " A long, yes very long time ago there was a dragon, a most evil, wicked and feared fire bre... ... middle of paper ... ...ugh.." and with that he ripped her mothers dress off and proceeded to beat, rape, defile, and murder her infront of young Lily's eyes. Quickly Lily woke up back in the bed at the orphanage and ran to the bathroom throwing up everything in her stomach her body wracked with painful shuddering spasms yet her body was hot to the touch. Quickly she climbed into the shower and began to scrub her skin raw trying to get the dream off of her and not feeling clean until her skin was blistered and bleeding. She slowly dried off thinking as she did, 'At least he hasn't kept his promise.. not yet.. I'll get away before he can legally take me from the orphanage.. I'll get away I have to..' She had dressed in baggy clothes meant for a boy while lost in her thoughts and walked back into the girls bunks laying down on a different one yet not daring to fall asleep. To Be Continued...

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