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Step 2: Run Away
Less than two months after her twelth birthday, Rydia and James had given up on Anika’s case and had returned her to the orphenage . Rydia was crying the day that they brought her back there, but the woman was convinced that better foster parents could help Anika recover from her trauma. Anika hadn’t objected in leaving these people, not because she didn’t care for them. She had in fact come to care for her « family » alot, but she didn’t want to change her behaviour. She couldn’t change it even if she wanted to. And she certainly didn’t want to cause Rydia any more pain. She might even have loved Rydia, but it was hard to tell at this point. Another couple adopted Anika and her doll Janice less than a week after they got to the adoption center; Rupert and Diana Hammond.
Unlike Rydia and James, Rupert and Diana were not kind people. Rupert had already hit Anika when she didn’t answer him… And that was only in the first few days that she had gotten there. Diana only stood there and watched.
The pain of Rupert’s punch hadn’t hurt her in any way. The pain she felt due to those awful memories eliminated any other possible forms of pain; physical or moral.
But it was clear in the mind of the young girl that there was no way she was going to take any of this from anybody. By nightfall, she and Janice will have run away from this place and they would be on their way to freedom.
Fuck Rupert and fuck Diana.
It was bizarre to her that they let an ill tempered man like Rupert adopt a young girl. But then again, it didn’t really matter since she would runaway from this place as soon as night fell. She would b free to do as wished, lived the way she wanted to, and should the worst thing happen, she would simply die and be put out of her misery. This said, she had nothing to lose doing this. The only thing that she put in her backpack was Janice. She managed to find a jack-knife that Rupert had stored in his bedroom as well as 400 Credits, wich would probably be good enough for her to start anew with.
She stored the credits and the kife in her pockets and returned to her bedroom.
From there on, she opened the window and looked outside.
Only one more step and she’d be free to do as she wished.
The blonde girl stepped out of the window without a single second of hesitation,
« The little bitch stole all of my money! » screamed Rupert angrily, throwing the bottle of beer he held in his hand with all of his might on the wall.
The bottle smashed itself on impact.
« Calm the fuck down! » screamed Diana obviously annoyed « We’re simply not going to report her as a runaway and we’ll keep on cashing in the checks the oerphanage sends us to care for her. Meaning that we still get the bonus and that we’ll have a mouth less to feed! »
Rupert stopped dead on his tracks.
« You know what Diana? » he said « For once in your life, I think you’ve actually said something smart. »
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