a second chance

I never believed I could get a second chance, but I am back at the orphanage. Back to when I was eight years old. This time I will leave before they come. This time I am going to live for myself.

I hated it here. Nobody treated me nicely. All they used to say is that orphans are cursed people, unwanted and a burden to society. The cruelty of their words I never forgot. I never had anyone even in here.

The place is as I remember it thought. Destroyed walls, half broken beds and terrible windows that let the cold pass in. They didn't even give us enough blankets for nights like this. We were all alone. Little kids taking care of each other. We never had enough food and had to do all the chores they assigned if we wanted that small dinner. I hated every moment in here. We all did. But we had nowhere else to go. And as for education we never learned to read or write.

That's the reason I was so happy when they adopted me back then. I thought that I would finally have a beautiful life. I was so wrong. But I won't repeat the same mistake again. If I remember correctly I have only one week before they come, so I have to think carefully and make a plan. But I am wondering about something. She said they only adopted me to help the family but they didn't make me study magic for five years. In this world you can be born with magical powers or if you are very rich you can use items to extract magic power from them. It comes with an awful cost of course although for the ten years I was a mage I never saw any of the terrifying symptoms. If they were so desperate for a mage why wait for five whole years? Is there an age limit ? No I would know if it were. So why? Ahhhhh. This is going to bother me. I can't figure this out. I am missing something here but I don't have time for this right now. I have to prepare for the time I will leave.

I have many things to take care of. I need to go to the office and destroy every paper with my name on it. I have to erase every trace of my existence. After all I don't want to face them ever again. I won't have trouble disappearing since they don't really care what happens to us here. They will just be happy that there is one less child. One problem I am worrying about is the food thought. I have to find a way to get food. Now It's still daytime and thankfully I am sick so i don't have to do chores. Apparently being sick is good. If I remember correctly the fever only took three days to come down. So I have three days to think every detail of my plan and two days after to gather everything. Then when night falls I will leave quietly. I am kind of sorry for the other kids but i can't help them. Right now I am a kid myself. And what I am going to do is very dangerous so I can't take them with me .

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