I'm alone on the streets in a city that hates me...They pull on my ears and beat me just for looking for food...I'm too weak to even walk I'm curled up on the side of the road with my head behind in my knees and my arms wrapped around them. My ear twitched as I hear someone getting closer. The footsteps got louder as whoever came closer to me. By the sound the person walking towards me is a little girl. The footsteps stopped right in front of me. I hesistantly looked up afraid of what could happen next. Right in front of me stood a little girl around my age with silver hair and bright blue eyes. She wore mostly white with hints of red. My eyes traveled to her hand, in it she held a chocolate flavored ice cream. As I was staring at it my stomach let out a loud growl.
The little heard it and smiled at me, "Want some?" it took me a bit to let what she said sink in but I nodded, I was very hungry and would gladly take anything anyone would give me. She kneeled and moved the ice cream closer to me. I lowered my knees and leaned into the ice cream biting bits of it. It tasted so wonderful, I cant even remember when the last time I had something this sweet.
"My name is Weiss. What's yours?" Weiss asked me with a smiling face,
" M-My name is _..." I replied shyly,
"Nice to meet you _. Why are you outside in the cold?"
I look back down to my bare toes as I replied, "I dont have a home..."
Weiss frowned a bit and then smiled, "Maybe you can come live with us!" she suddenly yelled out. I stared at her in confusion before she clarified. "My family is really rich and our mansion is really big so my parents will let you live with us for sure!"
I frowned and looked away, there's no chance of that happening. No one has ever given me a place to sleep or even a place to keep dry from the rain. But Weiss grabbed me by the wrist and pulled me toward her parents. Her father seemed really tall with darker hair and a goatee, he wore a white stainless suit with small bits of black here and there. Weiss' mother however had very long pure white hair and wore a silk white dress. These people were nothing like the other people I've seen, it's almost as if they didn't belong here.
"Mom...Dad, this is _ she has no home and she's really hungry can she please live us?" Weiss pleaded with her parents,
Her parents looked at eachother for a breif moment before looking at me. Her father was sizing me up, he walked around me eyeing me from top to bottom. He then turned to his daugther, "Give me and your mother a moment dear..." the two walked away from us and began to talk quietly to themselves.
I looked down again afraid to be rejected a new home, "Will they really let me live with you?" I looked at Weiss,
She smilied back at me, "Dont worry, I know they will!" those words could be just an empty promise. but Weiss has been the only person I met that's shown me so much kindness. Weiss' parents had finished their talk and walked up to us.
"She can stay with us, so long as she's willling to work for us." He gave me a stern look as if seeing if I was really to work just to have a place to stay. I looked up at him and nodded.
"Then let us go. Your new home is this way." He began walking alonside his wife as Weiss grabbed my hand and leading me.
After some walking we finally arrived at a huge building. It had a huge gate in front of it and past the gate is a very large yard. I couldn't believe this was my new home. We all walked inside, Weiss said she had lessons to do with her mother and her father led me to the dining hall to feed me.
He placed a plate of food in front of me, "Here eat as much as you please" on the plate was something brown and hot with yellow stuff on top of it. "it's steak, go ahead and try it."
I took a bite out of it, "its...really good" I began eating more of it as Weiss' father began to talk.
"Now then let me start by saying, you are welcome to eat, bathe, and sleep here for as long as you want. However, it is not for free. You will begin working for us starting today. You will repay us with hardwork and labor. Do you understand?"
I nodded, "Y-Yes"
He nodded back and turned to leave the room, "After you've finished eating come find me. I will show you where the baths are then we will begin your training." With those last words he left.
From that day forth I spent years working for Weiss' family. I cooked for them somedays, I cleaned, and I trained with weapons to protect their daugther. I made a lot of mistakes when I first started out but as the years went by I got better at it. I was no longer the weak little girl that was left in the streets looking through trash for any scrape of food I could find. I was now able to defend and serve myself food. Even though I was just a servant, at the very least I was no longer the street rat people had called me.