The Orphan [[Open]]

[chaseee]

I heard a bell ring, from inside. They were calling us to lunch. Well I, for one, refused to go in. I also refused to beleive what they served on those dirty plates was food. Ha! More like nuclear waste. Of course, Jeremy would be in there with the other big boys cleaning his plate. I asked him why he ate the trash, and he repeated to me what my father always told him. "It's ruffage."
I think, the only bright side to this situation, was that Julliane was having an even harder time fitting in than I did. There were no girls here who enjoyed gossiping about the cutest boy in the Seam. Or trading skin-care secrets. Everyone here was lonely and depressed. Well, that is, everyone but me.
I still have my friends.

Lilliana, Dane, and Buck have stuck with me, even through all this. People have teased me about how I still have "imaginary friends," but I don't understand this. My friends are as real to me as any of these low-life humans.

So I'm sitting on the front steps of the orphanage, talking to Dane, when the bell rings. I am telling him how much I want to get out of this place, and he tells me I need to stay.
I sigh, not understanding why he thinks it is best for me to stay in this personal hell for another minute. All the dangers of an ordinary District 12 citizen are still here. I must still participate in the Hunger Games if my name is called, I still get picked on, night and day, and I go to bed with a rumbling stomach every night. And as each day draws to a close, I am always forced to think about how my mother died. Starvation. That possibility seems very real for me.

"Simone, it's not that we want you to stay. You have to stay. For your own safety," Dane says. "You cannot even begin to imagine the dangers out there!"
I shake my head, grimacing. "It cannot be any worse than this place."
I stand, and stretch. I glance around, making sure no one else is here but me and Dane. After checking over three times, I set off, towards the few shops of the Seam. I hear Dane give an exasperated sigh behind me. "Where are you going, Sim?"
I laugh at the nickname. So unimaginative. "Anywhere but here."

And suddenly Lilliana and Buck are there with me. This does not scare me, or even surprise me. They do this all the time. Frankly, right now it's just getting on my nerves.
"Simone you get back there this instant!" Lilliana. In some ways she's like my older sister. Scratch that, my mature, caring older sister, opposed to the lousy, care-free one inside the building.
"Relax guys. It's not like I won't come back. I'm just taking a little walk."
"A little walk? And what happens if Headmistress finds out?"
My lips pull up, into an almost-smile. "Well, she won't."

[sapphire]

Tenacity Cavulders
Bio
Jacket
Jeans

Tenacity woke up that morning with the sun shining brightly on her sullen face. She threw on her jeans and her favorite jacket like it was nothing. Tenacity at he usual breakfast of bread and cheese and headed outside to be greeted by the sweltering heat of the sun beams. Her jacket was hot, but she never liked to go anywhere without her jacket, so she shrugs off the feeling of the heat and keeps walking. She comes to her school, large and sees a boy talking to himself on the front steps. She ignores the boy and walks inside to be confronted by her friends.

She hugs them and says quietly, "I'm ditching today." Tenacity usually skipped school, but that was because she hated it. They nod and she walks out of the small school. The kid on the steps had disappeared, but she shrugged off the odd feeling about him. Tenacity strolls toward the shops in the Seam. She puts her hand in her pocket, even though it was a humid day, she was still the person that never wanted to be outside without a jacket. She sighs and see the boy, going at a fast pace away from the school.

'So, he ditched too,' she thinks to herself, as a smirk creeps across her face. She jogs over to the boy and says rather loudly, as she sees the boy still talking to himself, "Hey, who are you?" She just wanted to know who he was and why he was talking to himself. She let the curiosity get the best of her. Tenacity stood there, in her jacket, looking at the boy, waiting for an answer.

((It is a boy right, and how old?))

[chaseee]

Simone
I heard heavy footsteps behind me, and turned to see a girl jogging towards me. My first instinct was to run, but something told me she probably wouldn't like that.

Who are you? I smiled. so this girl didn't know, did she? Well she was soon to find out. It was strange though, I hadn't seen her around before. But then again, I hadn't seen anyone around lately, being stuck inside the gloomy confines of the orphanage and all. The only people I conversed with was Lilliana, Dane, and Buck. They were the only ones who had kept me happy in these darkest of days.

My eyes narrowed, searching the girl's face. Well she wasn't kidding. She was mostly curious. Well huh. I had thought everyone knew me, and some hated me. I was the one who had been presented with that stupid ass medal for my father and such. Like I cared he was gone. More like a releif. At least now I didn't have black bruises all over my buttocks.

"Well, if you really care, my name is Simone Crawlings, and this is Lilliana, Dane and Buck." I gestured to the empty air around me. I was sure this girl would not be able to see them. They only revelaed themselves to my friends. Which was why no one could see them.
I lifted my chin, indicating to her. "And now that you know that, who in the hell are you?"

[[Yush he is a boy and he is twelve years of age. And also he wasn't at a school, he was at an orphanage xD]]