I was listening to the song 'It is you I have loved' by Dana Glover and had a sudden idea for a story. Please review, I want to know if you find any faults within the story and what you think of it.

The new girl

I felt alone, truly alone ever since I returned from the spirit. My mother had a heart attack 3 months after returning from the spirit world and my father suffered a broken heart and when he got food poisoning a year later I was left to fend for myself. I live in an orphanage now, not far from the blue house I used to live in with my family. I share a room with a small black haired girl who likes to have everything her way; she is always stealing and ruining my things. One time she stole my diary where I had wrote about the time I had spent in the spirit world and about the friends I had made there. I had tried to find the thing that I had recorded my most precious memories in for hours while she watched at the doorway. I had got so desperate that I had asked her if she had seen it, she had looked at me and sneered,

"The fire outside had been dying so I chucked it on there, well not after reading it first and I loved the part about Haku." She had said then turned around and left.

I have asked a lot of times to share a room with someone else but they have always told me that everyone had to stay with the same roommate. I got up from where I was sitting on my bed. I walked down the creaky wooden stairs and left out of the front door. No one bothered asking me where I was going as I spent most of my time out of the orphanage unless I had interview with a family but that was very rare since no one really wanted to adopt a 16 year old. I let my feet carry me to anywhere they wanted I stopped when I came to the edge of a dense forest. I decided to go into the forest for something to do, after a while I came across a small river where a girl, around 10 years old, sat crossed legged gazing into it, her long, brown hair is a mess and her clothes have mud splattered all over them, she has cuts all over her arms that were still oozing blood. I walked over to her and she slowly looked round at me,

"Please don't hurt me." She said cringing away as if I was about to hit her, her eyes are a golden colour and looked scared.

"Why would I hurt you?" I asked confused on why anyone would hurt her.

"I'm sorry, my father and mother used to beat me and I ran away from home, my name is Kanari." She said and she relaxed a bit.

"Do you want to come back to the orphanage with me," Her eyes widened with fright, "It's where I live." I said quickly and she relaxed again. She looked back into the river as she thought about it.

"I'll come with you but are you sure it will be okay?" Kanari asked as she rose to her feet.

"I'm sure it will be fine." I replied.

I opened the door and entered into the reception room and Kanari followed me. I looked round the corner and spotted the owner of the orphanage, Minashigo. I walked over to her and tapped her on the shoulder; she turned around with a smile on her face,

"What can I do for you Chihiro?" She asked kindly. She glanced behind me and saw Kanari,

"And who might you be?" She asked Kanari in a motherly tone. Kanari glanced nervously at me that looked at Minashigo,

"I'm Kanari, I ran away from home and Chihiro found me, I wondering if I could have a room here?" She looked down at the floor once she had finished speaking.

"Of course you can have a room here but you will have to sleep by yourself since everyone already has a roommate." Minashigo said, Kanari looked worried by this news,

"Can I please have Chihiro as my roommate; I'm scared to sleep by myself." Kanari said sounding scared again. Minashigo thought about this and finally came to a decision, my least favourite voice started to speak from the staircase,

"Do you mind being so noisy, I'm trying to get some beauty sleep." –Gaki snapped coming round the corner and glared at all of us. Minashigo looked at her and smiled,

"Just the person I needed to talk to, would you mind if Chihiro was to be someone else's roommate and then you have a room by yourself?" Minashigo asked the still scowling Gaki, she looked shocked for a second then her face turned into a sneer,

"Why would I mind that loser moving out and finally getting a room to myself?" She said then turned around and left. She has always been like this, we all think it's because her parents literally told her to come to the orphanage when she was eight, she had always isolated herself and had never gotten any interviews.

"Chihiro will you show Kanari your new room, you can go in the one with the window seat." Minashigo Said knocking me out of my train of thought. I led Kanari up to the top floor and opened the first door on the right, she walked inside and sat down on the bed on the right side of the room,

"I'm just going to go and get my stuff." I said closing the door behind me, I went down a floor and opened the door to my old room and Gaki was rummaging through all of my paintings and drawings. - ignored me as I grabbed my stuff from under my bed until I took down a painting I had done of Haku looking into a river and his dragon form staring back at him.

"No, don't take that, I like it." I was annoyed and flattered at the same time, flattered that she would actually admit that she liked something that I made, annoyed because its mine and it's my favourite. I pretended to ignore her and carried on packing putting the picture in the box with my other paintings. I went to walk out but Gaki was standing in the door way.

"I said I like that picture, so give it to me, now." She through gritted teeth, I tried to think of something quickly and pulled out on of my other paintings and handed that one to her face down. When I had passed it to her she moved out of the way and I ran as fast as I could, carrying my few belongings, to my new room. I Threw the door open and closed it again quickly and sank down onto the floor with my back against the door. Kanari looked at me with a concerned expression,

"What happened down there?" she asked watching me closely. I got up and put my things down on my new bed, there were already covers on all the beds so that when someone first moves into a room they don't have to worry about making their bed.

"Well, when she realizes what I've done she won't be happy." As if on cue an angry shriek sounded a floor down. I went back down stairs to get Kanari some pyjamas from the spare clothes closet being careful not to run into Gaki. I opened the door to find Kanari fast asleep on her bed. I gently shook her awake and gave her the pyjamas which she got changed into and crawled into her bed. I changed into my pyjamas and did the same. I quickly drifted off to a dreamless sleep.

Kanari

I lay in my bed and heard Chihiro fall asleep; this is a lot easier than I thought it would be. Everything is going according to plan.

Creepy kid *Shivers* please review my story and tell me what you think so far, just press that blue button, down a bit and click, now write what you think. :) I wonder what plan that kid has because I'm just making this up as I go along so I have no idea :)